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  • May 2011 (Revised March 2012)
  • Case

InterfaceRAISE: Sustainability Consulting

By: Michael W. Toffel, Robert G. Eccles and Casey Taylor
InterfaceRAISE is a sustainability management consulting firm created to leverage the capabilities of its parent company Interface Inc., a carpet manufacturer recognized as a global leader in corporate environmental sustainability. This case illustrates the challenges... View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Entrepreneurship; Performance; Environmental Accounting; Profit; Marketing Strategy; Human Resources; Business Model; Leveraged Buyouts; Salesforce Management; Consulting Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 23 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers

Fuller says—and every little bit counts. Fuller found that, if caregiving support prevented five employees from quitting, it would save the company $200,000. That math assumes the employees earn an average of $80,000 and carry a replacement cost of 50 percent. Fuller... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

out an Industrial Internet, connecting machines and devices, collecting their data and operations, and providing services to clients based on analytics of this data and information. The case considers the implications of such an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

correctly and shaping one’s response to it optimally. The maxim of Epictetus, “What, then, is to be done? To make the best of what is in our power, and take the rest as it naturally happens,” has similarities to both Buddhist doctrine and... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

between firm payout policy and tax incentives. Analysis of a panel of firms matched with the tax characteristics of the clients of their institutional shareholders indicates that "dividend-averse" institutions are significantly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Podcast - Business & Environment

shares how BCG is helping clients walk the walk with net-zero commitments, transition to sustainable practices, and how it is partnering with global organizations to amplify their impact. He also delves into the challenges businesses face... View Details
  • June 2022
  • Case

PFA Pensions: The Climate Plus Product

By: Daniel Green, Victoria Ivashina and Alys Ferragamo
The case explores whether alternative investments play a unique role in achieving low carbon dioxide emissions at the portfolio level. This case is set in April of 2020 and follows Kasper Ahrndt Lorenzen, Chief Investment Officer, and Peter Tind Larsen, Head of... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Carbon Footprint; Alternative Assets; Alternative Investment Vehicles; Pension Fund Investing; Private Equity; Renewable Energy; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Denmark
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  • 06 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 6

response to an ad-sponsored rival often entails business model reconfigurations. We also find that when there is an ad-sponsored entrant, the incumbent is more likely to prefer to compete through the subscription-based or the ad-sponsored... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 9

order to understand how socially imprinted WISEs may mitigate this negative relationship between social imprinting and economic productivity, we also conduct a comparative analysis of case studies. We find that one effective approach is to assign View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

August serves as global head of Oak Hill Advisors' distressed investment activities and has overall management responsibility for the firm. August is currently chairman of the board of directors of OHA Investment Corporation and serves on... View Details
  • 17 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 17

a unique aspect of the research setting allows tests of who is responsible for the earnings management. While firms appear unable to increase the frequency of aisle display promotions in the short run, they can reallocate these promotions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent?

Summing Up Is the Term "Servant Leadership" an Oxymoron? Servant leadership (SL) is a concept that triggers a great deal of interest, judging by my e-mail inbox and the number of responses to this month's column. Many comments... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • Web

Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Hanson , Jeremy C. Stein , Adi Sunderam & Eric Zwick OCT 2021 The authors develop models that speak to the goals and design of the government-introduced business lending and corporate bond purchase programs in response to the COVID-19... View Details
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By: Boris Vallee
Professor Vallée focuses on financial innovation, investigating it from different angles. This research thread has led him to relate the methods and insights of corporate finance and banking with those of other subfields, including household finance, public finance,... View Details
  • Web

General Management - Faculty & Research

Leadership, Values, and Corporate Responsibility Recent Publications How Robust Is Your Climate Governance? By: Lynn S. Paine and Suraj Srinivasan November–December 2024 | Article | Harvard Business Review During the past few years, as... View Details
  • 07 Nov 2023
  • News

Love and Money

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Which is the best dating app? Can money actually buy love? When do you talk about money in a new relationship and how do you broach the topic? How can well-meaning parents actually help their... View Details
  • 30 Jan 2018
  • First Look

January 30, 2018

reduced the freedom of markets. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/118029-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-030 Asset Allocation at the Cook County Pension Fund Nickol Hackett, chief investment officer of the Cook County Pension Fund,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

Through the lens of biopharmaceutical contract research organization (CRO) PAREXEL, this case traces the evolution of the firm as it reinvents itself in response to the transformation of the CRO sector from a small, secondary cluster of... View Details
  • 19 Apr 2023
  • News

A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12 months. Even so, they were... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 07 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic

to chart teams’ interactions as they transitioned to remote work. The name of the firm and its industry are confidential, but its teams routinely traveled together to visit clients prior to the pandemic. Drawing on past research about... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz