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- 2022
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Interface: The Journey Toward Carbon Negative
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Interface has been a leading innovator in the carpet industry, specializing in the manufacturing of carpet tiles for commercial flooring. This case describes the history, context, and technology behind the company's development of its newest sustainable... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Innovation and Invention; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Accounting
Hoffman, Andrew J. "Interface: The Journey Toward Carbon Negative." William Davidson Institute Case 2-341-083, 2022.
- 2002
- Chapter
Bridging the Gap: How Improved Information Can Help Companies Integrate Shareholder Value and Environmental Quality
By: Forest Reinhardt
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Information; Environmental Sustainability
Reinhardt, Forest. "Bridging the Gap: How Improved Information Can Help Companies Integrate Shareholder Value and Environmental Quality." In Environmental Performance Measurement: The Global Report 2001-2002, edited by Daniel Esty and Peter K. Cornelius. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- 22 Nov 2015
- News
Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job
A recent story in the New York Times that details entrepreneurs’ growing interest in shaping policy highlights the lobbying efforts of Hello Alfred, a personal butler service founded by Jessica Beck (MBA 2015) and Marcela Sapone (MBA 2015): Unlike start-ups of years... View Details
- March 2021 (Revised October 2021)
- Case
Aligning Mission and Margin at Southern Bancorp
By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Brian Trelstad and Eren Kuzucu
In October 2020, after spending almost a decade to turnaround Southern Bancorp, an Arkansan bank founded with the mission to provide financial services to rural, underserved communities, CEO Darrin Williams is wondering how Southern Bancorp should continue to grow.... View Details
Keywords: Racial Wealth Gap; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Going Public; Investment Return; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Arkansas
Henderson, Rebecca M., Brian Trelstad, and Eren Kuzucu. "Aligning Mission and Margin at Southern Bancorp." Harvard Business School Case 321-099, March 2021. (Revised October 2021.)
- 07 Nov 2018
- News
A Market-Based Approach to Solving the World’s Water Crisis
Water.org, we are singularly focused on solving the global water crisis in our lifetime. There are about 844 million people every day who lack safe water and about 2.3 billion who lack access to adequate sanitation. The health and economic impacts, and View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
Solving: HBS Alumni Making a Difference in the World, and more recent conversations specifically about COVID-19 impacts and responses, we’ve talked with many Harvard Business School alumni the world over. Here are some examples of how... View Details
- Web
2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
biases impact organizational diversity, leadership representation, and social justice. For example, his research on the “Teddy Bear Effect” finds that Black CEO’s uniquely benefit from having facial features... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
AW: There’s a lot of interesting research that shows that hourly wage workers think about their time differently than salaried employees. When you take the resource of time—which typically links you to things you care about such as View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Training great principals to lead great schools
impact on more than 300,000 students in schools nationwide. The idea for New Leaders was developed by Fenton and a group of other Harvard students in 2000 as an approach to an impending shortage of school principals. Their concept was a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
lessons or definitive answers. But somewhere in the two-day span we spend talking with villagers, sharing their food, and sleeping in their homes, perceptions shift. It’s one thing to read a newspaper article about the impact of... View Details
- Web
Fraudulent Mobile Payment Alerts on the Rise | Information Technology
reply so they can resolve it. If you reply to the message, the cybercriminal will then call you from a phone number that has been faked to look legitimate. If you answer their call, they will use social engineering tactics — such as a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Former Bulletin Editor Remembered
the impact of the political and social upheaval triggered by U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. "For half a century," he wrote, "the attitudes and objectives of students and faculty at HBS had been fairly... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
socially responsible investing was in its infancy; the now-common phrase impact investing had been coined just a few months earlier. For the first eight years of the fund’s existence, Fenwick-Smith was... View Details
Keywords: April White
- January 2022
- Case
VidyaGyan: Bridging the Rural Urban Divide
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Rachna Chawla, Kairavi Dey and Anjali Raina
Set up in 2008, VidyaGyan was a residential school for children in grades 6-12 from low-income rural families in Uttar Pradesh in northern India. It was the brainchild of Shiv Nadar and Cabinet Secretary T.S.R. Subramanian, who recognized the enormous potential hidden... View Details
Keywords: Non-profit; Education; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Wealth and Poverty; Demographics; Equality and Inequality; Performance Evaluation; Opportunities; Education Industry; South Asia; India
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Rachna Chawla, Kairavi Dey, and Anjali Raina. "VidyaGyan: Bridging the Rural Urban Divide." Harvard Business School Case 622-077, January 2022.
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
ultimately benefits business as well.” As a member of the eleven-person private-sector department, Naidoo has led multinational project teams in building on research that Oxfam did in partnership with Unilever to determine the multinational’s View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Bringing Teachers to All of America
I'm really proud of. We've impacted tens of thousands of kids. “I think Teach For America has played a really critical role, in that, over the last 25 years, it has drawn attention to this idea of educational equity. Teach For America... View Details
- July 2019
- Teaching Note
Arlan Hamilton and Backstage Capital
By: Laura Huang
Teaching Note for HBS No. 419-029. Frustrated by an inability to convince existing venture capital firms to invest in companies led by women, people of color, and LGBT founders, Arlan Hamilton started her own firm, Backstage Capital, in 2015. Hamilton understood the... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
would bridge private- and public-sector work,” he says, “so it was an opportunity see how that could play out in an amazing, mission-driven organization.” The experience led to his joint MBA/MMP studies at Harvard. “I was meeting people who were talking a lot about... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
in markets for labor fueled by dramatic improvements in communication. Those with a global, macro economic view tended to regard these developments as long overdue. Those concerned about the psychological and social View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett