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      • September 2022 (Revised November 2022)
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      The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: Forced Labor and Genocide in U.S.-China Relations

      By: Jeremy Friedman and David Lane
      On June 21, 2022, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) went into effect, requiring companies to prove that goods imported from the People’s Republic of China were not made with forced labor. The bill was a reaction to reports of products being made with...  View Details
      Keywords: Ethics; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government Legislation; International Relations; Labor; Wages; Law Enforcement; Law; Rights; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Business and Government Relations; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; China; United States
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      Friedman, Jeremy, and David Lane. "The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: Forced Labor and Genocide in U.S.-China Relations." Harvard Business School Case 723-001, September 2022. (Revised November 2022.)
      • 2022
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      Got 'Critical Minerals'? Hooray! But Be Careful

      By: Louis T. Wells
      When a country has “critical minerals,” certain issues require special attention in the country’s mining legislation or while negotiating contracts with potential mining investors. As well, to obtain maximum benefit the government should prepare for negotiations with...  View Details
      Keywords: Critical Minerals; Foreign Direct Investment; International Relations; Mining Industry
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      Wells, Louis T. "Got 'Critical Minerals'? Hooray! But Be Careful." Columbia FDI Perspectives, No. 338, August 2022.
      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the U.S. Economy

      By: Joe Long, Carlo Medici, Nancy Qian and Marco Tabellini
      This paper studies the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese immigration to the United States after 1882, across U.S. counties between 1870 and 1940. We find that the Act reduced labor supply for both the Chinese and other groups (i.e., white and...  View Details
      Keywords: Immigration; Growth; Productivity; Business History; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Business and Government Relations; Prejudice and Bias; Government Legislation; United States
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      Long, Joe, Carlo Medici, Nancy Qian, and Marco Tabellini. "The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the U.S. Economy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-008, March 2022.
      • June 2022 (Revised January 2023)
      • Case

      South Africa – a 'Just Energy Transition'

      By: Richard Vietor
      South Africa, like most other countries, is in the process of reducing its carbon emissions to comply with COP26 and, hopefully, reach net zero emissions by 2050. However, because South Africa relies almost wholly on coal (93%) for electricity, and on coal for...  View Details
      Keywords: Energy; Economic Development; Climate Change; Coal Mining; Emission Reduction; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Law; Labor and Management Relations; Labor Unions; Natural Resources; Energy Policy; Energy Sources; South Africa
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      Vietor, Richard. "South Africa – a 'Just Energy Transition'." Harvard Business School Case 722-069, June 2022. (Revised January 2023.)
      • January 2022 (Revised March 2022)
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      Chinese Restriction, Violence, and Exclusion in the United States

      By: Tom Nicholas, Boyang Han and Tomas Rosales
      Many early Chinese immigrants to the United States during the 1850s worked as traditional gold miners, but as gold mining declined in significance, an increasing number were employed as laborers for large scale construction projects such as railroads, roadways, and in...  View Details
      Keywords: Immigration Acts; Immigration; Labor; Jobs and Positions; Race; Social Issues; Laws and Statutes
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      Nicholas, Tom, Boyang Han, and Tomas Rosales. "Chinese Restriction, Violence, and Exclusion in the United States." Harvard Business School Case 822-091, January 2022. (Revised March 2022.)
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      Accounting for Climate Change

      By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
      Corporations are facing growing pressure—from investors, advocacy groups, politicians, and even business leaders themselves—to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their operations and their supply and distribution chains. About 90% of the companies in the S&P...  View Details
      Keywords: Greenhouse Gas Mitigation; Social Accounting; E-liabilities; Business And The Environment; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability
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      Kaplan, Robert S., and Karthik Ramanna. "Accounting for Climate Change." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 6 (November–December 2021): 120–131.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      How to Fix ESG Reporting

      By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
      Investors, advocacy groups, academics, and the 200 CEOs of the US Business Roundtable have asked corporations to take on an added purpose beyond a narrow pursuit of shareholder value. In response, many companies now issue ESG (Environmental, Societal, and Governance)...  View Details
      Keywords: ESG Reporting; Sustainability; Corporate Purpose; Greenhouse Gas; Activity-Based Costing; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Goals and Objectives; Agreements and Arrangements; Corporate Accountability
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      Kaplan, Robert S., and Karthik Ramanna. "How to Fix ESG Reporting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-005, July 2021.
      • July 2021 (Revised January 2022)
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      K.C. Li: The Tungsten King

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Casey Verkamp
      This case examines the business career of Kuo-Ching Li, who was born in China in 1892, and built a successful minerals trading business called Wah Chang in the United States during the interwar years. He acquired a prominent role in tungsten, the strongest natural...  View Details
      Keywords: Immigration Acts; China; Racial Bias; Globalization; Government and Politics; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Mining Industry; China; United States; Latin America
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      Jones, Geoffrey, and Casey Verkamp. "K.C. Li: The Tungsten King." Harvard Business School Case 322-024, July 2021. (Revised January 2022.)
      • January 2021
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      Rio Tinto Aluminum: Can Purpose Lead to Profit?

