Corporate Social Responsibility - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 1997
News

Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

sustainable deals can be applied to international and financial transactions. Also crossing unit lines is Professor Richard E. Walton who contributes expertise in strategic negotiation to the examination of economic and social contracts... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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2.1.4 Classroom Non-Attribution | MBA

respond within fast-moving discussions, and everybody will make mistakes, all as part of the HBS learning process. In training to take on positions of responsibility and make consequential decisions with limited information and time,... View Details

18 Oct 2016
Op-Ed

Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

wellness initiatives at the center of its Corporate Social Responsibility strategy. The move dovetails with the company’s new focus on wellness as a priority business category.... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko; Health

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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

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

01 Mar 2007
News

Gore All Business at HBS

how business and governments worldwide had worked together to resolve the ozone-depletion problem by tightening regulations and by eliminating the use of CFCs through improved and cost-saving industrial processes. Indeed, companies that are not View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

27 Jun 2022
Lecture

The Power of Trust

By: Sandra J. Sucher

We were delighted to be joined by Professor Sandra Sucher of Harvard Business School, a leading researcher on management practice and the author of The Power of Trust, to explore the core elements underpinning trust in business and to talk about some real-world... View Details

Keywords: Trust; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Culture; Leadership

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09 Nov 2021
News

Weighing Big Tech’s Promise to Black America

As part of a recent cover story in WIRED about Netflix’s racial equity pledge, the magazine spoke to the company’s human resources director, Aaron Mitchell (MBA 2011), who led the project. The article notes that Mitchell helped craft the company’s approach, which... View Details

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Skilled fingers required for Philcos - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The Exhibition The Request The Response... View Details

Peter Vundla

Keywords: Advertising; Marketing

26 Jan 2016
First Look

January 26, 2016

three adaptive functions: deceiving others, social status, and psychological benefits. We suggest potential directions for future research. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50431 forthcoming Journal of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Apr 2023
Blog Post

New MBA Course Asks Students: What’s More Important—Purpose or Profits?

And as ChatGPT made worldwide headlines, Crampton spoke to students about how the company is developing AI with social responsibility in mind. “I wish I had a course like SPF in my RC year,” said Angela Son,... View Details

11 Aug 2022
News

Why Companies Aren't Living Up to Their Climate Pledges

15 Jun 2021
News

The Path Ahead

There will be a tax to long-term shareholder value, but the trade-off is that it might elevate our societies. In India, for instance, the Companies Act requires Indian companies to spend 2 percent of their profits on corporate View Details

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

07 Sep 2021
News

September 2021 Alumni Books

moments of a boy’s life. Silent Winds, Dry Seas is a poetic, powerful, and universal novel of identity and place, of the legacies of colonialism, tradition, modernity, and emigration, and of what a family will sacrifice for its children to thrive. Direct Selling: A... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

18 Jun 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Why Leaders Need Great Books

Agee Professor of Social Ethics and the acclaimed author of 50 books including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Children of Crisis, agreed to offer a course he had taught elsewhere at Harvard, where he let students talk about literature. These... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

March 2025
Teaching Note

Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena: Ticket to a Greener Future

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 325-110. CEO Tim Leiweke reviewed the process by which his newly formed Oak View Group had managed a major rebuild of a landmark arena in Seattle which attracted a National Hockey League franchise and major entertainers concerned about... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Sports; Entertainment; Development Economics; Environmental Sustainability; Leadership; Bids and Bidding; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Seattle