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  • 11 Jun 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 17 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

Professor of Business Administration; a new cohort begins every few months. First, a math lesson Many firms use the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol developed by the World Resources Institute and World Business Council for Sustainable... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

  PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting firms face significant up-front... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 15, 2016

migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape of global talent mobility, which is both asymmetric and rising in importance. We next consider the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

Garvin and Carin-Isabel KnoopHarvard Business School Case 311-008 In late spring 2009, Stroz Friedberg co-presidents Edward Stroz and Eric Friedberg had to set growth targets for 2010. The leading global consulting View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

probability of reaching the top, nor are they paid equally,” the researchers write. An entire nation of data To investigate the gender gap, the research team collected data on virtually every person who worked as a top executive in a Swedish View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

extensively within their own levels, but there were virtually no cross-pay-grade interactions in the firm (other than mass e-mails and between administrative assistants and the managers they support). Q: What can managers take away from... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

scientific infrastructure. The Decentering of the Global Firm Author:Mihir A. Desai Publication:The World Economy (forthcoming) Abstract This paper describes recent changes in the relationship between View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

corporate finance. A good example is Iridium, the $6 billion global satellite telecommunications firm that went bankrupt in August 1999. Had Motorola financed this investment on balance sheet or guaranteed... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 23 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

after an event passes, according to recent research based on a survey examining French firms with fewer than 250 employees during the global financial crisis last decade. Conducted over a seven-year period... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • March 1997
  • Case

Stone Container in Honduras (C)

By: James K. Sebenius and Hannah Bowles
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Preparation; Negotiation Types; Environmental Sustainability; Conflict of Interests; Globalized Firms and Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Manufacturing Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Honduras; Chicago
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  • 16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

firm’s net protection sellers. Capital fluctuations of sellers account for 10% of the time-series variation in spread changes, a significant amount given that observable firm and macroeconomic factors account for less than 16% of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 7, 2015

segments to existing products, lowering price by removing features, failing to think through all the technical requirements, neglecting stakeholders, and refusing to believe products created for low-income markets could have global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

firms' ownership structures affect their earnings quality and long-term performance. Focusing on a unique sample of private firms for which there is financial data available in the years before and after their initial public offering... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

the aftermath of the 2008 recession, the asset management firm BlackRock was busy charting a course for growth. Its revenues, profits, and stock price all performed consistently through this tumultuous period. The authors looked at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 4, 2016

innovation qualities, and firm size affects innovation incentives. This framework allows us to analyze how different types of innovation contribute to economic growth and how the firm size distribution can... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 1

capitalists at a firm and its success. When the individual investment professionals are highly specialized themselves, the marginal effect of increasing overall firm specialization is much weaker. The poorer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

diversification into the technology intensive TFT-LCD flat panel display industry. Because the diversification is far away from its core competence in petrochemicals, it is an opportunity to examine how the firm was able to become a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

Business School Supplement 707-020 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707020 Global Climate Change and Emissions Trading Harvard Business School Case 707-015... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

600 urban centers accounting for roughly 60 percent of global GDP. The creation of this economic and social value, however, involves the consumption of considerable natural resources. For example, cities today contain 50 percent of the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

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