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- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
group had generated. These ranged from stabilizing the company's current carbon emissions to complete carbon neutrality. The UBS Corporate Responsibility Committee would meet early next week. Suter wondered... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
are numerous media accounts of the corporate monolith riding its suppliers into the ground. But what about those who manage to survive, and thrive, while dealing with the classic hardball negotiator? In “Sarah Talley and Frey Farms... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
regardless of location. "A handful of senior consultants will go out and open a new office," he says. "They hire the best talent available in that country and train them to assume total responsibility from their mentors within five to ten... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
Summing Up Judging from responses to the January column, the debate concerning reform of the social security system in the U.S. will take many directions before the question can even be framed adequately. If... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
Texas Instruments were also launched during this time. In fact, the odds on the success of an appropriately directed new venture during a downturn may be higher than in a competitive boom. Entrepreneurs — inside and outside of View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
also have to ask whether the board was asking the right questions or looking at the right factors to be innovative.” He blames a lack of diversity on corporate boards for sometimes impeding their ability to be innovative. “Their... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
2021 AUGUST 12 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation recently announced that it has established a $100 million Social Impact Investment Fund “aimed at advancing racial equity through economic development,... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- November 2019
- Supplement
Hapag-Lloyd AG: Complying with IMO 2020
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney
A new environmental regulation known as IMO 2020 was creating what one industry analyst called “the biggest shakeup for the oil and shipping industries in decades.” According to the new regulation, all ocean-going ships would have to limit their sulfur emissions by... View Details
- Web
2.3.1 Drug & Alcohol Policy | MBA
alcohol or drugs, or with an open container of alcohol. Responsible Social Events Harvard Business School expects students, faculty, and staff in leadership roles (e.g., club presidents or program chairs) to... View Details
- 03 Jun 2019
- News
The Investor Revolution
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
how to implement Performance with Purpose in their local markets. PepsiCo India has made progress under the mission but continues to be challenged by the inherent tension between short-term financial performance and long-term investments in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Visionary, Innovator, Educator - 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
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
question that firms and policy makers need to be thinking about is just what type of good is software? The answer to this question may be shifting just as economic and social life becomes dependent upon a common computing infrastructure.... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- Career Coach
Jessica Mbaeliachi
Jessica (HBS ’13, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ’05) is currently the Executive Director, Corporate Strategy at Bristol Myers Squibb - based in Princeton, NJ. In this role, she is responsible for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
strong when there is a lot of social reinforcement and a strong corporate culture, which was certainly the case at Baxter, as well as at many other kinds of companies today that hire large cohorts of young... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- News
Smarter Farming
Zealand is a contributor, now, towards climate change, with so much of our animals contributing to global warming. And people were becoming very skeptical and cynical about farming's role in New Zealand society, given the social impact it... View Details
- Web
Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
H. Land, "Chairman's Letter," Polaroid Corporation Annual Report 1976, 5. Polaroid advertisements featured the testimony of Polaroid users who claimed their cameras had made them "the life of the party." 78 "The entire process of pose,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
search consultants engaged in CEO selection. He found what he argues is a “market” in name only, operating more on social than economic principles. For example, when a company is perceived to be underperforming and its View Details
- February 2024 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
CPP Investments—The Road to Zero
By: Vikram Gandhi and Radhika Kak
In February 2022, Canadian Pension Plan (CPP) Investments, the investment management organization that managed funds for the CPP, one of the biggest pension plans in the world, announced a net-zero commitment for its portfolio by 2050. Under its CEO, John Graham, it... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Asset Management; Investment Portfolio; Leading Change; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry; Canada; California
Gandhi, Vikram, and Radhika Kak. "CPP Investments—The Road to Zero." Harvard Business School Case 324-054, February 2024. (Revised April 2024.)