Faculty & Research
Faculty & Research
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- May 2024 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Together for Sustainability
| This case documents the origin and development of Together for Sustainability (TfS), a chemical industry initiative dedicated to raising sustainability standards throughout the industry’s supply chains. In 2011, six Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) from some of the... |
- Harvard Business Review
The Messy but Essential Pursuit of Purpose
By: Ranjay Gulati
| Most forward-thinking executives have embraced the notion that purpose-driven companies can solve social and environmental problems while also generating wealth, creating win-win outcomes that benefit everyone. But ideal solutions are rare. Many purpose-driven... |
- August 2021
- Teaching Material
Etsy: Crafting a Turnaround to Save the Business and Its Soul
By: Ranjay Gulati and Bradley Turner
| Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 821-092. |
- April 2021
- Case
Etsy: Crafting a Turnaround to Save the Business and Its Soul
By: Ranjay Gulati, Luciana Silvestri and Monte Burke
| Etsy, the online seller of handmade goods, was founded in 2005 on an almost utopian ideal—a responsible, caring company that offered individual crafters a place to sell their wares, a wholesome alternative to companies that sold mass-manufactured products. The company... |
- 2015
- Book
Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective
| The business case for acting sustainably is becoming increasingly compelling—reducing our global footprint to sustainable levels is the defining issue of our times, and it is one that can only be addressed with the active participation of the private sector. However,... |
- 2015
- Book Chapter
From Periphery to Core: A Process Model for Embracing Sustainability
By: Luciana Silvestri and Ranjay Gulati
| There is a growing call for business enterprises to adopt sustainability principles and practices, yet many established organizations continue to struggle in their quest to embrace them. In this chapter, we analyze how organizations that relegate sustainability to the... |