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Lena teaches the required first year MBA course on Leadership and Corporate Accountability, an elective second year MBA course on Law, Management and Entrepreurship, and an elective second year MBA course on Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry.
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Compliance;
Governance;
Fiduciary Duties;
Responsibilities To Investors;
Responsibilities To Customers;
Restaurants;
Sustainability;
Private Equity Documentation;
Start-ups;
Entrepreneurship;
Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition;
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Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
After a brief interview with the city’s Chief Innovation Officer and HBS/HKS joint degree alumnus, Shireen Santosham, “I knew she would be able to use someone with an MBA skill set.” “We have a tremendous amount of work and responsibility...
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- 22 Jun 2005
- Keynote Speech
Corporate Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector." Panel moderator. "Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce
By: Lynn S. Paine
- 04 Dec 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Pathways to Materiality: How Sustainability Issues Become Financially Material to Corporations and Their Investors
Keywords:
by Jean Rogers and George Serafeim
- March 2021 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
Blue Meridian Partners (A): Scaling for Impact
In 2018, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation in a bold move transferred all its assets to a fund pooled with other General Partners and Limited Partners, called Blue Meridian Partners, to focus substantial long range investments in a few carefully chosen nonprofits.The...
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Keywords:
Venture Philanthropy;
Scaling;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Social Justice;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Venture Capital;
Business Model;
Social Issues;
Poverty;
Values and Beliefs;
Decisions;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Investment Portfolio
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Blue Meridian Partners (A): Scaling for Impact." Harvard Business School Case 521-090, March 2021. (Revised November 2022.)
- January 2024
- Technical Note
The ICARUS Principles: What It Takes to Tackle the World
By: Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau
Over the course of the 20th century, most of the world’s major multinational corporations framed their mission around Milton Friedman’s famous mantra: that the sole purpose of the firm is to maximize its shareholders’ profits. Recently, however, growing numbers of...
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Keywords:
Purpose;
Mission;
Social Business;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Social Enterprise;
For-Profit Firms
Spar, Debora L., and Julia M. Comeau. "The ICARUS Principles: What It Takes to Tackle the World." Harvard Business School Technical Note 324-055, January 2024.
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
By Beth Stewart (MBA 1982), CEO Trewstar Corporate Board Services and Ilene H. Lang (MBA 1973), retired CEO, Catalyst and senior advisor to Trewstar We take as given that modern, well-run boards recognize myriad reasons to include diverse...
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- May 2016
- Case
Revitalizing State Bank of India
By: Srikant M. Datar, N. M. Bhatta, Rishikesha T. Krishnan and Rachna Tahilyani
State Bank of India is India’s oldest and largest bank with the government of India as its majority shareholder. Arundhati Bhattacharya, a 35-year veteran of the bank, is appointed as its chairman in October 2013. Her appointment coincides with Moody’s downgrading the...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Transformation;
Communication Strategy;
Leadership Style;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
Performance Evaluation;
Culture;
Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact;
Human Resources;
Employees;
Compensation And Benefits;
Recruiting;
Capital Markets;
Performance Expectations;
Financial Services Industry;
Asia;
India
Datar, Srikant M., N. M. Bhatta, Rishikesha T. Krishnan, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Revitalizing State Bank of India." Harvard Business School Case 116-043, May 2016.
- June 2016 (Revised October 2016)
- Technical Note
The Role of the Chief Financial Officer
By: C. Fritz Foley and Michael Lemm
This note profiles the role of the modern chief financial officer (CFO). It presents insights based on a variety of surveys and descriptions of HBS graduates who hold or have held the CFO role. Although the role varies significantly from one organization to another,...
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Foley, C. Fritz, and Michael Lemm. "The Role of the Chief Financial Officer." Harvard Business School Technical Note 216-079, June 2016. (Revised October 2016.)
- 2011
- Chapter
Prospective Codes Fufilled: A Potential Neural Mechanism of Will
By: Thalia Wheatley and Christine E. Looser
One of my few shortcomings is that I can’t predict the future.
Lars Ulrich, Metallica.
Lars Ulrich was right and wrong. He was right in the way we most often think about the future—as a long stretch of time during which multiply... View Details
Lars Ulrich, Metallica.
Lars Ulrich was right and wrong. He was right in the way we most often think about the future—as a long stretch of time during which multiply... View Details
Keywords:
Free Will;
Neuroscience;
Responsibility;
Prospection;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Science;
Cognition and Thinking
Wheatley, Thalia, and Christine E. Looser. "Prospective Codes Fufilled: A Potential Neural Mechanism of Will." Chap. 13 in Conscious Will and Responsibility: A Tribute to Benjamin Libet, edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Lynn Nadel, 146–158. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
- April 2023
- Article
The Subjective Expected Utility Approach and a Framework for Defining Project Risk in Terms of Novelty and Feasibility—A Response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘Uncertainty and Risk-Taking in Science’
In their Discussion Paper, Franzoni and Stephan (F&S, 2023) discuss the shortcomings of existing peer review models in shaping the funding of risky science. Their discussion offers a conceptual framework for incorporating risk into peer review models of research...
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Lane, Jacqueline N. "The Subjective Expected Utility Approach and a Framework for Defining Project Risk in Terms of Novelty and Feasibility—A Response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘Uncertainty and Risk-Taking in Science’." Art. 104707. Research Policy 52, no. 3 (April 2023).
- 04 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America
- October 2021
- Supplement
Engine No. 1: An Activist Hedge Fund Pursues Stakeholder Capitalism (B)
By: Mark Kramer
Engine Number 1's proxy fight succeeded in part because Exxon shareholders had lost money in the preceding years and because climate change was a high-profile issue. The B case raises the question of whether Engine No. 1's next target should be Facebook, where social...
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Keywords:
Proxy Fight;
Hedge Fund Activism;
Social Impact;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Climate Change;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Goals and Objectives
Kramer, Mark. "Engine No. 1: An Activist Hedge Fund Pursues Stakeholder Capitalism (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 222-038, October 2021.
- September 2013 (Revised June 2017)
- Supplement
IBM and the Reinvention of High School (B): Replicating & Scaling P-TECH and Partners
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created an innovation in public education through a business-school partnership for widespread replication and diffusion. In 2012, while P-TECH (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) was still in its first year operating,...
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Keywords:
Social Enterprise;
Partnerships;
Innovation;
Entrepreneurship;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Leadership;
Partners and Partnerships;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Education;
Business and Community Relations;
Innovation and Invention;
Growth Management;
Chicago;
Idaho
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "IBM and the Reinvention of High School (B): Replicating & Scaling P-TECH and Partners." Harvard Business School Supplement 314-050, September 2013. (Revised June 2017.)
- November 2006
- Article
The Flattening Firm: Evidence from Panel Data on the Changing Nature of Corporate Hierarchies
By: Raghuram G. Rajan and Julie Wulf
Using a detailed database of managerial job descriptions, reporting relationships, and compensation structures in over 300 large U.S. firms, we find that firm hierarchies are becoming flatter. The number of positions reporting directly to the CEO has gone up...
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Keywords:
Geographic Location;
Change;
Business Ventures;
Compensation and Benefits;
Rank and Position;
Wages;
Motivation and Incentives;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Jobs and Positions;
United States
Rajan, Raghuram G., and Julie Wulf. "The Flattening Firm: Evidence from Panel Data on the Changing Nature of Corporate Hierarchies." Review of Economics and Statistics 88, no. 4 (November 2006): 759–773.
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
need to seek medical care, although cultural differences still persist. “One man called us in the middle of the night and said, ‘I need a lady now.’ To him, that was an emergency, to us it wasn’t,” Changavalli laughs. Raju has been a strong backer of View Details
- May 2021 (Revised May 2022)
- Supplement
Odebrecht's 'Transformation Journey' (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Ruth Costas and Pedro Levindo
The case describes the changes in Odebrecht’s board of directors while the company had to file for court-supervised reorganization and cope with an ongoing feud within its founding family, and the new challenges that the Group’s leadership has to face. The changes in...
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Keywords:
Corporate Misconduct;
Corporate Governance;
Crisis Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Reputation;
Mission and Purpose;
Business and Government Relations;
Engineering;
Family Business;
Emerging Markets;
Construction Industry;
Brazil;
Latin America
Paine, Lynn S., Ruth Costas, and Pedro Levindo. "Odebrecht's 'Transformation Journey' (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 321-093, May 2021. (Revised May 2022.)
- Article
Four Things No One Will Tell You About ESG Data
By: Sakis Kotsantonis and George Serafeim
As the ESG finance field and the use of ESG data in investment decision-making continue to grow, the authors seek to shed light on several important aspects of ESG measurement and data. This article is intended to provide a useful guide for the rapidly rising number of...
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Keywords:
ESG;
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
ESG Reporting;
Data Analytics;
Sustainability;
Sustainability Reporting;
CSR;
Transparency;
Investment Management;
Socially Responsible Investing;
Sustainable Finance;
Sustainable Development;
Inclusion;
Inclusive Growth;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Corporate Accountability;
Investment;
Management;
Climate Change;
Corporate Governance;
Diversity;
Integrated Corporate Reporting
Kotsantonis, Sakis, and George Serafeim. "Four Things No One Will Tell You About ESG Data." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 31, no. 2 (Spring 2019): 50–58.
- December 2016
- Article
Corporate Sponsorship in Culture—A Case of Collaborative Marketing by a Global Bank and a Major Art Museum
By: Ragnar Lund and Stephen A. Greyser
This paper examines cultural sponsorship from a partnership perspective. It studies the collaboration between two international institutions, a bank and a museum, and their value co-creation with customers and audiences. This in-depth case study of a sponsorship...
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Keywords:
Sponsorship;
Co-marketing;
Partnerships;
International Marketing;
Arts Marketing;
Relationship Marketing;
Museums;
Resource Integration;
Marketing;
Partners and Partnerships;
Financial Institutions;
Arts
Lund, Ragnar, and Stephen A. Greyser. "Corporate Sponsorship in Culture—A Case of Collaborative Marketing by a Global Bank and a Major Art Museum." Journal of Business and Policy Research 11, no. 2 (December 2016): 156–177.