      By: David Fubini and Agastya Muthanna
      This case describes the tradeoffs Rio Tinto faces as it considers investments to ensure environmentally friendly, sustainability produced aluminum with the potential risks of competitive pricing and profit loses.  View Details
      Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Investment; Price; Competition; Profit; Cost vs Benefits; Mining Industry
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      Fubini, David, and Agastya Muthanna. "Rio Tinto Aluminum: Can Purpose Lead to Profit?" Harvard Business School Case 421-055, January 2021.
      • October 2020 (Revised November 2020)
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      Digging for Gold: Paulson & Co.'s Activism in the Gold Sector

      By: Suraj Srinivasan and Jonah S. Goldberg
      The case describes the efforts of hedge fund Paulson & Co to influence corporate governance and improve performance in the gold industry. In an innovative move, the hedge fund led the creation of the Shareholder Gold Council, a consortium of large investors in gold...  View Details
      Keywords: Board Of Directors; Hedge Funds; Shareholder Activism; Gold; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Investment Funds; Investment Activism; Performance Improvement; Corporate Accountability; Mining Industry; Canada; United States
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      Srinivasan, Suraj, and Jonah S. Goldberg. "Digging for Gold: Paulson & Co.'s Activism in the Gold Sector." Harvard Business School Case 121-021, October 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
      • February 2020 (Revised August 2021)
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      Australia: Commodities, Competitiveness, Climate and China

      By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Laura Alfaro
      For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms—inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit, and growing dependence on China. Between 1996 and 2007, however, Australia had most of these issues under control...  View Details
      Keywords: Commodities; Competitiveness; Carbon Tax; Environment; Capital Flows; Current Account; Mining; Economy; Problems and Challenges; Climate Change; Taxation; Competition; Financial Condition; Government and Politics; Inflation and Deflation; Environmental Sustainability; Australia
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      Vietor, Richard H.K., and Laura Alfaro. "Australia: Commodities, Competitiveness, Climate and China." Harvard Business School Case 720-028, February 2020. (Revised August 2021.)
      • February 2020
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      Rotoplas: Bringing More and Better Water

      By: John D. Macomber and Carla Larangeira
      Private companies were being turned to for potable water in the world’s megacities due to impacts of climate change including droughts and flooding. Mexico City had endured several water-related crises, with its population suffering from floods, droughts, water...  View Details
      Keywords: Water Supply; Water Management; Finance; Infrastructure; Urban Development; Business and Government Relations; Latin America; Mexico
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      Macomber, John D., and Carla Larangeira. "Rotoplas: Bringing More and Better Water." Harvard Business School Case 220-064, February 2020.
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      Detecting Adversarial Attacks via Subset Scanning of Autoencoder Activations and Reconstruction Error

      By: Celia Cintas, Skyler Speakman, Victor Akinwande, William Ogallo, Komminist Weldemariam, Srihari Sridharan and Edward McFowland III
      Reliably detecting attacks in a given set of inputs is of high practical relevance because of the vulnerability of neural networks to adversarial examples. These altered inputs create a security risk in applications with real-world consequences, such as self-driving...  View Details
      Keywords: Autoencoder Networks; Pattern Detection; Subset Scanning; Computer Vision; Statistical Methods And Machine Learning; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Data Mining; Big Data; Large-scale Systems; Mathematical Methods; Analytics and Data Science
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      Cintas, Celia, Skyler Speakman, Victor Akinwande, William Ogallo, Komminist Weldemariam, Srihari Sridharan, and Edward McFowland III. "Detecting Adversarial Attacks via Subset Scanning of Autoencoder Activations and Reconstruction Error." Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 29th (2020).
      • November 2019
      • Case

      Chile: Unrest in the Copper Nation

      By: Laura Alfaro and Sarah Jeong
      For decades, Chile was heralded as South America’s pillar of stable economic growth. Chile was the world’s largest producer of copper and enjoyed a long period of over 30 years of world demand for its resources. In 2013, the commodity boom ended and was replaced by a...  View Details
      Keywords: Copper Production; Protests; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Metals and Minerals; Production; Price; Mining Industry; Chile
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      Alfaro, Laura, and Sarah Jeong. "Chile: Unrest in the Copper Nation." Harvard Business School Case 320-051, November 2019.
      • November 2019 (Revised May 2021)
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      DeepGreen - the Metals Company and Polymetallic Nodules

      By: Richard H.K. Vietor
      The world has begun a “green transition”—a move to reduce carbon emissions. Part of this will entail a growing shift to electric vehicles. Huge amounts of metals—cobalt, nickel, and copper—will be needed to supply electric vehicles. Mining these on land, however, is...  View Details
      Keywords: Polymetallic Nodules; Seabed Mining; Entrepreneurial Finance; Metals and Minerals; Mining; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Problems and Challenges
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      Vietor, Richard H.K. "DeepGreen - the Metals Company and Polymetallic Nodules." Harvard Business School Case 720-016, November 2019. (Revised May 2021.)
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      From Words to Pixels: Text and Image Mining Methods for Service Research

      By: Francisco Villarroel Ordenes and Shunyuan Zhang
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      Ordenes, Francisco Villarroel, and Shunyuan Zhang. "From Words to Pixels: Text and Image Mining Methods for Service Research." Journal of Service Management 30, no. 5 (2019): 593–620.
      • January 2019
      • Supplement

      The De Beers Group: Launching GemFair for Artisanal Diamonds

      By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
      In April 2018, the De Beers Group launched a pilot project called GemFair to create a new supply of ethically and environmentally sourced diamonds from artisanal and small-scale mines (ASM) in Sierra Leone. Whether this project would yield a meaningful supply of rough...  View Details
      Keywords: Diamonds; New Business; Strategy Development; Strategy Execution; Scope; ESG; Supply; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Value Creation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Sierra Leone; United Kingdom
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      Esty, Benjamin C., and Daniel Fisher. "The De Beers Group: Launching GemFair for Artisanal Diamonds." Harvard Business School Supplement 719-437, January 2019.
      • October 2018 (Revised October 2019)
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      Rio Tinto vs. the Securities and Exchange Commission

      By: Aiyesha Dey, Krishna G. Palepu and Sarah Gulick
      Keywords: Coal Mining; SEC Enforcement; FCPA; Mining; Fraud; Acquisition; Financial Reporting; Mergers and Acquisitions; Non-Renewable Energy; Ethics; Financial Management; Investment; Corporate Governance; Laws and Statutes; Lawsuits and Litigation; Risk Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Mozambique; United States; Australia; England
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      Dey, Aiyesha, Krishna G. Palepu, and Sarah Gulick. "Rio Tinto vs. the Securities and Exchange Commission." Harvard Business School Case 119-046, October 2018. (Revised October 2019.)
      • August 2018 (Revised August 2018)
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      The De Beers Group: Launching Lightbox Jewelry for Lab-Grown Diamonds

      By: Benjamin C. Esty
      In May 2018, the De Beers Group shocked the diamond industry when it announced it was launching a new fashion jewelry brand of laboratory-grown (synthetic) diamonds. The reaction was swift as people sought to understand the company’s motivations: was it a “huge gamble”...  View Details
      Keywords: Diamonds; Differentiation; New Business; Strategy Development; Strategy Execution; Scope; Adjacency; Core; Commoditization; New Product Launch; Mining; Retail; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Disruption; Value Creation; Product Launch; Segmentation; Expansion; Competitive Advantage; United States; United Kingdom
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      Esty, Benjamin C. "The De Beers Group: Launching Lightbox Jewelry for Lab-Grown Diamonds." Harvard Business School Case 719-408, August 2018. (Revised August 2018.)
      • February 2018
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      Rosslyn Resource: Monetization and Sales Strategy

      By: Robert J. Dolan and Sunru Yong
      Rosslyn Resource identifies exploration targets (potential mineral deposits) in the mining industry and advances them until the project can be monetized, usually through sale to a larger mining company, in return for an upfront fee and a royalty on future revenues....  View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mining Industry
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      Dolan, Robert J., and Sunru Yong. "Rosslyn Resource: Monetization and Sales Strategy." Harvard Business School Brief Case 918-509, February 2018.
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