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Redefining Productivity in the Value Chain - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases CSV Explained CSV Explained The Three Levels of CSV Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy Redefining Capitalism The... View Details
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Health Care - Faculty & Research

Bandiera and B. Kelsey Jack A substantial body of research investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive View Details
  • June 2009 (Revised June 2009)
  • Case

VidaGas: VillageReach - The Mozambican Foundation for Community Development Joint Venture

This case describes the evolution of a liquid petroleum gas (LPG) distributor start-up, incubated by two not-for-profit NGOs to help improve the vaccine cold chain in Northern Mozambique. These NGOs must face the decision whether and how to sell their participation in... View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Supply Chain; Health Care and Treatment; Investment; Non-Governmental Organizations; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Health Industry; Mozambique
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  • 28 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

"In some sense people in these societies are running faster than their rules and laws can keep up. So they are creating the rules as they go along. And entrepreneurship is, after all, doing things in new ways, ahead of social norms... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
  • 19 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

decarbonization, built environment, climate intelligence and insurance, and sustainable agriculture. Sadok's role prior to HBS was an Associate at Kearney and Strategy and Product Management at Siemens. Grace Lam (MBA 2024, Section F), Summer Internship: Co-Founder,... View Details
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

given its drive-in and drive-through concept,” Brown said. “We’ve shut the dining rooms at Arby’s and moved to a drive-through-only format. We’re running down a little bit, but not too badly, as we can run that model quite efficiently... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 05 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

so-called impact funds, or funds that hope to create positive social or environmental impact. In Anchors Aweigh: Analysis of Anchor Limited Partner Investors in Impact Investment Funds, the authors describe anchors as “generally the first... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 01 Jan 2013
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Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960

internationally, buying and bringing efficiency to some previously nationalized power plants and utilities. Over the years, as Sant's business grew so too did his personal commitment to society. When AES went public in 1991, Sant and his... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 06 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

Short Intensive Programs 2024 Preview: From Climate Change to Formula 1

what types of techniques, approaches, and ways of making connections across different concepts resonate most with students. What will help them develop a deeper self-understanding, empathy for others' lack of inclusion, an understanding of the historical and View Details
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The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases CSV Explained CSV Explained The Three Levels of CSV Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy Redefining Capitalism The... View Details
  • November, 2016
  • Article

Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces

By: Ray Fisman and Michael Luca
Online marketplaces such as eBay, Uber, and Airbnb have the potential to reduce racial, gender, and other forms of bias that affect the off-line world. And in the early days of Internet commerce, the relative anonymity of transactions did make it harder for... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Race; Gender
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Online Management Course | HBS Online

feedback, decision-making simulations, and a capstone assignment. Description of silent animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two different categories Get social by... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

problems (and the ways they reinforce each other), this paper offers a new approach to community transformation which calls for leaders to use technology to inform and connect people. We need to convert the social safety net into a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

the social apparatus may not work well because of discrimination." “The government and the bureaucracy and the social apparatus may not work well because of discrimination,” he says. “The state might be in... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 06 Feb 2014
  • HBS Seminar

Karthik Ramanna, Harvard Business School

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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

friction from ecommerce shopping, or applying Big Data to achieve supply chain efficiencies Enthusiasm for a particular industry or "space," such as IoT or green energy initiatives For those who recognize themselves as founders, the next... View Details
  • 21 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

and social return can be aligned to drive positive change. The mentality that Professor Rebecca Henderson shared was something new and fresh and quite exciting for me. After graduation, I chose to join a firm that shares a similar belief.... View Details
  • 26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-034.pdf Tax Policy and the Efficiency of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad Authors:Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. Abstract Deferral of U.S. taxes on foreign source income is commonly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne