Impact - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2008
News

Good Luck Charm

Far from the Great White Way, the Big Apple also shines brightly, in the neighborhood arts-and-culture scene that thrives throughout the city’s boroughs. Those lively goings-on are often made possible through the good work of Lisa Quiroz (MBA ’90), senior vice... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

25 Feb 2020
News

Profits and Purpose

measure the environmental and societal impacts of companies, how we can analyze them, and then how do we standardize them to create a race to innovation instead of a race to the bottom. Because then you can actually start mobilizing... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

28 Jun 2022
Cold Call Podcast

Scaling a Fintech Startup for the Greater Good

Keywords: Re: Emily Williams; Financial Services

April 2017
Article

The Responsibilities and Role of Business in Relation to Society: Back to Basics?

By: Nien-he Hsieh

In this address, I outline a back-to-basics approach to specifying the responsibilities and role of business in relation to society. Three “basics” comprise the approach. The first is arguing that basic principles of ordinary morality, such as a duty not to harm,... View Details

Keywords: Business And Society; Corporate Responsibility; Harm; Human Rights; Institutions; Pareto Efficiency; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Moral Sensibility; Society; Rights

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December 1992
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Negotiation Exercise on Tradeable Pollution Allowances: Group B, Utility #2

By: Willis M. Emmons III

Describes the position of Utility #2 in negotiating Group B with respect to 1) its SO emissions reduction requirements; 2) the costs of its alternative compliance strategies; and 3) the nature of its state regulatory environment. View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Pollutants; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governance Compliance; Utilities Industry

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Dissertation

Voluntary Environmental Management Initiatives: Smoke Signals or Smoke Screens?

By: Michael W. Toffel

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Management

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08 Mar 2018
News

How HBS Gives Back

Staff volunteers from across HBS pitch in to help sort donations at the Cradles to Crayons warehouse in Brighton A recent installment of Up Close—which features the day-to-day work of HBS and the people who do it—offers a look at the diverse ways that HBS faculty,... View Details

20 Jan 2016
News

Water for the World

Jon Olafsson (OPM 24, 1996), a former music industry executive and media mogul, is chairman and cofounder of Icelandic Glacial, the world’s first certified carbon-neutral manufacturer of natural spring water. In this video, he talks about the company’s goal to both... View Details

16 Mar 2018
News

Giving Back to Help The Next Generation

Jennifer Kelm Sergio (MBA 2010) Jennifer Kelm Sergio (MBA 2010) Jennifer Kelm Sergio (MBA 2010) remembers applying to HBS and being concerned about both the financial burden of tuition and forgoing income for two years. “Finding out that the School had such a strong... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Building a better India through business and philanthropy

Known for understanding opportunities ahead of the curve, Ajay Piramal (AMP 110, 1992) led his family’s business away from textiles to pharmaceuticals in the 1980s. “Our guiding principle has been to build businesses that deliver long-term value for our stakeholders,”... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Rock Center Dedication

In June, members of the HBS community gathered to thank Arthur Rock (MBA ’51) for his recent $25 million gift and to dedicate The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. Praising Rock as a pioneering San Francisco–based venture capitalist, Dean Kim B. Clark observed,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Research Summary

Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

01 Jan 2014
News

To Spot Financial Trouble Early, Use Three Circles: A conversation with Blythe McGarvie of Harvard Business School

26 May 2016
News

2016 Alumni Achievement Awards

Internet company. We want to be in businesses that have a very big impact with deep connections to people.” “Today, Bharti Foundation runs 254 rural schools through its Satya Bharti School Program. In all, our education initiatives reach... View Details

16 Nov 2017
News

The Business of Social Justice

University that provided 650 Boston teens with summer jobs and programs. Brooks then moved on to Citizens Bank as the senior vice president and director of charitable giving. She worked to narrow the bank foundation’s giving areas from nine to four to increase its... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Jun 2023
News

Action Plan: Net Proceeds

“I’m a root-cause kind of guy,” says Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), reflecting on a military, government, and civilian career that has taken him from counterdrug operations in Colombia to assisting with the peace process in Sudan to rebuilding the health care system in... View Details

Keywords: April White; recycling; corporate social responsibility; waste management; water; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services