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- April 21, 2016
- Article
Warren Buffett’s Risky Final Bet
By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Risk and Uncertainty; Leadership
Baron, Josh, and Rob Lachenauer. "Warren Buffett’s Risky Final Bet." Harvard Business Review (website) (April 21, 2016).
- 2013
- Article
Logic Pluralism, Organizational Design, and Practice Adoption: The Structural Embeddedness of CSR Programs
By: Mary Ann Glynn and Ryan Raffaelli
The institutional logics perspective highlights how organizations are embedded within broader systems of meaning and how this embeddedness activates salient institutional logics in organizations that can enable or constrain organizational decisions, practices, and... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Glynn, Mary Ann, and Ryan Raffaelli. "Logic Pluralism, Organizational Design, and Practice Adoption: The Structural Embeddedness of CSR Programs." Research in the Sociology of Organizations 39B (2013): 175–198.
- 11 Mar 2014
- Other Presentation
The Role of Business in Society: Creating Shared Value
This presentation given by Professor Michael Porter covers the role of business in society, the concept of shared value, the difference between CSR and CSV, the three levels of shared value, implications for government and civil society, and examples of companies that... View Details
Keywords: Creating Shared Value; Value Creation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations
Porter, Michael E. "The Role of Business in Society: Creating Shared Value." Innovation Leadership Speaker Series, Temple University, Fox School of Business, Philadelphia, PA, March 11, 2014.
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Can Capitalism Address Climate Change?
- 02 Jun 2014
- News
How to Win the Argument with Milton Friedman
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
neighborhoods. “It’s almost like a social movement,” says Raffaelli, who says indie bookstores are “anchors of authenticity in an ever-increasing digital and disconnected world.” The notion goes beyond a View Details
- 25 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
the COVID-19 pandemic approaches its third exhausting year. Validating someone’s feelings can be as simple as pausing during the day to say, “You seem anxious,” says Zlatev, a professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at HBS. "YOU'RE SHOWING THAT... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 2011
- Interview
Creating Shared Value: Connecting Business, Societal Value and Opportunity
By: Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer and Jane Nelson
Michael Porter, Mark Kramer and Jane Nelson discuss creating shared value and give examples from HP, Nestlé and Novartis on how corporations can put this approach into practice. For more more information on creating shared value, visit www.fsg.org View Details
Keywords: Creating Shared Value; Value Creation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations
Porter, Michael E., Mark R. Kramer, and Jane Nelson. "Creating Shared Value: Connecting Business, Societal Value and Opportunity." FSG, 2011.
- 05 May 2020
- News
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
From Germany to HBS
lucky I am to be in this great place, surrounded by people who are striving to make a difference in the world. For me the two most important aspects of HBS are the classroom experience and the social bonds I... View Details
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012
powerful motive to build bonds with social media influencers focused on food, wellness, and lifestyle content. Cynthia designed and produced her first new event in June 2017, bringing together 15 hand-picked... View Details
- 16 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs
Beverage, Shanda, Fosun, Focus, and Tsinghua University. Purpose: Begin to comprehend some of the fundamental changes in the Chinese economic and social system, and how entrepreneurship is being facilitated to play a role in this. Also... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
students during a talk titled “A Change in Business Climate” presented in Burden Auditorium in December. Gore explained that the population explosion, coupled with the revolutions in science and technology, have greatly magnified the View Details
- 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.
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
“Over the last decade, the library has fielded an increasing number of inquiries from scholars interested in topics beyond traditional economic or business history,” notes Laura Linard, Baker’s director of Historical Collections. “We’ve had inquiries from industrial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Having a Ball
and social service organizations, Stafford, who grew up as one of twelve children of a Baptist minister, invited his guests from all over the country and provided beauty treatments and formal evening wear for two gala balls he organized... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
Should eco-conscious investors support a company that’s developing innovative solutions to climate change—even if that company is also a major polluter? The market’s answer to this question has been a resounding “no,” as evidenced by the investment policies that... View Details