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  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability

stakeholders at an HBS workshop last week. Integrated reports combine a company's financial, environmental, social, and governance performance measures into a report that can... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting
  • January 2013 (Revised April 2013)
  • Technical Note

Relational Contracts and the Roots of Sustained Competitive Advantage

By: Rebecca M. Henderson
This note focuses on organizational "competencies" or "capabilities" as a potential source of sustained competitive advantage. Research in this area hypothesizes that some firms outperform their competition because they can do things that their rivals cannot. View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Performance
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  • October 2021
  • Article

Shareholder Activism and Firms' Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks

By: Caroline Flammer, Michael W. Toffel and Kala Viswanathan
This paper examines whether—in the absence of mandated disclosure requirements—shareholder activism can elicit greater disclosure of firms’ exposure to climate change risks. We find that environmental shareholder activism increases the voluntary disclosure of climate... View Details
Keywords: Transparency; Reporting; Shareholder Engagement; Shareholder Activism; Climate Change; Risk and Uncertainty; Environmental Management; Investment Activism; Corporate Disclosure; Communication Strategy; Information Publishing; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Problems and Challenges; United States
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  • 17 Mar 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Conceptual Foundations of the Balanced Scorecard

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
  • 12 Sep 2017
  • First Look

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

September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management? Neither Great Leadership Nor Brilliant Strategy Matters Without Operational Excellence By: Sadun, Raffaella, Nicholas Bloom, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

percent increase in housing prices. Moreover, Yelp measures of local business activity provide leading indicators for housing price changes and help to forecast which neighborhoods are gentrifying. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2012
  • News

Employee Happiness Matters More Than You Think

    Michael E. Porter

    Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government
    • Web

    Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog

    find themselves. We integrate a unique understanding of strategy formulation with practical solutions to the execution challenges faced by general managers seeking to maximize positive outcomes. The language View Details
    • 24 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

    October 2017 Management Science The Size of the LGBT Population and the Magnitude of Anti-Gay Sentiment Are Substantially Underestimated By: Coffman, Katherine Baldiga, Lucas C. Coffman, and Keith M.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2003
    • Other Unpublished Work

    The Development of the Cluster Concept—Present Experiences and Recent Developments

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels
    This review presents an overview of the current research on clusters and cluster-based economic development. It is organized in three parts: First, it takes a look at the conceptual foundations of the cluster approach, discussing the definition of clusters, the... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Clusters; Development Economics; Performance; Framework; Knowledge Sharing; Policy
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Conceptual Foundations of the Balanced Scorecard

    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    David Norton and I introduced the Balanced Scorecard in a 1992 Harvard Business Review article (Kaplan & Norton, 1992). The article was based on a multi-company research project to study performance measurement in companies whose intangible assets played a central role... View Details
    Keywords: Asset Management; Balanced Scorecard; Management Systems; Performance Improvement; Strategy
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    • 14 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

    waters, with asymmetric and unpredictable shocks hitting throughout the value chain. In such an interconnected and uncertain world, entire production networks are at risk of disappearing. Many companies... View Details
    Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
    • October 1989 (Revised October 1992)
    • Case

    Smoke Wars: The Case for and Against the Cigarette Industry

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan
    Describes the arguments for and against the tobacco industry. With the per capita demand for cigarettes steadily declining by 2% to 3% every year, the tobacco companies have been using various approaches to stem the tide. Many such moves, however, have come under... View Details
    Keywords: Debates; Marketing Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Performance; Social Issues; Consumer Products Industry
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      Carolyn J. Fu

      Carolyn Fu is an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy Unit. She studies innovation strategy—specifically, how firms can uncover new sources of value through their interactions with the wider innovation ecosystem. Her research explores... View Details

      • 29 Aug 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

      the paper The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns, the three scholars found that portfolio managers placed larger bets on firms when there was an alumni connection, and that... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
      • 21 Nov 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

      chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and non-integrated inputs by combining... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • Web

      Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements - Course Catalog

      strategy execution, performance, financial prospects, and value. The primary emphasis is on the analysis of public companies, but the framework and tools are also relevant to... View Details
      • 05 Dec 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

      organization to a new level. And at home, rebels are more engaged partners, parents, and friends. Packed with strategies for embracing rebellion at work View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 24 Apr 2018
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

      By using a modified dictator game, we assessed sharing behavior and beliefs about others in children between 3 and 12 years old. We performed four studies (N = 376) aimed to... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne