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  • 05 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

so-called impact funds, or funds that hope to create positive social or environmental impact. In Anchors Aweigh: Analysis of Anchor Limited Partner Investors in Impact... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • November 2014
  • Article

The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance

By: Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
We investigate the effect of corporate sustainability on organizational processes and performance. Using a matched sample of 180 U.S. companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted sustainability policies by 1993—termed as High Sustainability... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Sustainability Research; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainability Targets; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Accountability; Reporting; Corporate Governance; Investor Clientele; Investor Communication; Stock Market; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Performance; United States
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  • January 2025
  • Case

PayJoy: Financing for the Next Billion

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
PayJoy, an impact-driven financial technology company founded in 2015, provides smartphone financing and other financial products to customers who lack access to traditional credit products. As of early 2025, PayJoy had issued $2.5 billion in loans to 13 million... View Details
Keywords: Social Impact; Fintech; Underbanked; Algorithm; Data Analysis; Technology; Business Startups; Business Model; Growth and Development; Information Technology; Social Enterprise; Developing Countries and Economies; Credit; Mission and Purpose; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; South America; South Africa; Asia; Latin America; Africa; Southeast Asia
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  • 18 Mar 2011
  • News

Social Networks Will Change Product Innovation

  • 21 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

for celebrity, it was an occasion for more impact. The other difference for her at that time was that she was now on a global stage. Her voice has impact outside of India. She has transcended the boundaries of her industry in terms of her... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video
  • October 2023 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

ghSMART & Co: Building and Scaling a Time Smart Firm

By: Ashley Whillans and Sara Coronel Rodriguez
"For ghSMART, freedom is the first principle from which all good things flow”—Geoff Smart, Chairman and Founder, ghSMART. ghSMART was a leadership advisory firm that was grounded in the principle of freedom. Talented Consultants and Partners could work remotely from... View Details
Keywords: Time; Consulting Firms; Time Management; Talent and Talent Management; Employee Relationship Management; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Reputation
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network?

By: Raghuram Iyengar, Sangman Han and Sunil Gupta

Social networks, such as Facebook and Myspace have witnessed a rapid growth in their membership. Some of these businesses have tried an advertising-based model with very limited success. However, these businesses have not fully explored the power of their members to... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Network Effects; Sales; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Web Sites; South Korea
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  • 25 Feb 2019
  • News

Impact investing: a new way to fund cures for cancer

  • 15 Oct 2019
  • News

Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem

develop an impact investing conference in Shanghai. On December 19, 150 pioneers in social enterprise and impact investing, other practitioners, and academics in China gathered... View Details
  • Web

Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

environmental dimension of CSR. Spring 2014 Article What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan Organizations with View Details
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Students Ready to Make an Impact

highlights the wide-ranging interests and impact of the School’s entrepreneurially minded MBA students. A conversation with two faculty members provides an overview of the many resources available to students at HBS, and three stories... View Details
  • 18 Jun 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Evaluating the Impact of SA 8000 Certification

Keywords: by Michael J. Hiscox, Claire Schwartz & Michael W. Toffel
  • 17 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet

consumers. Social networks and the easy connections they facilitate are transforming social life and have helped to elect a President. They also increase productivity in the larger economy. How can we... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising; Publishing
  • Web

Climate Impact - Business & Environment

Alumni Climate Impact Alumni Climate Impact Alumni Founders: How is Your Company Accelerating Climate Solutions? Eric Adamson MBA 2013 | Co-Founder & CEO, Tortuga AgTech “At Tortuga AgTech, we’re building... View Details
  • 04 Feb 2022
  • Book

Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries

Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • May 2017 (Revised November 2017)
  • Case

Cotopaxi: Managing Growth for Good

By: Andy Wu and Laura Huang
Cotopaxi, an innovative outdoor gear business targeting millennials, focuses on profit and social impact. This registered benefit corporation was formed by Davis Smith who coalesced his experiences as a Wharton MBA student along with professional knowledge from an... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Social Venture; Benefit Corporation; B-Corp; Retail; Consumer Products; Apparel; Social Impact; Social Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Product Positioning; Social Enterprise; Mission and Purpose; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry
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  • February 2021 (Revised March 2022)
  • Teaching Note

Measuring Impact at JUST Capital

By: Ethan C. Rouen and Charles C.Y. Wang
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  • 05 Nov 2019
  • Blog Post

Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact

What do you do on a day-to-day basis? It varies quite a lot. In general, I’m focused on thinking about how we’ll scale up our production, first to make more prototypes, and eventually to the point where we are a mature company with... View Details
  • Web

Impact & Testimonials | Information Technology

Impact & Testimonials 2,000+ online sessions and counting Originally launched in 2015, HBS Live Online Classrooms were moved onto campus in 2020 and completely updated to reflect the latest developments in program design and delivery... View Details
  • June 2019
  • Article

Social Risk, Fiscal Risk, and the Portfolio of Government Programs

By: Samuel G. Hanson, David S. Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam
We develop a model of government portfolio choice in which a benevolent government chooses the scale of risky projects in the presence of market failures and tax distortions. These two frictions generate motives to manage social risk and fiscal risk. Social risk... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Government and Politics; Programs
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