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- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
government intervention " Gerald Nanninga was less willing to accept the notion of "too big to succeed," setting forth several ways of scaling up a company to minimize the burden of size on management. As he put it, "... View Details
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
http://hbr.org/2013/04/using-the-crowd-as-an-innovation-partner/ar/1 2006 The Small Worlds of Corporate Governance The Small Worlds of Business Groups: Liberalization and Network Dynamics By: Brookfield, Jon, Sea-Jin Chang, Israel Drori,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
put them into bankruptcy because it was too small for them to worry about and didn't want to go through the fuss of a chapter 11. So they readily agreed to a deal with us where we acquired control. AW: How was government regulation... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Introduction: New Perspectives on Corporate Capital Structure By: Acharya, Viral, Heitor Almeida, and Malcolm Baker Abstract—The National Bureau of Economic Research held a symposium titled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
Cars Verizon chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam said his company is connecting cars to infrastructure. At sports stadiums, for example, Verizon plans to put special chips into parking structures to alert drivers to an open spot. Daniela Rus... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
institutional theory, managers, and policymakers. What Good Are Shareholders? Authors:Justin Fox and Jay W. Lorsch Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2012) Abstract The article looks at the role outside shareholders play in corporate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
structure of financial assets and non-fundamental risk. An asset is fragile if its owners collectively have to buy or sell. Such assets are susceptible to non-fundamental price movements. An asset can be fragile because of concentrated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
process, of business interactions. Navigating the challenges of these surface behavioral issues is useful to plumb some of the deeper cultural factors and differences in governance and decision-making of cross-border business negotiation.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- September 2023
- Technical Note
Note on Family Constitutions
Less than half of family businesses will survive generational transfer. While sometimes this is due to operating company issues, in many cases it is because of conflict within the family. Many families create and adopt a family constitution to proactively mitigate... View Details
- July 2009 (Revised January 2014)
- Case
Sustainability at Millipore
By: Michael W. Toffel and Katharine Lee
This case describes Millipore Corporation's approach to becoming a more environmentally sustainable company. As he prepared for his quarterly meeting with the CEO, the Director of Sustainability needed to develop positions on several issues. Tactically, he needed to... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Corporate Disclosure; Operations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Structure; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants
Toffel, Michael W., and Katharine Lee. "Sustainability at Millipore." Harvard Business School Case 610-012, July 2009. (Revised January 2014.) (defining sustainability in a corporate context, managing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions including inventories, targets, disclosure, reduction strategies.)
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
for idiosyncratic products that features the optimal stopping structure and a seller that learns about item-specific demand through the selling process. The model is estimated using novel panel data of a leading used-car dealership.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
poor financial markets, b) increases in the share of FDI or the relative productivity of the foreign firm leads to higher additional growth in financially developed economies compared to those observed in financially under-developed ones, and c) other local conditions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
endeavor, McCraw and Koehn recall with a shared laugh. "We had endless debates with our colleagues inside and outside our unit about how the course should be structured and which countries should be chosen for inclusion," McCraw notes.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
political, as they faced widespread host government hostility and expropriation. In the contemporary global economy, political risk partially declined with the spread of liberalization, although the management of relations with host View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017
George Serafeim from more than 400 senior investment professionals provides insights into why and how investors use environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information as well as the challenges in using this information. Reinventing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
how companies use innovative business models to achieve transformational growth by fulfilling customer needs in current markets; serving new customers and creating new markets; and responding to shifts in market demand, government policy,... View Details
- October 1981 (Revised August 2010)
- Case
Quabbin Cablevision Company
By: Henry B. Reiling
Several entrepreneurs are considering the purchase of an existing cable TV business with the financial assistance of several investors. They must decide whether to establish the company as a partnership or a corporation, and how to capitalize the company for an optimal... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Organization; Television Entertainment; Entrepreneurship; Capital Structure; Taxation; Telecommunications Industry; Massachusetts
Reiling, Henry B. "Quabbin Cablevision Company." Harvard Business School Case 282-003, October 1981. (Revised August 2010.)
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
relationship between green business and governments. The struggles of entrepreneurial pioneers have rarely proved profitable, as they were forced to compete with conventional businesses that ignored negative environmental externalities and were often subsidized by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
entities. The strategy of a new evaluation system should adjust the structure of the original evaluation system with the idea of reform and require the development of the rule of law, including formulating relevant laws and the legal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne