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- March 2023
- Teaching Note
Sustainability Reporting at Dollar Tree, Inc.
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 122-044. The case discusses the ESG strategy of Dollar Tree Inc., a U.S. Fortune 500 company in the deep discount retail industry and the shareholder pressure faced by the company. In 2022, the company faced a shareholder resolution from... View Details
Keywords: ESG; Sustainability; Shareholder Activism; Dollar Tree; Sustainability Reporting; ESG Reporting; Board Of Directors; Shareholder Engagement; GHG; Environmental Accounting; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Trends; Communication; Announcements; Voting; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Reports; Business or Company Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Strategic Planning; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Situation or Environment; Opportunities; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Strategy; Adaptation; Alignment; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation; Retail Industry; United States; Virginia
- 05 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures
through fast-track promotion programs and their colleagues don’t. So, in discussing a promotion or a work-related reward, a manager might consider tossing in a setback encountered earlier in the person’s career to appear more confident and credible, rather than... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration
author Kristen Senz is a social media editor and writer for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. . [Image: isayildiz] Related Reading How To Ask Better Questions It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
value-relevant before disclosure, for negative earnings adjustments it is value-relevant only after disclosure. This finding is consistent with managers delaying the communication of bad news until IFRS compliance. A finer model shows... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work
researchers asked survey respondents a wide range of questions related to their beliefs and preferences. They found that overall, non-binary individuals: Underestimated their own performance more than women, who also underestimate their... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Partners - Case Method Project
CA 21 of 65 Daniel García Chula Vista Learning Community Charter High School San Diego, CA Subjects: Civics CA 22 of 65 Jennifer Golub-Marcus Harvard-Westlake School Studio City, CA CA 23 of 65 David Gracia Esparto High School Esparto, CA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Wheel Change
round last December, is the first professional sports league to be majority-minority owned. “For people under 40, the most popular US sports league is e-gaming,” Wallace explains. “Young people are looking for communities and sports that... View Details
- March 2018
- Teaching Note
Making Target the Target: Boycotts and Corporate Political Activity (A) and (B)
By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Victor Wu
Through the challenges facing Target, the case examines the ways in which corporations can become involved in political and legislative debates and processes, ranging from campaign contributions to lobbying. In 2016, Target CEO Brian Cornell must determine how to... View Details
Keywords: Public Opinion; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Problems and Challenges; Laws and Statutes; Rights; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Media; Political Elections; Taxation; Corporate Accountability; Values and Beliefs; Fairness; Diversity; Customers; Communication; Business and Government Relations; Retail Industry; United States
- 14 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings
to keep working from home part of the time after COVID-19 abates, researchers are probing how virtual interaction might reshape organizations. In the first large-scale analysis of digital communication early in the crisis, the team—Sadun;... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
On the evening of Wednesday, October 11, Alumni Board members joined with current HBS students in the Spangler Center for "A Conversation about Life Lessons", which was led by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. This October, more than 75... View Details
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Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
school nutrition environments in underserv... Techint: Strategic Choices for Community Impact By: Lauren Cohen, Virak Prum, Kenneth Charman, Pedro Levindo and Mariana Cal April 2025 | Faculty Research In early 2024 Erika Bienek, Chief... View Details
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Donor Societies - Alumni
remains the preeminent institution for educating leaders who make a difference in the world. They also join a special community of HBS entrepreneurs—founders, builders, and investors—and have opportunities to develop new and meaningful... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- HBS Case
College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need
who possess not only the hard skills to do technical work, but soft skills, such as communicating and managing, the note asserts. On the flip side, employees who are over-educated for their work tend to leave their positions quickly,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 15 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others
and anecdotal information, but despite having over 65,000 citations in the last 50 years, there have been no large-scale experimental causal tests of this theory as it relates to employment.” Enlisting a LinkedIn algorithm To put the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Suggested Resources: Israel - Hamas War
The resources below have been selected by Baker librarians to help members of our community learn more about the conflict. The list attempts to incorporate a wide range of perspectives to enable the reader to form their own... View Details
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
safety and team learning to identify core ideas and findings in these closely related literatures and to propose a model in which a negative relationship between team member diversity and team collaboration is moderated by psychological... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
interview, conducted via e-mail. Q: In general, what relationship did you find between companies you identified as short-term-oriented, their investors, and the behavior of their stocks? Francois Brochet: Overall, we found a positive association between the horizon... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
California ; Texas Citation Educators Purchase Related Margolis, Joshua D., Matthew Preble, and Dave Habeeb. "Lisa Su and AMD (A)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 425-704, April 2025. Techint: Strategic Choices for View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
relations with the remaining workforce and the press. This process becomes much more complicated when management's compensation is tied to the financial success of the restructuring through stock options and other incentive compensation.... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson