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21 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Sep 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

from them, potentially putting them out of business. You might regard that as bordering on the insane. The matter has caught the attention of no less an observer than Henry Kissinger, who commented recently to Bloomberg News... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

28 Mar 2012
What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

Materialist Fallacy, The New York Times, February 14, 2012. Andy Grove, How America Can Create Jobs, Bloomberg Businessweek, July 1, 2010. Michael Spence, The Next Convegence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World, Farrar,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

20 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

information from Bankruptcydata.com, Bloomberg Law, Moody’s Investors Service, and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Antill studied 503 nonfinancial companies, each carrying more than $50 million in debt at the time of default... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

30 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

in introducing a fabric into the Company’s athletic garments that, when stretched, became transparent. He went on to explain on Bloomberg TV that “Some women’s bodies don’t work for the pants.” Employee behaviors began reflecting this... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter on America’s Historic Energy Opportunity

A new report from experts Michael E. Porter, David S. Gee, and Gregory J. Pope at Harvard Business School and The Boston Consulting Group outlines a strategic approach for improving United States competitiveness while reducing environmental impact and making progress... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter; Energy; Utilities

19 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

The Harvard Business School Initiative on Social Enterprise is embarking on a new intellectual endeavor to understand a fast-changing and fertilearena — the Social Capital Markets. For years, money given to nonprofits has been thought of as charity, saysJed Emerson,... View Details

Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh

06 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

The Art of American Advertising

posters, broadsides, circulars, brochures, souvenir publications, and novelty items along with trade journals and other publications. It will be on display in the north lobby of Baker Library | Bloomberg Center at Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

03 Sep 2020
Op-Ed

Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC

excellent model. The business community should embrace this model to help solve its long-standing, unresolved issues with health care costs, quality, and access. A version of this commentary was first published by Bloomberg and adapted... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger; Health

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership

Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Utilities

15 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

planned and managed in a much more efficient and sustainable fashion than in a dispersed population. Mayors of the world's largest cities agree, with New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg leading a global coalition to craft urban centers... View Details

Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

23 May 2011
Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

Editor's note: Please see related story, Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It's Effective. To what extent companies contribute to a sustainable society is a question increasingly important, not only to the companies themselves, but also to investors, the countries... View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim

12 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

Fund Management Author: Robert C. Merton Publication: Chap. 1 in Innovations in Investment Management, edited by H. Gifford Fong, 1-17. JOIM Conference Series. New York: Bloomberg Press, 2008 Abstract In talking about pension plans at... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

time. Is B Lab's tripartite strategy its secret sauce or its albatross? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411047-PDF-ENG Driving Sustainability at Bloomberg L.P. Christopher Marquis, Daniel Beunza, Fabrizio Ferraro,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability

case's protagonists, Communication Manager Marilee McInnis. Participants recently published an e-book around themes that emerged at the workshop, The Landscape of Integrated Reporting. The School's Baker Library | Bloomberg Center has one... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting

02 Oct 2019
What Do You Think?

What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?

Ammunition Sales and Discourage ‘Open Carry’ of Guns in Stores, The New York Times, September 4, 2019, pp. B1 and B4. Alfred Rappaport, “How CEOs Can Forge a New Kind of Shareholder Value,” Bloomberg Opinion, September 4, 2019,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

first big-city innovation offices in the United States. In April 2013, he helped guide the mayor’s office’s response to the attacks on the Boston Marathon. At HBS, he has helped build the Young American Leaders Program and is an adviser to the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 5

agreements, that support relative-value strategies. Careful attention is paid to the bond math calculations that support the protagonist's analysis and decision. All quoted prices in the case are real and historical, and corresponding View Details