Publications

May 2025
Supplement

The NCB Capital Turnaround: Waking the Sleeping Giant (B)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Fares Khrais

2025
Working Paper

Bank Financing of Global Supply Chains

By: Laura Alfaro, Mariya Brussevich, Camelia Minoiu and Andrea Presbitero

Finding new international suppliers is costly, so most importers source inputs from a single country. We examine the role of banks in mitigating trade search costs during the 2018–2019 U.S.-China trade tensions. We match data on shipments to U.S. ports with the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Financial Institutions; International Finance; Trade; Credit; United States; Asia

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May 1, 2025
Article

How to Build a Life: Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?

April 2025
Teaching Note

'Care in Every Drop': Ayala Corporation and Manila Water (A) and (B)

By: Debora L. Spar and Sarah Sasso

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 324-038 and 324-039. View Details

April 2025
Teaching Note

Blue Frontier: Disrupting Air Conditioning

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 325-088. View Details

2025
Chapter

Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change

By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Geoffrey Jones

This chapter explores when and why private regulatory governance systems became the primary form of global environmental governance. The chapter explores two different historical paths in such private regulation and how they came about. The first path involved... View Details

Keywords: Institutional Entrepreneurship; Environment; Climate Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Environmental Regulation; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

April 24, 2025
Article

How to Build a Life: The Knowledge That Brings True Happiness

April 2025 (Revised May 2025)
Case

Governing Sustainability in a Shifting Context (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz

In early 2025, boards of directors had to rethink corporate responsibility and sustainability efforts amid rapidly-shifting social, legal, regulatory, and economic forces. While just a few years earlier, calls to address racial justice and climate change reached into... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Corporate Governance; Diversity; Leadership; Management; Mission and Purpose; Social Media; United States

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April 10, 2025
Article

How to Build a Life: A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths

April 2025
Teaching Note

Grand Seiko—The Sleeping Lion

By: Rohit Deshpandé and Sarah Sasso

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 525-035. View Details

April 2025
Case

So You Want to Change the World?: A Personal Reflection on Systems Change

By: Brian Trelstad

Educators

April 3, 2025
Article

How to Build a Life: To Be Happier, Stop Resisting Change

April 2025
Case

Jamie Dimon: Navigating the DEI Backlash

By: Joseph L. Badaracco and Sarah Mehta