Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 2

scenario-based experiments. Our results suggest that longer-tenured and more successful employees face a greater loss of self-esteem from negative social comparisons and are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Felipe Antonio Custer

Keywords: Food and Chemicals

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... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2019
News

The HBS Fund

Business Become More Sustainable The notion of “doing well by doing good” is gaining momentum as business leaders and investors realize that social responsibility can improve... View Details

12 Jul 2011
First Look

in a way that is economically important, has impact on ex ante capital structure choices, and affects welfare. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-070.pdf How Firms Respond to Mandatory... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

Beyond How to Manage Coronavirus Layoffs with Compassion (Harvard Business Review) Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights)... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

04 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

"The study of e-commerce has unfolded in much the same way that e-commerce thrust itself on the business world—with a great deal of overstatement," says Marc J. Epstein, Visiting Professor and Wyss Visiting Scholar in View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

Anu Aga

Keywords: Engineering Manufacturing

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

In the aftermath of such highly public and grossly damaging business debacles as Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom, much attention and plenty of criticism have been directed at those... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

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... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

21 May 2001
Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

bear a huge responsibility for seeing that creativity is sparked constantly and flows unimpeded, she writes. According to Hill, these leaders actually have three mandates: Clearly state why the collective... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

Call it corporate alchemy. New research finds that multinational companies can spin gender bias into gold by recruiting and hiring well-educated female managers in countries that traditionally discriminate... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Shinta Kamdani

Keywords: Consumer Products, Energy

November 1974 (Revised September 1984)
Case

Environmental Pressures (B)

By: Norman A. Berg

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

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21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

rated. We hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms that receive poor ratings, and especially those that face lower-cost opportunities to improve or that anticipate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Mar 2021
News

Bridging the Gap

limited student access to technology, and lack of family support and essential services all have had an impact on the world’s children and those... View Details

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

innovation and the opportunity to participate in the "white coat" economy and life sciences revolution of the 21st century. Writes a new social contract based on real... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

Last year, Harvard Business School professor Ranjay Gulati met with the marketing department of a large American corporation and posed a seemingly simple question: What do marketing people actually do?... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

Limits To Leadership Being the chief executive of any company is a demanding job. Carrying out the responsibilities of a CEO in a professional service firm is exceptionally challenging because the position lacks the inherent power View Details

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney

March 2025
Case

Hurtigruten: Sea Zero

By: Christian Kaps and Michael W. Toffel

Hurtigruten was deciding whether the next ship they built should be fully electric. But such a vessel's battery, the size of electric cars, needed to be charged on the ship's multi-day voyage along the Norwegian coast. Before making such a $250 million investment, the... View Details