ESG - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Nov 2016
News

Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders

Further, Serafeim shows that because investors have such a keen interest in tracking ESG performance, up to 60 percent of a company’s value may stem from nonfinancial data. Classroom discussions often energize associate professors and... View Details

23 Sep 2024
Blog Post

2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2024, over 100 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some of the types of companies that students worked at this summer... View Details

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Preqin | Baker Library

Remote access available HBS Alumni In person access only Harvard Faculty, Students, and Staff Remote access available Visitors In person access only Additional Information Subscription includes: private equity, venture capital, private debt, real estate, hedge funds,... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Making It Count

companies taking on these challenges. It’s been a steep ascent for ESG in recent years, from a fringy outlier straight to the mainstage, as investments increased tenfold from 2018 to 2020. And there’s no sign of that pace slowing. Some... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

23 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Chicago

Personally, I got to meet alumni working on electrifying our transportation system, setting up software platforms to help with ESG reporting, advising berry farmers, and an entrepreneur who created a marketing firm focused on key social... View Details

22 Dec 2022
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention

Education remains a top priority, even today. She’s finding that a big part of her mission is educational, specifically helping the average investor understand the differences between ESG and impact investing. A number of articles and... View Details

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Learn with Baker Library: LSEG Workspace | Baker Library

engaging, helpful modules on these wide variety of topics. Learn with Baker Library: LSEG Workspace focuses on how to effectively and efficiently leverage the LSEG Workspace platform for your research. Learn how to search and pull analysts' reports and earning call... View Details

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Networking

display may not be as convenient. LSEG Workspace Type a company name or ticker into the main search bar and select the appropriate company to load the company overview page. Hover over the ESG tab and select People Connections. Type... View Details

07 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

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Company databases: which database to choose? | Baker Library

markets data, ESG data, and investment analyst reports. LSEG is the library's primary source of equity research. For a multimedia learning module on LSEG Workspace check out our Learn with Baker Library LSEG Workspace Introduction.... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies and organizations today, and advance faculty research that... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2019
News

Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change

these events will lead to meaningful discussions that eventually evolve into real-world impact.” The event also gave Chan the opportunity to connect with panelist Michael Ellis, a managing director at Inherent Group, an ESG... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers

06 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

measures. The Global Reporting Initiative captures ESG information from over 80 percent of the world’s largest corporations. Every company wants to be known as a good global citizen, and ESG reporting helps... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

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Workplace Diversity: Data Sources

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data via the Bloomberg terminal in the Stamps Reading Room. Information is available for public companies only, but includes % of minority and women employees and managers. Command: FA View Details

09 Dec 2021
News

Higher Returns

And on the positive side, firms that do well on the ESG spectrum—environmental, social, and governance spectrum—and run their businesses with purpose, show a massive benefit in attracting and retaining talent—which is by the way, a huge... View Details

04 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS

internship with State Street and their ESG Investments & Asset Stewardship team and a six-month internship during second year of business school at Prime Coalition, a catalytic climate VC. Now she is excited to be joining KKR Capstone... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital

23 May 2011
Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

earnings. Thus integrated reporting requires a change in the behavior of investors: They must take a longer-term view and more explicitly incorporate ESG metrics into their financial models, thereby transforming them into business models.... View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim

26 Apr 2022
News

Leading on Climate Change

and countries on their sustainability efforts—and agreed that ESG transformation is underpinned by leadership transformation, which requires vision, trust, credibility, and transparency. View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2020
News

Advance Racial Equity in the Office

those challenges. Quantitatively and qualitatively, define the standard of what “good” looks like, and then commit to bringing the same standard of rigor with which organizations approach any other aspect of the business, such as ESG or... View Details

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LSEG Workspace | Baker Library

LSEG Workspace Features market quotes, earnings estimates, financial fundamentals, press releases, transaction data, corporate filings, ownership profiles and sell-side equity research. Read More Features market quotes, earnings estimates, financial fundamentals, View Details

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