Corporate Change And Sustainability - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Sep 2006
Op-Ed

Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do

Ask any thoughtful corporate board member what they are most concerned about these days, and it is not Sarbanes-Oxley. It is CEO pay. Directors worry because shareholders continue to express outrage, View Details

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

environmental damage and climate change over the last two centuries. The time has come for mainstream business history to incorporate the environmental impact of business in its agenda." Other research... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

September 2023
Teaching Note

CMA CGM: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Container Shipping

By: Willy Shih

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 623-006. Marine transport is the most cost-effective way to move large volumes over long distances, and container shipping is the backbone of international trade in goods. Yet shipping contributed 3% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions,... View Details

Keywords: Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Ship Transportation; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Regulation; Trade; Energy Conservation; Transportation Industry; Shipping Industry; Europe

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Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde

learning real. You’re learning more than numbers — you’re learning judgment. You’re learning how to be clear in your thinking, how to convince others. I can see how my and my sectionmates’ thinking has View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Entrepreneurship

02 Oct 2019
What Do You Think?

What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?

about the new guidelines for corporate responsibility. “Companies must always consider their shareholders,” he wrote. “Doing ‘politically correct’ things may or may not improve shareholder value. ‘Politically correct’ is a fine line View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.

least in the short run. But with that increase of fossil fuel burning comes an ever-escalating cloud of CO2 emissions destined to linger in our atmosphere and oceans for hundreds, even thousands of years. OP-ED COLLECTION The Business of... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

September 2019 (Revised August 2020)
Case

Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy

By: Tarun Khanna, Raffaella Sadun and Susie L. Ma

In 2019, entrepreneur Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio was developing a project he hoped could generate and share wealth from the natural resources of the Amazon without destroying those resources. His idea, called Earth Bank of Codes (EBC), would create a library of the... View Details

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29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

become something new, something they would not become without the intervention of a maker. This definition usually points to work that changes physical materials, iron ore and charcoal into steel, for... View Details

Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin

12 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

primarily occurred for firms covered by financial analysts. Where Do Transactions Come From? Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Periodical:Industrial and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Dec 2015
What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

make it happen? There are several kinds of responses to this question. The first is the “do it yourself” response, characterized by Sheryl Sandberg’s now-famous argument in her book, Lean In. Among other things, she challenges women to View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Jul 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?

decision-making and even to the future and viability of capitalism. One debate concerned the primacy of profit as a goal. Deaver Brown led this argument by saying, "Profit is the only legitimate goal of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

Ivashina and Zheng Sun Abstract Over the past decade, one of the most important developments in the corporate loan market has been the increasing participation of institutional investors in lending... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

The cult of the CEO is complex and persistent—and usually not good for business, says HBS professor Rakesh Khurana. Khurana recently fielded questions from HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace in an e-mail interview about his... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Apr 2021
Blog Post

HBS Entrepreneurship Immersion - Four Highlights

revenue by 6x and tripled our headcount to 150 over the past two years! Prior to that, I helped Dropbox scale from a Series B startup to a post-IPO public company, going from 200 employees to 2,000 employees. I served as VP of View Details

16 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 16

development of host developing countries. A hypothesis is suggested that, given adequate domestic growth-supporting institutions and human capital development, developing countries achieve more sustained... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

his insights to set the stage. Senior Lecturer Clayton S. Rose, who for 20 years worked at JP Morgan & Company and headed global investment banking and global equity there, discussed the implications of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

18 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 18

offer a structural approach to answering this question, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in stringency and accuracy, (2) reviewers to be influenced by existing reviews, and (3) product quality to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Feb 2014
HBS Case

Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

challenge of sustaining a culture change in the years leading up to Carroll's resignation in 2013. "They've addressed the safety issue and taken major steps to View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

substantial investment of $3 million to $5 million and work extensively with the management team as strategic advisors to help them build that organization. And in fact, some of our investment partners have... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2015
News

Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow

2014 Management Science article, he examined the effect of a corporate culture of sustainability on corporate behavior and performance outcomes.... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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