Sustainable Investing - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

in the ways they do business. Moreover, hub firms themselves must do a better job leading responsibly for the good of all, not just creating and capturing value but doing more to sustain other players in the ecosystem. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 12

their current values-has been on the ascent. This marks a major departure from the centuries-old tradition of keeping books at historical cost. It also has implications across the world of business, because the accounting basis-whether fair value or historical... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

plans-epitomized by the ubiquitous 401(k)-which transfer the investment risk from the company to the employee. With that transfer has come a dangerous shift in investment focus, argues Nobel Laureate Robert... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Creating Brand Value - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Creating Brand Value Course Number 1925 Executive Fellow Michael Moynihan Fall; Q2; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Exam Assistant Professor Julian de Freitas Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Exam Career Focus: This course is designed for students who... View Details

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Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

’93) who has been a social entrepreneur in the education sector for the past three decades. His work includes founding a venture backed school network, leading a firm that has been advising and supporting public school districts around the US, View Details

30 Jun 2017
News

Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand

spent more than a decade at PepsiCo, for the most part undertaking brand management for well-known products such as Aquafina and Starbucks Bottled Frappuccino. During her time at the company, she was also tapped to work on a PepsiCo initiative to support the United... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 Nov 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

the unit level." Saravanan introduced the old/new, product-market 2X2 matrix to argue that top-down resource allocation is most appropriate when both products and markets are new. But he reminded us that "The decision on the total spend available and the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016

same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

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relationships to sustain them. Transitions also are times when small differences in a new leader's actions can have disproportionate impacts on results. Everyone is straining to take the leader's measure and people are forming opinions... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Stan Chang: “A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship”

(Google) with “a grand vision of developing the Toronto waterfront using advanced technology to make a better city, one with more efficient transportation and a more sustainable environment.” Further investigation revealed that a recent... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

01 Sep 2016
Blog Post

Reflecting on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program

Arabia. I had the chance to work for different poverty alleviation programs, education reforms, and some healthcare initiatives with different governments. I am really passionate about understanding how to tackle poverty and I truly believe that we need to find View Details

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Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog

equity and buyouts, also touching on closely related investing strategies such as distress and private debt. Students will examine a wide variety of investment settings: from lower middle market companies to... View Details

June 2011 (Revised January 2013)
Case

Oddo Securities―ESG Integration

By: Paul M. Healy

The case describes the process of integrating environmental, social, and governance issues into valuation models and research analyst recommendations. View Details

Keywords: Financial Strategy; Mathematical Methods; Integration; Valuation; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Governance Controls; Investment

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2021
Working Paper

Impact Accounting for Product Use: A Framework and Industry-specific Models

By: George Serafeim and Katie Trinh

This handbook provides the first systematic attempt to generate a framework and industry-specific models for the measurement of impacts on customers and the environment from use of products and services, in monetary terms, that can then be reflected in financial... View Details

Keywords: Impact Measurement; Product Impact; Customer Welfare; Environment; ESG; Product; Customers; Well-being; Environmental Sustainability; Measurement and Metrics; Accounting; Financial Statements; Analysis; Framework

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Michael Maples

successful funds, all predicated on finding and investing in these startups that reflect “exponential potentiality”, a significant disruption and a sustainable impact on the future. “Part... View Details

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5 Facts About HBS Conferences - MBA

Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering... View Details

18 Apr 2017
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CRC Companies LLC

Organization Katie Urban, Digital Strategy & Communications Specialist, CRC Companies LLC Describe your organization in three to five sentences. CRC Companies LLC (CRC) is a national real estate development and investment firm with... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

01 Mar 2023
News

Clearing the Air

MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation... View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

01 Sep 2011
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Whale Wars

have now returned to work, but not as the same person who left. As an individual, I will “take less,” in many ways. As a businessperson, what I have learned will affect every investment decision I make. Sustainability, or the lack of it,... View Details

Keywords: Marybeth I. Thoren; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2018
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

What is the connection to the gangs of Soweto, and how is the nefarious and powerful Imam Abed Al-Kumein involved? What is one of the largest investment banks in South Africa’s role and who is the mysterious hacker, Vladimir Al-Masri? To... View Details

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