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  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

corporations' environmental transparency. We also focus on the extent to which corporate environmental disclosure is symbolic and, in particular, what leads corporations to selectively disclose relatively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

food to be resold at a significant discount. Rauch faced significant challenges in the implementation and execution of his plan, notably legal hurdles related to selling View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • August 2021
  • Supplement

Danone S.A.: Becoming a Mission-Driven Company (C)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Emilie Billaud
Describes the events that took place in the first year after Danone became France’s first “entreprise à mission” (mission-driven company). View Details
Keywords: Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Environmental Sustainability; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; France; Europe
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  • August 2021
  • Supplement

Danone S.A.: Becoming a Mission-Driven Company (B)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Emilie Billaud
Describes the events that took place in the first six months after Danone became France’s first “entreprise à mission” (mission-driven company). View Details
Keywords: Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Environmental Sustainability; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; France; Europe
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  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

corporate leaders speaking out on social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their core business. In the first study of this phenomenon, we investigate how CEO activism can influence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

in the country's economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to systematically examine the impact of a wide range... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

lifecycle analysis, food waste is a major factor,” having tremendous harmful environmental impacts due to the unnecessary expenditure of natural... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 24 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 24

differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 CEOs... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

rate of 37% is fairly close to the model's estimated welfare-maximizing taxation rate of 42%. Reducing corruption provides the largest potential impact for welfare gain through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

rated. We hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms that receive poor ratings, and especially those that face lower-cost opportunities to improve or that anticipate greater benefits from doing so. We test our hypotheses in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 23 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

of Inclusive Growth Strategies, written with George Serafeim, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Eduardo Tugendhat, Director View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

array of the impacts that they generate (or can influence), from environmental conditions to employee health and safety to social conditions like the quality View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

examines the evolution of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. It focuses on two companies, Bayer and Henkel, that have been identified as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are no longer adequate to serve as the primary unit of analysis. Over the years, systems View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

catastrophic risks to patients, physicians, pharmaceutical firms, and regulators. Between the early 1960s and the present, national systems were built to collect, standardize, and respond to individual reports of side effects, with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

underlying need for companies to not only monitor but also improve their performance” "Companies are monitoring the impact they're having environmentally and on society, and the appointment View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing
  • 05 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 5

address the diverse values and interests of their companies' stakeholders. Publisher's link: http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/productdetail.kmod?productid=4059 May 2015 Environmentally Responsible Supply... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jan 2022
  • In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

from 2022 will help us start to understand the impact of these new technologies and, I hope, allow us to move forward in pursuing a more thoughtful, more evidence-driven vision View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

to self-disclose violations of environmental laws and regulations in exchange for reduced sanctions. We find that facilities are more likely to self-disclose if they were recently subjected to one View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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