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  • February 2006 (Revised November 2012)
  • Case

Corporate Responsibility & Community Engagement at the Tintaya Copper Mine (A)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Brooke Barton and Ezequiel Reficco
Located in the highlands of Peru, the Tintaya copper mine has long been a source of intense conflict between local community members and mine operators. The mine, which was owned and managed first by the Peruvian state and later by BHP Billiton, stands on 2,300... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Multinational Firms and Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Conflict Management; Mining Industry; Australia; Peru
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Harvard Business School

corporate philanthropy, and social marketing. His books include: Developing the Afro-American Economy ; Moving Ahead: Black Managers in American Business ; The Wealth of Races (Editor); and Soul in Management: How African-American... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

emerging examples of innovative technologies, financing structures, policies, and geo-politics that are reshaping our global economy as it struggles and strives to transition to a lower carbon footprint and... View Details
  • 22 Feb 2024
  • News

GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

government, and NGOs, sharing insights on a range of issues including health care, national talent, food security, and sustainability. They also talked about the role of the private sector in meeting goals of Vision 2030, the impact of soft power on the region’s View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 2022
  • Chapter

The Origins of the Developmental State: The European Experience

By: Sophus A. Reinert
Book Abstract: There has been a major revival of interest in State Capitalism: what it is, where it is found, and why it is seemingly becoming more ubiquitous. As a concept, it has evolved from radical critiques of the Soviet Union, to being deployed by neo-liberals to... View Details
Keywords: State Capitalism; History; Macroeconomics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Systems; Europe
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  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Full Court Press

delivers down the road.” Video Embed Victor Williams on the personal meaning of his work with NBA Africa Forging local business partnerships also can offer the league singular insight into new markets that a global corporation might not... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 28 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld

across the country. On January 15th, 2024 we had the opportunity to visit EcoWorld, a 7.5 million square feet commercial development in Bangalore as part of the 2024 immersive field course on India’s path to decarbonization (see Figure 1). While buildings are a... View Details
  • 31 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

the company’s growth and profit was the size of the global retail market itself. No competitors could successfully undercut such a retail phenomenon. The wheel of retailing had been stopped! Until, of course, the internet came along.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • 09 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

With global markets in turmoil over the last several weeks, leaders throughout the world are starting to think about how they should respond if confronted with an economic downturn. Yet what do we know about how leaders decide what to do... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

maximize their people's performance. Publisher's Link: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/product_detail.seam?E=79788&R=10106-HBK-ENG&conversationId=323988 Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the U.S. Economy: What's Up? Is It Real?

By: Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt
The two components of the advertising industry—the creative sector that develops and produces messages, and the communications sector that transmits messages via various media—have each been greatly affected by advances in creative design and communications... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Advertising; Spending; Media
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  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Singing to the Corn

Director Pat Gwin showed the group a photo of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault—a meticulously cataloged collection of more than 1.1 million seed varieties located 150 meters inside a mountain, on an island between Norway and the North Pole.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture
  • 30 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

As a driver of both the overall economy and of individual wealth, real estate is pretty hard to beat. As Harvard Business School professor Arthur Segel says, real estate is the largest asset class in the world—the value of housing in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate
  • 27 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

independent. "Firestone's historical excellence and disastrous response to global competition and technological innovation," writes Sull, "posed a paradox for industry observers: Why had the industry's best managed company... View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation
  • 04 Nov 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

the United States in both parties. Whatever the reason, research is shedding interesting insights on the issue. Findings of a recent McKinsey Global Institute study include: (1) lack of gender diversity is associated with a greater... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 03 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

Raghuram Iyengar, Sangman Han, and Sunil Gupta empirically assesses if friends indeed influence purchases. The answer: It depends. The End of Chimerica For the better part of the past decade, the world economy has been dominated by a... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

effective alternatives in place. The second global economy has provided more opportunities for catch up from the Rest and has seen the rapid growth of globally competitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2021
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

High Fives

a senior portfolio manager for the firm, a position she had held since 1984. Fedak is also a member of the Small-Cap, International, and Global Equity Investment Policy Groups. From 1972 to 1983 she was a portfolio manager and research... View Details
  • 07 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 7

  PublicationsThe Profits of Power: Commerce and Realpolitik in Eurasia Authors:Rawi Abdelal Publication:Review of International Political Economy (forthcoming) Abstract Although the energy trade is the single most important element of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne