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  • 20 Aug 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World?

Keywords: Re: Rebecca M. Henderson & George Serafeim; Financial Services
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Executive Compensation and Environmental Harm

By: Dylan Minor
We explore the relationship between managerial incentives and environmental harm. We find that high-powered executive compensation packages can increase the odds of environmental law breaking by 40%–60% and the magnitude of environmental harm by over 100%. We document... View Details
Keywords: Misconduct; Environmental Performance; Accounting Scandal; Sustainable Finance; Crime and Corruption; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Executive Compensation; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance
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  • 23 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

On a continent with many challenges to development, no issue is more pressing in Africa than the heavy toll of the AIDS epidemic. In addition to the staggering costs in terms of social upheaval and human suffering, AIDS cuts down workers... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • Fast Answer

Taxes worldwide

Where can I find information on taxes worldwide? KPMG Tax Rates Online: Time series data by country from 2010 - present for Corporate tax rates, Indirect tax rates, Individual income tax rates, Employer View Details
  • March 2025
  • Case

Calyx Global: Rating Carbon Credits

By: Michael W. Toffel and Adam Chen
This case describes how rating agencies and other organizations are seeking to improve the quality of carbon credits sold in the voluntary carbon market to organizations seeking to use them to supplement their internal decarbonization efforts to meet their net zero... View Details
Keywords: Service Design; Certification; Auditing; Auditor Reputation; Carbon Credits; Carbon; Rating Agency Disagreement; Ratings; Climate Change; Business Model; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Conflict of Interests; Reputation; Business Strategy
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  • 06 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 6

Part of that effort was the creation of a strategic corporate social responsibility program called Our World, Our Family. The case tracks Western Union's earlier CSR... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jan 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Strategic Alliances

a mutual course benefiting each of their strategies, HBS professor James Austin, head of the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), took note. "Here was a new arena," he says, "in which the goals of different kinds of... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

were essential, and radical corporate social responsibility concepts were pursued by some firms. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53419... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • June 25, 2022
  • Guest Column

CEOs Didn't Make the Roe Decision. It's Still Their Problem to Solve

By: Sandra Sucher
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Trust; Rights; Government Legislation; Social Issues; Employee Relationship Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; United States
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  • Fall 2016
  • Article

The Integrity of Private Third-party Compliance Monitoring

By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Government agencies are increasingly turning to private, third-party monitors to inspect and assess regulated entities’ compliance with law. The integrity of these regulatory regimes rests on the validity of the information third-party monitors provide to regulators.... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Compliance; Compliance Policies; Conflict Of Interest; Independent Third Party; Inspection; Audit Quality; Auditor; Audit; Environment; Safety; Conflict of Interests; Working Conditions; Labor; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governance Compliance; Accounting Audits
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  • 26 Jan 2015
  • News

The Ingredients for Success

Idea Village, an anchor organization for the emerging entrepreneurial movement in New Orleans, Markowitz (MBA 2003) struggled to find a decent job there. With an HBS degree and a background in corporate finance, she seemed overqualified... View Details
Keywords: Tyler Bridges; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Educational Services
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • News

Finding Common Ground

served as executive director of the Corporate Responsibility Officers Association until 2013. Things didn’t turn out the way the partners had originally envisioned, but Crespin was hooked on merging business... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
  • September 2011 (Revised September 2015)
  • Case

Hassina Sherjan

By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim and Pippa Eccles
Hassina Sherjan was born in Afghanistan but grew up and was educated in the United States. A trip to Afghanistan when she was an adult inspired her to move back to her home country with two missions. The first was to educate young women through a non-profit... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Accounting; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Innovation Leadership; Development Economics; Growth and Development; Problems and Challenges; Retail Industry; Afghanistan; United States
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  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

All in a Day's Work

applicable are skills learned at HBS for recent graduates facing real-world challenges? What are the differences and similarities for alumni who work in the private and nonprofit sectors, in large corporations vs. smaller organizations?... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Boston Community Capital; Samsung; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Real Estate
  • 14 Sep 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

feelings and aesthetics rather than ideas, a stronger interest in people rather than things, prefer jobs in social or artistic areas, extraversion expressed as gregariousness rather than assertiveness, and neuroticism, characterized by... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

form of corporate social responsibility (CSR) through a sustainable business model that also generates superior financial performance. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

dishonesty as morally acceptable and thus feel less guilty about benefiting from cheating. We discuss the implications of these results for collaborations in the social realm. License to Cheat: Voluntary Regulation and Ethical Behavior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

New Fellowship Program Encourages Young MBAs to Work for Nonprofits

the private sector. The one- or two-year postgraduate fellowships are indicative of the “growing desire on the part of our students to be involved in the public and social sectors,” said Professor W. Carl Kester, senior associate dean and... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Profile

Eric Chavez

authority to include social responsibility goals into business missions to have greater impact outside a P&L.” “The HBS faculty encourage us to see things from different perspectives, to see the... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Tech
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Short Takes

from company performance as critics imply? Not at all, according to HBS professor Jay W. Lorsch, whose 1998 working paper, "Compensating Corporate CEOs: A Process View," examines the procedures and forces that drive CEO pay packages.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross