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  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

actions the activist investors took to get the attention of management, the board, and other investors. The businesses, secure transportation, and home security monitoring are described from both a business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2022
  • Case

Can Salesforce Compete in the Carbon Accounting Market?

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
This case describes Salesforce's development of Sustainability Cloud, a suite of software tools built to help companies measure, track, and report carbon emissions and other sustainability metrics. The goal of this case is to provide students with a background and... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Accounting; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Accountability; Applications and Software
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  • 08 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

study a CSO's responsibilities and to look at how the role shifts depending on the company's level of commitment, Serafeim and Miller surveyed 66 CSOs and people with similar duties but different titles in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing
  • May 2025
  • Teaching Note

Calyx Global: Rating Carbon Credits

By: Michael W. Toffel and Adam Chen
Teaching note to support the Calyx Global: Ratinng Carbon Credits case (HBS No. 625-102) View Details
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  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

behavior. In a laboratory experiment, I show that crowd out in response to public incentives is much less likely among those with public, as opposed to private, reputations.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

Press, 2001. This excerpt is taken with permission from a contributed essay in Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives And Investors Manage High-Tech Risks, edited by Lewis M. Branscomb and Phillip E. Auerswald. Chesbrough and... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

Abstract—This paper considers some of the large changes in the Federal Reserve's approach to monetary policy. It shows that, in some important cases, critics who were successful in arguing that past Fed approaches were View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 15 Mar 2017
  • Blog Post

Tips on Holding Effective Company Recruiting Events

day-to-day responsibilities of the roles you are hiring for and answers to commonly asked questions such as the number of students being hired, possible locations, and clarity on visa sponsorship and/or work... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

When Congress passed President Obama's JOBS Act in March 2012, one of the most intriguing provisions would enable crowdfunding—the ability for large groups of anonymous investors to fund startups. More than... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • Article

Health as a Way of Doing Business

By: Howard Koh, Sara J. Singer and Amy C. Edmondson
For too long, the worlds of business and health have been mired in a checkered, sometimes contentious, history. Millions of deaths worldwide can be attributed to risk factors including tobacco use, alcohol and drug misuse, and suboptimal dietary intake linked to... View Details
Keywords: Health; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Public Opinion
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  • 20 Mar 2025
  • Blog Post

Scaling Climate Tech Innovation with Lee Scott (MBA 2023)

but I was ready to transition from advisory work to a deal team. I decided to get an MBA to make that transition. Many of the impact View Details
  • Profile

Jack Perkowski

experience who were open to new ideas. A self-confessed “blank slate” upon his arrival—he had never been to China and didn’t speak Chinese—Perkowski used $150 million in US View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing
  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

management, reputation, strategy and other sustainability aspects. The informed investor assesses the quality of the company's risk management and whether it has considered the sustainability issues pertinent View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 Dec 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

statements for the purpose of deception. Reader responses to the story included surprising references to the 1st Earl of Balfour, the Book of Leviticus, and the 1966 sci-fi... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Finding the God Particle of the Sustainability Business Case: Greener Pastures for Shareholder Value

By: Marc L Bertoneche and Cornis van der Lugt
The start of the 2000s saw a flurry of international publications on "the business case" for sustainability, seeking to map out the returns on investment and to differentiate recommended actions from cases of corporate philanthropy. Reports by business organisations... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance; Environmental Sustainability
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  • 16 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

evidence was overwhelming and not pretty. The rise in the power of institutional investors has led to the creation of an "external" market for CEOs that is wracked with irrational decision making.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • January 2003 (Revised May 2003)
  • Case

Heineken NV: Workplace HIV/AIDS Programs in Africa (B)

Second in a three-part series that explores the multifaceted organizational and strategic choices that companies now face as a result of the global AIDS epidemic. Heineken is considering becoming one of the first companies to offer AIDS drugs (antiretroviral therapy)... View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Employees; Food and Beverage Industry; Africa
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  • March 2008 (Revised March 2009)
  • Case

Microsoft's Unlimited Potential (A)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
In April 2007, Bill Gates announced Microsoft Unlimited Potential. Its mission was to enable social and economic opportunity for the next five billion people. To deliver against this mission, Microsoft sought to focus its citizenship efforts and its product development... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Emerging Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Growth and Development Strategy
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  • 16 Sep 2015
  • Op-Ed

The Real Duty of the Board of Directors

of other stakeholders if they are in the best interest of the corporation. In our paper, we aim to broaden the understanding of directors’ fiduciary duty and to provide directors with a new concept View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
  • 15 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 15, 2015

same time, the hedge fund return series is not reliably distinguishable from the returns of mechanical S&P 500 put-writing strategies. We show that the high excess returns to hedge funds and put-writing are consistent with an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne