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  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

are less responsive to changes in investment opportunities, especially in industries in which stock prices are most sensitive to earnings news. These findings are consistent with the notion that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Apr 2014
  • News

Matching nonprofits with companies that can help

Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), CEO of Executives Without Borders, talks about helping match nonprofits with socially responsible companies. (Published April 2014) View Details
  • 30 Jun 2017
  • News

Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand

Goals. “I had that rare instance where my skill set as a marketer was being called on to meet a greater social need,” Pitter-Armand says. “I’d always enjoyed my work, but now I was waking up at 3 o’clock in the morning with new ideas.” As... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 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: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=4538 An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

From venture capitalist to 'compassionate capitalist'

co-creator of the concept. Born in Egypt and now living in England, Cohen became interested in social capital and philanthropy in 2000 when he led the UK Treasury’s Social View Details
  • 02 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 2, 2009

throughout Bangladesh. Venture capitalist Patrik Brummer invested in a first round of funding to connect major cities. Should he invest again, this time in a rural roll-out, which may have lower financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2019
  • News

Smarter Farming

Zealand is a contributor, now, towards climate change, with so much of our animals contributing to global warming. And people were becoming very skeptical and cynical about farming's role in New Zealand society, given the social impact it... View Details
Keywords: meat; dairy; cattle; Agriculture
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

A More Perfect Union

Case Study. Daniella Ballou-Aares (MBA 2001, MPA 2002) believes that has to change—and it’s the responsibility of her generation to lead the way. Ballou-Aares is creating a path for the next generation of business leaders to engage in... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar
  • March–April 2016
  • Article

Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure: A Global Study of Greenwashing

By: Christopher Marquis, Michael W. Toffel and Yanhua Zhou
Under increased pressure to report environmental impacts, some firms selectively disclose relatively benign impacts, creating an impression of transparency while masking their true performance. We identify key company- and country-level factors that limit firms' use of... View Details
Keywords: Disclosure Strategy; Disclosure; Environmental Performance; Environmental Strategy; Environment; Symbolic; Reporting; Corporate Disclosure; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • 12 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

Edge" (708-051); "Cape Wind: Offshore Wind Energy in the USA" (708-022); and "Supergrid" (707-016). Purchase this note: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709005 Note on Socially View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria

assured that they can defend their achievements—that they will be listened to if they feel aggrieved or abused. Jobs that reasonably fulfill all 4 drives are the building blocks of healthy organizations. It is also important to make sure that all other View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2019
  • News

Breaking Up the All-Male Boardroom

    Anu Aga

    Keywords: Engineering Manufacturing
    • 18 Aug 2021
    • News

    Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

    2021 AUGUST 12 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation recently announced that it has established a $100 million Social Impact Investment Fund “aimed at advancing racial equity through economic development,... View Details
    • 01 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Connecting With Nonprofits

    organizational marketing. Understanding Cross-sector Collaboration My field-based research on collaborations between businesses and nonprofits, encompassing a wide range of industries and social sectors, revealed a distinctive pattern in... View Details
    Keywords: by James Austin
    • 04 Jan 2016
    • News

    Taking Time Out for a Challenge

    hit the small African nation in 2014. “Having watched Sierra Leone and its neighbors make great strides over the last decade to consolidate peace, grow their economies, and invest in public services, I knew they remained among the poorest... View Details
    Keywords: ebola; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
    • 03 Jun 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: June 3, 2008

    improvement in their standards and monitoring procedures. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-097.pdf Corporate Social Responsibility through an Economic Lens Authors:Forest L. Reinhardt,... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 13 Sep 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

    their research, public firms invest less than half as much as private firms of similar size and industry—and private firms are 3.5 times more responsive to changes in View Details
    Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
    • 16 Apr 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

    organizing a large pool of capital, investing at scale, and generating VC-style returns. By effectively anointing category leaders and deterring competitive entry, would the Vision Fund accelerate innovation or undermine the market forces... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 13 Jul 2020
    • News

    Locally Grown

    socially responsible investing was in its infancy; the now-common phrase impact investing had been coined just a few months earlier. For the... View Details
    Keywords: April White