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Affinity Groups | Employment
communication, interaction and counseling for members through seminars, discussion groups, and social gatherings. Asian & Asian American As one of the Employee Resource Groups, the Association of Harvard Asian and Asian American Faculty... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
be actually brought home to the investor." Most of our social contracts are built on the assumption that individual accountability influences human behavior. Indeed, the recent move by the SEC to require CEOs to personally attest to... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
comment-letter reviews (CLs) on firms’ financial reporting. We exploit a major change in the SEC’s disclosure policy: in 2004, the SEC decided to make its CLs publicly available. Using a novel dataset of CLs, we analyze the capital-market View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 2020
- Article
Public Sentiment and the Price of Corporate Sustainability
By: George Serafeim
Combining corporate sustainability performance scores based on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data with big data measuring public sentiment about a company’s sustainability performance, I find that the valuation premium paid for companies with strong... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investment Management; Investment Strategy; Big Data; Machine Learning; Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance; Performance; Asset Pricing; Investment; Management; Strategy; Human Capital; Public Opinion; Value; Analytics and Data Science
Serafeim, George. "Public Sentiment and the Price of Corporate Sustainability." Financial Analysts Journal 76, no. 2 (2020): 26–46.
- January 2018
- Case
Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather
By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Aldo Sesia
It is 2014 and Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) Partners, a UK-based venture capital firm, has an opportunity to invest in a privately held UK company that manufactured engineered composition leather extracted from waste leather using an environmentally friendly... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Venture Capital; Investment Strategy; Investment; Strategy; Ownership; Valuation; Energy Conservation; Equity; Technological Innovation; Environmental Sustainability; Performance Efficiency; Manufacturing Industry; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
Gandhi, Vikram S., and Aldo Sesia. "Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather." Harvard Business School Case 318-001, January 2018.
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
behavior and explore how they make a negotiator particularly vulnerable to ethical fading, resulting in subsequent unethical behavior. We discuss several opportunities for future research in the negotiation discipline and other disciplines that draw on motivated View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
Aknin, Colin Ross, Lihan Chen, and Frances Chen Abstract— Who benefits most from helping others? Previous research suggests that common polymorphisms of the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) predict whether people behave generously and experience increases in positive mood... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
be used to forecast product life cycles at scale. In two empirical studies, one of search interest in social networks and the other of new computer sales, we demonstrate that our model outperforms leading diffusion models in out-of-sample... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 02 May 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Leadership Industry” Fulfill Its Promise?
"the sense" of the many comments in responses to this month's column. Leadership involves, among other things, "competence and interpersonal skill" (David Wittenberg), "visionary" and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
fallout, particularly inequality and migration as its consequence. They see their cities, as in France, becoming battlegrounds. The very people they need for the workforce don't feel integrated or part of the social contract, and they... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 05 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Our Godrej Site Visit
biodiversity allows for a felt connection between us and our planet, which can increase our collective mental well-being. On the bus ride back from our Godrej mangrove visit, our group discussed our reflections on corporate social View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
these findings advance understanding of how organizational structure and corporate leadership interact, and how organizations can more effectively realize the strategic value of corporate social View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Mason (MBA 1995)
are also well-positioned to help our clients weather this crisis and piece the economy back together. This is a moment for global banks like Citi to show the vital role we can play in growing an inclusive economy. I’m a believer in corporations putting their voice and... View Details
- April 2006
- Case
Medical Innovation Beyond MedStar: Mobilizing for National Impact
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Ryan Raffaelli and Michelle Heskett
Dr. Craig Feied, director of MedStar Health's Medical Informatics programs, wanted his innovations to influence national health care. Since joining Washington Hospital Center's Emergency Department in 1995 with Dr. Mark Smith, their information system had become the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
scheduled the week before Christmas. A finalized plan was scheduled to be presented to Governor Deal in June; meanwhile, Langford is working to ensure that SARA and the GPP provide the data necessary to make the plan as effective and View Details
- 31 May 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Stock Price Synchronicity and Material Sustainability Information
- July 2019
- Article
Market Reaction to Mandatory Nonfinancial Disclosure
By: Jody Grewal, Edward J. Riedl and George Serafeim
We examine the equity market reaction to events associated with the passage of a directive in the European Union (EU) mandating increased nonfinancial disclosure. These disclosures relate to firms’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and would be... View Details
Keywords: Nonfinancial Information; Nonfinancial Performance; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investor Behavior; Disclosure; Disclosure Regulation; Regulation; Sustainability; Corporate Performance; Information; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance; Outcome or Result
Grewal, Jody, Edward J. Riedl, and George Serafeim. "Market Reaction to Mandatory Nonfinancial Disclosure." Management Science 65, no. 7 (July 2019): 3061–3084.
- November 2023 (Revised February 2025)
- Background Note
Corporate Climate Targets
By: Willy C. Shih, Michael W. Toffel and Kelsey Carter
Companies that are addressing climate change by mitigating their greenhouse gas emissions often set reduction targets. This note describes several types of widely used carbon reduction targets, including carbon neutral, science based, net zero, real zero, and carbon... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Sustainability; Environmental Strategy; Climate Risk; Target-setting; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Accountability; Policy; Measurement and Metrics; Strategic Planning; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Shih, Willy C., Michael W. Toffel, and Kelsey Carter. "Corporate Climate Targets." Harvard Business School Background Note 624-041, November 2023. (Revised February 2025.)
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Turkey. Second, it focuses on the corporate actors, entrepreneurs and business enterprises that have led the national economic growth. Third, it explores the ethical foundations and social responsibility of... View Details