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- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which was created by the passage of the 1906 Federal Food and Drugs Act, regulates companies and industries accounting for one-quarter of all consumer spending, roughly $1.5 trillion worth of...
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- January 2009 (Revised February 2009)
- Case
Grupo Bimbo: Growth and Social Responsibility
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
Bimbo, headquartered in Mexico with 2008 sales of $7 billion, was one of the largest bakery companies in the world. Even as it had grown spectacularly in the last several decades, the company had earned a stellar reputation for its corporate social responsibility...
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Global Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Reputation;
Expansion;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Mexico
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Regina Garcia-Cuellar. "Grupo Bimbo: Growth and Social Responsibility." Harvard Business School Case 509-025, January 2009. (Revised February 2009.)
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Strategy - Faculty & Research
strategy: They focus too much on the makeup of their portfolios and too little on enhancing the businesses in them. Strategies for adding value to a corporation’s businesses fall on a continuum. On one end the businesses in the View Details
- November 1991 (Revised July 1995)
- Case
Body Shop International
Describes the start-up and rapid growth of a company whose founder holds strong, non-traditional beliefs about the role of the corporation and its responsibility to society. After profiling Anita Roddick as a person, the case describes the anti-mainstream approach she...
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Business Startups;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Leadership Style;
Management Succession;
Management Teams;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Values and Beliefs;
Global Strategy;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Bartlett, Christopher A. "Body Shop International." Harvard Business School Case 392-032, November 1991. (Revised July 1995.)
- 04 Mar 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Consequences to Directors of Shareholder Activism
- 2019
- Article
Time Series Experiments and Causal Estimands: Exact Randomization Tests and Trading
By: Iavor I Bojinov and Neil Shephard
We define causal estimands for experiments on single time series, extending the potential outcome framework to dealing with temporal data. Our approach allows the estimation of a broad class of these estimands and exact randomization based p-values for testing causal...
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Bojinov, Iavor I., and Neil Shephard. "Time Series Experiments and Causal Estimands: Exact Randomization Tests and Trading." Journal of the American Statistical Association 114, no. 528 (2019): 1665–1682.
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
benefit of increased labor is improved quality. The objective of this paper is to examine the effect of labor on profitability through its impact on quality. Since employees at retail stores perform both production-related activities and...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2022
- HBS Case
Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off
analyze the potential financial impact on the company’s $8.4 billion in overall revenues. In one calculation, company officials estimated Dick’s Sporting Goods stood to lose about $250 million as a result of...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 24 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
candidates from HBS. This year, we are recruiting for two Leadership Fellows and two Summer Associates. All of these positions serve as valuable members of our portfolio investment team helping us to find, fund and support the most...
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Nonprofit / Government
- Teaching Interest
Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Combining the tools of philanthropy, business and advocacy (or mission, margin and mandate), social entrepreneurs have tackled long-standing societal issues like teacher training, college access, global public health, renewable energy and sanitation. Social...
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- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
A factory worker uses company time and materials to fashion a lamp he will take home for personal use—an artifact called a "homer." The practice is probably illegal and clearly against written View Details
- February 1992 (Revised February 1996)
- Case
Jupiter Management Co.
The manager of a small company growth fund considers relative merits of investing in a company's convertible debt versus its common.
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Moore, Ronald W. "Jupiter Management Co." Harvard Business School Case 292-107, February 1992. (Revised February 1996.)
- 15 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Giving to Others Makes Us Happy
to create conditions where helping people might feel good for the actor.” Plus, setting up both corporate and private giving programs properly may lead people to donate their time and money more often, she notes. At a time when economic uncertainty is driving both...
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by Michael Blanding
- 19 Aug 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
The Globalization of Corporate Environmental Disclosure: Accountability or Greenwashing?
- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
large. Thirty years on, this seems like an obvious point, but it perhaps bears repeating, as corporate misconduct does not appear to have abated over this period. If anything, its scope, scale, and impact have all increased as View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
March–April 2017 Harvard Business Review Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader: What to Look For By: Butler, Timothy Abstract—Aspiring to be innovative and agile, companies of all shapes and sizes want to recruit entrepreneurial managers. But...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
countries, we show that prosocial spending is consistently associated with greater happiness. To test for causality, we conduct experiments within two very different countries (Canada and Uganda) and show that spending money on others has a consistent, causal View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2024
- HBS Case
Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work
forget to outline next steps. Leave the conversation with a clear plan, so the gains made during the talk don’t fizzle out. Steve pledges to draft an email inquiring about his future opportunities at the company that his mother can send...
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by Avery Forman
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality of life of people in the areas...
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by Michael Blanding
- Web
CSV Explained - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
minimizes employee absences and lost productivity. The graphic depicts some areas where connections are strongest. Social Needs & Economic Value Creation How can companies create shared value opportunities? View Details