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  • Third Quarter 2018
  • Article

Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey

By: Amir Amel-Zadeh and George Serafeim
Using survey data from a sample of senior investment professionals from mainstream (i.e., not SRI funds) investment organizations, we provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to... View Details
Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Sustainability; Investment Management; Investment Strategy; Metrics; Standard Setting; Accounting Standards; Finance; Investment; Information; Environmental Sustainability; Governance; Performance Effectiveness; Strategy
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  • 24 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

would have far reaching consequences. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209060   PublicationsInstructor's Manual to Accompany Corporate Information Strategy and Management: Text and Cases.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2012
  • Book

The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited

By: Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to the economics of... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Nonprofit Organizations; Resource Allocation; Economic Growth; Research and Development
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  • December 2011
  • Article

EXEMPLARY CONTRIBUTION: Transforming Mental Models on Emerging Markets

By: Charles Dhanaraj and Tarun Khanna
Economic growth in the Western world increasingly depends on meaningful engagement with emerging markets such as Brazil, China, India, South Africa, and Turkey. Business schools are responding with increased attention to these markets in their research and curricula.... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Business Model; Economic Growth; Developing Countries and Economies; Research; Business Education; Learning; Financial Institutions; Framework; Transformation; Perspective; India; China; Brazil; South Africa; Turkey
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  • February 2007
  • Tutorial

Measuring Marketing Performance

By: John A. Quelch
In many organizations, marketing exists far from the executive suite and the boardroom. This tutorial instructs students how to improve the link between high level corporate strategy and the marketing function. First, students are exposed to three companies in which... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Performance Evaluation
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  • 2007
  • Other Unpublished Work

Influence and Inefficiency in the Internal Capital Market

By: Julie Wulf
I model inefficient resource allocations in M-form organizations due to influence activities by division managers that skew capital budgets in their favor. Corporate headquarters receives two types of signals about investment opportunities: private signals that can be... View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Investment; Knowledge Acquisition; Managerial Roles; Resource Allocation; Power and Influence
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  • May 1991
  • Article

Presidential Commitment and the Veto

By: Daniel E. Ingberman and Dennis Yao
A president's power to veto is widely recognized as an important weapon in the struggle with Congress over legislation. In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of the veto weapon with a simple model of presidential powers that incorporates informal institutional... View Details
Keywords: Government Legislation; Laws and Statutes; Financial Markets; Value; Taxation; Conflict and Resolution; Research; Performance Effectiveness; Legal Services Industry
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  • 05 Apr 2013
  • News

Gift to Harvard Business School Funds New Professorship on Gender, Work, Career, and Family

  • 17 Jul 2017
  • News

‘The Wisdom of Finance’, by Mihir Desai

  • 13 Mar 2025
  • HBS Seminar

Sonny Tambe, Wharton

    The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)

    While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to the economics of... View Details

      Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation

      As the financial crisis has shown, neither traditional market failure models nor public choice theory, by themselves, sufficiently inform or explain our current regulatory challenges, nor point us toward the best solutions. Regulatory studies, long neglected in an... View Details

        A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties

        The strength of weak ties is an influential social-scientific theory that stresses the importance of weak associations (e.g., acquaintance versus close friendship) in influencing the transmission of information through social networks. However, causal tests of... View Details
        • 01 Sep 2023
        • News

        Preparing Global Leaders

        Illustration by Davide Bonazzi The importance HBS places on fostering a global perspective among its students, program participants, and faculty members is evident when one looks at the numbers: During the past academic year, 52 percent of HBS cases published were... View Details
        • 05 Jul 2012
        • What Do You Think?

        Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

        "transparency, honesty, communication, consistency and predictability are present" in everything we do as managers. Jill Machol noted the importance of keeping employees "informed as information (regarding change) becomes... View Details
        Keywords: by James Heskett
        • September 2004 (Revised December 2004)
        • Case

        Metso Paper: Globalization of Finnish Metal Workshops

        By: Lynda M. Applegate, Marikka Heikkila and Kalle Lyytinen
        Metso Paper, the world's largest producer of paper machines, aims to transform itself into a knowledge- and information-based service and solution provider for the paper industry by aggressively exploiting information technologies. In the fall of 2002, Jorma Hujala, a... View Details
        Keywords: Production; Customer Value and Value Chain; Information Technology; Corporate Strategy; Knowledge Management; Machinery and Machining; Expansion; Service Delivery; Manufacturing Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Finland
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        • November–December 2022
        • Article

        Your Company Needs a Space Strategy. Now.

        By: Matthew Weinzierl, Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Tarun Khanna, Alan MacCormack and Brendan Rosseau
        Space is becoming a potential source of value for businesses across a range of sectors, including agriculture, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, and tourism. To understand what the opportunities are for your company, the authors advise you to consider the four ways in... View Details
        Keywords: Space Strategy; Emerging Markets; Natural Resources; Analytics and Data Science; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Adaptation; Competition; Aerospace Industry
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        • 20 Apr 2011
        • Research & Ideas

        Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

        you will be influenced by self-interested motives and admit defeat to the "want" self. Rather, it's to arm you with accurate information about your most likely response so that you can engage in proactive strategies to reduce... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
        • Web

        All Locations - Recruiting

        75th Percentile Base $30k 35% Receiving $50k 56% Receiving All Locations 100% $150k 25th Percentile Base $175k Median $192k 75th Percentile Base $30k 53% Receiving $48k 65% Receiving Please note salary information is self-reported by... View Details
        • 23 Jan 2008
        • First Look

        First Look: January 23, 2008

          Working PapersA Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism Authors:Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra, and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during the period 1983-2004. The... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace