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- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
States on view, where are the most flagrant polluters? Well, the United States has a lot of red dots. Toffel mentions that power plants and metal mines are the 2 industries with the greatest amount of toxic pollution, and that counties... View Details
- 30 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Adrian Obleton
Did 2+2 change your path or alter your post-undergraduate plans? I was able to make choices and take risks that I otherwise wouldn’t have. I felt free to leave a toxic work environment because I knew that I was coming to HBS. Also, I felt... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
the smartest people in the world who run the major Wall Street firms not understand that these products were toxic and end up getting caught with them on their books? As Fed chairman, did Alan Greenspan have a hand in creating the current... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
Brothers were also at risk, which well, you know where this is going. The decision to let Lehman fail, we’re told by the decision-makers themselves, received only cursory debate. The judgment last year to invest in banks, rather than buy their View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
preachy." Horn was subsequently asked to become a board member of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in 1990. "In the face of the Contract with America's rollback efforts, NRDC is a staunch defender of clean air, clean water, and the proper treatment of View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
wrong in terms of deal process design. Back in October 2008, when the EESA [Emergency Economic Stabilization Act] was passed by Congress, the Treasury Department intended to buy back the so-called toxic assets through a reverse auction... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
e-waste accounts for only 2 percent of the trash in American landfills, it is responsible for 70 percent of toxic waste and is the fastest-growing municipal waste stream in the United States. Currently, most e-recycling is done in a very... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
tasks, so too should we remedy financial turmoil.” First, stabilize the patient, in this case the markets. That’s what the $700 billion rescue plan (signed into law by President Bush MBA ’75 on October 3) aimed to accomplish: stabilize the institutions holding View Details
- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
exacerbated the crisis, by making it hard for the homeowner with a toxic subprime mortgage to refinance to a fixed-rate product or to sell his home. As for bailing out the hedge funds, whose executives earned million-dollar bonuses in the... View Details
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
says. Heese’s work implies that the possibility of media coverage may actually discourage corporate officials from the temptation to skirt the rules—tamping down everything from multimillion-dollar frauds to toxic emissions and minor... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
of corporate fraud, considerations of intent dominate the details of compliance or noncompliance with arcane legal rules. This is the right message to send to the American business community. The behavior that became so widespread and View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 03 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Introducing the Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series
country. Still other interviewees have shown effective collaboration with governments to remove toxic materials from the environment, demonstrated by one Egyptian company’s contribution to the reduction of the country’s hazardous... View Details
- 20 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018
wrestle with questions of identity and rebuilding relationships. Teresa Amabile presents preliminary findings on the journey to after-work life. Why You Are Unhappy at Work Sometimes the deck is stacked against you at work. Learn more about how you can fight back... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created... View Details
- 05 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
textiles that could bypass the toxic chemical dying and unsustainable materials sourcing of todays textiles industry. SpaceSense: A platform designed to help geospatial data scientists and developers build AI solutions faster, easier and... View Details
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Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
Contracts: PE – Part II Day 6: Contracts – Earnout Provisions Module 2: Additional Building Blocks Day 7: Torts and Toxic Torts Day 8: IP – Patents and Patent Licenses Day 9: IP – Copyrights Day 10: Litigation and Litigation Strategy Day... View Details
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
in abnormal events resulting in toxic pollution, and that regulators reduced their scrutiny over self-policing facilities. Upon closer examination, we find strong evidence of these effects among facilities with clean past compliance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
with the right antibiotic on the first day they are admitted to the hospital—day zero—rather than being hit with multiple days of toxic broad-spectrum antibiotics. To enable their diagnostic tools, DZD has built one of the world’s largest... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51989 forthcoming Review of Financial Studies The Political Economy of Financial Innovation: Evidence from Local Governments By: Vallée, Boris, and Christophe Perignon Abstract—We examine the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
toxic many of the cleaning products she was using were to her health and to the environment. So, when she heard about Vida Verde, a worker cooperative organized by Brazilian women immigrants, which sells housecleaning services using... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman