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Harvard Environmental Centers - Business & Environment
Harvard Law School advocates for legal, regulatory, and policy reforms to improve the health of vulnerable populations. Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details
- 2019
- Working Paper
Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose
In this paper, I address how the ascendance of the theory of shareholder value maximization into the central consciousness of public corporations and its canonization as the only legitimate expression of corporate purpose has contributed to both a widening breach... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Justice; Corporate Purpose; Shareholder Value Maximization; Ethical Reciprocity; Economic Systems; Business Ventures; Mission and Purpose; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Salter, Malcolm S. "Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-104, April 2019.
- 02 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech
very same people would talk about being insecure and feeling like they were falling behind others. One of the strengths of HBS is the supportive community-- as a section, and as a class, we felt safe to be vulnerable with each other. I... View Details
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
during this period. Walker’s openness about the separation showed a vulnerability that even some of his best friends had never seen—and which would eventually help him forge deeper emotional bonds. WW: As I told people that Sheila and I... View Details
- 27 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’
hand, letting a colleague into one’s personal world online signals an acceptance of vulnerability that opens up paths to a richer multiplex relationship, which may in turn facilitate collaboration and teamwork,” the authors write. “On the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
communities, combatting climate change and preparing for its effects “across rural, urban, and Tribal areas.”[8] Constellation Energy discusses their EJ policy in the same way, with strong focus on improving equity, reducing impacts on View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
drug-related crimes, loss of state autonomy, and negative health consequences for vulnerable sections of the population. These concerns are misplaced. Experiences of US states and countries such as Uruguay, Australia, and Canada suggest... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Does Spirituality Drive Success?
Firoz Rasul "Religious practice without a social conscience is deceit," he said. The heart of social vision is providing care for the weak and vulnerable but "charity" that takes away someone's dignity is not... View Details
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
leaders can be trained to foster trust among those they lead. Among other things, we are told that at the individual level it requires that a leader be willing and able to demonstrate vulnerability (that they are less than perfect), to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus
vulnerable and medically challenged in our communities. If they want time off, if they want to work from home, if they need to have a little bit of space to look after their family members, please consider giving that to them. Compassion... View Details
- 11 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities
Specialisterne almost implies a seal of approval, offering reassurance for companies worried about accusations of exploiting a vulnerable population, Austin says. Anka Wittenberg, SAP’s head of diversity and inclusion, was so impressed by... View Details
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
Bitcoin, Terra, and Celsius has renewed calls for regulators to protect consumers from fly-by-night currency operators, scammers, and theft. How vulnerable are crypto investors, particularly the retail-level amateur investors? Kominers: I... View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
space to talk with each other, offer support, and listen. “Now, more than ever, teams need empathy and to feel like you are all suffering together,” Austin says. “Everyone is dealing with a crisis that is very real. Managers should show their View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
we build, more than hazards. Yet vulnerable development remains legal, profitable, and most consumers don’t know the difference. Many policies indirectly encourage it. Look how the National Flood Insurance Program spurred floodplain... View Details
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
they see and hear them—and feel vulnerable just as they do. Leaders don’t need to be grief counselors; all they need to say is, “I’m sorry. I feel it, too. I’m exhausted, too. I’m worried, too. We are in this crisis together. And we need... View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
- Profile
Tom Adeyemi
section mates sharing their personal experiences during a Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) case on a senior executive who was debating whether to reveal her sexual orientation at work. The vulnerability that people showed in... View Details
- Web
2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Counterintuitive Role of Vulnerability Senior Lecturer Scott A. Snook (MBA 1987, PhDOB 1996) + More Info – Less Info For high achievers, perhaps the biggest barrier to deeply “connecting” with another human being is a heartfelt need to... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
kinds of questions designed to elicit useful information. At the same time, according to Schein, the mere act of asking, if done sincerely, requires that the questioner make himself temporarily vulnerable to the person being questioned.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
responders and vulnerable populations, and then the general population. The diffusion of innovations model indicates that each of these groups will have five customer segments based on their willingness to get vaccinated earlier or later.... View Details
- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise
inclusion. I believe in the power of innovative and human-centered technology that can alleviate poverty by providing vulnerable populations with access to financial services including insurance, savings, or lending that can be life... View Details