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- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
start-up that provides clean drinking water to more than 64,000 rural villagers in India. The company uses a franchise model in which local entrepreneurs filter and sell water... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 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... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
vocabulary of decarbonization.” And the US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new rules recently that will require major US publicly-listed companies to share on a yearly basis their climate risks... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
foreign direct investment (FDI) in determining micro economic performance. Using a new worldwide dataset that reports the activities of more than 12 million establishments before and after 2008, we investigate how multinationals around... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
facing toward Mecca. In every direction is a fantastic horizon: clear blue water, dazzling sunsets, an almost unbelievable expanse of empty sky and earth, and a development opportunity worth more than $80 billion. Behind me across the View Details
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512085-PDF-ENG Sarvajal: Water for All John D. Macomber and Mona SinhaHarvard Business School Case 211-028 Entrepreneur wrestles with business model using SMS and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
Further, if the sea were to rise two feet as some projections indicate is probable, the annual inundation risk would rise to more like 1/20. They might not even be able to buy insurance for any price at that level of exposure. One decision, then, is to View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
Working Papers Reality versus Propaganda in the Formation of Beliefs about Privatization Authors: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky Abstract Argentina privatized most public utilities during the 1990s but re-nationalized the main View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
effects, we look within multinational firms and show that higher levels of bilateral trust between the multinational's country of origin and subsidiary's country of location increases decentralization, even after instrumenting trust using... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
would our world look like if we could have US levels of electricity available at affordable prices for every person on the planet for 1,000 years?" Lassiter says. "We should be working on nuclear like there is no tomorrow. We should do... View Details
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
companies try to find a profit linkage, that's a hard test on CSR," Rangan says. "It might not lead to that." Instead, executives and shareholders should consider other benefits CSR can provide. For example, Bimbo Bakery not only uses... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
wage comparisons affect firm policies on executive pay? This paper explores that question using a 1992 SEC proxy disclosure rule that mandated increased disclosure of executive pay. We argue that this rule differentially increased wage... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
have it all figured out except the money." I'm not talking about rapacious financial manipulators making trading profits like Michael Lewis' Flash Boys. I'm talking about using the tools of finance to build subways, View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur
the company, tap into management skills, leverage existing technologies, and use existing compensation and HR functions. But while you are protected from failure, your upside—especially financial reward—is also usually less than what you... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’
things as well. Familiar routines and old assumptions have to be disrupted, even though doing so entails risk. Otherwise nothing new can be created. Frank Barrett calls this trait "provocative competence." It tops his list of key principles in improvisation. Frank... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
really want not necessarily by answering marketing questions." Maree Conway said, "Ask customers what they think about the future rather than the present, and we might get some very useful ideas." Chintamani Rao said, "That does not mean... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
to show how effective and safe the remedy was. The scientists also investigated various questions that came up, such as whether clean water was required. (They found that, although boiled water was... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Working PapersIntra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We use a new firm-level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries—close... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace