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- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Microsoft's online advertising business, began steering the company on a dramatically new course last year. In September 2013, Acxiom unveiled the beta version of a free website called AbouttheData.com,... View Details
- Video
Sanjay Bansal
Sanjay Bansal, former head of Ambootia tea estates in Darjeeling, India, discusses how he formed the Indian Bio Organic Tea Association in 1996 to work with the Indian government to develop standards for the... View Details
- November 29, 2011
- Article
The Role of The Board in Creating a Sustainable Strategy
By: Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
While conceptually elegant, the belief that a corporation's role is to maximize value for shareholders is under increasing challenge as society's expectations for companies change. An equally elegant new concept that takes account of these dual pressures has yet to... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Strategy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Expectations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Practices and Processes; Decisions; Risk and Uncertainty; Cost vs Benefits; Information
Eccles, Robert G., Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim. "The Role of The Board in Creating a Sustainable Strategy." TrustLaw (November 29, 2011).
- November 2017
- Case
Passion and Strategy: Novozymes' Embrace of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
By: Andy Zelleke and Emilie Billaud
This case explores the sustainability efforts at Novozymes, the world's largest and oldest producer of industrial enzymes. In 2015, the Danish company became the world’s first company known to have crafted a new corporate strategy based on the United Nations... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Transformation; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business Strategy; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Biotechnology Industry; Europe; Denmark
Zelleke, Andy, and Emilie Billaud. "Passion and Strategy: Novozymes' Embrace of the UN Sustainable Development Goals." Harvard Business School Case 318-088, November 2017.
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
act, and this I believe is not deception." Karen Dempster comments that "I completely believe leaders all use a form of theatre, even quietly, to express and create hopefully a calm, delegated... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
out for the conference's program of seminars, panel discussions, and social events. Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine and the School's new Dean, Kim B. Clark, also joined us, along with some fifty... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
end, the School has started several new outreach initiatives, beginning with an effort to supply more information about the Alumni Association, the activities of the 110 worldwide HBS clubs, and the HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
developed a new second-year course: Investing—Risk, Return, and Impact. Here, they talk about preparing the next generation of investors for maximum impact. This movement is a decade old. Where does it... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
influx of foreign capital helped finance investments in new technology, one might also conclude that U.S. employees and consumers benefited to a significant degree at the expense View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
your smartphone to how to earn a seat on a corporate board and make socially responsible investments. They gathered Thursday evening to watch a screening of a new documentary on the history View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 26 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
I’d recommend to other companies looking to bring new employees into the fold. For example, we had a Maverick-wide poker tournament (nothing like losing money that bonds you), and organized a wine tasting... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
U.S.-centric ad hoc globalization. A handful of French policymakers—all of them socialists, paradoxically—first liberalized France and then, upon taking leadership roles in international organizations,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 19 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business
road to get there. I started my career in music, interning for a variety of organizations as an undergrad. However, when I moved to New York City, I stumbled upon a unique... View Details
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
believe all humans were created equal, regardless of the many outwardly things that can make us look and seem different. As a new mom to a precious baby boy, being a feminist has become even more important... View Details
- 2014
- Case
Microfinance Services in Rural Areas--Farmers' Self-reliance Branch of CFPA Microfinance in Shangyi County
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Siqun Yang and Meihua Shen
Microfinance is introduced into China in the 1990s. It had gone through 3 phases since the beginning, namely the pilot phase when all Microfinance practices are sponsored by charity funds based on projects, the promotion phase when the government subsidized some... View Details
McFarlan, F. Warren, Siqun Yang, and Meihua Shen. "Microfinance Services in Rural Areas--Farmers' Self-reliance Branch of CFPA Microfinance in Shangyi County." 2014.
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
In the fall of, the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued a new rule meant to combat the problem of selective disclosure among public companies and their favorite investors. Regulation Fair Disclosure... View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
Standardized Color in the Food Industry: The Co-Creation of the Food Coloring Business in the United States, 1870–1940
By: Ai Hisano
This working paper examines how, starting in the 1870s, food manufacturers in the United States began to use standardized color, achieved by synthetic dyes, as part of their marketing strategies. Food manufacturers along with dye makers and regulators co-created the... View Details
Keywords: Food; Supply and Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
Hisano, Ai. "Standardized Color in the Food Industry: The Co-Creation of the Food Coloring Business in the United States, 1870–1940." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-037, October 2016.