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- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
The Texas town of Marshall has a population of 25,000 people, 2,000 of whom are students attending one of the four colleges that have earned Marshall the nickname "Athens of Texas." Marshall is also home to a historic pottery... View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
Environmental pressures, including the risk that we could destabilize the climate through the emission of green-house gases. Poverty and inequality, with fewer people taking greater pieces of the earnings pie. "Should business get... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates
programs? What management practices work best? Catching Affiliate Fraud Edelman and Brandi, admitted computer geeks, developed software that allowed them to observe management structures within companies using affiliate branding. Edelman, who View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
increased immigration would help reverse current trends. As he put it, “Those folks tend to be younger, with growing families which require furniture, food, clothing. Our ‘native’ population is aging and doesn’t earn or spend as much.”... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
the business to 'roughly' understand what a person was earning . Each role was assigned to a pay range. The greater percentage of that range was awarded dependent on performance, benchmarked through goals and objectives agreed earlier in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
same period to see how often companies received negative publicity for those spills, or whether, indeed, they earned brownie points for their superior environmental record when the inevitable accidents occurred. To get a handle on where... View Details
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
top management level." Mikes began her research in 2005 in England, where she earned her PhD from the London School of Economics. (Hall and Millo are both employed there.) Within five years, she had interviewed 60 risk management... View Details
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
Joyce Dias puts it, "People give up what they enjoy doing most in order to submit to the unnatural process of doing something— anything in order to earn their living." Combine this with research that cites a high correlation... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
stated: "We suck less." Especially since the reward these banks and their consumers and shareholders earned for being prudent was being forced by the United States Treasury to absorb the failed banks, Washington Mutual and... View Details
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
activist SEC filings between 1993 and 2006, focusing on instances where the target of the activism is a U.S. firm. In total, our database contains almost 1,000 events. Our main result is that targets of investor activism earn high returns... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
panelists at a Global Alumni Conference session addressing the topic "Global Brands: Connecting with Consumers across Boundaries," chaired by HBS associate professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian and author of the forthcoming book Brand New: How... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
those suppliers move downstream, potentially into competing with you, as they struggle to earn some kind of return? If your inputs are all becoming commodities and you don’t have a lot of differentiating complimentary assets as part of... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
line. Not surprisingly, therefore, the class has no shortage of members involved in the sort of entrepreneurial ventures that demand innovative thinking. While many classmates started out in more traditional settings, within a decade of View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
comment-letter reviews (CLs) on firms’ financial reporting. We exploit a major change in the SEC’s disclosure policy: in 2004, the SEC decided to make its CLs publicly available. Using a novel dataset of CLs, we analyze the capital-market responses to firms’ quarterly... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
abnormal returns associated with routine traders are essentially zero. Further, opportunistic insiders predict future firm-specific news, as well as announcement returns around future analyst forecasts, management forecasts, and earnings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
order to protect the groups earning the least. Nevertheless, opponents claim that a flat tax is likely to redistribute more of the tax burden from the rich to the middle classes. The fairness issue is very important in this case. It is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
LPV models derived using common valuation anchors such as earnings or sales also exhibit predictive ability. LPV ERPs based on the book value of equity and sales subsume the predictive ability of all other ERPs we examine. Collectively,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
U.S. Census Bureau. We find STEM career adjustments during periods of abnormally high immigration into the firm to be more difficult on several dimensions compared to non-STEM workers. Most notably, STEM workers do not acquire a new job as quickly as non-STEM workers;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- August 2023 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)
By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal
The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details
Keywords: Dairy Industry; Business Earnings; Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Making; Decisions; Voting; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Financial Strategy; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Geopolitical Units; Global Strategy; Ownership Type; Cooperative Ownership; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Natural Environment; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; European Union; Germany; Denmark; Sweden; Luxembourg; Belgium
Parzen, Michael, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney, and Amram Migdal. "Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)." Harvard Business School Case 624-003, August 2023. (Revised March 2024.)
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
governance; market participants and security analysts were, until the beginning of the 2000s but not subsequently, more positively surprised by the earning announcements of good-governance firms; and, although governance indices no longer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne