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- February 2020 (Revised March 2020)
- Case
Prime Coalition: Catalytic Capital for Climate Innovation
By: Ramana Nanda, Benjamin N. Roth and Olivia Hull
With long development timelines and high risk, new energy technologies were often left to languish in the “valley of death,” unable to raise enough funds to bring a product to market. In 2014, Sarah Kearney founded the nonprofit Prime Coalition to solve this problem....
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Keywords:
Energy Conservation;
Renewable Energy;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Investment;
Innovation and Invention;
Technological Innovation;
Mission and Purpose;
Science-Based Business;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Social Enterprise;
Energy Industry;
Technology Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
United States
Nanda, Ramana, Benjamin N. Roth, and Olivia Hull. "Prime Coalition: Catalytic Capital for Climate Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 820-007, February 2020. (Revised March 2020.)
- December 2011 (Revised January 2012)
- Supplement
Pierre Frankel in Moscow (B): Plowing Ahead
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew Bird
After several months into his turnaround of a global technology company's Russia subsidiary, a young and upcoming French executive reflected on how to institutionalize the subsidiary's transformation by further driving cultural change and breaking down internal silos....
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Structure;
Business Subsidiaries;
Leadership;
Manufacturing Industry;
Russia
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Matthew Bird. "Pierre Frankel in Moscow (B): Plowing Ahead." Harvard Business School Supplement 312-071, December 2011. (Revised January 2012.)
- 14 Mar 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
Can AI and Machine Learning Help Park Rangers Prevent Poaching?
- August 2012 (Revised May 2013)
- Case
Milwaukee (A): Making of a World Water Hub
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew Bird
Starting in 2007 Milwaukee leaders from different areas (large established companies, civic organizations, public sector, academia, and entrepreneurs) negotiated a path for converting the region into a global water hub to address economic and environmental concerns....
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Growth Management;
Business or Company Management;
Leading Change;
Wisconsin
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Matthew Bird. "Milwaukee (A): Making of a World Water Hub." Harvard Business School Case 313-057, August 2012. (Revised May 2013.)
- 14 Jun 2022
- Cold Call Podcast
What Does It Take to Close the Opportunity Gap in America’s Labor Market?
Keywords:
Re: V. Kasturi Rangan
- 2014
- Working Paper
Tommy Koh and the U.S.–Singapore Free Trade Agreement: A Multi-Front 'Negotiation Campaign'
By: Laurence A. Green and James K. Sebenius
Complex, multiparty negotiations are often analyzed as principals negotiating through agents, as two-level games (Putnam 1988), or in coalitional terms. The relatively new concept of a "multi-front negotiation campaign" (Sebenius 2010, Lax and Sebenius, 2012) offers...
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Green, Laurence A., and James K. Sebenius. "Tommy Koh and the U.S.–Singapore Free Trade Agreement: A Multi-Front 'Negotiation Campaign'." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-053, December 2014.
- Guest Column
Decarbonizing Economy Requires Lot More Electricity: Big Ramp-ups in Solar, Wind Power Are Needed
By: Jurgen Weiss
The column summarizes the findings of a report prepared for the Coalition for Community Solar Access, which concludes that to achieve New England's 2050 economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions reductions goals would require increasing the annual deployments of new...
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Weiss, Jurgen. "Decarbonizing Economy Requires Lot More Electricity: Big Ramp-ups in Solar, Wind Power Are Needed." CommonWealth (October 19, 2019).
- March 2019
- Case
HOPI: Turkey's Shopping Companion
By: Sunil Gupta, Donald Ngwe and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in 2017 as Onur Erbay, CEO of HOPI, a multi-vendor loyalty platform, is contemplating a critical decision. The case chronicles the origins of Boyner Group, the parent company of HOPI and a major retailer in Turkey, and development of retail and customer...
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Keywords:
Loyalty Programs;
Multi-vendor Platform;
Retail;
Big Data;
Customer Relationship Management;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Business Model;
Analytics and Data Science;
Competitive Strategy;
Decision Making;
Applications and Software;
Digital Platforms;
Technology Industry;
Retail Industry;
Turkey
Gupta, Sunil, Donald Ngwe, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "HOPI: Turkey's Shopping Companion." Harvard Business School Case 519-057, March 2019.
- June 2021 (Revised December 2021)
- Case
The Lunar Gateway, Moon vs. Mars, and the Political Governance of Space Activities
By: Matthew C. Weinzierl and Mehak Sarang
In 2017, the Trump Administration made a bold claim—that they would return the next man and the first woman to the lunar surface by 2024, this time to establish a sustainable presence to enable further exploration in the solar system. With the Artemis Program, NASA has...
