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    Mavath R. Chandran

    Keywords: Agribusiness
    • 02 Oct 2013
    • News

    Pozens Establish $80,000 Charter School Prize in Boston

    • 01 Dec 2004
    • News

    Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs

    HBS has received a $25 million gift to support doctoral programs from Hansjoerg Wyss (MBA ’65), an entrepreneur who built Synthes, Inc., into a leading international medical-device company specializing in orthopedic instruments and implants. “One of the greatest... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
    • 01 Mar 2007
    • News

    Gore All Business at HBS

    students during a talk titled “A Change in Business Climate” presented in Burden Auditorium in December. Gore explained that the population explosion, coupled with the revolutions in science and technology, have greatly magnified the View Details
    Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Scientific Research and Development Services
    • 29 Oct 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Public Sentiment and the Price of Corporate Sustainability

    Keywords: by George Serafeim
    • 12 Mar 2018
    • Op-Ed

    Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist

    Cecilie Arcurs BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s recent letter to all CEOs in the S&P 500 has reignited the never-ending debate of “shareholders versus stakeholders.” Titled “A Sense of Purpose,” Fink’s letter is both inspiring and blunt. It does not pull its punches as... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George; Banking
    • 2007
    • Book

    Carbon Strategies: How Leading Companies Are Reducing Their Climate Change Footprint

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman
    Carbon Strategies describes specific steps any business can take to implement sound, practical, climate-related corporate policies. Based on Andrew J. Hoffman’s widely praised report from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, and significantly revised in light of... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Business Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Policy
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    • April 14, 2015
    • Article

    The Type of Socially Responsible Investments That Make Firms More Profitable

    By: George Serafeim
    Keywords: Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Sustainability; Investing; Investment Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Profit; Investment; Environmental Sustainability
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    • 29 Mar 2023
    • News

    Giving Hope and Comfort

    Jeff Feingold (MBA 1997) launched Hope and Comfort out of his Boston-area garage in 2011 to address the issue of hygiene insecurity in Massachusetts. "If you don't have basic hygiene products, it's very hard to stay clean, healthy, and confident," he explains. "No one... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2014
    • News

    Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes

    Every company needs a strategy—a forward-looking plan for the future—and every company needs to keep that bottom line growing through sales. But all too often, the folks devising the grand plan and the folks sealing the deals are not on the same page. In his new book,... View Details
    Keywords: Maureen Harmon; faculty research; faculty books
    • 01 Jan 2012
    • News

    Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977

    Co-Chairman, Loews Corporation Download Tisch profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1949 Born, Asbury Park, New Jersey 1971 Earns BS, Hotel Administration, Cornell University 1971 Joins Loews as Marketing Associate 1979 Appointed... View Details
    • November 2023 (Revised May 2024)
    • Case

    Kickstarter: Crowdfunding for the Arts

    By: Rohit Deshpandé and Alexis Lefort
    Kickstarter was a virtual crowdfunding platform and community that allowed creators of all kinds to raise funding for creative projects. The executive team was wrestling with a tension in its business model: the organization earned the majority of its revenue from... View Details
    Keywords: Fundraising; Mission; Crowdfunding; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Arts; Web Services Industry; United States
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Second- versus Third-party Audit Quality: Evidence from Global Supply Chain Monitoring

    By: Maria R. Ibanez, Ashley Palmarozzo, Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
    Capitalizing on the superior credibility and flexibility and potential lower cost of external assessments, many global buyers are relying less on their own employee (“second-party”) auditors and more on third-party auditors to monitor and prevent environmental and... View Details
    Keywords: Auditing; Audit Quality; Working Conditions; Sustainability; Empirical Operations; Empirical Service Operations; Sustainability Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Supply Chain Management
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    • July 2018
    • Teaching Plan

    Joan Bavaria and Multi-Dimensional Capitalism

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Valeria Giacomin
    This Teaching Plan accompanies the case HBS No. 317-028, “Joan Bavaria and Multi-Dimensional Capitalism.” It provides guidelines for class discussion, as well as a board plan. The case traces the origins of sustainable finance and investor activism through the career... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Investment; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career
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    • September 2006 (Revised November 2007)
    • Case

    Patrimonio Hoy: A Financial Perspective

    By: Arthur I Segel, Michael Chu and Gustavo A. Herrero
    Patrimonio Hoy, a program targeting the housing needs of low-income families launched by CEMEX, a major Mexican corporation and a leading global cement company, has gone from a market research project to a highly visible initiative in 22 cities and has earned public... View Details
    Keywords: Diversification; Housing; Income; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Emerging Markets; Finance; Mexico
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    • April 1991 (Revised November 1997)
    • Case

    Levi Strauss & Co. and the AIDS Crisis

    By: Richard S. Tedlow
    Keywords: Health Disorders; Employee Relationship Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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    • 29 Aug 2024
    • News

    A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

    When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12 months. They wanted to support... View Details
    • 30 Mar 2022
    • News

    Giving Hope and Comfort

    Jeff Feingold (MBA 1997) aims to put himself out of business. “That’s the real goal,” says the founder of Hope and Comfort, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that distributes basic hygiene products. Feingold estimates that, in Massachusetts alone, there are a million... View Details
    • 16 Mar 2020
    • News

    Moderna Announces Start of Coronavirus Vaccine Testing

    • 19 Aug 2019
    • News

    A New Purpose for the Corporation

    Offering an update of their statement on “the purpose of a corporation”, the Business Roundtable, an influential group of some of America’s top chief executives, noted that “we share a fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders”—and not just their shareholders.... View Details