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  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Corporate Sustainability: A Strategy?

By: George Serafeim
We explore the conditions under which firms maintain their competitive advantage through sustainability-based differentiation when faced with imitation pressures by industry peers. We document growing intraindustry convergence on sustainability actions over time for... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Corporate Performance; Industry Analysis; CSR; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Environment; Social Responsibility; Strategy And Execution; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Performance; Corporate Strategy
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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

initial foundation of this body of work. This large body of work includes numerous theoretical and empirical papers on the concept of clusters and their impact on economic performance. He also created the Cluster Mapping Project,... View Details
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FAQs - Alumni

materials & lighting; increased healthier, lower emissions plant-based food offerings; and improved landscaping practices. *Note: SRECs, which represent the environmental benefit, are sold to the Harvard Utility to meet State Renewable Energy Requirements. What View Details
  • 21 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

People Trust Business, But Expect CEOs to Drive Social Change

Public trust in business remains relatively unshaken amid economic turbulence and a lingering pandemic, even as faith in the media and government falters, but leaders could do more to address social issues, a new global opinion survey shows. However, not everyone... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • Program

Compensation Committees

trends in executive compensation Examine the impact of regulatory issues in different countries Respond to a more vigilant investor community Create successful compensation plans and processes Design better incentive systems and know the... View Details
  • Research Summary

Current Research

Ian studies extrinsic rewards -- monetary incentives from formal compensation systems, as well as other formal and informal external rewards-- in order to help businesses understand the tensions and tradeoffs inherent in motivating employees. His research takes a... View Details

  • 13 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part

In the spring of 2020, Kenneth Chenault (MBA 2019), Kevin Chenault (MBA 2021), Carter Lewis (MBA 2023), Lindsey Ferguson, Nicolle Mora, and Sesana Allen were each pursuing their own careers, utilizing their skills and interests to make an View Details
  • June 2007
  • Article

Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in a Structured Market

By: A. E. Roth, Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Unver
Patients needing kidney transplants may have donors who cannot donate to them because of blood or tissue incompatibility. Incompatible patient-donor pairs can exchange donor kidneys with other pairs only when there is a "double coincidence of wants." Developing... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Size; Emotions; Human Needs; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Infrastructure; Supply Chain Management; Fairness; Performance Improvement; Health Industry
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Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online

environments. 4 weeks, 6-7 hrs/week Pay by July 31 $1,850 Certificate Strategy Execution Professor Robert Simons Gain the tools, skills, and frameworks to successfully implement strategy within your organization and drive impactful... View Details
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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

personal and organizational effectiveness. Although specific research interests span a wide range of subjects, the faculty share a problem driven, interdisciplinary, multi method approach that has led to significant impact on theory and... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes

consumers can more flexibly adjust habits. More sophisticated firms take this into account when formulating their strategies and making long-run forecasts. Attention of regulators. The Federal Trade Commission recently released a report about the View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

advantage of an exogenous shock that occurred when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings. Our study is among the first to theorize about the impact of ratings on subsequent performance, and we introduce important contingencies that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis

By: Alan D. MacCormack, John Rusnak and Carliss Y. Baldwin
A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that this organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are... View Details
Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Product Design; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Information Technology Industry
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

sustainability disclosure, and alternative ways of measuring IR. Moreover, I show that investor activism on environmental or social issues or a large number of concerns about a firm's environmental or social View Details
  • 02 May 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Profits and Economic Development

Keywords: by Dan Schwab & Eric Werker
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Finance - Faculty & Research

variety of quasi-experiments, such as price impacts from index reconstitutions, whereas traditional liquidity measures based on gross trading volumes perform poorly. Our bounds prove particularly useful in... View Details
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Asia Pacific - Global

throughout Southeast Asia with nutrient-rich treats, received the Best Investment Award and will represent APAC at the Global Finale. Turmerik and VoxPop AI were honored with the Best Innovation and Best Social Impact Awards,... View Details
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

measurement of the inefficiency due to early transaction times in a naturally occurring market." Lessons about the value of better matching go far beyond the football field, however. As Roth describes in this e-mail Q&A with HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

measures reduce US dependence on supply chains linked to China? And what should we do with prices of imports from Vietnam and Mexico on the rise? Paper on Global Supply Chain Great Reallocation CASE STUDY Acquiring and Engaging Talent for... View Details
  • 21 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 21

by 5%-7% per year in risk-adjusted stock returns. In sum, our results document a surprisingly large impact of immigrants' economic role as conduits of information for firms in their new countries. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne