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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online
business in society and why an organizational approach focusing on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues can—and should—be financially viable. Highlights Causality and Complicity The Tazreen Fire Purpose of the Firm Show Hide... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
achieve excellence, but he also knew the state never intended to govern local schools permanently. As he considered his options for the recommendation to the state board about future governance, his... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
Price, Local Value Creation, Global Standard of Excellence, Dedicated Service Relationship and the Expert Knowledge designs. Students are asked to analyze the configurations used in each of these examples and then to apply the analyses to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
nations' poor economic management, international financial contagion, close "crony" relations between local politicians and capitalists? This case examines how the crisis erupted in Thailand and spread in a chain of events that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2022
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Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
indoor-generated contaminants to maintain good indoor air quality. The IRA will accelerate the adoption of proven technologies like Sorbent Ventilation Technology by providing funding for state and local View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
other national and local government agencies might the firm target? On the civil side, the resurgence of the salience of nuclear power generation in the mid 2000s had appeared to be good news for Babcock... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel
in India: while some decarbonization technologies exist for steel production, most are prohibitively expensive relative to the current market prices for steel, and green steel has small demand, especially in Asia. Since the Government of... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
at six contextual factors that shaped business during the last century and continue to shape it in our present century: government regulation, labor, globalization, technology, demography, and social mores. Within each decade of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
the twelfth grade,” recalls Eustis. “He was a real tough, volatile type of guy. He played football. He was later rumored to be the smartest kid ever to graduate from our high school.” During those same years, McArthur worked part-time in a sawmill run by the Koerners,... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
Mozilo ... and 'Say on Pay' for All! (A) Harvard Business School Case 109-009 Union seeks to protect its pension funds through shareholder activism focused on corporate governance and executive compensation. The case uses Countrywide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Senior Director in International Government Relations Europe and Eurasia of Exxon Mobil and former Special Assistant to the U.S. President for Russia and Central Asia; Hubert Joly, Senior Lecturer at HBS and former Chairman and CEO of... View Details
- 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009
(Available in Mandarin only.) Abstract This is a text and case book for the Chinese business higher education market. It is a combination of seven chapters (six original ones) covering China's financial markets, governance in the global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2010
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Pontal, a partially built irrigation project in the SFV. In exchange for partial reimbursement from the Brazilian government and free use of 30,000 hectares land for 25 years, the private-sector partner would finish constructing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209012 TCS: The MCA 21 Project Harvard Business School Case 609-024 Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading outsourced software services provider based in India, must decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
that Wal-Mart would match or beat any of the advertised deals." Welcome the mouse when you're the lion. If you happen to be a dominant player, you, too, can gain from competitors. Most prominently, the little guys can keep you off the radar screen of View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
Editor Julia Hanna talks to Wilson about thinking beyond standard economic models, what collaboration looks like to him, and the work that has fundamentally changed the way governments and corporations buy and sell essential goods and... View Details
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Energy & Environment Club’s Icelandic Adventure! - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
serve significantly diverging customer bases. Such market-type dispersion is likely to compromise the headquarters' ability to control its local managers' behavior and satisfy the divergent needs of different types of customers. In this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals
systems and nonfunctional governance systems." "In the 1980s," says Jensen, "there were many more takeovers, mergers, leveraged buyouts, and restructurings intended to create efficiency and value. While some of this is happening now,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 05 Jul 2011
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local standards in the 2003-2008 period? We test the hypothesis that perceived network benefits from the extant worldwide adoption of IFRS can explain part of countries' shift away from local accounting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne