Corporate Responsibility Committee - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2010 (Revised April 2013)
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Equitas Microfinance: The Fastest-Growing MFI on the Planet

By: V.G. Narayanan and V. Kasturi Rangan

Founded as a for-profit microfinance company, Equitas had acquired nearly a million clients in the short two years since it was founded. The founder, Vasu, and his management team wished to accelerate the already impressive spurt to three million clients in the next... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Microfinance; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Enterprise; Financial Services Industry; India

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March 2022 (Revised January 2023)
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Clara Wu Tsai and Brooklyn Loan Innovation

By: Archie L. Jones, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Henry McGee

Philanthropist Clara Wu Tsai is committed to racial equity and investing in Brooklyn-based minority business owners. In the wake of the George Floyd murder, she decides to create a new initiative called the Social Justice Fund and commit an initial $50 million over 10... View Details

Keywords: Minority-owned Businesses; Racial Equity; Entrepreneurship; Race; Values and Beliefs; Small Business; Partners and Partnerships; Social Issues; Investment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decision Making; Brooklyn

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September 2021 (Revised March 2024)
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Bühler: Mobilizing Industry around a Common Purpose

By: Ranjay Gulati, Franz Wohlgezogen and Malini Sen

Bühler Group, a Swiss multinational processing technology provider, started by selling machines for processing grains and later transitioned into selling food processing solutions. A family-owned business in the fifth generation, Bühler’s high-end milling, grinding,... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Customer Focus and Relationships; Machinery and Machining; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Innovation Leadership; Switzerland

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economies, including issues of corporate reputation and responsibility in business. Right now I’m working on business involvement in education CSR initiatives, using the unique dataset from the Business... View Details

06 Nov 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

spend between these 4 boxes - is a Corporate/Board function if only because their primary role is to mediate between the needs of the different Biz/Op units within the corporate structure." If top-down approaches to the resource... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2001
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BOOK: The Money of Invention

advice about the strategic responses that are likely to be most effective in the changing venture capital environment. The third group — governments, nonprofits, academic institutions, and large corporations... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Finance; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2011
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HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations

school deans, corporate recruiters, and executives, who broadly agreed that business schools faced significant challenges in educating leaders for 21st-century global commerce. The second attracted more than 100 HBS faculty, who came to a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Program Policies - HBS Online

for withdrawal, the participant will remain responsible for paying the Program Fee and may be rendered ineligible to participate in future HBS Online programs. For Participants engaged in a Corporate... View Details

06 Dec 2004
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Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?

assessment of, and response to, predictions, particularly those involving substantial future risks? What role should corporate boards play in this process? Is such assessment the first step toward the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Aug 1998
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Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories

the heritage my father left us," says Bertarelli, who has led the Ares-Serono Group, already strong, to even greater heights. During the last five years he has formed a management executive committee and reorganized the firm "to prepare... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

03 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

group had generated. These ranged from stabilizing the company's current carbon emissions to complete carbon neutrality. The UBS Corporate Responsibility Committee would meet... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 1997
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Benaree Wiley

father taught us we should make a contribution in some way and that responsibility comes along with success." At The Partnership since 1991, Wiley leads an organization that helps minorities gain access to the city's View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

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Eric Chavez

to a new product engineer. “I loved the responsibility and challenge,” he says, “but it felt repetitive: same problems on different products.” Seeking a new challenge, Eric moved into marketing so that, “I could be closer to the products... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Tech

01 Jun 2009
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Crisis and Creativity

Texas Instruments were also launched during this time. In fact, the odds on the success of an appropriately directed new venture during a downturn may be higher than in a competitive boom. Entrepreneurs — inside and outside of View Details

Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti

31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting firms face significant up-front... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27

generations to come. Publisher's Link: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9261.html The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Exploring the World of Electric Adventure Vehicles

different kind of electric vehicle.” While interning with Rivian this summer, Danziger will be responsible for defining the company’s commercialization strategy and outlining specifications for both brick-and-mortar and digital retail,... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Consumer Products / Retail

03 Aug 2020
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A Clean Start

Scientists, world leaders, and corporations have spent billions trying to harness carbon-dioxide output in order to combat climate change. So far, they’ve figured out how to capture it, but not what to do with it. Todd Brix (MBA 1997)... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

15 Sep 2016
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US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’

for America and proposes federal policy priorities that can form the core of such a strategy. Further, it identifies corporate and personal tax reform as promising first steps in the strategy. However, the authors warn that it will be... View Details