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  • 2023
  • Article

Patriotic Capitalism, Geopolitics and the Boardroom: Should Directors Consider Devotion to Country When Making Decisions That Affect Their Companies?

By: Michael Montelongo
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; International Relations
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  • January 2025
  • Case

Negotiating a Legacy at Sustainable Harvest (A)

By: Jillian Jordan, Julian Zlatev, Alicia Dadlani and Martha Hostetter
The specialty coffee importer Sustainable Harvest was the first certified B Corp in the coffee industry due to its investments in building coffee farmers’ capacity and livelihood. But in 2022, after coffee prices plummeted and the company’s bank declined to extend its... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Trust; Ethics; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Volatility; Futures and Commodity Futures; Social Enterprise; Valuation; Business Model; Credit; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Europe
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  • 22 Aug 2016
  • Blog Post

Section Life: Your HBS Family

my section mates for help with anything from finding a job to meeting people if I move to a new city, and they would not help me without hesitation.  Sections are also the basis of many HBS students’ social lives. Each section has elected... View Details
  • November 2010
  • Supplement

Esquel Group: Building a Sustainable Partnership with Cotton Farmers in Xinjiang (B)

By: James K. Sebenius and Jason Cheng Qian
Details and evaluates results in Esquel's 2002 initiative to negotiate long-term partnerships with often-exploited farmers in Xinjiang (western China) to procure a superior cotton variety. View Details
Keywords: Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Leasing; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Hong Kong; Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
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  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing By: Battilana, Julie Abstract— While in recent decades the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

Edge" (708-051); "Cape Wind: Offshore Wind Energy in the USA" (708-022); and "Supergrid" (707-016). Purchase this note: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709005 Note on Socially View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

context of an unsolved managerial and academic problem, we develop a review of existing literature, a description of current managerial challenges, and a sketch of future research opportunities. Corporate Social View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • December 2024
  • Supplement

Northvolt: Building Batteries to Fight Climate Change (B)

By: George Serafeim, Debora L. Spar, Peter Tufano, Hugo Etchegoyhen and Emilie Billaud
The (B) case explores Northvolt’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on November 21, 2024, highlighting the company’s struggles to scale operations amid a global EV market slowdown and internal production challenges. While the (A) case detailed Northvolt’s ambitious... View Details
Keywords: Batteries; Electric Vehicles; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Energy; Green Technology; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Technological Innovation; Risk Management; Failure; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Transportation; Green Technology Industry; Europe; Sweden
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  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

One-on-One with Jeff Hicks

marketing, because that group has a hair-trigger response to anything that’s boring. Now that hair-trigger response has caught up to other generations. Where is the industry headed? People are often focused... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 13 Feb 2025
  • Blog Post

IFC India 2025: The Coal Dichotomy: Balancing Economic Growth and Decarbonization in India

jeopardize its economic development. The social and economic importance of coal in India cannot be overstated. Coal provides some of the cheapest and most readily available baseload power for the country. Also, millions of employees have... View Details
  • 13 Nov 2020
  • News

Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students

Vladimir Jacimovic (MBA 1992), who created a summer training program for five students in response to the School’s outreach. “My background is in health care,” says Powers, who worked remotely for the San Francisco, California–based firm... View Details
  • 02 Sep 2010
  • What Do You Think?

How Transparent Should Boards Be?

board's deliberation will be publicized in the business press for weeks, further depressing the price of the stock. They remind their colleagues that the board's primary responsibility is to shareholders and the value of their stock, and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 03 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 3

proposition. It aims to explore effective curricular and programmatic responses as opportunities for MBA programs to innovate. The paper also aims to call for collective action across the business school field to effectively address these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

IFC: Israel; Startups and Venture Capital - Course Catalog

that promote innovation ecosystems outside of the United States. Most startups will be Series B or Series C and have developed a product or service. The companies will be across a variety of sectors including cybersecurity, big data, life sciences, consumer products,... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

The World's Banker

powerful in the world's great capitals, Wolfensohn might nonetheless rank his interactions with village chiefs and local leaders as among the most rewarding of his career. For even as he enjoyed a remarkable career in the private sector, Wolfensohn had always displayed... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

Will the real Robert Kinloch Massie (DBA '89) please stand up? Priest. Politician. University lecturer. Medical marvel. Social activist. Prize-winning historian. Environmentalist. Executive. While Bob Massie is justified in rising to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics
  • 21 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: December 21

(forthcoming) Abstract Drawing on institutionalist theory, we conceptualize the racial composition of the boards of directors of large American companies as shaped in response to social and political norms.... View Details
  • 11 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020)

interesting there that has connections with race and racism as well. I'm thinking a lot about the responsibility of a place like HBS to ensure that students from lower income backgrounds are able to experience genuine View Details
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

In a second study, we confirm this finding in two 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 more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Reforming Company Boards

investments, and their responsibility to investors? Legislation mandating reform can be passed quickly compared with the time needed to change people’s behavior. Some believe that things won’t really change until we have a new generation... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services