Creating Shared Value - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2014
News

Case Study: Declawing the Competition

support each other and who see the value in all-natural and homemade. — Stacy Smollin Schwartz (MBA 2003) A few ideas: 1) Create a kitty mascot that has a Twitter feed/Facebook presence. Use posts to hint at... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Spray Canon

value that is then built upon to create a market value—which is a separate type of validation,” says Riley, who credits Deitch’s time as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and his Art in... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

07 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

regularly explore together: (1) Who is your primary customer? Have you organized your company to deliver maximum value to that customer? (2) How do your core values prioritize shareholders, employees, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Alumni Books

sweet spot; designing the offer to create customer value and secure differential advantage; integrating to serve the customer; and measuring what matters. Science Lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught... View Details

Keywords: Noel Capon; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

28 Feb 2025
News

Alumni Startup Enters the Shark Tank

This Friday night, Remento enters the Shark Tank. The startup, cofounded by CEO Charlie Greene (MBA 2021) in 2021, will be featured on this week’s episode of the long-running business show, pitching its “no-write life story book” vision to Sharks at 8/7c on ABC. We... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Porter, Kanter Win McKinsey Awards

managing director of FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm, were awarded first place for their January–February 2011 article “Creating Shared Value.” The article lays out the concept of shared value, which... View Details

Keywords: awards

01 Dec 2019
News

Case Study: Farming It Out

fields, which could be deployed to build a host of complementary AI tools—like a picking arm that could be bolted to Burro. But weighing the potential value of its data against the resources required to build View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Agriculture

11 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

E-Commerce Unplugged

channel, a mobile Internet or a substitute for PCs. Rather, it is a new aspect of consumerism and a much more powerful way to speak with consumers. Unleashing the value of m-commerce requires understanding the role that mobility plays in... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma

18 Aug 2021
News

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

site. “We believe that increasing the availability of capital in underserved areas can contribute to a virtuous cycle of job creation, wealth-building and other new opportunities for economic development, while also providing a return to investors. This initiative is... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Seth Klarman

approach to philanthropy. When you started with Baupost at age 25, did you already consider yourself a value investor? Yes. After my junior year in college and right after graduating, I worked for Mutual View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

29 Sep 2015
First Look

September 29, 2015

whose value proposition is based on heritage—in this case “achievements for the benefit of mankind” (derived directly from Alfred Nobel’s will). It is also defined as a “networked brand,” one where four independent collaborating... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 1997
Case

Donna Karan International Inc.

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Sarayu Srinivasan

Designer Donna Karan takes her firm public. After eager anticipation from Wall Street, the stock loses 60% of its value. This case addresses the questions: Is Karan's company ready to undertake responsibilities of being public? Is the company's strategy sustainable?... View Details

Keywords: Public Equity; Stock Shares; Financial Strategy; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Going Public; Business Strategy; Valuation; Fashion Industry

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29 Oct 2007
HBS Case

Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement

interest to Harvard Business School professor Anita Elberse, be they a movie legend or a third baseman. She wrote the Sharapova case with Margarita Golod (HBS MBA '07) to study and frame classroom discussions on a favorite field of research: the View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

01 Sep 2024
News

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Meyers

06 Dec 2021
News

HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation

making. Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms helps participants understand how to create sustainable value whether competing as, with, or against digital platforms, while Competing in the Age of... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

17 Sep 2024
HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

03 Sep 2020
Op-Ed

Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC

medicine. They do not know if they received good value for the money. Partially as a result of this lack of transparency, increases in employers’ health care costs have outstripped inflation and workers’ wage increases for decades.... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger; Health

28 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

themselves define the purpose. Share price and profitability may provide indicators of how much value the company is creating for shareholders, but View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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