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  • 14 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

develop our product prototype and formally study the financial impact a digitally-enabled solar irrigation business can have on rural entrepreneurs and their communities. Based on the results View Details
  • 2020
  • Case

Building Transparency within the Sustainable Apparel Coalition: The Road to Successful Pre-Competitive Collaboration

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) was founded in 2010 to develop a common set of sustainability standards for the apparel, footwear, and home textile industries. The organization was an example of pre-competitive collaboration, a strategy in which companies... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Cooperation; Social Issues; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Evaluation; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

by-product produced is exactly the amount that can be produced using the entire waste stream). The operational synergy in the joint production process is manifested as one of two subsidies: the by-product is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 2007 (Revised January 2008)
  • Case

Amanco: Developing the Sustainability Scorecard

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
Describes the challenges of using the Balanced Scorecard to implement a triple-bottom-line strategy for delivering excellent economic, environmental, and social performance. The owners and senior executive team of Amanco, a producer of plastic pipe and complete water... View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Strategy; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Latin America; Brazil
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  • 03 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

Conflict Management Research (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates the role of sacred issues in a dyadic negotiation set in an environmental context. As predicted, when negotiators focus on sacred... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Creating the Market for Organic Wine: Sulfites, Certification, and Green Values

By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean
This working paper examines the history of organic wine, which provides a case study of failed category creation. The modern organic wine industry emerged during the 1970s in the United States and Western Europe, but it struggled to gain traction compared to other... View Details
Keywords: Product Launch; Failure; Problems and Challenges; Complexity; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

Behavioral Decision Making The Impact of 'Display-Set' Options on Decision-Making By: Karmarkar, Uma R. Abstract—The way a choice set is constructed can have a significant influence on how individuals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Overview

I am a field researcher studying the relational nature of work. Organizations are inherently social institutions and provide myriad opportunities for relationship formation. My work begins with the simple insight that all relationships are not equal: interpersonal... View Details
Keywords: Prosocial Motivation; Feedback; Personal Development; Needs; Organizational Design; Performance Productivity; Social and Collaborative Networks; Networks; Groups and Teams; Family and Family Relationships; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

    Geoffrey G. Jones

    Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. He holds degrees of BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, UK. He has an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration... View Details

    Keywords: beauty products; beauty products; beauty products; beauty products; beauty products; beauty products; beauty products; beauty products; beauty products; beauty products; beauty products; beauty products; beauty products
    • 17 Sep 2024
    • HBS Case

    The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

    As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 18 Dec 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

    spaces and to make its mark worldwide. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/519023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-063 Measuring True Value at Ambuja Cement The case discusses the measurement of social and View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • June 2022
    • Case

    Michelin’s Green Gold Bahia Program: Leaving With Grace

    By: Sandra J. Sucher, Shalene Gupta and Susan J. Winterberg
    In 2015, the top management of French tire-maker Michelin, was evaluating Michelin’s approach to divesting its rubber plantations ten years after incorporating a novel strategy.
    In 2004, Michelin had a Brazilian rubber challenge. Its Bahía plantation had been hit... View Details
    Keywords: Divestment; Supply Chain Management; Natural Resources; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Rubber Industry; Auto Industry; Brazil; France
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    • 18 May 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: May 18

    food production by 2030. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510025-PDF-ENG Life Journey Profile: Amee Chande Bhaskar Chakravorti and Shirley M. SpenceHarvard Business School Case... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2020
    • Case

    The Ellen MacArthur Foundation: Accelerating a Circular Economy for Plastic Packaging

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman
    Plastic has become essential to global day-to-day activities, yet it is also causing extreme environmental degradation. Many leaders in the plastics industry are starting to question its sustainability. This case presents insights into the future of the plastic... View Details
    Keywords: Plastic Waste; Environmental Sustainability; Cooperation; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Consumer Products Industry
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      Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling

      On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskeys in just days rather than years using a novel technology and data... View Details

      • 06 Sep 2016
      • First Look

      September 6, 2016

      a persuasive story to compete with the scandal narrative. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51509 August 2013 Business History National Image as a Competitive Disadvantage: The Case of the New Zealand... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 16 Dec 2020
      • Blog Post

      Faculty Books Published in 2020

      for yourself, how buildings can have an impact on our health, and how leaders can have an impact on today's biggest issues. A list of the titles, authors, and their abstracts... View Details
      Keywords: All Industries
      • 21 Apr 2015
      • First Look

      First Look: April 21

      ever-growing e-commerce site, and fierce competition, Amoruso wondered what opportunity to tackle next. Should she concentrate on product line expansion into lingerie, swimwear, cosmetics, and fragrances? How would a brick and mortar... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Principles and Content for Downstream Emissions Disclosures

      By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
      In a previous paper, we proposed the E-liability carbon accounting algorithm for companies to measure and subsequently reduce their own and their suppliers’ emissions. Some investors and stakeholders, however, want companies to also be accountable for downstream... View Details
      Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Disclosure; Carbon Footprint; Climate Change; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Disclosure; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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      • November 2015 (Revised January 2016)
      • Teaching Note

      McDonald's Corporation: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain—From Amazon Soya to Cage Free Eggs

      By: Michael W. Toffel
      This case provides an opportunity for students to consider how large, multinational corporations should respond when targeted by activists regarding environmental and social concerns in their supply chains. Greenpeace targeted McDonald's because its chicken supplier... View Details
      Keywords: Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Welfare; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Brazil; United States; United Kingdom
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