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  • 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015

helps bridge the gap between people's moral values and their actual behavior. Combined, the REVISE framework guides the design of policy interventions to defeat dishonesty. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

ethnography of serial migration in Dubai focusing on motherhood, work, and movement (under contract with Columbia University Press). She has received fellowships from the Center of Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford), The Women and Public View Details
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Reunions: Accelerating Climate Solutions with Professor Jim Matheson (MBA 2001) - Blog - Business & Environment

And the climate capital stack and policy frameworks continue to evolve and extend as it responds to these myriad opportunities. 3. We Are (Way) Behind - despite #1 and 2 above, transitioning the planet to a low(er) carbon economy is... View Details
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Weekend Sprint: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Blog - Business & Environment

and a unique opportunity to collaborate with climate concerned students across the business, technology, policy and law domains. Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or View Details
  • 2019
  • Report

U.S. Nuclear Energy Leadership: Innovation and the Strategic Global Challenge

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III
Throughout 2018, the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center convened a “Task Force on US Nuclear Energy Leadership,” which comprised civilian and military experts in foreign policy, defense, and nuclear energy. Senators Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)... View Details
Keywords: Nuclear Energy; Environment; Energy Sources; Energy; Energy Generation; Energy Conservation; Energy Policy; Global Range; Energy Industry
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  • July 2005 (Revised December 2005)
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General Motors U.S. Pension Funds

By: Luis M. Viceira and Helen Tung
In June 2003, General Motors Corp. (GM) successfully marketed the largest corporate debt offering in U.S. history, worth $17.6 billion. The offering included $13.6 billion worth of debt denominated in dollars, euros, and pounds and $4 billion dollars denominated in... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Bonds; Investment Return; Policy; Borrowing and Debt; Corporate Finance; Auto Industry; United States
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  • November 2001
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Aventis CropScience and StarLink Corn

By: Ray A. Goldberg and James M Beagle
Aventis CropScience responds to the discovery of an unapproved corn variety in food supplies and draws lessons for the company, industry, and governments. View Details
Keywords: Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Food; Science-Based Business; Outcome or Result; Governance Compliance; Problems and Challenges; Nutrition; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • October 2020 (Revised April 2022)
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When Institutions Fail: HIV/AIDS in the 1980s

By: Tom Nicholas and Christian Godwin
During the early 1980s, young gay men in urban centers such as San Francisco and New York City began contracting a mysterious illness that would come to be known as HIV/AIDS. A diagnosis meant almost certain death, with a less than 1% survival rate. Conflicting... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Policy; Government and Politics; Health Pandemics; History; Rights; Media; Organizations; Business and Community Relations; Religion; Social Psychology; Identity; Prejudice and Bias; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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  • January 2001 (Revised May 2010)
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BP Amoco (B): Financing Development of the Caspian Oil Fields

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
British Petroleum and Amoco were the two largest members of the Azerbaijan International Oil Consortium (AIOC), an 11-firm consortium that was spending $10 billion to develop oil fields in the Caspian Sea. As of March 1999, AIOC had completed a $1.9 billion development... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Policy; Capital Budgeting; Project Finance; Emerging Markets; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; United Kingdom; Europe
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  • 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010

Affect Credit Ratings? Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract The credit rating industry has historically been dominated by just two agencies, Moody's and S&P, leading to longstanding legislative and regulatory calls for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2019
  • News

Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns

Photo courtesy of Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux (MBA 2004) started at HBS in 2002, the private space industry was really just... View Details
Keywords: Space Research and Technology; Government
  • 22 Nov 2022
  • Blog Post

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change

its commitment to the Paris Agreement, which is to reduce 2030 emissions to 50 percent of 2005 emissions. Importantly, the IRA, IIJA, and CHIPS Act together represent a return to industrial policy in the US,... View Details
  • December 1989 (Revised October 1990)
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General Electric Co.: Preparing for the 1990s

By: Francis Aguilar
Describes Jack Welch's tenure as CEO from 1981 to 1989 through excerpts of speeches and presentations. Sections include summary of GE's strategy, Welch's quantum leap approach to change, the restructuring of GE, how GE operates (the "GE Growth Engine"), and managing GE... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Policy; Business or Company Management; Change Management; Business Strategy; Restructuring; Operations; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Electronics Industry
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  • 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006

demand. Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w12756 The Value of a 'Free' Customer Authors:Sunil Gupta, Carl F. Mela, and Jose M. Vidal-Sanz Abstract Central to a firm's growth and marketing policy is the revenue and profit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

The Billion-Dollar Question

places that he said were "logistically hard and time-consuming." Few people in the world are as able as HBS grads to take a sabbatical: We are blessed with high incomes, fat savings (you do save, right?), and the ultimate career insurance View Details
Keywords: Advice; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • News

Carbon Neutral

as well as reduce the corporate tax rate, a longtime goal of congressional Republicans. The idea was the brainchild of Eacho and George Frampton, a lawyer who worked on environmental issues at Covington & Burling and former environmental View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51195 Spring 2016 Business History Review California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of 'Fairness' in U.S. Competition Policy By: Sawyer, Laura Phillips Abstract—In the decades before... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their company’s core business. Distinct from nonmarket strategy and traditional corporate social responsibility, the recent wave of CEO activism focuses on social issues... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 7

resources in the ongoing accumulation of scientific knowledge. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2478627 October 2014 Research Policy 'Open' Disclosure of Innovations, Incentives and Follow-on Reuse:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007

accountability at the project and policy levels, particularly through the establishment and enforcement of social and environmental safeguards and complaint and response mechanisms. But they have been much less successful in changing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne