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Sustainability Reporting at Dollar Tree, Inc.

The cases discusses the ESG strategy of Dollar Tree Inc., a U.S. Fortune 500 company in the deep discount retail industry and the and shareholder pressure faced by the company. In 2022, the company faced a shareholder resolution from a renowned shareholder advocacy... View Details

Keywords: ESG; Sustainability; Shareholder Activism; Dollar Tree; Sustainability Reporting; ESG Reporting; Board Of Directors; Shareholder Engagement; GHG; Environmental Accounting; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Trends; Communication; Announcements; Voting; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Reports; Business or Company Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Strategic Planning; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Situation or Environment; Opportunities; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Strategy; Adaptation; Alignment; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation; Retail Industry; United States; Virginia

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01 Jan 2017
News

Improving Health Care Delivery

by Dean Nitin Nohria’s leadership and the fact that health care is becoming an important part of the vision for the future of HBS,” says Mary Ellen, who with Jeffrey served as gift cochairs for their... View Details

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal

Rights of first refusal are contract clauses common in such industries as entertainment. In 2001, Paramount Studios and the National Broadcasting Company negotiated the broadcasting rights for the hit show "Frasier." NBC held a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Construction; Real Estate; Entertainment & Recreation

30 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Finding Pride

at Stanford, would evolve over time; its membership and public presence did, too. Today the PRIDE group is an association of 190 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ+) students and partners. It serves View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Michael F. Cronin

the immediate south lies a less glamorous prospect — several of the city's grittier neighborhoods, including blue-collar Dorchester, where Cronin grew up. To Cronin, the memories of his Dorchester days are as constant View Details

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

indicators on business decisions Discover the short- and long-term impact of interest rates, inflation, trade, and investment Learn distinctive approaches and frameworks that help you think about the world and organize information Who... View Details

20 May 2022
Blog Post

Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research

closely with Nucleate Bio, who seeks to do the same thing, only they are focused on human health rather than sustainability. As an HBS MBA student, you’re free to apply, whether View Details

31 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup

of their call, Mori didn’t have plans to bring on an intern for the summer. However, as Belsito and team looked towards the future of the company, the need in Business Intelligence became clear and Sani was... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

15 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2021

one-year anniversary of the pandemic, 13 HBS faculty members offered advice on everything from time management to employee mental health for companies trying to prepare for the “next normal.” 2. For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down Even View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

18 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

factor: the degree of the top management team’s (TMT) frame flexibility, i.e., their capability to perceptually expand an innovation’s categorical boundaries and to cast the innovation as emotionally... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Oct 2018
Blog Post

Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

Being a young Nigerian female on a highly quantitative desk was already unconventional, but I was also joining the firm with an untraditional background as a liberal arts major with previous experiences in... View Details

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

century, the main objective of most risk management policies—from limited liability to bankruptcy law to a fixed exchange rate—was to encourage trade and investment and thus to facilitate economic growth by making investors and traders... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

01 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Exploring Career Passions through Short Intensive Programs – Moving Beyond Direct to Consumer

SIP is an exciting opportunity for me to learn and teach simultaneously. Combine 100 students who want to create, own, invest in, or advise DTC businesses with 25 founders and lead them with two faculty -... View Details

17 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

services. Institutional investors, such as endowments and pension funds, often have “vice clauses” prohibiting investments in Schedule I industries. Even private investors are dissuaded by the industry’s... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

26 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

Whillans and her team conducted of more than 92,000 job ads found that the more benefits an employer described, the higher the application rates. Plus, when employers described benefits in detail, such as... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

05 Nov 2020
Blog Post

12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition

Goats and Horses Maverick Ventures is the venture arm of Maverick Capital. The team focuses mainly on investments in tech and healthcare across a variety of different verticals, and my first day with them... View Details

15 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

compact, vertically oriented scheme desirable and livable for more than one million people. Macomber sees the challenges of global urban redevelopment as an ideal opportunity for collaboration between the... View Details

Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

Profile

Brandon Lovell

youth in corporate internships. In 2009, Brandon earned a position at a New York investment bank; after six months of training, he obtained his formal internship where he "learned about investment... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Financial Services

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Rafaella Sadun | About

and across countries, and how this affects productivity at the micro and macro level. Sadun currently co-leads the Digital Reskilling Lab at HBS, where she studies the effectiveness of large-scale digital training investments made in... View Details

04 Feb 2014
Blog Post

VCPE Club prepares for their annual conference…20 years and running!

Women in Private Equity. All panels will be comprised of a blend of institutional investment managers, fund general partners, advisors, and intermediaries, each with extensive experience in the private equity and venture capital... View Details

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