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Tony Shu | MBA

Tony Shu Sociology Kirkland 2021 Cohort 2 As Harvard students, we not only get the chance to intimately observe and study our broader communities, but we also have the responsibility and opportunity to work to positively impact these... View Details
  • 24 May 2022
  • Blog Post

Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan

director of state operations, he was charged with keeping priority projects on track and handling any related crises. A year and a half into his job, the pandemic hit, and he became the point person for the state’s COVID response efforts.... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

Summing Up Do Concerns About Job Creation By Small Businesses Miss The Point? Judging from responses to this month's column, there appears to be a visceral reaction to any suggestion that small business fails to live up to the many... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The HBS Fund

Business Become More Sustainable The notion of “doing well by doing good” is gaining momentum as business leaders and investors realize that social responsibility can improve the bottom line. That’s why HBS Online introduced a course on... View Details

    Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr.

    McCormick was responsible for International Harvester’s successful consolidation. During his tenure, the firm developed more efficient types of machines, research departments were greatly expanded with “model farms” set up throughout the... View Details
    Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
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    Smokestacks at the Ford Rouge Plant - 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
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    Electrical factory of Moscow - 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
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    Assessing the Impact of CEO Activism

    By: Aaron K Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
    CEO activism refers to corporate leaders speaking out on social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their company’s core business. Distinct from nonmarket strategy and traditional corporate social responsibility, the recent wave of CEO activism... View Details
    Keywords: Business And Society; Leadership; Policy; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Governance; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Public Opinion
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    • 20 Aug 2019
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World?

    Keywords: Re: Rebecca M. Henderson & George Serafeim; Financial Services
    • February 1979 (Revised December 1983)
    • Case

    Allied Chemical Corp. (A)

    By: George C. Lodge and Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
    Describes Allied, the chemical industry, and the effects of the Kepone problem (a toxic pesticide dumped into the James River) as of 1976. The executive in the case must decide whether the company should support the passage of the Toxic Substances Control Act and an... View Details
    Keywords: Pollutants; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decision Making; Laws and Statutes; Welfare; Legal Liability; Business and Government Relations; Chemical Industry
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Executive Compensation and Environmental Harm

    By: Dylan Minor
    We explore the relationship between managerial incentives and environmental harm. We find that high-powered executive compensation packages can increase the odds of environmental law breaking by 40%–60% and the magnitude of environmental harm by over 100%. We document... View Details
    Keywords: Misconduct; Environmental Performance; Accounting Scandal; Sustainable Finance; Crime and Corruption; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Executive Compensation; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance
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    • March 2010 (Revised March 2013)
    • Teaching Note

    Goldman Sachs: The 10,000 Women Initiative (TN)

    By: Christopher Marquis, V. Kasturi Rangan and Bobbi Thomason
    Teaching Note for [509042]. View Details
    Keywords: Programs; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Gender; Networks; Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Entrepreneurship; Business Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Quality Provision, Expected Firm Altruism and Brand Extensions

    By: Julio J. Rotemberg
    This paper studies quality choice in a model where consumers expect firms to act altruistically. It is shown that, under plausible assumptions regarding this altruism and the reaction of consumers to firms that demonstrate insufficient altruism, existing firms (or... View Details
    Keywords: Brands and Branding; Consumer Behavior; Product Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Quality; Mathematical Methods
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    • November 2008 (Revised April 2010)
    • Case

    The Bridgespan Group: Chapter 2

    By: Allen S. Grossman, Naomi Greckol-Herlich and Cathy Ross
    The Bridgespan Group was launched in 2000 by management consulting group Bain & Company as a nonprofit focused on strategy consulting for nonprofits and philanthropists. Over the next eight years, Bridgespan expanded its services to include executive search, knowledge... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Consulting Industry
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    • 06 Nov 2012
    • Op-Ed

    Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities

    The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
    Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
    • 22 Aug 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Investors as Stewards of the Commons?

    Keywords: by George Serafeim
    • March 12, 2024
    • Editorial

    Best Practices for Family Philanthropy

    By: Christina R. Wing
    Philanthropy is a key priority for many families, but when sitting down and considering where to start, the vast options can be overwhelming. Social impact is not supposed to be a chore, but rather something you and your family can appreciate and look forward to... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Enterprise; Family Business; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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    • March 1, 2023
    • Editorial

    To Overcome Resistance to DEI, Understand What’s Driving It

    By: Eric Shuman, Eric Knowles and Amit Goldenberg
    Employees often resist DEI initiatives, which of course hinders their effectiveness. The authors—experts in the resistance to social-change efforts—write that the key to overcoming resistance to any effort is figuring out why people are resisting. When it comes to DEI... View Details
    Keywords: Diversity; Conflict and Resolution; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Employees
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    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose

    By: Malcolm S. Salter
    In this paper, I address how the ascendance of the theory of shareholder value maximization into the central consciousness of public corporations and its canonization as the only legitimate expression of corporate purpose has contributed to both a widening breach... View Details
    Keywords: Capitalism; Justice; Corporate Purpose; Shareholder Value Maximization; Ethical Reciprocity; Economic Systems; Business Ventures; Mission and Purpose; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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    Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: A Paradigm Shift

    By: Ethan Rouen and George Serafeim
    The last decade has seen an exponential increase in corporate sustainability activities and efforts by investors to use these activities in their portfolio formation, valuation, and stewardship activities. This paper explains the need for a uniform strategy to measure... View Details
    Keywords: Impact-Weighted Accounts; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Standards
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