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16 Feb 2023
HBS Case

ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services

1990
Chapter

The British Government and Foreign Multinationals before 1970

By: G. Jones

Keywords: Business History; Multinational Firms and Management; Business and Government Relations; United Kingdom

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

a related note, how do the business classes differ in each country in terms of power, agreement around issues, etc., and has that state of affairs helped or hindered economic... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

April 2019
Case

Afterpay U.S.: The Omnichannel Dilemma

By: Antonio Moreno, Donald Ngwe and George Gonzalez

In 2018, Nick Molnar, the founder of the Australia-based online payment service Afterpay began its expansion to the U.S. market. The service had gained a loyal following in Australia by enabling customers to pay for online purchases through four interest-free... View Details

10 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

Anne-Marie Schoonbeek (MBA 2017) and Heleen van Poecke (MBA 2017), grew up in small towns in the Netherlands fifteen minutes apart from one another. Yet in all those years, their paths never crossed. Instead, over 3,000 miles away from... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Taylor Gibbs chronicles more than 200 years of her paternal family’s history and highlights their contributions to the civil rights movement in the United States. The Human Element: The... View Details

2007
Chapter

Labor Market Regulations and European Venture Capital Investment

By: Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr

Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Human Capital; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Europe

Blog

Inside the Learning: Sustainability—on Campus and Beyond

to educate, connect, and mobilize business leaders to address climate change and other environmental challenges. BEI brings together more than 40 faculty members who... View Details

November 2009 (Revised July 2011)
Case

International Lobbying and The Dow Chemical Company (A)

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich

This case explores company strategy, business-government relations, and collective action challenges associated with international and domestic lobbying regarding regulation of the chemical industry. In the fall of 2006, a five-year legislative process for a major new... View Details

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Chemical Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Europe

July 2016 (Revised January 2019)
Case

Cyber Breach at Target

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Lynn S. Paine and Neeraj Goyal

In November and December of 2013, Target Corporation suffered one of the largest cyber breaches to date. The breach that occurred during the busy holiday shopping season resulted in personal and credit card information of approximately 110 million Target customers... View Details

Keywords: Safety; Credit Cards; Customer Relationship Management; Internet and the Web; Governing and Advisory Boards; Crisis Management; Retail Industry

01 Mar 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

argues that it is not the business plan but the personality behind it that counts. Behind the Mask: Embrace Risk and Dare to Be Better by Don Hastings (MBA 1953) and Leslie... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

September 2018 (Revised November 2018)
Case

From Beirut With Love (A)

By: Christina R. Wing, Esel Y. Cekin and Samer Al-Rachedy

This case describes how Robert Fadel, CEO and chairman of ABC, one of Lebanon’s leading retail and real estate groups, professionalized the family business. Robert was the second son of the company’s founder, Maurice Fadel, who had run it single-handedly. Concerned... View Details

November 1979 (Revised September 1980)
Case

Procter & Gamble and the Federal Trade Commission

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; United States

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2009
Chapter

Behavioral Aspects of Price Setting, and Their Policy Implications

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

This paper starts by discussing consumers' cognitive and emotional reaction to posted prices. Cognitively, some consumers do not appear to make effective use of price information to maximize their consumption-based utility. Emotionally, prices can induce regret and... View Details

Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Price; Policy; Laws and Statutes; Demand and Consumers; Business and Government Relations

December 2013
Supplement

Rough Justice: Stuart Eizenstat and Holocaust-Era Asset Restitution (B)

By: James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. Green

This case carefully traces the process by which Stuart Eizenstat handled the negotiation challenges outlined in "Rough Justice: Stuart Eizenstat and Holocaust-Era Asset Restitution (A)". It describes the outcome of the Swiss negotiations and briefly sketches... View Details

Keywords: Bargaining; Conflict Resolution; Disputes; Mediation; Dispute Resolution; Governance; History; Negotiation; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Insurance Industry; Switzerland; Germany; Austria; France; Israel

Web

Archival Collections - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

publications such as the Bulletin of Business Research , Harvard Business Review , Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin , HBS Annual Reports (yearbooks), View Details

2010
Book

Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation

By: Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss

After two generations of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for deregulation, we now see growing interest in the possibility of constructive governance, alongside public calls for new, smarter regulation. Yet there is a real danger that regulatory... View Details

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Markets; Business and Government Relations; Research