Corporate Social Responsibility - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2014
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Making Big Data Fashionable

get designs to consumers in as little as four weeks—and at an affordable price. In 2012, Moon—who has a background in fashion design, investment banking, corporate strategy, and social commerce... View Details

Keywords: Christine Lejeune; fashion; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

century and today. It tells the story of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who defied convention and imagined that business could help save the planet rather than consume it. The social and religious beliefs that drove... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 May 2013
Research & Ideas

From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing

Canadian culture, all Canadian measurements are in hockey rink units, or HRUs.) Social media activity was intense, and consumers even organized Double Down "Bro Downs" where men competed to see who could guzzle the most Double... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton

23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008

replicate CIMIT at other locations around the globe. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608036 Corporate Responsibility & Community Engagement at the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1997
News

New Releases

enable a company to assemble seamless and reliable real-world products that can thrive in a demanding marketplace. Iansiti's work provides a blueprint for the radical restructuring of corporate research and product development. The... View Details

Keywords: Robert Binstock

01 Jun 2017
News

Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management

George Serafeim (photo by Susan Young) Claudine Madras Gartenberg The idea of corporate purpose—a responsibility that goes beyond dollars and cents—can seem like little more than platitudes tucked into a... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

22 Mar 2022
News

Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year

Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni celebrate 75 Years of Connection, Learning and Service The HBS Club of Houston marked its 75th anniversary on February 26 with a cocktail party at the River Oaks Country Club in Houston. More than 65 alumni attended the party and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

25 Mar 2015
News

The Greening of Houston

Ask most people to name a city with a lot of parks and chances are Houston won’t be the first one they name. “For better or worse, our built environment is known for the lack of zoning,” says Daniel M. Gilbane (MBA 2005), senior vice president of Gilbane Building Co.... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Special Design Services; Professional Services; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Filling and labeling cocoa cans - 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

22 Nov 2015
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Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job

A recent story in the New York Times that details entrepreneurs’ growing interest in shaping policy highlights the lobbying efforts of Hello Alfred, a personal butler service founded by Jessica Beck (MBA 2015) and Marcela Sapone (MBA 2015): Unlike start-ups of years... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Summit Sound Bites

Whitehead (MBA 11/’47), Chairman, AEA Investors, Inc.; Founder, HBS Social Enterprise Initiative “Focus has always been Job One in my success. Globalization goes against that. International operations can create a real lack of focus if... View Details

20 Jan 2015
News

Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized

lifetime in investment banking, met with health industry and digital record experts to learn how to make the industry more efficient. Thus, Health Record Corporation (HRC), parent company of MedKaz, was created. Passionate about his new... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research... View Details

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Bibliography - The Human Factor - – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Technology, and Work in America's Age of Mass Production. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Brown, Elspeth H. The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture. Baltimore and London: John... View Details

14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

experts to discuss how researchers can impact a broader audience, by lending their scientific expertise to pressing social issues, current events, and public debates. The landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Oral History, Business History and Business Archives in India - Creating Emerging Markets

important corporate archives in India. Vrunda Pathare (Godrej Group) discussed her group’s remarkable oral history program, which has undertaken audio interviews with dozens of present and former staff. These interviews, which can be... View Details

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

new opportunities. Empires of Profit: Commerce, Conquest and Corporate Responsibility Author Daniel Litvin presented his evidence that modern companies find it difficult to operate on foreign soil. Big... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

18 May 2020
News

Joe O’Donnell Named Harvard Medal Recipient

areas, such as teaching, fundraising, leadership, and innovation.” O’Donnell’s Harvard contributions highlighted in the Gazette include his service as a member of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, as elected director of... View Details

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

As more and more corporate executives have been paraded on perp walks these last few years, a question has repeatedly been raised: Where was the board? After all, isn't it the board's responsibility to make... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future

atmosphere thereby sequestering carbon.” HBS alumna Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) joined the Deckers Board of Directors in 2014 and currently chairs the Corporate Responsibility, Sustainability and Governance Committee. From that perch, she... View Details

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