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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Murray Named Class of ’08 Fellow
As a student of mechanical engineering at the University of New Mexico, Sean Murray (HBS ’10) learned to manage complicated projects. During three years of working for the Stryker Corporation, a medical-device firm in Kalamazoo, Michigan, he honed his design... View Details
- November 7, 2023
- Article
How Courage Can Help Leaders Stay the Course
By: Ranjay Gulati
Keywords: Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Profit; Food and Beverage Industry
Gulati, Ranjay. "How Courage Can Help Leaders Stay the Course." Inc.com (November 7, 2023).
- 16 Dec 2019
- News
Breaking Up the All-Male Boardroom
- 22 Feb 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
Auditor Independence and Outsourcing: Aligning Incentives to Mitigate Shilling and Shirking
- 2010
- Chapter
Taking Sustainability Seriously: The Time Has Come for Integrated Reporting
By: Robert G. Eccles Jr. and Michael P. Krzus
Eccles, Robert G., Jr., and Michael P. Krzus. "Taking Sustainability Seriously: The Time Has Come for Integrated Reporting." Chap. 9 in Kapitalmarkt in Theorie und Praxis, edited by Fritz H. Rau and Peter Merk, 437–443. Deutsche Vereinigung für Finanzanalyse und Asset-Management (DVFA), 2010, German ed.
- July 2022
- Case
General Mills: Responding to the Killing of George Floyd (A)
By: Debora L. Spar and Alicia Dadlani
Jeff Harmening, CEO of General Mills, one of the world's largest manufacturers of breakfast cereals and packaged foods, was deeply disturbed and instantly aware that he and General Mills would need to respond. George Floyd, an African-American man who had been accused... View Details
Keywords: Race; Decisions; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Minneapolis; Minnesota; United States
Spar, Debora L., and Alicia Dadlani. "General Mills: Responding to the Killing of George Floyd (A)." Harvard Business School Case 323-019, July 2022.
- February 2019
- Case
Halliday's OASIS
By: Scott Duke Kominers and Nicole Tempest Keller
Wade Watts has won control of the OASIS – a futuristic, immersive virtual reality game world. He must decide on rules, rights, and marketplace design, balancing the founding principles of the OASIS with the platform’s potentially negative externalities. View Details
Keywords: Managing Markets; Corporate Responsibility; Virtual Reality; Digital Platforms; Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Media; United States
Kominers, Scott Duke, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "Halliday's OASIS." Harvard Business School Case 819-106, February 2019.
- 2006
- Chapter
Corporate Philanthropy: Taking the High Ground
By: Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Entrepreneurship; Ethics
Porter, Michael E., and Mark R. Kramer. "Corporate Philanthropy: Taking the High Ground." In The Accountable Corporation, Vol. 3: Corporate Social Responsibility, edited by Marc J. Epstein and Kirk O. Hanson. Praeger, 2006.
- Web
2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Gulf using a combination of social psychology, public policy, and post-colonial feminist lenses. She has published in Organization Science , Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Contexts, and Idafat: Arab Journal of Sociology (in... View Details
- Portrait Project
Marlene Ngoyi
positively impact the social meter. In this story, I will focus on a "lucky girl" from the Democratic Republic of Congo who traveled the world with a lot of questions and hoped to return home with... View Details
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
plates. There is a lot of instability; let’s just get the basics done,” she told the board and senior leadership at LEDA. “However, I’ve also heard your desire to make an impact and grow. And if you want to do that, then we will walk... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
medical system, however, new science has to clear a high hurdle before it has an impact on practice. This caution is sensible in some arenas, but personalized medicine results in safer and more effective therapy choices, not higher risk.... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
her contextual framework and harness its power often made the difference between success and failure. Measuring a leader's impact on society, on business, or on both is admittedly a subjective task. More than half of the business leader... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog
equity in the US renewables market, as well as instruments involving the public sector, such as social impact bonds. Cases critically examine the logical and market case for a wide range of models, ranging... View Details
- September 2010 (Revised October 2010)
- Case
HBS Class of 2009: All Talk As They Prepare to Walk?
By: Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria and Dalia Rahman
Max Anderson, HBS Class of 2009, founded the MBA Oath Initiative. The oath was a voluntary pledge "to create value responsibly and ethically." Anderson and a team of students and faculty worked to launch the first MBA Oath Ceremony conducted on campus during Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Higher Education; Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Value Creation; Education Industry; Massachusetts
Khurana, Rakesh, Nitin Nohria, and Dalia Rahman. "HBS Class of 2009: All Talk As They Prepare to Walk?" Harvard Business School Case 411-024, September 2010. (Revised October 2010.)
- May 2008 (Revised September 2009)
- Case
IBM's Dynamic Workplace
IBM already competed for talent by being a best workplace. It was one of the first companies to provide paid vacations, health insurance, sick leave, job sharing, and domestic partner benefits. Its human resources portfolio included a full array of progressive policies... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Globalized Firms and Management; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Social Enterprise
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "IBM's Dynamic Workplace." Harvard Business School Case 308-107, May 2008. (Revised September 2009.)
- 30 Jan 2018
- News
Four Alumni Named as Presidential Leadership Scholars
problems and improving the civic or social good. Over the course of the year, the Scholars will travel to each participating presidential center to learn from former presidents, key former administration officials, and leading academics.... View Details
- 11 Jun 2015
- News
Leading the way in sustainable style
pro-environmental policies are not only a social good, she says. They are also money savers that helped Esquel weather the economic downturn. Now she wants to share her company’s successful strategies with the industry through... View Details
- Profile
Lindsay Hyde
business operations. Through the case-study method, I’ve been able to see how so many different businesses in different industries are choosing to integrate social impact into their work.” For herself,... View Details