Corporate Responsibility - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2003
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Press) In the past decade, as technological developments raced forward, large corporations with a history of scientific leadership like AT&T, IBM, and Xerox ironically found themselves struggling to keep up. Their problem, says HBS... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jan 2005
News

Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

desired by the customer has been an important source of confidence for the future. What has also remained constant throughout Bajaj's forty years at BAL has been the company's commitment to corporate social responsibility. Through... View Details

01 May 2013
News

George H. Strong, MBA 1951

Barney, Ecuadorian Corporation, Arthur D. Little, American Medicorp, and Universal Health Services as “checkered,” he says he can’t think of a better way to prepare for the dynamic responsibilities that he encountered in the investment... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

Kash Rangan

performance, and even go beyond and recall cases, frameworks, and solution approaches. It is quite a different approach to participating in the sector. In a way they become the catalysts for internal change. Many alumni get involved with View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

03 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 2)

despite having these same qualities, aren’t in school due to circumstances out of their control. I am grateful to represent my family and friends at HBS. I view it as my responsibility to imbibe learnings in business school and teach them... View Details

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Program Policies - HBS Online

answers. Participants are required to follow the HBS Online Academic Honesty Guidelines . Skipping questions by providing cursory responses or simply entering filler text is considered incomplete participation in the Program and will... View Details

04 Feb 2019
Book

Green Businesses Are Incredibly Difficult to Make Profitable. Try It Anyway

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology; Energy

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

depth and we were able to compare and contrast the leaders in some of these other high tech companies and why they've had different outcomes. We talked to a much broader basis about what is the public responsibility of View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

two-year MBA program. Glick's presentation focused on benevolent sexism. Unlike hostile sexism, which is an overt response to a perceived threat to male power, Glick said that benevolent sexism's reinforcement of the male-as-caretaker... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

14 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 14, 2015

corporations need corporate boards that are also ambitious and accommodative of them. According to the authors, good corporate governance and financial performance are the main... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 6

Part of that effort was the creation of a strategic corporate social responsibility program called Our World, Our Family. The case tracks Western Union's earlier CSR initiatives and how they resulted in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

To Nancy F. Koehn, the history of the Irish rock band U2 has it all as a business case study: teamwork, leadership, creative destruction, branding, and strategy. Koehn's case "Bono and U2", co-written with Katherine Miller and Rachel K. Wilcox, reconstructs the story... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

Summer 2012
Article

How to Become a Sustainable Company

By: Robert G. Eccles, Kathleen Miller Perkins and George Serafeim

Using field and survey data we identify the characteristics of sustainable companies, and we develop a two-stage model that can help companies develop a culture of innovation, trust, and the ability for transformational change. View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Innovation; Leadership; Environmental Sustainability; Organizational Culture; Innovation and Invention; Trust; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr

This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of immigrant workers into... View Details

Keywords: Surveys; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Immigration; Economic Systems; Human Capital; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Fluctuation; Situation or Environment; Labor and Management Relations; United States; Europe

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From Concept to Product | Baker Library

remembered her humor, self-effacing nature, quiet reserve, and steely determination. In essence if not in name, Meroë Morse assumed the role of a chief advisor to the CEO of a major corporation at a time when the View Details

26 Jul 2017
Blog Post

“Uncertainty Makes It More Interesting.”

unknown terrains that appealed to Felipe. “I discovered that I didn’t want a traditional corporate life,” he says. “I wanted a greater sense of ownership, the ability to see my impact on a business from beginning to end.” When Felipe... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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John Speer

something new. “The B-2 is an amazing aircraft, and I love flying,” John says, “but what I really enjoyed was being engaged in a large organization.” In his role as Wing Executive Officer, he was the “right-hand man” of a one-star general View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path

Plastic bottles are sorted for recycling at Cedar Environmental on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon. Professor Nien-hê Hsieh tries to bring his students to the “gray area”—that uncomfortable and all-too-common space where leaders face difficult trade-offs across their... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Turning Point: The Dark Season

optional, but we usually get about 45 players from a 53-man roster. In some ways it’s similar to an HBS case discussion in terms of how it’s structured—I open with a prayer, pose a discussion question, and write responses on the board,... View Details

Keywords: Jonathan Wilkins (MBA 2007, MDiv 2009)

01 Sep 2006
News

Light Years Ahead

investment. In addition, he worked half-time with a Boston-based management consulting firm on the strategy problems of several important corporate clients. He soon decided to focus his full attention on HBS. As the first graduate of the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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