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    Edwin H. Land

    Land was a brilliant innovator whose instant photography invention created a billion-dollar corporation. He is responsible for inventing the Polaroid camera and 3-D glasses. Polaroid Corporation was viewed... View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods
    • 22 Feb 2022
    • News

    March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

    depth of knowledge and insight that will prove invaluable for trustees, donors, and others related to and responsible for the success of social enterprise. Social enterprise... View Details
    • 02 Nov 2020
    • News

    The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

    2018, I left my corporate job and decided to explore opportunities with a social impact-driven food organization, particularly one focused on food access and hunger relief. What made the Greater Boston Food... View Details
    • 06 Nov 2012
    • Op-Ed

    Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities

    The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
    Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
    • June 2010 (Revised September 2013)
    • Case

    IDFC India: Infrastructure Investment Intermediaries

    By: John D. Macomber and Viraal Balsari
    Indian financial intermediary matching international capital to local infrastructure decides how to balance range of services, risk-adjusted return, margin pressure, and nation building. IDFC was chartered with partial ownership from the Indian government to help... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Infrastructure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; State Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; India
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    • 20 Jun 2016
    • News

    Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues

    says, it will create a new asset class for socially minded investors, providing them with a reliable ROI that will advance the investing effort. He also believes that changing from a charity-based model of giving has a huge impact on the... View Details
    Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
    • Web

    Online AI Course | HBS Online

    represent a large multinational corporation or a small local business, we have a solution for your learning and development needs. Learn More Our Difference AI Essentials for Business will enable you to build leading, View Details
    • 04 Oct 2007
    • What Do You Think?

    Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

    corporate treasuries for their self enrichment." To what degree will entrepreneurial capitalism be the antidote to both managers' and owners' capitalism? Are we about to see a rebirth of Schumpeter and his belief in the power of... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • Web

    Departments | Employment

    continuously looking at new ideas and operates in a dynamic environment. Attributes of Successful Staff Members Passion High autonomy Flexible Work well under pressure Diplomatic Interest in and understanding of social sector What makes... View Details
    • 23 Dec 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?

    In theory, a board of directors protects the rights of shareholders. Independent directors are supposed to be just that—independent—free to dissent from a decision of the majority. The reality is more complex. Directors are tied to one another by business and View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • Web

    Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, 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
    • 02 Aug 2016
    • First Look

    August 2, 2016

    typically inadvertent nature of these incidences. The resulting higher settlement rate prevents additional legal action and significantly reduces social costs. Concentrated Capital Losses and the Pricing of View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    IFC: Cape Town; Africa Rising - Course Catalog

    affecting Africa, how are countries reacting to these challenges. How are these events impacting companies and how are companies reacting to these new difficulties. For students it will provide an opportunity to see and be part of problem solving and crisis management... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2009
    • News

    Honoring HBS’s Organization Men

    developed the idea of organizations as social systems. “That’s been the underlying framework of everything I’ve done,” said Lorsch, the author most recently of Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
    • May 13, 2021
    • Article

    The Big Benefits of Employee Ownership

    By: Thomas Dudley and Ethan Rouen
    Wealth inequality in the U.S. has been increasing for decades: The richest 1% own a majority of all business wealth, and the top 10% own more than 90%. Companies, which have played a vital role in the growth in inequality can also play one in reducing it. One place to... View Details
    Keywords: Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Employee Ownership; United States
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    • January 2007 (Revised October 2008)
    • Case

    H&R Block 2006

    By: Peter Tufano
    Mark Ernst, the Chairman, CEO and President of H&R Block, has to decide how to respond to a competitive threat posed by a competitor's refund-lending product. Block is the largest U.S. tax preparation firm, which competes not only on its tax preparation services, but... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Financing and Loans; Personal Finance; Taxation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Competition; Financial Services Industry
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    • October, 2023
    • Article

    Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: Housing Market Impacts of Removing Legacy Pollutants

    By: Alecia Cassidy, Robyn C. Meeks and Michale R. Moore
    The Great Lakes and their tributaries make up the largest freshwater system on the planet, providing drinking water and recreational value to millions of people. Yet manufacturing plants left a legacy of toxic pollutants in the region, tarnishing it as part of the... View Details
    Keywords: Valuation Of Environmental Effects; Housing Demand; Water Pollution; Water Quality; Infrastructure; Pollution; Consumer Behavior
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    • 19 Jun 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: June 19, 2007

    ratings are not optimally using publicly available data. We discuss the implications of our findings for advocates and opponents of corporate social responsibility as well as... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Sep 2009
    • News

    Faculty Books

    regulatory institutions. The book ends by setting out a potential research agenda for the social sciences. Supercorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good by Rosabeth... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
    • 08 Jul 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: July 8

    outsider's view to challenge the status quo. Given the string of ethical failures of corporations around the world in recent years-from BP to GM to JPMorgan Chase-it's clear that leaders not only need to act more View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel