Publications

29 Aug 2013
News

Wagaroo update: designing a mechanism to identify responsible sources for pet dogs

26 Jan 2021
News

Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response

them to forgo returns at all.” An Inside Look at Leading the UK and US Response to COVID As the US and the UK raced to develop a COVID vaccine this year, two HBS alums found themselves at the forefront of the effort. How they grappled... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Jun 2020
News

Reinforcing the Role and Responsibility of the Board of Directors after Covid 19

02 Sep 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Legislators' Response to Changes in the Electorate: The Great Migration and Civil Rights

Keywords: by Alvaro Calderon, Vasiliki Fouka, and Marco Tabellini

March–April 1992
Article

Debate: A Response to the Business of Equal Opportunity by Reginald Dickerson

By: D. A. Thomas and D. Evans

Keywords: Equality and Inequality

August 2006
Teaching Note

County Department of Public Health: Organizing for Emergency Preparedness and Response (TN)

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Ajay Vinze and Minu Ipe

Teaching Note to 806089. View Details

August 1997 (Revised July 1999)
Case

Hewlett-Packard's Santa Rosa Systems Division (A2): Response to the Employee Task Force

By: Michael Beer and Gregory C. Rogers

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Information Technology Industry

Educators

June 2016
Supplement

The Great East Japan Earthquake (F): Google Japan's Response and Recovery Efforts

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi, Tomoharu Tanaka, Kavi Krut, March Bishop, E. Kyle Bisutti and Adam Zalisk

Keywords: Japan; Earthquake; Japan

August 2011
Teaching Note

The Dannon Company: Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Christopher Marquis

Teaching Note for 410-121 and 412-047. View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

25 Jun 2015
News

7 Research-Backed Ways Your Business Will Benefit by Being More Socially Responsible

Fast Answer

How can I find socially responsible private equity or venture capital funds?

In Preqin: Click on the Search For tab in the menu bar. Click on Funds. Select ESG. In Capital IQ: Screen for Companies. Select Investment Type > PE/VC under Investment/Advisory Firms. Click on Add Criteria. Select Business Descriptions under Company... View Details

September–October 2023
Article

A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility

By: Mark R. DesJardine, Jody Grewal and Kala Viswanathan

Common owners face an incredible investment challenge: managing systematic risk. Because common owners hold shares in multiple firms across an industry, an action (or inaction) by one firm that affects industry peers is felt more severely by common owners than by... View Details

Keywords: Common Ownership; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Institutional Investing; Corporate Governance; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Return

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2005
Chapter

Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms: Perspectives from the Business Literature

By: Forest Reinhardt

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

2010
Other Unpublished Work

Saving Face by Making Meaning: The Negative Effects of Brand Communities' Self-serving Response to Brand Extensions

By: Jill Avery

An ethnographic study of a brand community following the launch of the Porsche Cayenne SUV finds that brand extensions can negatively affect the value of their parent brands. By studying the collective response to brand extensions of existing consumers and by... View Details

Keywords: Brands; Brand Management; Brand Positioning; Brand Equity; Internet; Social Media; Customers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Auto Industry

February 2014
Article

Responses to Entry in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local Newspapers

By: Robert Seamans and Feng Zhu

How do firms respond to entry in multi-sided markets? We address this question by studying the impact of Craigslist, a website providing classified-advertising services, on local U.S. newspapers. We exploit temporal and geographical variation in Craigslist's entry to... View Details

Keywords: Digital Platforms; Market Entry and Exit; Internet and the Web; Newspapers; Advertising; Advertising Industry; Journalism and News Industry

December 1996
Article

How "Real" Are Computer Personalities? Psychological Responses to Personality Types in Human-Computer Interaction

By: Y. Moon and C. I. Nass

Keywords: Information Technology; Health; Identity

May 2011
Article

Race at the Top: How Companies Shape the Inclusion of African Americans on Their Boards in Response to Institutional Pressures

By: Clayton S. Rose and William T. Bielby

Drawing on institutionalist theory, we conceptualize the racial composition of the boards of directors of large American companies as shaped in response to social and political norms. We use new longitudinal and cross-sectional data to test hypotheses about factors... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Governing and Advisory Boards; Race; Mathematical Methods; Government and Politics; Public Ownership; United States

18 Jul 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Beyond Symbolic Responses to Private Politics: Examining Labor Standards Improvement in Global Supply Chains

Keywords: by Andrea R. Hugill, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel; Manufacturing

2020
Conference Presentation

A Performance-optimized Limb Detection Model Selectively Predicts Behavioral Responses Based on Movement Similarity

By: X. Zhao, J. De Freitas, L. Tarhan and G. A. Alvarez