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  • Summer 2012
  • Article

How to Become a Sustainable Company

By: Robert G. Eccles, Kathleen Miller Perkins and George Serafeim
Using field and survey data we identify the characteristics of sustainable companies, and we develop a two-stage model that can help companies develop a culture of innovation, trust, and the ability for transformational change. View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Innovation; Leadership; Environmental Sustainability; Organizational Culture; Innovation and Invention; Trust; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • 2000
  • Chapter

Anticipating Greener Supply Chain Demands: One Singapore Company's Journey to ISO 14001

By: Michael W. Toffel
One major benefit of Jebsen & Jessen Packaging Pte Ltd (JJPS’s) implementation of ISO 14001 is that it acquired a third-party 'seal of approval' that will be used in its marketing efforts to meet the growing environmental concern of its customers within the electronics... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Standards; Environmental Sustainability; Singapore
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  • 16 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’

Editor's Note: Back in the day, crafting and owning the company strategy was at the forefront of a business leader's priorities. Over the years, though, more and more, the responsibility has tended to be outsourced to consultants armed... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery
  • October 2022 (Revised September 2023)
  • Teaching Note

Kwame Owusu-Kesse at Harlem Children's Zone

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-020. View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decisions; Nonprofit Organizations; Personal Development and Career; Growth and Development Strategy; Race; Social Issues; New York (city, NY)
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  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

insisted that the greatest barriers for inner city development today are negative perceptions. These areas are not just economically distressed because of social issues, he said, adding that unless businesspeople take steps to build... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Avon CEO Jung on Leadership

the courage to reinvent yourself, not hold on to the past, and to act swiftly.” Proudly noting that corporate responsibility has always been integral to Avon’s identity, Jung stated that the company has... View Details
Keywords: makeup; grooming; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade
  • 04 Apr 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

depth and we were able to compare and contrast the leaders in some of these other high tech companies and why they've had different outcomes. We talked to a much broader basis about what is the public responsibility of View Details
Keywords: Re: Mandi Nerenberg
  • April 2023
  • Case

Strive Asset Management

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Lynn S. Paine and Aldo Sesia
Strive Asset Management, which launched in 2022, was actively targeting several leading U.S. companies in the upcoming 2023 proxy voting season to stop acquiescing to those large asset managers and other institutional shareholders who were pressing those companies to... View Details
Keywords: ESG; Shareholder Activism; Asset Management; Investment Funds; Corporate Governance; Risk Management; Climate Change; Diversity; Equity; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • October 2021
  • Article

Shareholder Activism and Firms' Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks

By: Caroline Flammer, Michael W. Toffel and Kala Viswanathan
This paper examines whether—in the absence of mandated disclosure requirements—shareholder activism can elicit greater disclosure of firms’ exposure to climate change risks. We find that environmental shareholder activism increases the voluntary disclosure of climate... View Details
Keywords: Transparency; Reporting; Shareholder Engagement; Shareholder Activism; Climate Change; Risk and Uncertainty; Environmental Management; Investment Activism; Corporate Disclosure; Communication Strategy; Information Publishing; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Problems and Challenges; United States
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  • 14 Dec 2022
  • News

How to Pay Executives in the Age of Stakeholder Capitalism

  • 26 May 2016
  • News

Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980

says. Over the next decade he proved that he was up to the task, so much so that in 1993, when the firm hit hard times, Bain CEO Mitt Romney (MBA 1974/JD 1975) asked Tierney to head the company. “The rational response would have been to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Tech for the People

and prepare San José residents who agree in advance to offer free disaster-relief housing to neighbors in need. “It’s the first program of its kind in the US,” he notes. “I’m grateful to have had the chance to help add another resource to San José’s robust emergency... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 15 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 15, 2006

contingent reserves, and reserve dependent output costs. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-010.pdf Corporate Governance and Networks: Bankers in the Corporate Networks of Brazil,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Skilled fingers required for Philcos - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The Exhibition The Request The Response... View Details
  • July 2020
  • Article

Exploring the Effect of Environmental Orientation on Financial Decisions of Businesses at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Evidence from the Microlending Context

By: Anton Shevchenko, Xiaodan Pan and Goran Calic
Existing research has accumulated substantial evidence on the effect that an environmental orientation has on businesses' economic performance. Yet this research does not cover small businesses from bottom‐of‐the‐pyramid (BOP) markets. In fact, despite increasing... View Details
Keywords: Micro-lending; Environmental Sustainability; Financing and Loans; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Small Business
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  • August 2023
  • Supplement

Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (C)

By: Henry McGee, Nien-hê Hsieh and Kerry Herman
In September 2021, Apple decided to delay updates to iOS and iPadOS that included features to fight child sexual abuse. While many—including prominent privacy and security experts—praised Apple, others were opposed. They saw Apple introducing features that risked... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Values and Beliefs; Public Opinion; Applications and Software; Leadership
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  • 13 Aug 2001
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Parents’ Guide to Harvard Business School

experience to students' parents, Narayandas leads a mini-case study of Coca-Cola as it decides whether to deploy a new generation of interactive vending machines. Narayandas also discusses the evolution of the modern enterprise, and the origins of the Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan

prevent a new disease from becoming endemic to a region. It raised the profile of public health and brought the importance of international cooperation in health to new heights. SARS — severe acute respiratory syndrome — caused enormous economic damage and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 09 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

field organizations was growing. The senior team was slow to make decisions, and no one took responsibility for the performance of the developing businesses. A lack of openness lies behind many failures to implement strategy. Camp... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
  • Web

Introduction - The Production - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The Exhibition The Request The Response... View Details