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- 01 Aug 2019
- News
Investing for Good
Tracy P. Palandjian (MBA 1997) is CEO and cofounder of Social Finance, a nonprofit dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress, and a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- December 2024
- Article
Can Activists Change Business for Good?
By: Hiske Arts, Geoffrey Jones, Sarah Soule and Lora Verheecke
Leading experts debate the ability of activists to successfully challenge unsustainable corporate behavior. Includes a discussion of the role of business leaders as actvivists. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Responsibility; Activism; Spirituality; Power and Influence; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Arts, Hiske, Geoffrey Jones, Sarah Soule, and Lora Verheecke. "Can Activists Change Business for Good?" Entreprises et histoire 117, no. 4 (December 2024): 143–154.
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In “UBS and Climate Change — Warming Up to Global Action?” Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest... View Details
- Profile
John Rogers
unique and impactful field opportunities through the Immersion Experience Program and Social Enterprise Initiative Summer Fellowship. This balanced educational experience, along with the privilege of joining... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing By: Battilana, Julie Abstract— While in recent decades the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Feb 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
Auditor Independence and Outsourcing: Aligning Incentives to Mitigate Shilling and Shirking
- 2010
- Chapter
Taking Sustainability Seriously: The Time Has Come for Integrated Reporting
By: Robert G. Eccles Jr. and Michael P. Krzus
Eccles, Robert G., Jr., and Michael P. Krzus. "Taking Sustainability Seriously: The Time Has Come for Integrated Reporting." Chap. 9 in Kapitalmarkt in Theorie und Praxis, edited by Fritz H. Rau and Peter Merk, 437–443. Deutsche Vereinigung für Finanzanalyse und Asset-Management (DVFA), 2010, German ed.
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023): Solving Big Problems Through Entrepreneurship
streamline and scale engagement with at-risk suppliers, industry peers, and key stakeholders to stabilize supply chains and enhance water stewardship. What inspired you to start a company, what resources did you need, and what fears did... View Details
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
those one-out-of-ten firms grow into successful, sustained enterprises? Assistant professor Mukti Khaire believes that small companies can grow by developing intangible social resources such as legitimacy, status, and reputation. In an... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Addressing the housing needs of India’s poor
Rakhi Mehra (MBA 2009) is enabling a growing number of India’s 82 million urban poor households to have structurally safe and well-ventilated homes through the enterprise she cofounded, micro Home Solutions (mHS) City Lab. Winner of the View Details
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
plates. There is a lot of instability; let’s just get the basics done,” she told the board and senior leadership at LEDA. “However, I’ve also heard your desire to make an impact and grow. And if you want to do that, then we will walk... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- July 2022
- Case
General Mills: Responding to the Killing of George Floyd (A)
By: Debora L. Spar and Alicia Dadlani
Jeff Harmening, CEO of General Mills, one of the world's largest manufacturers of breakfast cereals and packaged foods, was deeply disturbed and instantly aware that he and General Mills would need to respond. George Floyd, an African-American man who had been accused... View Details
Keywords: Race; Decisions; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Minneapolis; Minnesota; United States
Spar, Debora L., and Alicia Dadlani. "General Mills: Responding to the Killing of George Floyd (A)." Harvard Business School Case 323-019, July 2022.
- February 2019
- Case
Halliday's OASIS
By: Scott Duke Kominers and Nicole Tempest Keller
Wade Watts has won control of the OASIS – a futuristic, immersive virtual reality game world. He must decide on rules, rights, and marketplace design, balancing the founding principles of the OASIS with the platform’s potentially negative externalities. View Details
Keywords: Managing Markets; Corporate Responsibility; Virtual Reality; Digital Platforms; Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Media; United States
Kominers, Scott Duke, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "Halliday's OASIS." Harvard Business School Case 819-106, February 2019.
- 2006
- Chapter
Corporate Philanthropy: Taking the High Ground
By: Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Entrepreneurship; Ethics
Porter, Michael E., and Mark R. Kramer. "Corporate Philanthropy: Taking the High Ground." In The Accountable Corporation, Vol. 3: Corporate Social Responsibility, edited by Marc J. Epstein and Kirk O. Hanson. Praeger, 2006.
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
chapter in the evolution of the social sciences, the growth of a class of financial analysts, and the commercialization of academic knowledge. Are They Really That Happy? Exploring Scale Recalibration in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
capital, when strategically deployed, can really speed up social change,” he said. With those two experiences in mind, Mbanusi applied to business school with an eye towards impact investing. “I wanted to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
to work on, got data, used their networks, and persevered till they saw results,” she says. “What was the secret sauce that made it all happen?” The goal, Raman says, is to continue to expand the scope and scale of alumni efforts,... View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
have shown that entrepreneurs generally score higher on this measure. "A classic extroverted person is always sharing stories and anecdotes." The other measure tested, extroversion, relates to how outgoing and social a person... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
in two different ways. Some students received promotion-based instructions that included the following statement, focusing on advancement: "This research project is being conducted to advance the ideals and aspirations pursued by applied View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel