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Evolution of the Social Enterprise Conference | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

catalyzing solutions around them. If you read the front page of the newspaper any day, it's increasingly obvious that social and environmental externalities cannot be separated... View Details
  • July 2012 (Revised July 2014)
  • Case

Warby Parker: Vision of a 'Good' Fashion Brand

By: Christopher Marquis and Laura Velez Villa
In its third year of existence and poised to double its workforce, Warby Parker attributed its success to an innovative approach in the eyewear industry and to the company culture that supported it. With a mission combining social and business goals, the company had... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Business And Society; Social Responsiblity; Organizational Behavior; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Brands and Branding; Organizational Culture; Marketing Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
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  • 2018
  • Chapter

New Prospects for Organizational Democracy?: How the Joint Pursuit of Social and Financial Goals Challenges Traditional Organizational Designs

By: Julie Battilana, Michael Fuerstein and Michael Lee
For an extended period during the first half of the 20th century, industrial democracy was a vibrant movement, with ideological and organizational ties to a thriving unionism. In 2015, however, things look different. While there are instances of democracy in the... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Values and Beliefs; Integration; Theory
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  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

It made a difference in the world in such a short time frame, which speaks to how dynamic this space is and how motivated the students are to bring about change. What will the picture look like in another decade? VG: Historically, much... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

on a variety of social and environmental issues, and the companies receiving investments were involved in businesses as diverse as clean energy... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 08 Apr 2011
  • News

Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative Adds Six Experts to Advisory Board

  • 02 Aug 2022
  • Research & Ideas

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 2006
  • Chapter

Designing Sustainability at BMW Group: The Designworks/USA Experience

By: Kellie McElhaney, Michael W. Toffel and Natalie Hill
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Auto Industry; Germany; United States
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  • January 2015 (Revised November 2016)
  • Case

Stella McCartney

By: Anat Keinan and Sandrine Crener
Stella McCartney launched her own fashion house under her name in a partnership with the luxury conglomerate Kering as a 50/50 joint venture in 2001. A lifelong vegetarian, Stella McCartney does not use any leather or fur in her collections, which include women's... View Details
Keywords: Luxury; Luxury Brand; Luxury Fashion; Fashion; Sustainability; Social Corporate Responsibility; Marketing Partnerships; Entrepreneurship; Cause Marketing; Ethical Marketing; Charity Goods; Sustainable Fashion; Ethical Fashion; Designer Brand; Stella McCartney; Brand Positioning; Growth Strategy; Brand Extension; Brand Communication; Kering Group; H＆M; Adidas; Product Positioning; Business Conglomerates; Competitive Advantage; Environmental Sustainability; Brands and Branding; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • 28 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

Associates. A social responsibility strategy should fulfill two goals: create a positive social impact, and enhance the company's brand, reputation, employee morale, and/or its... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Nov 2022
  • News

Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future

organizing committee. “Consumers, workers, government, and financial institutions are putting increasing pressure on companies to provide more sustainable products and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 03 Feb 2018
  • Op-Ed

How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility

do so, investment funds will need to collect new data. The good news is that over the past decades, many initiatives have contributed to developing standards to assess companies’ social performance. The View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
  • 11 Jan 2021
  • News

A Step Toward Making Your Company More Sustainable

  • 06 Mar 2025
  • Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities

Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's... View Details
  • January 8, 2013
  • Other Article

Richest Universities Are Too Quiet on Sustainable Investing

By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim
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  • January 2013 (Revised August 2013)
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Vietnam: Sustaining the Growth of an Asian Tiger

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels
The case tracks Vietnam's economic policy choices and performance from the end of the Vietnam war to the Doi Moi economic reforms and the economic transformation that followed. Throughout this period, the country had become a darling of the international aid community.... View Details
Keywords: Conflict Management; Leadership; Policy; Transformation; Economic Growth; Developing Countries and Economies; Macroeconomics; Viet Nam
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  • 09 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

Global Reporting Initiative), all designed to foster exemplary social and environmental performance. Alongside NGOs, foundations are using their money to advance a business-led... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
  • 12 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy

What a company externally reports shapes how it behaves internally. The key question is, "What should companies report?" A new reporting practice--"integrated reporting," which integrates measures of financial and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Eccles; Accounting
  • 25 Jan 2018
  • News

Investing in India’s Nonprofits to Overcome Poverty Sustainably

Khushboo Maheshwari (MBA 2012) is new initiatives leader of The/Nudge Foundation and director and head of N/Core, which support nonprofits working on problems related to poverty in India. In this interview,... View Details
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Growth of the Social Enterprise

growth. Why? HBS's Jane Wei-Skillern and Duke-based colleague Beth Battle Anderson discuss their analysis of some 300 social enterprises. Tishler: How do you distinguish between branches View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler