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    How to Build Workplaces That Protect Employee Health

    John Macomber, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and a veteran of the real estate industry, was studying ways to make workplaces safer for employees long before the Covid-19 crisis hit. Now that issues like air and water quality are top of... View Details
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    Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

    • 2025
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    Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change

    By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Geoffrey Jones
    This chapter explores when and why private regulatory governance systems became the primary form of global environmental governance. The chapter explores two different historical paths in such private regulation and how they came about. The first path involved... View Details
    Keywords: Institutional Entrepreneurship; Environment; Climate Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Environmental Regulation; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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    Sustainable Strategies and Net-Zero Goals

    By: Mark L. Frigo, Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
    In a recent Harvard Business Review article, Kaplan and Ramanna describe a rigorous approach, the E-liability method, for companies’ ESG reporting, especially as it pertains to GHG emissions measurements. They argue that the current standards for measuring... View Details
    Keywords: Measurement; Sustainability; Net-zero Emissions; Environmental Sustainability; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Measurement and Metrics; Strategy
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    • 23 Aug 2016
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    August 23, 2016

    examine if it can be implemented in different contexts and across academic cultures, structures, and traditions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51496 Spring 2016 Journal of Applied Corporate Finance ESG... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    Kaplan introduced time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to provide the cost component in Michael Porter's Value Based Health Care framework of delivering superior patient outcomes at lower societal cost. TDABC is becoming the global standard for health care... View Details

      Innovating for Sustainability

      Every major company is grappling with the meaning and application of sustainability in relation to its geographic location, industry and business model. Similarly, more and more institutional investors are incorporating sustainability into their... View Details

      • 01 Apr 2015
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      Sustainability Reporting: The Lawyer’s Response

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      Driving Corporate Performance

      are using powerful performance measurement and management control systems to confront some of today's biggest challenges and opportunities, such as improving employee motivation, using AI and data analytics effectively, and reporting on View Details
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      Kellanova Kestrix KEY ESG KHAITE Kistefos AS KKR & Co. Inc. KKR Capstone Knox Lane Kora Management LP Kraft Heinz Company Krispy Kreme L L+M Development Partners Inc. L.E.K. Consulting Ladder Health Last Mile Education Fund LayerHealth... View Details
      • 20 Mar 2012
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        PublicationsCapitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance Author:Bruce R. Scott Publication:Springer-Verlag, 2011 Abstract Two systems of governance, capitalism and democracy, prevail in the world today. Operating simultaneously in partially... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • March 2009 (Revised October 2009)
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      CalPERS' Emerging Equity Markets Principles

      By: Robert G. Eccles and Aldo Sesia
      The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007. Previously, CalPERS internal and external money managers were... View Details
      Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Emerging Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Value; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; China; California
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      • 17 Jan 2024
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      Are Companies Getting Away with 'Cheap Talk' on Climate Goals?

      Companies regularly set ambitious climate goals, but these plans often end up like many people’s New Year’s resolutions: unmet aspirations that quietly fizzle out. While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas... View Details
      Keywords: by Tim Gray
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      Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

      to Activist Pressure (A)." Harvard Business School Case 225-082, June 2025. Are ESG Improvements Recognized? Perspectives from the Public Sentiments By: Shaolong Wu Summer 2025 | Article | Journal of Impact and View Details
      • 12 Mar 2024
      • HBS Case

      How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones

      Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Electronics; Information Technology
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      Podcast - Business & Environment

      Pint at a Time 18 MAY 2022 | Climate Rising Katie Wallace, Chief ESG Officer of New Belgium Brewing Company, and Adam Fetcher, Senior Director of Communications and Public Engagement, discuss how climate change’s impacts on their... View Details
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      Impact Investments

      investing and green bonds. The UN launched its six Principles for Responsible Investment in 2006 in order to promote greater commitment to ESG issues amongst global investors, garnering 100 signatories. By the start of 2020, more than... View Details
      • 21 Oct 2011
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      Market Interest in Nonfinancial Information

      Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus & George Serafeim
      • 23 Jan 2023
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      After High-Profile Failures, Can Investors Still Trust Credit Ratings?

      rating agencies’ strategic behavior incentivized by the issuer-pay model,” the study concludes. You Might Also Like: What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company? Stock Price Reactions to ESG News: The... View Details
      Keywords: by Ben Rand
      • 12 Sep 2023
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      Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?

      social, and governance issues at the heart of so-called “stakeholder capitalism.” Corporations that become too visible in support of stakeholder capitalism run the risk of losing public investors, such as pension funds in states in which View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett