Publications

2015
Working Paper

The U.S. Experiment with Fair Trade Laws: State Police Powers, Federal Antitrust, and the Politics of 'Fairness,' 1890-1938

By: Laura Phillips Sawyer

Prior to the Great Depression and President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs, considerable pressure for antitrust revision came from trade associations of independent proprietors. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Fairness; Laws and Statutes; Supply and Industry; Business and Government Relations

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Nelson Yuan

be hard to see how business leaders affect the ethos of a company. One of the things they stress at HBS is responsibility, the strong sense of ethics that must inform the decisions we make, the way we... View Details

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Curriculum | MBA

Politics and Ethics in Unstable Times One HKS Elective Course Joint Degree Program Seminar taught by HBS faculty Summer Policy-related or international development-related summer internship (recommended) Year 2 Harvard View Details

July 1984 (Revised September 1986)
Case

Daewoo Group

By: Francis Aguilar

Focuses on the entrepreneurship of Chairman Kim Woo-Choong of Daewoo Group which became one of the 4 major group companies in Korea in just 17 years. The group's overall strategies are explored in conjunction with the evolution of Korea's industrial policies. The case... View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Policy; Government and Politics; Business or Company Management; Business and Government Relations; Business Strategy; South Korea; United States

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01 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Climate Finance SIP

developed.” As an EC student, Sofia is acutely aware of how important solving this problem is for future business leaders: “No matter what type of investing you are doing or industry you are focused on, as a future leader you need to play... View Details

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Payam Shodjai

I did was half technical, half business – involving technical, marketing, legal and strategic issues." The business side of technology inspired Payam "to get a more formal education in View Details

02 Mar 2016
What Do You Think?

Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?

Silicon Valley deceiving itself in thinking that security and privacy in the use of its products can be preserved? Is Apple’s refusal to unlock the phone, as important as it is to its business future, anything more than an effort to delay... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

the data generated by your work? What if instead, you find yourself the owner of data generated by people you employ? How should you use it to remain competitive? What are the ethical and social implications of the choices you make? We... View Details

01 Feb 2013
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Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line

Hoffer and Hourdequin: Managing Directors at the Lyme Timber Company in Hanover, New Hampshire. Photo courtesy of the Lyme Timber Company LP It can be difficult to craft a business model that enables both investors and society as a whole... View Details

Keywords: Louisa Rigali; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

October 1990 (Revised April 1991)
Case

RU 486 (A)

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

Describes the factors faced by Roussel UCLAF, a French drug company, in deciding whether and how to market a controversial new drug, RU 486, which is often called "the French abortion pill." Roussel's decision involved its relations with the French government, its... View Details

Keywords: Judgments; Ethics; Product Launch; Negotiation; Outcome or Result; Performance; Business and Government Relations; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; France; Germany; United States

2011
Working Paper

The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

By: Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman

This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Equity; Managerial Roles; Negotiation Deal; Ownership Stake; Value

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23 Apr 2014
News

A corporate leader’s legacy in India

When Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975) joined his family’s business in 1962, it was on the Tata Steel shop floor in Jamshedpur, India. From the ground up, Tata learned how to be an effective manager and a corporate leader who understands the... View Details

01 Jun 2003
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Campaign News

Jr. (MBA ’56), and Dean Clark. Connell House On April 30, members of the HBS community gathered for the dedication of Connell House. The building (formerly named Fowler) honors the late William F. Connell (MBA ’63), a visionary leader known for his View Details

05 Dec 2005
What Do You Think?

Is Growth Good?

actually enable the kind of economic growth that we generally measure and read about. It's reasonably obvious, for example, that growth in such things as the rule of law, so-called transparency, and ethical behavior foster trust in View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2016
News

Dear Future Author…

disciplined approach.)” —Peter Pruzan (MBA 1959), professor emeritus, Copenhagen Business School, and author of Research Methodology: The Aims, Practices and Ethics of Science Gabriela Couturier (photo via... View Details

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Women Are Avoiding AI. Will Their Careers Suffer? | Working Knowledge

Data and Technology Women Are Avoiding AI. Will Their Careers Suffer? Featuring Rembrand M. Koning . By Michael Blanding on February 20, 2025 . Women are adopting generative AI technology at a significantly lower rate than men, in many cases because women question... View Details

November 2007 (Revised May 2008)
Case

Haier Hefei Electronics Co. (A)

By: Lynn Sharp Paine

The Haier Group, the first mainland Chinese company to make the Financial Times list of Asia's "most admired companies," attributes its success in large measure to the new value system it has sought to instill throughout the organization. However, when Haier takes over... View Details

Keywords: Public Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Organizational Culture; Transformation; Ethics; Labor and Management Relations; Business or Company Management; Contracts; Electronics Industry; China

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Carol Lauson

Junior Achievement project, and in high school, membership in the Business Professionals of America, which took her all the way to the nationals in a business exam competition. "I like numbers,"... View Details

January 2022 (Revised October 2023)
Case

OneTen: One Million Careers for Black Talent (A)

By: Boris Groysberg, V. Kasturi Rangan, Annelena Lobb and Kerry Herman

The OneTen case study examines the nonprofit organization’s origin story. Its founding team includes a roster of corporate superstars—Ken Chenault (former CEO of American Express), Ken Frazier (former CEO of Merck), Charles Phillips (chair of Infor), Ginni Rometty... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Demographics; Ethics; Organizations; Social Enterprise; Society; Business or Company Management; Nonprofit Organizations