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  • January 2009 (Revised May 2009)
  • Case

College Summit: Rethinking the Relationship Between Growth and Impact

By: Stacey M. Childress and Geoff Eckman Marietta
College Summit, a nonprofit organization "committed to the day when every student who can make it in college makes it to college," was faced with an important strategic decision. After growing rapidly at more than 30% a year for the last several years, founder and CEO,... View Details
Keywords: Secondary Education; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Nonprofit Organizations; Education Industry
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  • 01 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

Christopher Stanton Abstract—Wage rigidity creates real and financial frictions, though the real-world drivers of rigidities remain largely unstudied. We use staggered commission reductions at a sales firm to estimate effects on worker... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Naina Lal Kidwai

    Keywords: Financial Services, Banking, Sanitation
    • February 2021
    • Case

    Measuring Impact at JUST Capital

    By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Ethan Rouen
    JUST Capital is a nonprofit organization that seeks to make public companies more "just" by measuring and ranking their overall impact on society, based on the priorities most important to the average American. This case examines JUST's strategy for influencing... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Ethics; Measurement and Metrics; Performance Evaluation; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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      Eva Arias

      Keywords: Mining
      • 26 Feb 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: Feb. 26

      however, have been generated about the reasons why state-owned enterprises listed in stock markets manage to attract investors to buy their shares (and bonds). In this article,... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 23 Jun 2015
      • First Look

      First Look: June 23, 2015

      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 impact leads a firm to practice more IR and that... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • October 2018
      • Supplement

      JetBlue: Relevant Sustainability Leadership (B)

      By: George Serafeim and David Freiberg
      The case outlines JetBlue's decision to disclose according to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards and the ESG metrics they began reporting. Data on resulting changes in institutional ownership are also provided. View Details
      Keywords: Sustainability; Metrics; Leadership And Change Management; Airlines; Innovation; Purpose; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Sustainability Reporting; Change Management; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Financial Reporting
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      • March 8, 2016
      • Article

      How Big Business Created the Politics of Anger

      By: Mark R. Kramer
      Years of enriching shareholders has come home to roost. View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Ethics
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      • November 2024 (Revised January 2025)
      • Case

      Balancing Impact: Modeling the Future at British International Investment

      By: Shawn Cole and Jonah Zahnd
      In 2022, British International Investment (BII), the £8.1 billion development finance arm of the British government, implemented a new impact measurement system called the Impact Score to align its financial and impact objectives systematically. The tool was designed... View Details
      Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Alignment; United Kingdom
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      • 03 Apr 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: April 3, 2007

      particularly if they are affiliated with the underwriter. We analyze how investors account for such distortions. Using the NYSE Trades and Quotations database, we find that large traders adjust their trading View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 21 Sep 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

      demand, such as her prominent role in the recent BBC miniseries “Capital.” But Azmi’s accomplishments have gone way beyond the cinematic, using her leverage as a celebrity and a seat in the Parliament of India to help further the rights... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video
      • 19 Feb 2019
      • Blog Post

      The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition

      illustrious company is a source of motivation to keep working hard and accomplish even more in the future.” Can you tell us about your current work? Pradhan: “I work as a technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) View Details
      Keywords: All Industries
      • 30 Jan 2017
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Environmental Legacies of The North Face's Doug Tompkins and Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard

      Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Ben Gettinger; Apparel & Accessories; Retail
      • October 2024
      • Module Note

      Purpose of the Firm

      By: Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau
      Purpose of the Firm (PoF) is a short module designed to explore how, and under what circumstances, business leaders can harness the power of capitalism and markets to “make a difference in the world”—that is, to address a significant societal problem as a commercial... View Details
      Keywords: Social Accounting; Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Enterprise; Mission and Purpose; Leadership
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      • 05 May 2003
      • Research & Ideas

      Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform

      people were willing to be tempted. Basic fear. Barry R. Goldsmith, executive vice president of enforcement for the National Association of Securities Dealers, who has worked in enforcement for eighteen years, suggested that enforcement by... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 16 Sep 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: September 16

      lower than expected revenues and earnings for the second quarter of 2012. In response to the announcement, its stock price fell 29% (its stock price had fallen from $77 to $11... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 11 Nov 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: November 11

      implementing a national evaluation system of green GDP, and before forming the system complexity model, the easiest issues first can be taken to establish the evaluation system of economic, environmental, and social View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • June 2003 (Revised January 2006)
      • Case

      Xilinx, Inc. (A)

      By: Thomas J. DeLong and Christina Darwall
      Is it possible to create a great business and a company? Wim Roelandts sets out, in the context of Xilinx, to create a high-performance organization without sacrificing the human dimension. Roelandts experiences additional pressure when the company is affected by a... View Details
      Keywords: Business Ventures; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Design
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      • 12 Feb 2019
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

      responses interact with those of other actors, and how these individual and collective responses unfold over time to generate outcomes. Second, we call for stronger unification... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman