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  • September–October 2023
  • Article

A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility

By: Mark R. DesJardine, Jody Grewal and Kala Viswanathan
Common owners face an incredible investment challenge: managing systematic risk. Because common owners hold shares in multiple firms across an industry, an action (or inaction) by one firm that affects industry peers is felt more severely by common owners than by... View Details
Keywords: Common Ownership; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Institutional Investing; Corporate Governance; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Return
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

executive for the Huot Family Group of Businesses; in addition, she invests in and advises ventures in sustainable development and exponential technologies. She currently lives in Hong Kong. Hurd (MBA 1996)... View Details
  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

available materiality classifications of sustainability topics, we develop a novel dataset by hand-mapping sustainability investments classified as material for each industry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Shawn A. Cole

    Shawn Cole is the John G. McLean Professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches and conducts research on financial services, impact investing, and Social Enterprise. He serves as faculty chair of the Social Enterprise... View Details

    Keywords: banking; financial services; microfinance
    • August 2010 (Revised January 2013)
    • Case

    Urban Water Partners (A)

    By: Karthik Ramanna, George Serafeim and Aldo Sesia
    The case explores a new business venture to bring clean water to residents of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, who otherwise cannot afford it. Management has enough money to get the company through August 2010 but needs more capital thereafter. An HBS alumnus is interested in... View Details
    Keywords: Accrual Accounting; Financial Statements; Business Startups; Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Performance Evaluation; Dar es Salaam; Massachusetts
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    • May 2002 (Revised August 2006)
    • Case

    Yangcheng: AES in China

    By: Richard H.K. Vietor
    AES, an American electric power company with 141 plants worldwide, is just completing construction of a 2,100-MW plant in China--the largest ever. The project, a joint venture with five local companies, has several environmental, ownership, and operational issues as... View Details
    Keywords: Energy Generation; Joint Ventures; Foreign Direct Investment; Environmental Sustainability; Problems and Challenges; Energy Industry; China
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    • 07 Jun 2023
    • HBS Case

    3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook

    perk that allowed Amazon to capture market share and eventually blow past Sony, which after years of struggling, closed its e-reader store in 2014. “Without creating a competitive advantage, it is difficult for companies to produce and maintain sufficient returns on... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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    Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work

    line by discouraging investments in a skilled workforce and prioritizing downsizing, irrespective of efficiency. How changes in management and reporting can realign incentives. Also, C-suite demographics and the impact of AI. Western... View Details
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    Club Conferences - MBA

    Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Club Conference Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition October 20, 2024 Retail & Luxury Goods Club Conference Retail & Luxury Goods November 2, 2024 Climate Symposium Energy & Environment Club, Food & Agriculture Club, View Details
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    Finance Curriculum - Faculty & Research

    (also listed under Strategy) Benjamin Esty Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Strategies for Value Creation - Abridged (SVC-S) (also listed under Strategy) Scott Mayfield Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Sustainable Investing (also... View Details

      Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling

      On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskeys in just days rather than years using a novel technology and data... View Details

      • Web

      Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

      Sustainability ; Environment ; Innovation ; Technology ; Management ; General Management ; Organizational Transformations ; Investments ; Entrepreneurship ; Strategy ; Finance ; Accounting ; Leadership... View Details
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      About - Business & Environment

      Indahl (MBA 1998), Managing Partner, Summa Equity Reynir Indahl is working with George Serafeim on projects related to climate and sustainability efforts in private equity. Reynir is Partner of Summa Equity, an View Details
      • 16 May 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee

      advisable or even necessary to invest in a response. In other cases, you may as well save your money, according to the researchers. The study also concluded that even though high-end customers can be fickle, a company that View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Hanna
      • 04 Jun 2024
      • Blog Post

      Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

      Before becoming a Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017) was a prospective lawyer, an investment manager, a nonprofit leader, and a tech program manager. Beyond her professional roles, Ramirez is... View Details
      Keywords: All Industries
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      Connect with Clubs - Recruiting

      Borinstein dborinstein@mba2025.hbs.edu Club Email crypto@studentclubs.hbs.edu Black Investment Club Co-Presidents Gavra Nwamadi gnwamadi@mba2025.hbs.edu Heaven Douglas hdouglas@mba2025.hbs.edu Jackson Patterson jpatterson@mba2025.hbs.edu... View Details
      • January 2008 (Revised February 2008)
      • Case

      Restructuring at Nova Chemical Corporation

      Management of a diversified chemicals company faces two financial decisions: whether to finance a major investment in new production facilities for its rapidly expanding Environmental Products Division, and whether to sell a more slowly growing non-specialty chemicals... View Details
      Keywords: Restructuring; Decision Choices and Conditions; Chemicals; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Finance; Chemical Industry
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        Rob Markey

        Rob Markey is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Unit at Harvard Business School. 

        In addition to teaching at HBS, Professor Markey is an advisory partner in Bain &... View Details

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        Courses - Entrepreneurship

        2024 Q3Q4 3.0 Scaling Technology Ventures Jeffrey Rayport Spring 2024 Q3Q4 3.0 Startup Operations Studio (SOS) Julia Austin Spring 2024 Q3Q4 1.5 Strategy for Entrepreneurs (also listed under Strategy) Rembrand Koning Fall 2023 Q1Q2 3.0 View Details
        • September 2021
        • Case

        Brown Capital Management

        By: Luis M. Viceira, Emily R. McComb and Sarah Mehta
        Set in July 2021, this case looks at several growth strategies under consideration at Brown Capital, the second-oldest Black-owned asset management firm in the U.S. Since its 1983 founding, Baltimore-based Brown Capital has specialized in small company growth... View Details
        Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Diversity; Race; Finance; Equity; Public Equity; Stocks; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Investment; Investment Portfolio; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employee Ownership; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United States; Maryland; Baltimore
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