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  • June 2005 (Revised January 2007)
  • Case

Equator Principles, The: An Industry Approach to Managing Environmental and Social Risks

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Aldo Sesia
In June 2003, 10 leading international banks adopted new voluntary guidelines, called the Equator Principles, to promote sustainable development in project finance. In recent years, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) had raised issues about the lenders'... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Competition; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Policy; Project Finance; Standards; Projects; Commercial Banking; Non-Governmental Organizations
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  • July 2018
  • Teaching Plan

Joan Bavaria and Multi-Dimensional Capitalism

By: Geoffrey Jones and Valeria Giacomin
This Teaching Plan accompanies the case HBS No. 317-028, “Joan Bavaria and Multi-Dimensional Capitalism.” It provides guidelines for class discussion, as well as a board plan. The case traces the origins of sustainable finance and investor activism through the career... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Investment; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career
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  • Research Summary

Current Research

Kevin P. Coyne has taught classes in undergraduate, MBA, and executive education programs at a wide variety of schools, as well as company training programs. His current research interests include:

Sustainable Competitive... View Details

  • 28 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

Corporate culture is often thought of as a hard-to-define, or soft concept in management circles. Soft not in the sense that it isn't important—most CEOs will tell you that their ability to inculcate values and mission into the DNA of a firm is among the most important... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco

By: Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, William Pariente and Vincent Pons
Connecting private dwellings to the water main is expensive and typically cannot be publicly financed. We show that households' willingness to pay for a private connection is high when it can be purchased on credit, not because a connection improves health but because... View Details
Keywords: Water Supply; Urban Development; Household; Credit; Well-being; Morocco
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    Vikram Gandhi

    Vikram S. Gandhi is the Gerald P. Kaminsky Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the General Management Unit. He has developed and teaches two new courses in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. The first is a finance and investing course, Sustainable... View Details

    Keywords: financial services
    • Teaching Interest

    Strategies for Value Creation (MBA Course)

    By: Benjamin C. Esty
    SVC is a capstone course that integrates topics from finance, strategy, and leadership. It is intentionally cross-functional and designed to force integration at the end  of the MBA program.  Students develop a value creation mindset and learn that value creation is an... View Details
    • 27 Sep 2021
    • Blog Post

    Working to Change the Food System

    Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) reflects on his decision to come to HBS, what motivates him to make a difference in the world by using technology to build a more sustainable food system, and how he has utilized resources at HBS to make this happen.... View Details
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    A Preliminary Framework for Product Impact-Weighted Accounts

    By: George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
    While there has been significant progress in the measurement of an organization’s environmental and social impacts from its operations, metrics to evaluate the impact of products once they come to market lag far behind. In this paper, we provide a framework for... View Details
    Keywords: Social Impact; Product Life Cycle; Environment; Sustainability; Measurement; Metrics; Impact Investing; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Reporting; Product; Environmental Sustainability; Measurement and Metrics; Framework; Financial Statements
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    • Teaching Interest

    Overview

    By: Peter Tufano
    Tufano is the convener for an innovative global doctoral reading group, The Financial Economics of Climate and Sustainability (FECS). This novel course, taught with professors from Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Texas, Imperial, NYU, Mannheim, and Oxford brings together... View Details
    • July 2013 (Revised May 2024)
    • Case

    BMVSS: Changing Lives, One Jaipur Limb at a Time

    By: Srikant Datar and Saloni Chaturvedi
    Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) is an Indian not-for-profit organization engaged in assisting differently-abled persons by providing them with the legendary low-cost prosthesis, the Jaipur Foot, and other mobility-assisting devices, free of cost. Known... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Financial Condition; Health Care and Treatment; Diversity; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Growth and Development Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; India; Asia
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    • September 2013
    • Case

    Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
    In July 2012, retired United States Army Major General Gale Pollock created Elevivo, a venture that worked on developing a comprehensive disease management software system to support the growing number of visually impaired individuals by providing them with tailored... View Details
    Keywords: United States; Health Care; Health Care Education; Insurance Companies; Disease Management; Technology; Military; Leadership Skills; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Education; Insurance; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; United States
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    • 24 Mar 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality

    Keywords: by Mozaffar Khan, George Serafeim & Aaron Yoon; Financial Services

      Peter Tufano

      Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

      Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; credit card; education industry; energy; federal government; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; microfinance; mining; nonprofit industry; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; real estate; retail financial services; state government; utilities; video games
      • March 2021
      • Supplement

      Making Impact Investing Markets: IFC (B)

      By: Shawn A. Cole, John Masko and T. Robert Zochowski
      In 2018, Thailand’s Bank of Ayudhya (known as Krungsri), was considering whether to participate in the first issue of a new financial instrument from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), known as a gender bond. Building on the success of the Green Bond program... View Details
      Keywords: Impact Investment; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Equity; Bonds; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development; Emerging Markets; Non-Governmental Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Instruments; Gender; Financial Services Industry; Thailand
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        David Ager

        David Ager is a Senior Lecturer in Executive Education.  He engages CEOs, CHROs, and their teams to design and deliver customized executive development experiences for executive, senior and high potential leaders.  The companies hail from diverse sectors including... View Details

        • 2013
        • Case

        Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired

        By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
        In July 2012, retired United States Army Major General Gale Pollock created Elevivo, a venture that worked on developing a comprehensive disease management software system to support the growing number of visually impaired individuals by providing them with tailored... View Details
        Keywords: Disease Management; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Education; Information Technology; Insurance; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; United States
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        • September 3, 2020
        • Article

        How to Measure a Company’s Real Impact

        By: Ronald Cohen and George Serafeim
        Impact transparency will reshape capitalism. By shifting the pursuit of profit away from negligently creating problems to purposefully creating valuable solutions for the world, it will redefine success, so that its measure is not just money, but the positive impact we... View Details
        Keywords: Impact; Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; Impact Investment; Impact Investment Funds; Accountability; Accounting Information; Corporate Performance; Sustainability; Social Impact; Capitalism; Accounting; Corporate Accountability; Performance; Measurement and Metrics; Social Enterprise; Society
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        • Teaching Interest

        Overview

        Lena teaches the required first year MBA course on Leadership and Corporate Accountability, an elective second year MBA course on Law, Management and Entrepreurship, and an elective second year MBA course on Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry. View Details
        Keywords: Compliance; Governance; Fiduciary Duties; Responsibilities To Investors; Responsibilities To Customers; Restaurants; Sustainability; Private Equity Documentation; Start-ups; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition; Law; Laws and Statutes; Lawsuits and Litigation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Food; Environmental Sustainability; Private Ownership; Private Equity; Food and Beverage Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Europe; Chile; India
        • April 2020 (Revised April 2023)
        • Case

        TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?

        By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
        TransDigm was a highly acquisitive company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and commercial customers. Over the ten years ending in 2016, its stock price had increased ten times, and both EBITDA and revenues had grown... View Details
        Keywords: Value Capturing; Pricing Strategy; Supplier Power; Buyer Power; Porter's Five Forces; Bargaining Power; Aerospace; Acquisition Strategy; Value Drivers; Ethical Behavior; Regulation; Growth Strategy; Business Ethics; Defense; Procurement; Sustainability; Value-Based Business Strategy; Acquisition; Ethics; Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Growth Management; Performance Evaluation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Value Creation; Competitive Advantage; Monopoly; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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