Government Initiatives - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: January 5

409-021 Padraic Kelly became Managing Director (MD) of the engineering services firm Buro Happold in 1996. One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current size where... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Nov 2014
News

Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years

Harvard alumni living in Mexico and elsewhere and the other half from corporate donations, mainly from Mexican companies. Harvard provided matching funds to the first $1 million, as part of an initiative to strengthen its international... View Details

Keywords: April White

27 Feb 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape

government, who can take advantage of Pixxel’s hyperspectral imagery to inform policymaking. While both of the company visits confirmed our initial hypotheses on the state of the Indian agriculture sector, they also enlightened us to... View Details

06 Mar 2006
What Do You Think?

The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?

would advocate a discontinuation of operations after attempting unsuccessfully to resist meeting government demands for private information. Some suggested more complex strategies. Among those in favor of staying and trying to reach some... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

22 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

The Hedge Fund as Activist

majority of activism targets—firms that do not end up being acquired—earn average abnormal returns that are not statistically distinguishable from zero. This result applies to both announcement returns, as well as to the long-term returns following the View Details

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood; Financial Services

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The Green Industrial Strategy Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

The Green Industrial Strategy Project More Research Projects The Green Industrial Strategy Project examines how business and government can create, scale, and compete in clean tech markets to accelerate decarbonization. As clean... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Making Change

that the affordable housing buzz started in India, along with the Indian president's call for a "slum-free India." Apprehensive about both government and real-estate developers, my husband, an architect from Italy, and I moved to Delhi... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate

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Matt Oppenheimer

for Youth. "My initial plan was to spend more time in business directly out of college," Matt says. "But I decided to get my MBA earlier to help me fulfill my nonprofit commitments more effectively." Engaged, energized... View Details

23 May 2019
News

Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966

initiatives in the arts, education, the environment, government innovation, and public health. He has given away more than $6.4 billion. In 2018, he also committed an additional $1.8 billion to his alma... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

19 Feb 2020
News

Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

organized by the HBS Business & Environment Initiative and the HBS Club of Washington, DC. The expert panel featured voices from the energy, environmental, and governmental sectors; attendees from fields as diverse as education, health... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating,” says Sawyer, an assistant professor in the Business, Government and the International Economy unit who previously held the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

14 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation

healthy communities. Traditionally, businesses have supported the social sector in two different ways: they contribute their employees' time for volunteer activities, and they support community initiatives with money and gifts in kind.... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

13 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably

city of Enschede, our group of students heard about the beer company’s corporate sustainability initiatives, saw these initiatives in action during our brewery tour, and then got to taste their results in an on-site beer sampling. Their... View Details

31 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

sample of private firms for which there is financial data available in the years before and after their initial public offering (IPO), I differentiate between those that have private equity sponsorship (PE-backed firms) and those that do... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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How Proxy Advisers Get Companies Talking to Shareholders | Working Knowledge

for failing to change the sometimes secretive ways of corporate boards during high-stakes proxy voting over executive pay and other governance issues. But recent research finds that boards substantially increase their engagement with... View Details

14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

management, innovation loses out. At best, leaders of core business units dismiss innovation initiatives as irrelevancies. At worst, they see the new businesses as threats to the firm's core identity and values. Many CEOs take a backseat... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

29 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 29

of strong ties to resistors accruing to the change agent are weaker and may yet turn into liabilities that reduce the likelihood of change adoption. Analyses of longitudinal data from 68 multi-method case studies of organizational change View Details