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- 26 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus
Compassion (Harvard Business Review) Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Read COVID-19 coverage... View Details
- October 2020 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
Divesting Harvard's Endowment
By: Daniel Green, Luis M. Viceira and Holly Fetter
By early 2020 Harvard University was facing growing pressure from students, faculty, and alumni to divest its $40 billion endowment of financial stakes in fossil fuel producers. Its previous policy of avoiding the issue was quickly becoming outdated—$21 trillion of... View Details
Keywords: Divestment; Harvard University; ESG; Higher Education; Investment Portfolio; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Green, Daniel, Luis M. Viceira, and Holly Fetter. "Divesting Harvard's Endowment." Harvard Business School Case 221-009, October 2020. (Revised February 2024.)
- August 2021
- Case
Danone S.A.: Becoming a Mission-Driven Company (A)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Emilie Billaud
Emmanuel Faber became CEO of Danone SA, the French food and beverage company, in 2014. Right from the start, he ran the company with a dual commitment to both profit and purpose (i.e., ESG objectives). In fact, in 2018, he said, “It’s time to make sustainable business... 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
Esty, Benjamin C., and Emilie Billaud. "Danone S.A.: Becoming a Mission-Driven Company (A)." Harvard Business School Case 722-354, August 2021.
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
Recreational marijuana is legal in 18 states. Scant attention has been paid, however, to the profound impact that federal legalization would have on the cannabis market. Essentially, it would squeeze out the illicit cannabis market, along... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- January 2025
- Case
Netflix: Takedown Troubles
By: Clayton S. Rose, Tom Quinn and Maxim Pike Harrell
In October 2021, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos sent an all-staff email addressing backlash to comedian Dave Chappelle’s new stand-up special, The Closer. Released on October 5, the comedian’s depiction of the transgender community and other LGBTQ+ groups prompted... View Details
Keywords: Change; Disruption; Competency and Skills; Talent and Talent Management; Customers; Customer Satisfaction; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Demographics; Ethics; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Human Resources; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Leadership; Management; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Society; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Strategic Planning; Adaptation; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
- 2020
- Book
Better, Not Perfect: A Realist's Guide to Maximum Sustainable Goodness
By: Max Bazerman
Every day, you make hundreds of decisions. They’re largely personal, but these choices have an ethical twinge as well; they value certain principles and ends over others. Bazerman argues that we can better balance both dimensions—and we needn’t seek perfection to make... View Details
Bazerman, Max. Better, Not Perfect: A Realist's Guide to Maximum Sustainable Goodness. New York: Harper Business, 2020.
- 26 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
innovations. The Summit featured speakers from companies such as Closed Loop Partners, NextEra Energy, Energy Impact Partners, Dow, United Airlines, KKR, BlackRock, Google, Walmart, KPMG, and others. The interview below is a feature of... View Details
- Web
Business Insights Blog | HBS Online
Renewal Leading with Finance Management Essentials Negotiation Mastery Organizational Leadership Power and Influence for Positive Impact Strategic Financial Analysis Strategy Execution Sustainable Business Strategy Sustainable Investing... View Details
- 03 May 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the First HBS African-American Mother-Daughter Duo
work, she’s continued to drive impact through her current five Corporate/Non-Profit boards helping to strengthen their governance and commitment to diversity and inclusion. So I knew at an early age that I wanted to go to business school... View Details
- 19 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations
using what I learned in previous jobs and at HBS. I hope to get to know the organization – the people and what they do – more deeply. And I want to have one project I can own and see to its conclusion. This article was originally published on HBS Social Enterprise... View Details
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
concentration in the origins of invention. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51660 Cohort Turnover and Operational Performance: The July Phenomenon in Teaching Hospitals By: Song, Hummy, Robert S. Huckman, and Jason R. Barro... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Organizations Create Social Value
A recent study on the factors that contribute to successful high-performance social enterprises finds a connection between enterprises that link economic value with social value. This was the focus of a study presented at the colloquium, "The Social Enterprise... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 17 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Managers Stifle Creativity
Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, reflected on her research and its impact in an essay in Perspectives on Psychological Science, Educating Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World (pdf). More recently, she... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
accelerating research on big, multidisciplinary problems. Their success will be defined by the impact of the research, the creation of a more porous and dynamic research ecosystem, the integration of new content and insights into the... View Details
- 18 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior
have a weaker memory of their own unethical rather than ethical experience,” the researchers write. “But when taking a third-person perspective (which is less threatening to their own moral self-image), type of behavior doesn’t impact... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
love to her patients and the people around her, always thinking about others first. I did not realize her love could have such a big impact on my life when I was a child. But gradually I realized she was the reason I am such a loving and... View Details
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John H. McArthur | About
effort and restructured the School’s publishing arm to expand the reach and impact of the School and its thought leadership throughout the world. He launched “Leadership and Learning,” a comprehensive MBA curriculum review. During... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
value freedom—they say, people have their own agency,” Rouen says. “Therefore, it’s their responsibility if they get sick or not, so governments have less fear of being blamed.” Healthcare woes linked with higher underreporting The researchers also found that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
creditors, ‘I'm only paying you half of what I owe.’” Meanwhile, creditors should be open to working more closely with management on a plan for reorganization before heading into court, especially knowing many firms are experiencing only temporary setbacks as a result... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 2024
- Working Paper
Principles and Content for Downstream Emissions Disclosures
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
In a previous paper, we proposed the E-liability carbon accounting algorithm for companies to measure and subsequently reduce their own and their suppliers’ emissions. Some investors and stakeholders, however, want companies to also be accountable for downstream... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Disclosure; Carbon Footprint; Climate Change; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Disclosure; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Kaplan, Robert S., and Karthik Ramanna. "Principles and Content for Downstream Emissions Disclosures." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-050, January 2024.