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Accounting & Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2024 Ethan C. Rouen : Winner of the 2024 Best Paper Award at the Fox and Haskayne Accounting Conference for "Sustainability Meets Substance: Evaluating View Details

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

Would Everfi Create Enough Impact? TPG Rise: Investment Result, Takeaways from the Rise Fund Show Hide Details Concepts Developing Impact Strategies Measuring and Accounting for Impact The Rise Fund: Impact Multiple of Money ESG View Details

22 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

employees are working in remote or hybrid environments far from the eyes of watchful supervisors. Attempts to reassert the “butts in seats” metric by using awareness technology software to measure computer keystrokes or monitor time spent... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

11 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

supposed to pay off, the greater the uncertainty. Hence, investment decisions and compensation contracts tend to converge toward more short-term, observable metrics that encourage corporate managers and professional money managers to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

precisely what they are—to information that would help people make assessments about which markets they want to be in and how much risk they’re taking on. Highlight it in the same way that we provide information about other asset classes and products. There aren’t... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology

18 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

these companies to apply differing, i.e., lower, standards in terms of disclosure in an IPO. In my opinion, WeWork should be pilloried for exploiting these standards. There are numerous examples provided in our analysis, entitled Why... View Details

Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

customers, investors, and communities a voice and a place at the table when corporate leaders address the climate issues their organizations face. This has manifested in over $30 trillion in investment product under the ESG “label,”... View Details

08 Mar 2021
Blog Post

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missing an actionable dataset that quantifies its climate impact. To address this gap, I am building Metric to provide ESG analytics software that measures corporate ESG... View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

2006) + More Info – Less Info Can one be a fiduciary and invest sustainably? Are these roles at odds with one another other? What does it mean to be an ESG investor? In this session, we will use a case study on JP Morgan Private Bank to... View Details

03 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

Sentiment and the Price of Corporate Sustainability, takes public sentiment data around sustainability activities obtained from TruValue Labs, culled from news stories, industry analysts, NGOs, and think tanks, and combines it with traditional View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

23 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective

greater, he predicts, if countries followed the example of South Africa and France, which recently expanded their mandatory reporting laws to require that companies report their financial and ESG performance in a single integrated annual... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 2022
News

Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies and organizations today, and advance faculty research that... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

Report begins with identifying the most important financial and ESG metrics for the company in its given industry and the strategy it is pursuing to achieve its goals. In some cases, revenue growth may be... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2015
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majority of aggregate productivity gains, suggesting that ignoring this channel could lead to substantial bias in understanding the nature of gains from multinational production. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2101302 Implied Materiality and Material... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) reflects on her how experience at HBS shaped her career and inspired her to make a difference in her home region of Asia through impact investing. How has your education at HBS helped to shape your career in impact and View Details

March 2012
Article

Advertising Disclosures: Measuring Labeling Alternatives in Internet Search Engines

By: Benjamin Edelman and Duncan S. Gilchrist

In an online experiment, we measure users' interactions with search engines, both in standard configurations and in modified versions with clearer labels identifying search engine advertisements. In particular, for a random subset of users, we change "Sponsored links"... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Online Advertising; Measurement and Metrics; Internet; Search Technology; Education; Labels

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26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26

Case 111-120 In 2011, the European Commission was deciding on how to best modify the existing European Union policy on corporate disclosure of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Previous directives had recommended... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting By: Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim Abstract—A key aspect of the governance process inside organizations and markets is the measurement and disclosure of important View Details