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23 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective

improve how workers are treated or betters the environment. But new research from Harvard Business School and London Business School demonstrates the first real evidence that mandatory CSR reporting works, and could give policymakers and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote

stevanovicigor In 2016, the National Environmental Research Council (NERC), a quasi-governmental agency in the United Kingdom, decided it would be fun to let the public vote online to name the country’s newest research vessel. The agency... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

28 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

environmental ratings and environmental performance of more than 650 firms in the United States. We find empirical evidence that supports our hypotheses and present implications for theory and public policy. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

products company decided to set a real zero climate goal instead of net zero, and how they plan to achieve it. She also describes how Seventh Generation is going beyond a carbon footprint to measure its... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

06 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem

do no more than palliate public outrage. What we need is a much more comprehensive look at the recent scandals so that we can begin to figure out what the real issues are. As a start, let's consider one of... View Details

Keywords: by William Sahlman

12 Mar 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist

companies must serve a social purpose. “Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose,” Fink wrote. “To prosper over time, every company... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Banking

06 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing

The recent collapse of the eight-story Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh was a red alert for every company that has embraced the "virtual organization" model and the outsourcing that goes with it. The lure of the model is... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

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Clubs - Business & Environment

become better stewards of the natural and built environment. Impact Investing Club The Impact Investing Club strives to equip our members with the skills and knowledge needed to succeed as successful impact investors across the full spectrum of investing. View Details

April 1996 (Revised August 2005)
Case

Jedi Bank

By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.

Major Insurance Co. is a $15 billion insurance company that is an active, multi-family mortgage leader. This case is part of a negotiation game simulation that also includes Sunshine Villas, Silver Lane Apartments, and Jason Bosworth. View Details

Keywords: Mortgages; Interest Rates; Financing and Loans; Property; Negotiation Tactics; Management; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry

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Educators

Purchase

01 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

of their biggest research challenges was how to determine whether a manager’s guidance was on target or misleading. They did so by constructing their own estimates of how a company was doing in real time by... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services

Profile

Jeremy Andrus

2003 when the company launched—they were boring. It was a neglected category. Headphones had not been a branding statement before we entered the space. But now, that piece of real View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

will help make you a winner." Glaser's success story in fending off intense competition from Bill Gates & Co. and turning his seven-year old company into a prime purveyor of streaming video, audio, and music services on the Web... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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Employment Data Trends

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Africa - Global

other stakeholders where Prof. Macomber discussed his work on climate adaptation. Prof. Macomber’s research focuses on how companies and governments can integrate climate resilience into real View Details

10 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 10, 2009

average in the period 1953-2005, it was particularly high in the early 1980s and negative in the early 2000s. This paper specifies and estimates a model in which the nominal term structure of interest rates is driven by five state variables: the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Connect with Clubs - Recruiting

cmolteno@mba2026.hbs.edu Club Email outdoors@studentclubs.hbs.edu PRIDE President Will Hennessy whennessy@mba2026.hbs.edu Club Email PRIDE@studentclubs.hbs.edu Real Estate Club Co-Presidents Pat Bannon... View Details

17 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

find. Interestingly, these salaries were generally higher than those in the United States and the UK. Why was public disclosure not moderating executive pay? A: Yes, the data on salaries that I found for View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

01 Feb 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?

Easterbrook. As he put it, “The board would not reward Easterbrook with a full severance package due to the evidence and very real tangible and PR harm and likely civil suits to endure Of course, the relationship could not continue.”... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

add up. To Young, that speaks to a broader need for government intervention in situations where intentionally discriminatory policies have caused real estate markets to fail. “Government has to play where... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

14 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

Neeley says. “It became really important for managers to ask, ‘How’s it going? How are you doing? How can I help?’” As life begins to normalize, Neeley urges managers to retain that emphasis on employee well-being. “When people are working from home, they are giving up... View Details

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