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- December 1982 (Revised April 1998)
- Case
U.K. and the Gold Standard in 1925, The
Describes the issues and priorities involved in countries' use of the gold standard as the basis for managing their money supply. The setting of the United Kingdom in 1925 permits a real-world exploration of the important tradeoffs in "going back on gold" versus moving...
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McCraw, Thomas K. "U.K. and the Gold Standard in 1925, The." Harvard Business School Case 383-081, December 1982. (Revised April 1998.)
- 2019
- Working Paper
Golden Opportunity? Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
By: Kristin Sippl
While much is known about voluntary sustainability standards' contributions to certain issues in certain sectors, less is known about their contributions to the realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper helps balance the...
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Keywords:
Sustainability Standards;
Gold;
Certification;
Eco-labeling;
International Law;
Extractive Industries;
Fair Trade;
United Nations;
Sustainable Development;
Environmental Sustainability;
Standards;
Adoption;
Governance;
Global Range;
Luxury;
Mining Industry
Sippl, Kristin. "Golden Opportunity? Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Artisanal Mining and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-024, September 2018. (Revised April 2019. Revise and Resubmit.)
- September 2023
- Case
Diamond Standard
By: Lauren H. Cohen, Zhaoheng Gong and Grace Headinger
Cormac Kinney, Founder and CEO of Diamond Standard, was on a mission to transform the U.S. diamond market through unlocking the precious gems as market-traded assets. As a serial FinTech entrepreneur, he hoped to add an additional service to his vault: Carats. The...
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Keywords:
Tokenization;
Fintech;
Cryptocurrency;
Liquidity;
Digital;
Rare Earth Minerals;
Decentralized;
Crypto Economy;
Financial Product;
Metals;
Diamonds;
Commodity;
Assets;
Financial Instruments;
Financial Institutions;
Financial Markets;
Investment;
Technological Innovation;
Natural Resources;
Business Startups;
Currency;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Cohen, Lauren H., Zhaoheng Gong, and Grace Headinger. "Diamond Standard." Harvard Business School Case 224-009, September 2023.
- April 2018
- Case
Bretton Woods and the Liberal World Order
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Jonathan Schlefer
Reinert, Sophus A., and Jonathan Schlefer. "Bretton Woods and the Liberal World Order." Harvard Business School Case 718-037, April 2018.
- 2019
- Working Paper
Southern Responses to Gold Certification: Cooperate, Compete, Reject, Revise
By: Kristin Sippl
Artisanal gold mining is a Southern subsistence livelihood posing both challenges and opportunities for sustainable development. In 2011, Fairtrade International launched a certification program to address sustainability problems in the sector. Southern activists,...
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Keywords:
Eco-labeling;
Extractive Industries;
Emerging Economies;
Fair Trade;
Environmental Sustainability;
Standards;
Programs;
Governance Compliance;
Competition;
Adaptation;
Mining Industry
Sippl, Kristin. "Southern Responses to Fair Trade Gold: Cooperation, Competition, Supplementation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-055, November 2018. (Forthcoming in Ecological Economics.)
- Research Summary
Overview
My research is at the intersection of organizational strategy, global sustainability governance, and social change. It explores the diffusion of sustainability standards to non-traditional sectors (e.g. jewelry, cannabis, plastics, pets) and the relationship between...
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Keywords:
Sustainability Standards;
Extractive Industries;
Luxury;
Gold;
Institutional Change;
Institutional Entrepreneurship;
Hybrid Organizations;
Governance;
Policy;
Consumer Behavior;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Pollution and Pollutants;
Environmental Sustainability;
Social Enterprise;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Poverty;
Diversification;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Tourism Industry;
Africa;
Latin America;
Europe
- January 2009
- Case
The Federal Reserve and the Banking Crisis of 1931
By: David A. Moss and Cole Bolton
In early October 1931, in the midst of a global economic depression, the U.S. banking system was in crisis—with bank suspensions running at near record levels. At the same time, the broader economy was sputtering, and U.S. gold reserves had come under severe pressure...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Financial Crisis;
Central Banking;
Business History;
Crisis Management;
Banking Industry;
United States
Moss, David A., and Cole Bolton. "The Federal Reserve and the Banking Crisis of 1931." Harvard Business School Case 709-040, January 2009.
- December 2003 (Revised April 2005)
- Case
Birth of Modern Macroeconomic Policy, The: Sweden and the Great Depression
By: Julio J. Rotemberg and Lisa Lewis
By early 1937, a debate over the proper conduct of monetary policy raged in Sweden. Sweden's response to the Great Depression was unique. It had, in particular, embraced a revolutionary goal for monetary policy when it abandoned the gold standard in 1931.
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Rotemberg, Julio J., and Lisa Lewis. "Birth of Modern Macroeconomic Policy, The: Sweden and the Great Depression." Harvard Business School Case 704-029, December 2003. (Revised April 2005.)
- August 2016 (Revised July 2017)
- Case
Singapore Airlines: Premium Goes Multi-Brand
By: Rohit Deshpande and Dawn H. Lau
Singapore Airlines had long been considered the gold standard for its innovative customer service. However, the company was faced with new sources of competition, from the rapid growth of Southeast Asian low-cost carriers on the one hand, to the expansion of premium...
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Keywords:
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
Management Teams;
Brands and Branding;
Air Transportation Industry;
Travel Industry;
Singapore
Deshpande, Rohit, and Dawn H. Lau. "Singapore Airlines: Premium Goes Multi-Brand." Harvard Business School Case 517-017, August 2016. (Revised July 2017.)
- Article
The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Ramana Nanda
In recent years, much has been written about how the Blockchain is poised to transform traditional industries such as banking, real estate, and healthcare. More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin...
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Bussgang, Jeffrey J., and Ramana Nanda. "The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings." Harvard Business Review (website) (November 7, 2018).
- July 2003 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
Singapore Airlines: Customer Service Innovation
By: Rohit Deshpande and Hal Hogan
The members of Singapore Airlines' (SIA) management committee needs to decide whether to cancel the implementation of the new lie-flat seats in business class after the effects of the global recession on the travel industry in September 2001. SIA was considered the...
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Keywords:
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
Management Teams;
Brands and Branding;
Air Transportation Industry;
Travel Industry;
Singapore
Deshpande, Rohit, and Hal Hogan. "Singapore Airlines: Customer Service Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 504-025, July 2003. (Revised April 2011.)
- August 2022
- Case
Rocket Learning: Evidence in Action
By: Brian Trelstad, Tomas Rosales and Malini Sen
Founders of Rocket Learning, an India-based nonprofit which focused on early childhood education (ECE), received an invitation from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL), a development research organization, to test its intervention for ECE with a...
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Keywords:
Social Entrepreneurship;
Early Childhood Education;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Literacy;
Values and Beliefs;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Education Industry;
India;
Asia
Trelstad, Brian, Tomas Rosales, and Malini Sen. "Rocket Learning: Evidence in Action." Harvard Business School Case 323-002, August 2022.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Design of Panel Experiments with Spatial and Temporal Interference
By: Tu Ni, Iavor Bojinov and Jinglong Zhao
One of the main practical challenges companies face when running experiments (or A/B tests) over a panel is interference, the setting where one experimental unit's treatment assignment at one time period impacts another's outcomes, possibly at the following time...
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Keywords:
Research
Ni, Tu, Iavor Bojinov, and Jinglong Zhao. "Design of Panel Experiments with Spatial and Temporal Interference." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-058, March 2024.
- September 2015
- Article
Design and Implementation of a Privacy Preserving Electronic Health Record Linkage Tool in Chicago
By: Abel Kho, John Cashy, Kathryn Jackson, Adam Pah, Satyender Goel, Jorn Boehnke, John Eric Humphries, Scott Duke Kominers and et al.
Objective
To design and implement a tool that creates a secure, privacy preserving linkage of electronic health record (EHR) data across multiple sites in a large metropolitan area in the United States (Chicago, IL), for use in clinical... View Details
To design and implement a tool that creates a secure, privacy preserving linkage of electronic health record (EHR) data across multiple sites in a large metropolitan area in the United States (Chicago, IL), for use in clinical... View Details
Keywords:
Information;
Customers;
Safety;
Rights;
Ethics;
Entrepreneurship;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
Chicago
Kho, Abel, John Cashy, Kathryn Jackson, Adam Pah, Satyender Goel, Jorn Boehnke, John Eric Humphries, Scott Duke Kominers, and et al. "Design and Implementation of a Privacy Preserving Electronic Health Record Linkage Tool in Chicago." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 22, no. 5 (September 2015): 1072–1080.
- 26 Apr 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
What Makes a Critic Tick? Connected Authors and the Determinants of Book Reviews
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
enduring strength of the corporate climate in South Africa, says Eric D. Werker, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. Werker's case study, "Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa," to be published in December, shows that South Africa's...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Truth About Authentic Leaders
expanding every year. As the Harvard Business Review declared in January 2015, “Authenticity has emerged as the gold standard for leadership.” In 2003, our book Authentic Leadership proposed a new kind of...
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by Bill George
- 10 Nov 2015
- Op-Ed
Authentic Leadership Rediscovered
“Authenticity has become the gold standard for leadership” —Harvard Business Review, January 2015 In the last 10 years, authenticity has become the gold View Details
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by Bill George
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
choice is between five films-Fast & Furious 7, Fifty Shades of Grey, Jurassic World, Minions, and Pitch Perfect 2-as well as two choices in television. Which are most deserving of Gold status? Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
financial incentives causes people to work harder," he says. "But my research suggests that in deciding how hard we work and how well we think we're performing, social comparisons matter just as much." The $30,000 Gold Star The power of...
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by Carmen Nobel