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  • 23 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

and far less power and fresh water than other methods of extraction, Lithios is unlocking a responsible, domestic supply chain of one of the most critical raw materials for the energy transition. Brett's... View Details
  • 26 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Syngenta Tomato Vision

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of their Immersive Field Course... View Details
  • 15 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 15, 2007

that a monopolistic market maker is able to extract from impatient investors. The mechanism for trade is a limit order, and immediacy is supplied when the limit order is executed. We show that limit orders are American options and their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

Climate Symposium 2023: Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale

join a wide range of panel discussions featuring industry experts in the following areas: Decarbonizing Farming; Food Supply Chain and Waste; Scaling Green Energy Generation; Hard to Decarbonize Sectors;... View Details
  • 11 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

anymore, but it is a useful reminder of how high the stakes can be. Roscini: Normally the parties reach an agreement, ideally under the auspices and rules of the WTO. The problem is that nowadays trade wars may have unintended consequences that complicate their... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
  • winter 1989
  • Article

Split-Awards Procurement and Innovation

By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
In many procurement settings, it is possible for a buyer to split a production award between suppliers. In this article, we develop a model of split-award procurement auctions in which the split choice is endogenous. We characterize the set of equilibrium bids and... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Cost; Supply Chain; Investment; Balance and Stability
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  • 16 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 16, 2016

U.S. market? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516117-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-039 Supply Chain Finance at Procter & Gamble In April 2013, Procter & Gamble... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 25

scale and influence in the technology industries that fall under the incidence of their assets. We also discuss some efficiency issues raised by the growing prominence of patent merchants. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-023.pdf Engaging View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Inspiration Is Not Enough

animated screen stars for decades of royalty income. IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad developed a rigorous vendor-screening process that, though not sexy, provided the furniture retailer with “an impressive supply View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • Web

Deal Making in Real Estate - Course Catalog

strategic areas within Gilbane including profit and loss oversight of Gilbane’s Next 150 subsidiary providing site services, equipment and self-perform workforce and GRS Disaster Response, an emergency recovery business. He also leads the company’s internal View Details
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

Industry-Related Clubs Offer Alumni a New Resource

Association, a number of other HBS alumni associations exist. These include the African-American Alumni Association, the Association of Gay and Lesbian Alumni, the Christian Fellowship Alumni Association, the Supply View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

to exert over the different segments of their production processes. We describe a property-rights model of firm boundary choices along the value chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

long-term innovation output rather than for private benefits. Code Contingencies: Designing Monitoring Regimes to Promote Improvement in Supply Chain Working Conditions By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

dangerous working conditions in overseas factories. So the company launched an initiative to reduce the negative environmental impact of its entire supply chain and established a code of conduct focused on... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • November 2019
  • Case

Hapag-Lloyd AG:Complying with IMO 2020

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney
A new environmental regulation known as IMO 2020 was creating what one industry analyst called “the biggest shakeup for the oil and shipping industries in decades.” According to the new regulation, all ocean-going ships would have to limit their sulfur emissions by... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Ship Transportation; Strategic Planning; Game Theory; Pollutants; Supply Chain; Corporate Accountability; Capital Budgeting; Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governance Compliance; Shipping Industry; Transportation Industry; Germany
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  • December 2009 (Revised May 2010)
  • Case

Codevasf

By: David E. Bell, Marcos Fava Neves, Luciano Thome e Castro and Natalie Kindred
With many countries facing scarcity of freshwater and farmable land, Brazil decided to leverage its wealth of both resources to attract global agribusiness players to the historically poor Sao Francisco Valley (SFV) in the country's northeast. To do so, Brazil was... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Resource Allocation; Bids and Bidding; Infrastructure; Supply Chain; Business and Government Relations; Natural Environment; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Brazil
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  • 02 Mar 2015
  • News

To Market, To Market

building an agricultural and market infrastructure in places—like parts of Nepal, Romania, Haiti, and Guatemala—where little or none has previously existed. “The way we do this is through value-based development, where we engage farmers in wealth-creating value View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Agriculture; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 18 Jul 2018
  • Blog Post

Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East

That knowledge informs BulkWhiz's supply chain management, giving it purchasing leverage with suppliers. "But they win too by using BulkWhiz as a targeting platform. We merge online with offline data,... View Details
  • 25 Jun 2020
  • News

Covering All Corners

affected by the significant disruptions in global supply chains. Unfortunately, being on the developing side of the world means your shipments get deprioritized first. Your supply View Details
  • 02 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

not going to compete by building a car manufacturing supply chain, a telephony network or a big retail footprint. We are going to use that available infrastructure to our advantage. These startups are like fleas on the backs of dinosaurs... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding