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  • 22 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

Much like how disruptive technologies can threaten established businesses, the growing epidemic of AIDS has the power to blindside and possibly topple companies who choose to ignore the threat, participants concluded at a Harvard Business School conference.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2019
  • Blog Post

Meet PRIDE, the student association for LGBTQ+ MBAs at Harvard Business School

Pride is a home for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning MBA students and their partners. We build community through dedicated social and advocacy programming for our members and allies to offer meaningful... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 12 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

What Does PRIDE at HBS Mean to You?

that last long after they have graduated. Together they work to build community, foster professional development, and encourage advocacy for LGBTQ+ representation at our school and in business. Check out some current student and alum... View Details
  • Article

The Factor Environmental Ratings Miss

By: Auden Schendler and Michael W. Toffel
There's a problem with most major environmental rankings of businesses: too often, the ratings fail to incorporate advocacy activities that influence environmental regulation. View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Problems and Challenges; Rank and Position; Environmental Sustainability; Power and Influence
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  • Video

Reuel J. Khoza

Reuel J. Khoza, Chairman of South Africa's Dzana Investments and Discovery Bank, details his involvement with university student politics and advocacy during apartheid, which led to his firing from a faculty position in 1974. View Details
  • May 2003
  • Case

Environmental Defense

By: Forest L. Reinhardt
Analyzes the strategy and management of Environmental Defense, a leading environmental advocacy group, emphasizing the group's activity in the energy and agribusiness industries. From a strategy formulation standpoint, the case encourages students to think of the... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Energy; Relationships; Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Energy Industry
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  • 26 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

Video: Students Foster Disability Awareness and Access

View Video MBA Class of 2024 students Landon Hollingsworth (MBA/MPA-ID 2024) and Teresa Danso-Danquah (MBA 2024) discuss forming and leading the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG), the challenges and strengths of their own... View Details
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

about the bond market. We also discuss the implications of our model for forward guidance once the economy is away from the zero lower bound. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49240 The Advocacy Trap:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2013
  • News

Opening the Door

  • 12 Oct 2023
  • Video

Students Foster Disability Awareness and Access

  • Article

Private and Civil Society Governors of Mercury Pollution from Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining: A Network Analytic Approach

By: Kristin Sippl
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is both a subsistence livelihood for millions of people and the leading source of mercury pollution globally. The United Nation’s 2013 Minamata Convention on Mercury aims to address this challenge, but such public regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Artisanal And Small-scale Mining (ASM); Private Governance; Gold; Mercury; Mining; Governance; Networks; Pollutants; Research
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  • November 1999
  • Supplement

"ACT UP": Peter Staley, An Interview with Professor Willis Emmons, November 17, 1995

By: Willis M. Emmons III
Provides excerpts from an interview with Peter Staley of Act Up reflecting on the Wall Street protest against Burroughs Wellcome in the fall of 1989 and on the role and impact of AIDS advocacy and activism in general. View Details
Keywords: Health Pandemics; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 24 Aug 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Performance Hacking: The Contagious Business Practice that Corrodes Corporate Culture, Undermines Core Values, and Damages Great Companies

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin and Richard L. Nolan; Air Transportation
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Achieving Epilepsy Care for All: Ecosystem-Based Transformation

By: Susanna Gallani, Bernice Martin Lee and Lidia M. V. R. Moura
Epilepsy exemplifies many of the systemic challenges of modern health care— fragmented care delivery, inequitable access, financial strain, and so on. The current “system of systems” (SoS) structure of U.S. health care fosters siloed operations among its member systems... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare Delivery; Epilepsy; Seizures; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Equality and Inequality; Framework; Service Delivery
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  • 17 Apr 2016
  • News

Big Business Speaks Up on Social Issues

  • August 1996 (Revised February 2000)
  • Exercise

Decision-Making Exercise (A)

By: David A. Garvin and Michael Roberto
Provides questionnaires so students can compare their experiences with different decison-making processes. Students read "Growing Pains," a Harvard Business Review (HBR) case study, and then work in teams to come up with recommendations using a consensus approach to... View Details
Keywords: Conflict Management; Decision Making; Management Skills
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  • November 2018 (Revised January 2022)
  • Case

JUUL and the Vaping Revolution

By: Michael W. Toffel, John Masko and Sarah Mehta
In late 2019, San Francisco-based electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) maker JUUL Labs (pronounced “jewel”) faced intense pressure. Sales of JUUL products exceeded $1 billion in 2018, dominating the e-cigarette category. While JUUL Labs’ stated goal was to help current... View Details
Keywords: Electronic Cigarettes; E-Cigarettes; Vaping; Nicotine Replacement; JUUL; Juuling; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Customers; Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Ethics; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Information Technology; Technology Industry; San Francisco; California
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    What You Don't Know About Making Decisions

    Most executives think of decision making as a singular event that occurs at a particular point in time. In reality, though, decision making is a process fraught with power plays, politics, personal nuances, and institutional history. Leaders who recognize this make... View Details

    • Teaching Interest

    Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation

    By: Brian L. Trelstad
    Combining the tools of philanthropy, business and advocacy (or mission, margin and mandate), social entrepreneurs have tackled long-standing societal issues like teacher training, college access, global public health, renewable energy and sanitation.  Social... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Organizations; Social Enterprise; Civil Society or Community; System
    • 24 Mar 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality

    Keywords: by Mozaffar Khan, George Serafeim & Aaron Yoon; Financial Services