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- February 13, 2011
- Article
Google's Search Gold Mine Could Tap Out
Rayport, Jeffrey F. "Google's Search Gold Mine Could Tap Out." Bloomberg Businessweek Online (February 13, 2011).
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
Entrepreneurs aren’t short on ideas for exciting new products or companies, but they are often short-sighted when it comes to finding ways to fund and build those projects. “There is a huge amount of discussion about how you come up with a new entrepreneurial...
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- June 2022
- Case
Michelin’s Green Gold Bahia Program: Leaving With Grace
By: Sandra J. Sucher, Shalene Gupta and Susan J. Winterberg
In 2015, the top management of French tire-maker Michelin, was evaluating Michelin’s approach to divesting its rubber plantations ten years after incorporating a novel strategy.
In 2004, Michelin had a Brazilian rubber challenge. Its Bahía plantation had been hit...
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Keywords:
Divestment;
Supply Chain Management;
Natural Resources;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Rubber Industry;
Auto Industry;
Brazil;
France
Sucher, Sandra J., Shalene Gupta, and Susan J. Winterberg. "Michelin’s Green Gold Bahia Program: Leaving With Grace." Harvard Business School Case 322-132, June 2022.
- March 2015 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A)
By: Rebecca Henderson and Nien-he Hsieh
In 2010, Human Rights Watch, a well-regarded international NGO, approached Barrick Gold asserting that members of the company’s security force at the Porgera Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea had on multiple occasions raped women who were trespassing onto the mine’s waste...
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Keywords:
Human Rights;
Business And Society;
Rights;
Policy;
Leading Change;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business and Government Relations
Henderson, Rebecca, and Nien-he Hsieh. "Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A)." Harvard Business School Case 315-108, March 2015. (Revised August 2020.)
- September 1984
- Teaching Note
Great American Knitting Mills: Gold Toe Socks, Teaching Note
By: Robert J. Dolan
Teaching Note for (9-581-144).
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- 2012
- Article
Global Policy for Local Livelihoods: Phasing Out Mercury in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining
By: Kristin Sippl and Henrik Selin
This article uses a behavioral economics lens to identify the challenges the United Nation's Minamata Convention is likely to face in addressing the problem of mercury pollution from gold mining.
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Sippl, Kristin, and Henrik Selin. "Global Policy for Local Livelihoods: Phasing Out Mercury in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining." Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 54, no. 3 (2012): 18–29.
- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
experimentation organization become the competitive gold standard? What do you think? References: Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman, The Power of Experiments: Decision Making In a Data-Driven World (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2020)...
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- Article
From Blood Diamonds to Dirty Gold: How to Buy Gold Less Tainted by Mercury
By: Kristin Sippl
This is a quick and easy news article on the link between poverty, mercury pollution, and gold mining. It explains the problems in the jewelry industry as well as public and civil society attempts to address them.
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Sippl, Kristin. "From Blood Diamonds to Dirty Gold: How to Buy Gold Less Tainted by Mercury." The Conversation (December 22, 2015).
- July 2009 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: All That Glitters Is Not Gold
By: Anette Mikes
This case motivates a debate on the role of staff functions, such as risk management: what does it mean for them to be independent, and at the same time, to partner the business lines? The case describes the risk assessment process in the corporate banking arm of...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Judgments;
Credit;
Banks and Banking;
Governance Controls;
Risk Management;
Mathematical Methods
Mikes, Anette. "Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: All That Glitters Is Not Gold." Harvard Business School Case 110-011, July 2009. (Revised January 2012.)
- April 2014
- Teaching Note
Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: All That Glitters Is Not Gold
By: Anette Mikes
Teaching Note for 110011.
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- May 2011 (Revised January 2012)
- Teaching Note
Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: All That Glitters Is Not Gold (TN)
By: Anette Mikes
Teaching Note for 110011.
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Mikes, Anette. "Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: All That Glitters Is Not Gold (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 111-139, May 2011. (Revised January 2012.)
- 2004
- Other Unpublished Work
The Renaissance of Corporate Paternalism: Ashanti Goldfields Corporation in the Gold Coast 1945-1946
By: Stephanie Decker
Decker, Stephanie. "The Renaissance of Corporate Paternalism: Ashanti Goldfields Corporation in the Gold Coast 1945-1946." Economic History Society, 2004.
- February 20, 2014
- Article
Buying Gold in the Olympics and in the Global War for Talent
By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
Groysberg, Boris, and Robin Abrahams. "Buying Gold in the Olympics and in the Global War for Talent." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (February 20, 2014).
- August 2020
- Supplement
Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (C)
By: Nien-hê Hsieh
Hsieh, Nien-hê. "Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 321-033, August 2020.
- March 2016 (Revised December 2017)
- Supplement
Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (B)
By: Rebecca Henderson and Nien-hê Hsieh
Henderson, Rebecca, and Nien-hê Hsieh. "Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 316-139, March 2016. (Revised December 2017.)
- October 2016 (Revised August 2020)
- Teaching Note
Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A), (B), and (C)
By: Nien-hê Hsieh
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 315-108, 316-139, and 321-033.
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- 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.
- 2009
- Other Paper
Paying $30,000 for a Gold Star: An Empirical Investigation into the Value of Peer Recognition to Software Salespeople
By: Ian I. Larkin
- 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
- 23 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf
so rapidly over the past 18 months of being home-bound by the pandemic that many of the world’s pressing plants are backed up with orders until 2023. The Harvard Gazette spoke with Caren Kelleher, a 2010 Harvard Business School graduate who left Google to start View Details