Corporate Social Responsibility - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1998
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Ownership Matters: Bringing Owners on Board In his working paper, "The Impact of Ownership Type on Performance in Public Corporations: A Study of the U.S. Textile Industry 1983-1992," HBS assistant professor David L. Kang demonstrates that the ownership structure of... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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

01 Dec 2001
News

Effective Leadership and Decision-Making

necessarily guarantee effective corporate leadership. Instead, he said, modesty and restraint are largely responsible for creating effective moral leaders. Badaracco listed four rules for making wise... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

Economy. "It requires abandoning past business models and challenging current assumptions and beliefs. It entails breaking many of the rules we've played by for generations." If your corporate culture is stifling your ability to... View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

15 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

speculates about whether Microsoft or Adobe would be better positioned to establish the dominant ebook standard. The possibility that the world’s biggest bookstore might eventually win that race hadn’t dawned on me. Social networks. We’d... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology

02 Sep 2010
What Do You Think?

How Transparent Should Boards Be?

think? Original Article The case study for this month is inspired by the Hewlett-Packard board, which deserves some kind of award for continuing to supply business schools with years worth of materials on corporate governance. One can... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

20 Feb 2006
HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

business, and this organization has a sense of that. I spoke with Tim Bennett at some point about mission and social responsibility in the context of Harvard Business School's purpose, and Tim said, 'You... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

January 2019
Supplement

JPMorgan Chase: Invested in Detroit (C)

By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris

Video Supplement to HBS Case Nos. 918-406 and 918-410.
Beginning in 2014, JPMorgan Chase launched “Invested in Detroit,” a $100 million philanthropic investment in the city over five years. The bank worked with local economic development organizations,... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropic Investment; Banking; Economic Development; Local Economic Development; Workforce Development; Financial Institutions; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Urban Development; Business and Community Relations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Expansion; Banking Industry; United States; Michigan; Detroit

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September 2008 (Revised August 2010)
Case

Boston Teacher Residency: Developing a Strategy for Long-term Impact

By: Stacey M. Childress, Geoff Eckman Marietta and Sara Suchman

In June 2008, Jesse Solomon, the founding director of the Boston Teacher Residency (BTR), faced an important decision about the organization's strategic direction. Since its founding in 2003, 125 of its graduates had joined the Boston Public Schools (BPS) and BTR had... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Teaching; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Improvement; Business Strategy; Education Industry; Boston

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06 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing

efficient, and customer focused. It also enables faster response to shifts in the market—something especially important as innovation continues to flow globally, rapidly, and often from unknown sources. Most important, this framework... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

01 Dec 2019
News

Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment

Administration. Serafeim teaches Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems, one of several electives in the MBA Program that focus on environmental and social challenges. Given the surge of student interest in the topic, Serafeim,... View Details

Keywords: April White

Fast Answer

Student Proposed Fellowship Program - Resources for selecting your organization

range of disciplines. Stanford Social Innovation Review Journal targets leaders in nonprofit management, corporate social responsibility, social... View Details

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

29 Apr 2016
News

The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)

responsibilities include overseeing finances and operations, helping set and implement company strategy, fundraising/keeping investors updated, business development, legal work, interviewing/hiring/onboarding employees, and working... View Details

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

December 2014
Supplement

Aspen Skiing Company Video Supplement

By: Michael W. Toffel

Having begun improving the environmental performance of its own operations, Aspen Skiing Company is considering "greening" its supply chain and lobbying for greenhouse gas regulations. A world renowned ski resort vulnerable to global climate change, Aspen's activities... View Details

Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Climate Change; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Tourism Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Aspen

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What goes on inside the pasteurizers - 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

02 Dec 2015
Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Laura Mackay...

career with NeoCare Solutions – a mobile engagement platform that helps parents of NICU babies navigate the NICU and transition home. Interestingly, the business was incubated and is run as a start-up within Healthagen, the innovative technology and services arm of... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Health Care; Entrepreneurship

03 Jan 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)

getting the help they need.” To that end, Simons created a free online job design optimization tool. Try it out to see if your job is offering a healthy mix of responsibility and support. If the answer is no, then talk to your supervisor... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

February 2024 (Revised April 2024)
Case

CPP Investments—The Road to Zero

By: Vikram Gandhi and Radhika Kak

In February 2022, Canadian Pension Plan (CPP) Investments, the investment management organization that managed funds for the CPP, one of the biggest pension plans in the world, announced a net-zero commitment for its portfolio by 2050. Under its CEO, John Graham, it... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Asset Management; Investment Portfolio; Leading Change; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry; Canada; California

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