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  • 06 Nov 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Why Does Business Invest in Education in Emerging Markets? Why Does It Matter?

Keywords: by Valeria Giacomin, Geoffrey Jones, and Erica Salvaj
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

The Politics of Philanthropy in China

By: Geoffrey Jones and Yuhai Wu
This working paper looks historically at business philanthropy in China. In the West, the literature has distinguished between entrepreneurial and customary philanthropy, while the phenomenon of spiritual philanthropy has been identified in many emerging markets. This... View Details
Keywords: China; Philanthropy; Ethics; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Moral Sensibility; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Economic Systems; Economic Sectors; China
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  • October 2021
  • Supplement

Engine No. 1: An Activist Hedge Fund Pursues Stakeholder Capitalism (B)

By: Mark Kramer
Engine Number 1's proxy fight succeeded in part because Exxon shareholders had lost money in the preceding years and because climate change was a high-profile issue. The B case raises the question of whether Engine No. 1's next target should be Facebook, where social... View Details
Keywords: Proxy Fight; Hedge Fund Activism; Social Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Goals and Objectives
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  • December 2014 (Revised October 2017)
  • Case

Social Business at Novartis: Arogya Parivar

By: Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer and David Lane
Late in 2013, Novartis CEO Joseph Jimenez was considering whether or how to deepen the company's investment in Arogya Parivar, its profitable program that sold Novartis medicines in rural India while expanding access to medicine and health information to millions of... View Details
Keywords: Shared Value; India; Kenya; Vietnam; Novartis; Arogya Parivar; Social Business; Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Pharmaceutical Industry; Viet Nam; Kenya; India
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  • July 1998 (Revised March 2000)
  • Case

Champion International

By: Michael Beer and James Weber
Richard Olson, a long-tenured employee, was named CEO of Champion in 1996. Champion had been conducting an organizational transformation since the early 1980s that could be considered successful on most operational and social measures. However, due to industry... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design
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  • 13 Nov 2018
  • Blog Post

Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai: Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology

Innovation Officer and HBS/HKS joint degree alumnus, Shireen Santosham, “I knew she would be able to use someone with an MBA skill set.” “We have a tremendous amount of work and responsibility with a very limited budget,” Shireen says.... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Nonprofit / Government
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Reinventing the Annual Report

types of narratives, and lots of pretty pictures. The amount of detail and the level of complexity in the financial section have grown considerably in response to the increasing onslaught of accounting rules and regulations. What’s more,... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
  • 14 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity

responsibility of fostering other women, starting with her executive team. The first step was sharing her plan with employees and listening to their concerns. The response she received at Princeton Review... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?

diversity, equity, and inclusion.” It was also found that quit rates varied among and within industries. For example, JetBlue’s quit rate was twice as high as Southwest Airlines’. Another important influence was “poor response to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 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
  • 23 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Bringing the Environment Down to Earth

considerations of social responsibility are important, executives who frame environmental problems solely in those terms may overlook the business opportunities and risks that come with such problems. Treating environmental issues like... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt
  • 10 Apr 2014
  • Blog Post

HBS FIELD 2 - A good sneak-peek into consulting

it seems that you won’t get to anything valuable But the responses appear in the end if the work has been done properly”. Before leaving Malaysia we made our final presentation to the CEO. He was satisfied with the results, happy to... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
  • 19 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition

the transition. I believe that a ~$400-billion revenue company like Shell has an out-sized responsibility to commit to transform the energy industry, and I am proud to contribute to accelerate that transition. View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology
  • 01 Sep 2016
  • Blog Post

Reflecting on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program

not only for a business leader but also for someone considering a career in politics like myself. Third, HBS provides many opportunities to take leadership positions. The responsibilities of the HBS Student Association (SA) really amazed... View Details
  • Web

Leadership with purpose: Redefining success and impact with Satpal Singh (SELP—India 4, 2019) - Recruiting

SELP—India, I returned to Legrand with a fresh perspective. The program’s flexible format had allowed me to balance my professional responsibilities with learning, and the transition back to work felt seamless yet profound. Armed with the... View Details
  • Web

Generative AI for Business Leaders - Course Catalog

of industries. We'll identify drivers of change across a range of industries (e.g., professional services, news media, education, advertising, software, and healthcare). Governance of Gen AI, risk management, responsible and ethical AI... View Details
  • Web

Campus Vehicular Access | About

manager must request access in advance via Envoy . Harvard University vehicles are routinely granted access for the purpose of performing service work. As with contractors, the name of the HBS manager responsible for the system in service... View Details
  • 28 Feb 2025
  • News

Alumni Startup Enters the Shark Tank

This Friday night, Remento enters the Shark Tank. The startup, cofounded by CEO Charlie Greene (MBA 2021) in 2021, will be featured on this week’s episode of the long-running business show, pitching its “no-write life story book” vision to Sharks at 8/7c on ABC. We... View Details
  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

Funding His Purpose

the nonprofit sector. In addition to its lending platform, SITAWI offers philanthropic fund management and has partnered with a for-profit consulting firm that focuses on responsible investing to provide additional services to clients. By... View Details
  • 13 Nov 2020
  • News

Students craft their post-HBS lives

distance with you. The advice I received was so much more valuable than anything I ever could have asked him about my career,” adds Danziger. The fall 2020 offering of the course was one of the first to fill during registration. Perlow refined the content based on... View Details