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Keywords:
Space;
Space Economy;
Aerospace;
Nasa;
Governance;
Policy;
International Relations;
Infrastructure
Weinzierl, Matthew C., and Mehak Sarang. "The Lunar Gateway, Moon vs. Mars, and the Political Governance of Space Activities." Harvard Business School Case 721-059, June 2021. (Revised December 2021.)
- 10 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum
In fall 2020, the Harvard Kennedy School incorporated a two-week module on Race and Racism in the Making of the United States as a Global Super power into the MPP core curriculum. The school created this module in response to calls by the student-led HKS Equity View Details
- February 2014 (Revised May 2014)
- Background Note
Finding the Money: An Overview of Infrastructure Finance Challenges and Opportunities
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Daniel Fox
This overview describes how the United States funds and finances infrastructure investment to maintain its economic competitiveness. It considers the roles of taxpayers, users, government allocators and lenders, and private investors in the infrastructure funding...
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Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Daniel Fox. "Finding the Money: An Overview of Infrastructure Finance Challenges and Opportunities." Harvard Business School Background Note 314-094, February 2014. (Revised May 2014.)
- 2023
- Case
Christiana Figueres and the Collaborative Approach to Negotiating Climate Action
By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian
This case study centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to build momentum for, and ultimately pass, the 2015...
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Keywords:
Climate Change;
Negotiation;
Environmental Regulation;
International Relations;
Leadership
Sebenius, James K., Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro, and Mina Subramanian. "Christiana Figueres and the Collaborative Approach to Negotiating Climate Action." Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School Case, 2023. Electronic.
- 2005
- Working Paper
Additive Rules for the Quasi-linear Bargaining Problem
By: Christopher P. Chambers and Jerry R. Green
We study the class of additive rules for the quasi-linear bargaining problem introduced by Green. We provide a characterization of the class of all rules that are e¢ cient, translation invariant, additive, and continuous. We present several subfamilies of rules: the...
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Keywords:
Econometric Models
Chambers, Christopher P., and Jerry R. Green. "Additive Rules for the Quasi-linear Bargaining Problem." Working Paper, January 2005.
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411028-PDF-ENG Paul Bremer at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq Robert Steven Kaplan and Nicholas TarantoHarvard Business School Case 411-010 Since becoming the President's envoy...
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Sean Silverthorne
- June 2009 (Revised July 2010)
- Case
Microfin
By: Michael Chu and Enrique Kramer
The case presents the management dilemmas of a new institution in an undeveloped microfinance market in Latin America. Supported by a globally recognized industry player, it is the result of the efforts of two fledgling local entrepreneurs with a business model they...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Microfinance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Industry Structures;
Competitive Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
Latin America
Chu, Michael, and Enrique Kramer. "Microfin." Harvard Business School Case 309-126, June 2009. (Revised July 2010.)
- 2014
- Working Paper
Bio-Piracy or Prospering Together? Fuzzy Set and Qualitative Analysis of Herbal Patenting by Firms
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna
Since the 1990s, several Western firms have filed patents based on medicinal herbs from emerging markets, evoking protests from local stakeholders against 'bio-piracy'. We explore conditions under which firms and local stakeholders share rents from such patents. Our...
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Keywords:
Rents From New Technology;
Local Stakeholders;
Herbal Patents;
QCA;
Fuzzy Set Analysis;
Qualitative Case Studies;
Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Patents;
Emerging Markets;
Health Care and Treatment;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Tarun Khanna. "Bio-Piracy or Prospering Together? Fuzzy Set and Qualitative Analysis of Herbal Patenting by Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-081, February 2014.
- March 2013 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Cummins, Inc.: Building a Home Community for a Global Company
By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris
In 2010, Tom Linebarger, president and COO of Cummins, Inc., the Columbus, Indiana-based manufacturer of diesel engines, has to decide where to locate the company's new manufacturing line for high horsepower engines. He has three choices to decide from: Seymour,...
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Keywords:
Manufacturing;
Competitiveness;
Competition;
Education;
Business and Community Relations;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States
Bower, Joseph L., and Michael Norris. "Cummins, Inc.: Building a Home Community for a Global Company." Harvard Business School Case 313-024, March 2013. (Revised March 2014.)
- April 2021 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
OneTen: One Million Opportunities in Ten Years
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Courtney Han
In the wake of George Floyd's killing in May 2020, and widespread protests for social justice in the United States, OneTen was formed by a coalition of 40 large companies to provide one million jobs for African-Americans in 10 years. The case describes the background...
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Keywords:
Labor Market;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Diversity;
Race;
Jobs and Positions;
Opportunities;
Social Issues;
Employment;
Equality and Inequality;
Equity;
United States
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Courtney Han. "OneTen: One Million Opportunities in Ten Years." Harvard Business School Case 521-093, April 2021. (Revised April 2022.)
- 31 May 2017
- News