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Model (23) Business Offices (4) Business Plan (2) Business Processes (4) Business Startups (39) Business Strategy (31) Business Units (1) Business Ventures (153) Business and Community Relations (8) Business and Government Relations (44)... View Details

    Paul M. Healy

    Paul Healy is the James R. Williston Professor at the Harvard Business School. His research covers a broad range of topics, including white collar crime, governance, business ethics, financial analysis, and Wall Street research. He joined the HBS faculty in 1998,... View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; brokerage; pharmaceuticals
    • 21 Feb 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?

    these additional terminations are wise choices, but it helps to illustrate how the disclosure channel has a meaningful impact on competition and many millions of dollars of R&D investment decisions.” “People in the industry say, ‘Yes,... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Health
    • 30 Nov 2021
    • In Practice

    What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

    The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
    Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
    • 22 May 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: May 22

    Working PapersCorporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance Authors:Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim Abstract In this paper, we investigate whether superior performance on corporate social responsibility (CSR) View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 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
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    Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

    Campbell : Winner of the 2018 Journal of Management Accounting Research Best Paper Award for "Testing Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures: Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24" with Srikant Datar, Susan Kulp, and V.G.... View Details
    • 23 Mar 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: March 23

    press An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://ceo.usc.edu/book/doing_research_that_is_useful.html Business Network Transformation in Action Authors: Marco Iansiti and Ross Sullivan Publication: In Business Network Transformation: View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 11 Apr 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The High Risks of Short-Term Management

    infrastructure that separates companies could have profound implications and incentivize companies to become more long-term-oriented. Q: What is the lesson for corporate leaders as they seek to balance the need for long-term strategy with... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
    • 03 Mar 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

    the patent application, the invention is unpatentable in that country. For example, if the invention is publicly disclosed to a Japanese national visiting a tradeshow in the United States, then under Japanese patent law, if no patent application has been filed, that... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • January 2017 (Revised January 2019)
    • Case

    The Rise and Fall of Lehman Brothers

    By: Stuart C. Gilson, Kristin Mugford and Sarah L. Abbott
    With nearly $700 billion in assets, Lehman was the largest U.S. bankruptcy in history. In 2007, Lehman achieved record earnings of over $4 billion on revenues of $60 billion. By September 2008 the fourth largest investment bank in the world was bankrupt. How had a... View Details
    Keywords: Bankruptcy; Financial Distress; Accounting Policies; Business Ethics; Financial Reporting; Volatility; Judgments; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Investment Banking; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Failure; Business and Government Relations; Ethics; Banking Industry; New York (city, NY)
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    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Case Study: The Home Team

    Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate
    • 24 Oct 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

    digital age is a fertile area of his research. Luca is looking at rankings, expert evaluations, online consumer reviews, and quality disclosure laws to see how they work in market settings, and which are most important for consumers. To... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
    • 01 Sep 2015
    • First Look

    First Look -- September 1, 2015

    PUBLISHED PAPERS forthcoming Advances in Strategic Management Strategy Beyond Markets By: Figueiredo, John de, Michael Lenox, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Rick Vanden Bergh, eds. Abstract—Since the early 1990s, View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 May 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

    measurement and disclosure of important metrics and information. In this chapter, we examine the effect of sustainability disclosure regulations on firms’ disclosure practices... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
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    Finance & Investing - Business & Environment

    Transition Risk Incorporating Climate Risk into Financial Models: Sustainable Finance Innovative Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies Conference Presentations Presentation by Daniel P. Schrag, Harvard University Center for the Environment... View Details
    • 16 Sep 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: September 16, 2008

    firms otherwise sheltered from entry by standalone rivals may be vulnerable to an adjacent platform provider's envelopment attack. We analyze conditions under which envelopment strategies are likely to succeed. Download the paper:... View Details
    • 11 Apr 2024
    • Blog Post

    Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

    and data transparency, companies can collaborate with their suppliers to come up with a collective strategy to mitigate the various facets of water risk. Water issues are felt at the watershed level. It is a collective action problem.... View Details
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    HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

    Ravenel Senior Advisor, Co-Chair and Vice-Chair of Glasgow Alliance for Net Zero In addition to his role at GFANZ, Curtis Ravenel is a founding member of the secretariat for the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial View Details
    • 28 Jun 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: June 28

    portfolio strategy that takes advantage of this straightforward vs. complicated information processing classification yields returns of 118 basis points per month. Consistent with processing complexity driving the return relation, we... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne