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- October 2013
- Case
Dongfeng Nissan's Venucia (A)
By: Forest Reinhardt, Mayuka Yamazaki and G.A. Donovan
The (A) case describes the launch of a new passenger vehicle in China, produced jointly by Nissan of Japan and by Chinese automaker Dongfeng. Early sales results following the April 2012 launch were disappointing and the joint venture's managers had to decide how to...
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Keywords:
China;
Japan;
Cross-cultural/cross-border;
Multinational Firms;
Competitive Strategy;
Product Launch;
Global Strategy;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Crisis Management;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Auto Industry;
China;
Japan
Reinhardt, Forest, Mayuka Yamazaki, and G.A. Donovan. "Dongfeng Nissan's Venucia (A)." Harvard Business School Case 714-014, October 2013.
- Web
Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni
Moderator: George Serafeim (DBA 2010), Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Speakers: Shirley Lu, Assistant Professor of Business Administration John Macomber (MBA 1983), Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Mike Toffel, Senator John Heinz...
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- Web
Business & Environment
strengthen environmental institutions, and look to cities to lead, say Robert Kaplan, Shirley Lu, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Driving Decarbonization at BMW By: Shirley Lu, Georgios Serafeim and Michael W. Toffel APRIL 2024 | Teaching...
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- September 2006 (Revised May 2008)
- Supplement
Corporate Responsibility & Community Engagement at the Tintaya Copper Mine (B)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Brooke Barton and Ezequiel Reficco
Engaging local stakeholders and building strong relations has become a strategic imperative for multinational firms in the often politically charged mining, oil, and gas sectors. For BHP Billiton, the world's second largest mining company, its Tintaya copper mine in...
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Rangan, V. Kasturi, Brooke Barton, and Ezequiel Reficco. "Corporate Responsibility & Community Engagement at the Tintaya Copper Mine (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 507-030, September 2006. (Revised May 2008.)
- November 2001 (Revised April 2003)
- Case
Camp Dresser & McKee: Getting Incentives Right
By: Ashish Nanda
"If you try to use money to motivate behavior, you are in a powerful and dangerous place, especially with engineers and scientists," remarked Tom Furman, CEO of Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc. (CDM), a consulting environmental engineering firm. Historically, CDM had...
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Nanda, Ashish, and M. Julia Prats. "Camp Dresser & McKee: Getting Incentives Right." Harvard Business School Case 902-122, November 2001. (Revised April 2003.)
Long-run Returns to Impact Investing in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies
There is growing interest in impact investing, the idea of deploying capital to obtain both financial and social or environmental returns. Examination of every equity investment made by the International Finance Corporation, one of the largest and...
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- September 1996 (Revised December 1997)
- Case
Cytec Industries' Spin-Off (A): Sink or Swim?
In the wake of market pressure to restructure, American Cyanamid spun off its poorly performing Chemicals Unit into a new publicly traded corporation, Cytec Industries. In addition to weak operations, Cytec inherited the bulk of Cyanamid's environmental and...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Management Practices and Processes;
Restructuring;
Performance Improvement;
Chemical Industry;
United States
Wruck, Karen, and Sherry P. Roper. "Cytec Industries' Spin-Off (A): Sink or Swim?" Harvard Business School Case 897-053, September 1996. (Revised December 1997.)
How ENGOs Can Support Corporate Climate Change Efforts
Nearly half of CEOs view climate change as affecting their companies now or within the coming decade, but there is also a wide gap between what CEOs say is progress on tackling climate change and what many of their investors believe are effective actions....
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- October 1999
- Case
Royal Dutch/Shell in Transition (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine
After the Brent Spar episode and the 1995 events in Nigeria, Shell undertakes an intensive review of its values and business principles. At the same time, it conducts the largest multi-stakeholder consultation in its history in an effort to better understand society's...
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Social Issues;
Public Opinion;
Moral Sensibility;
Values and Beliefs;
Transformation;
Environmental Accounting;
Energy Industry
Paine, Lynn S. "Royal Dutch/Shell in Transition (A)." Harvard Business School Case 300-039, October 1999.
- January 2021
- Article
Institutional-Political Scenarios for Anthropocene Society
By: Andrew J. Hoffman and P. Devereaux Jennings
Natural scientists have proposed that humankind has entered a new geologic epoch. Termed the “Anthropocene,” this new reality revolves around the central role of human activity in multiple Earth ecosystems. That challenge requires a rethinking of social science...
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Keywords:
Institutional Change;
Institutional Theory;
Natural Environment;
Society;
Environmental Sustainability
Hoffman, Andrew J., and P. Devereaux Jennings. "Institutional-Political Scenarios for Anthropocene Society." Business & Society 60, no. 1 (January 2021): 57–94.
- Web
Hiring Organizations
Endeavour Capital Endiya Partners Energetic Insurance energyRe Engine, The Environmental Financial Consulting Group - EFCG EQT Group Equal Justice Initiative Equator Era Ventures Eurazeo EVCS Eventide Asset Management Evercore Evolution...
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Placement - Doctoral
Essays in Industrial Organization and Environmental Policy Advisors: Ariel Pakes, Robin Lee, and Dennis A. Yao Ron Yang Business Economics, 2022 Placement: Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, Postdoctoral Scholar...
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- September 2013
- Case
SafeBlend Fracturing
By: Benson P. Shapiro, Frank V. Cespedes and Alisa Zalosh
The CEO of SafeBlend Technologies must set a price for the company's environmentally friendly fracturing fluid additive. The firm is negotiating a new contract with its biggest client, Bristol Natural Gas. For the last two years, SafeBlend has been the sole provider of...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Customer Relationship Management;
Price;
Negotiation;
Competitive Advantage;
Environmental Sustainability;
Energy Sources;
Sales;
Energy Industry
Shapiro, Benson P., Frank V. Cespedes, and Alisa Zalosh. "SafeBlend Fracturing." Harvard Business School Brief Case 914-513, September 2013.
Michael A. Wheeler
Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details
- 2011
- Chapter
Changing Identity, Changing Language
By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Jeffrey T. Polzer
Environmental jolts and shifting membership challenge a group's efficacy and survival. Group identity is critical for a shared interpretation of and response to these challenges, but external and internal changes may require corresponding changes in a group's...
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Keywords:
Change;
Spoken Communication;
Performance Efficiency;
Problems and Challenges;
Safety;
Identity;
California
McGinn, Kathleen L., and Jeffrey T. Polzer. "Changing Identity, Changing Language." In Advances in Group Processes. Vol. 28, edited by Shane R. Thye and Edward Lawler, 125–145. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2011.
- 02 Aug 2017
- News
Going Green in Global Businesses
- 06 Jun 2016
- News
Shareholder Proposals Contested by Firm Management
- Program
Agribusiness Seminar
Summary Climate extremes, economic shifts, geopolitical conflict, environmental constraints, new technologies, regulatory changes, consumer expectations—these and many other forces are creating pressures, uncertainties, and opportunities...
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- Forthcoming
- Other Article
The Sociology of Entrepreneurship Revisited
By: Tristan Botelho, Ranjay Gulati and Olav Sorensen
Over the last two decades, the sociology of entrepreneurship has exploded as an area of academic inquiry. Most of this research has been focused on understanding the environmental conditions that promote entrepreneurship and processes related to the initial formation...
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- March 2021 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
Making Impact Investing Markets: IFC (A)
By: Shawn A. Cole, John Masko and T. Robert Zochowski
In 2017, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) faced the first big investment decision in its new Scaling Solar project. Founded in 1956, IFC was an international investment body with national governments as shareholders, whose mission was to promote economic...
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Keywords:
Impact Investing;
Development Economics;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Renewable Energy;
Climate Change;
Environmental Sustainability;
Borrowing and Debt;
Credit;
Equity;
Bonds;
Financing and Loans;
Growth and Development;
Emerging Markets;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Investment;
Decision Making;
Financial Services Industry;
Energy Industry;
Zambia
Cole, Shawn A., John Masko, and T. Robert Zochowski. "Making Impact Investing Markets: IFC (A)." Harvard Business School Case 221-061, March 2021. (Revised April 2021.)