Green New Deal - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

standards. Today, however, a new determination has emerged to deal with what one UN panel has called the "pre-eminent moral and humanitarian challenge of our age." This View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

28 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining

25 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

changes that have revolutionized their use in practice. He contends that both serve the US economy by helping troubled companies stay viable by giving them time to find new financing, renegotiate unfavorable leases and supply contracts,... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

addressed at the same time to keep the deal on track. In the end, management devised a whole new way of reporting the company's earnings, to address a deficiency in GAAP reporting rules as they pertain to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

risk-taking activities. However, since market forces were shown to be an unreliable mechanism for ensuring the soundness of the financial system over the long term, there is real pressure for making fundamental changes in the way we deal... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

24 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

Data Authors:Jonathan Haskel and Raffaella Sadun Publication:Chap. 7 in Producer Dynamics: New Evidence from Micro Data, edited by Timothy Dunne, J. Bradford Jensen, and Mark J. Roberts. The University of Chicago Press, 2009 Abstract The... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

What’s Next for Japan

himself and coauthors Hirotaka Takeuchi and Mariko Sakakibara in their new book, Can Japan Compete?, before leading a discussion on approaches to Japan's economic recovery. The conversation sparked considerable debate around his own... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

financial crisis, but they may be hard to get rid of. The Washington political system struggles to deal with this gigantic fiscal challenge, and—no surprise—large tax increases and large expenditure reductions are not high on politicians'... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

28 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

empirical projects, and experiments—the latter often in conjunction with the Doorways to Dreams Fund, a nonprofit I cofounded that is an R&D lab for new financial products for low-income families. My first outlet for teaching the... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

suppliers, tertiary suppliers such as steel and aluminum manufacturers, the dealer network, and providers of financing, especially GMAC. The task of saving two major auto makers was all the more difficult because the companies appeared peculiarly unprepared to View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

great deal of time finding pockets of monetization. There will be a great deal of experimentation. Some of it will work and a lot won't. Five years from now, many of them will have found highly successful... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

residents and stay permanently. View Video With limited hope of resettlement on the horizon, many Rohingya have sunk deeper into despair. “You’re dealing with the trauma you experienced, with no distractions, no coping mechanism,” she... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

27 May 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global

stock of differences as well. Key concepts include: Some indicators of globalization aren't increasing as many experts have claimed. Toyota and Wal-Mart are examples of companies that understand how to deal with distance in a strategic... View Details

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

new course in our required curriculum next year. This course will draw on a great deal of work at the School and focus on three issues: Individual decision making (how you as a leader confronting ethical... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

it helps people deal with the great challenges offered by technological innovations and the emergence of the new economy," Mills proclaims. Although those challenges are still out there, today they... View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

11 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections

Managing Churn to Maximize Profits with Aurélie Lemmens, an associate professor at the Tilburg School of Economics and Management. They propose a new method to target customers that potentially boosts a company's profits in a big way—by... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Service

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

being values-based, led by principles and a sense of purpose at the heart of the enterprise. They are dealing with the crisis of capitalism by offering a new and different model. Q: Why do we need a View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Free Software

proprietary software portfolios to invest in open source software (OSS) projects that can sometimes seem unrelated to their core business. "This new reality upends the classic rules of strategy," Iansiti says, "and it's... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

14 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 14, 2015

Abstract—Google Flu Trends article of November 2008 heralded a new age for big data where it is possible to leverage the vast amount of data to speak for itself, without theory or expert knowledge of the subject matter. However, in a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Nov 1999
Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

Leading in the 21st Century is an HBS Executive Education program being held in January 2000. Professors Gary Hamel and John Kotter talk about the course and the new realities of leadership and competitive success. Q: What led the two of... View Details