by George Serafeim - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jul 2015
News

Greece Referendum Offers Two Bad Choices

22 Jun 2011
News

Measurement: Tracking social impact catches up with resource issues

09 Jun 2015
News

What will the chief sustainability officer of the future look like?

30 Aug 2014
News

Governor Cuomo and Comptroller Dinapoli Appoint First-Ever Decarbonization Advisory Panel

07 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

03 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

company’s investments in sustainability activities. Serafeim next wants to study how corporate ESG disclosures come into play for companies and investors. “Many companies are increasing their disclosure either through a sustainability... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

20 Aug 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World?

Keywords: Re: Rebecca M. Henderson & George Serafeim; Financial Services

15 Oct 2017
News

Bonuses are the enemy of progress

29 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

George Serafeim and Malcolm Baker have long been interested in investor motivations that go beyond pure financial return to include environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria. With the recent... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities; Construction; Green Technology; Public Administration

01 Aug 2001
News

Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)

economics in 1952, he was eager to study business at HBS, where he was inspired by Professors Georges F. Doriot and John G. McLean, who were pioneers in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate... View Details

Keywords: Georges F. Doriot; John G. McLean; Alumni Achievement Award; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Sep 2014
News

Groundwork

a 2016 completion date. That project broke ground in April, just four months after the doors opened on Tata Hall [2], its neighbor to the east. To the north, along a sidewalk bordered by green-draped construction fencing, Baker Hall is... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; George F. Baker III; real estate; Tata Hall; Educational Services; Real Estate

1:30 PM – 2:45 PM EDT, 23 Sep 2020
Virtual Programming

Driving Impact: A Dialogue on Capitalism, Climate, and Social Change | Sept 23

Join Professor Rebecca Henderson (MBA 1985) and Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969) as they explore whether and how managers and investors can lead and invest differently in order to drive positive changeeven amidst a pandemic and climate crisisand the timing for government... View Details

26 Sep 2019
News

Reimagining Our Capitalist Markets

18 Jun 2018
News

Two Harvard Business School Faculty Awarded Prize for Course on Sustainability

Summit TV, South Africa

Bob Eccles and George Serafeim Harvard Business School on their investigation into the King Code of Governance and how it has impacted the way corporates do business in South Africa. View Details

15 Dec 2011
News

A Manifesto for Sustainable Capitalism

01 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Climate Finance SIP

In late January 2021, over seventy HBS MBA students gathered in a virtual classroom for four exciting days of a short intensive program (“SIP”) on Climate Finance, taught by professors George View Details

16 Jul 2020
News

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