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Europe’s green transition | Institute for Business in Global Society
convened corporate leaders, sustainability officers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers in Paris to examine Europe's pivotal role in the global green transition. This groundbreaking roundtable explored how View Details
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Approaching Business with an Artistic Eye - Global Activities 2020
where, he says, “I hope to better understand the process of finding, building, and sustaining strong businesses.” Darza Pitch: 2020 New Venture Competition Yazan Halwani Co-runner up, Student Business Track... View Details
- July 2020
- Article
Exploring the Effect of Environmental Orientation on Financial Decisions of Businesses at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Evidence from the Microlending Context
By: Anton Shevchenko, Xiaodan Pan and Goran Calic
Existing research has accumulated substantial evidence on the effect that an environmental orientation has on businesses' economic performance. Yet this research does not cover small businesses from bottom‐of‐the‐pyramid (BOP) markets. In fact, despite increasing... View Details
Keywords: Micro-lending; Environmental Sustainability; Financing and Loans; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Small Business
Shevchenko, Anton, Xiaodan Pan, and Goran Calic. "Exploring the Effect of Environmental Orientation on Financial Decisions of Businesses at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Evidence from the Microlending Context." Business Strategy and the Environment 29, no. 5 (July 2020): 1876–1886.
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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
address is clear and the business model is likely to make a substantial contribution toward the solution of the issue it seeks to address and can be sustained for a period of time consistent with achieving... View Details
- 2021
- Book
The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
Trust is the most powerful force underlying the success of every business. Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s market cap and reputation. How to build and sustain trust requires fresh insight into why customers, employees,... View Details
Keywords: Power; Corporate Culture; Future Of Work; Innovation; Technology Strategy; Automation; Stakeholder Engagement; Employee Attitude; Customer Behavior; Shareholder Value; Government And Business; Impact Investing; Corporate Change And Sustainability; Trust; Power and Influence; Globalization; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Innovation and Invention; Human Resources; Information Technology; Strategy; Corporate Accountability; Asia; Europe; South America; Middle East; North and Central America
Sucher, Sandra J., and Shalene Gupta. The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It. New York: PublicAffairs, 2021.
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Eligibility & Criteria | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
organizations/management issues for profit organizations in which the mission and the core activities of the organization have a direct social purpose business approaches where the core focus is social impact, including environmental... View Details
- January–February 2018
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Inclusive Growth: Profitable Strategies for Tackling Poverty and Inequality
By: Robert S. Kaplan, George Serafeim and Eduardo Tugendhat
More than a billion people in the developing world remain in extreme poverty and outside the formal economy. Traditional CSR programs have done little to alleviate the situation and rarely produce transformative change.
Instead of trying to fix local problems,... View Details
Instead of trying to fix local problems,... View Details
Keywords: Inclusive Growth; Sustainability; Social Impact; Business Strategy; Shared Value; Impact Investing; Inequality; Corporate Governance; Balanced Scorecard; Strategy Execution; Economic Growth; Developing Countries and Economies; Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Strategy; Investment
Kaplan, Robert S., George Serafeim, and Eduardo Tugendhat. "Inclusive Growth: Profitable Strategies for Tackling Poverty and Inequality." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 1 (January–February 2018): 127–133.
- 2019
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Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)
Return on invested capital (ROIC) is a financial measure of the profitability of a firm or business unit. If it is greater than the business's cost of capital, then reinvestment of earnings increases shareholder VALUE. The ROIC also determines a maximum self-sustaining... View Details
Keywords: Capital Efficiency; Dupont Analysis; Financial Metrics; Schumpeterian Competition; Sustainable Growth; Competitive Advantage; Financial Strategy; Resource Allocation; Valuation; Value Creation
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)." In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. Continuously updated edition, edited by Mie Augier and David J. Teece. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Electronic. (Pre-published, October 2013.)
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Weekend Sprint: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Blog - Business & Environment
Networking Series Business & Environment Initiative Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & View Details
The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card
What Color Is Your Parachute? meets Out of Office in this inspiring, practical playbook to achieve sustainable work-life balance while optimizing your happiness, personal growth, and bank accounts.
Pouring yourself into a single... View Details
Pouring yourself into a single... View Details
- 29 Jun 2021
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DIVERSIFYING OUR CASE PROTAGONISTS: HOW IS HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL DOING A YEAR LATER?
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the resurgent Black Lives Matter movement that followed, institutions across the country, including Harvard Business School (HBS), examined themselves with a critical eye. In the subsequent... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Diversifying Our Case Protagonists: How is Harvard Business School Doing a Year Later?
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the resurgent Black Lives Matter movement that followed, institutions across the country, including Harvard Business School (HBS), examined themselves with a critical eye. In the subsequent... View Details
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An Emerging Entrepreneur | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Sustaining a Successful Enterprise have been extremely helpful as I think about how to innovate in a more traditional field like education.” Bichara, who served as one of the social chairs for his section as well as the Student... View Details
- January 2015 (Revised November 2016)
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Stella McCartney
By: Anat Keinan and Sandrine Crener
Stella McCartney launched her own fashion house under her name in a partnership with the luxury conglomerate Kering as a 50/50 joint venture in 2001. A lifelong vegetarian, Stella McCartney does not use any leather or fur in her collections, which include women's... View Details
Keywords: Luxury; Luxury Brand; Luxury Fashion; Fashion; Sustainability; Social Corporate Responsibility; Marketing Partnerships; Entrepreneurship; Cause Marketing; Ethical Marketing; Charity Goods; Sustainable Fashion; Ethical Fashion; Designer Brand; Stella McCartney; Brand Positioning; Growth Strategy; Brand Extension; Brand Communication; Kering Group; H＆M; Adidas; Product Positioning; Business Conglomerates; Competitive Advantage; Environmental Sustainability; Brands and Branding; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry
Keinan, Anat, and Sandrine Crener. "Stella McCartney." Harvard Business School Case 515-075, January 2015. (Revised November 2016.)
- 24 Apr 2014
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Giving business tools to small farmers so they can compete and succeed
Sylvia Wachsner (PMD 35, 1978), director of Sociedade Nacional de Agricultura, runs business training programs for small organic and sustainable farmers in Brazil. (Published April 2014) View Details
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The new industrial state? | Institute for Business in Global Society
Wired for change: Southwire's vision for sustainable infrastructure video Play Video duration: 3:52 Wired for change: Southwire's vision for sustainable infrastructure Play The impact of industrial policy... View Details
- 28 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
It Takes a Village: Global Field Courses at Harvard Business School
may be dizzying for anyone, but for Mitkevicius it’s all part of the job. Mitkevicius is part of the Harvard Business School team that organizes and oversees field courses for MBA students: the MBA Program Global Experience Office, or... View Details
- 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
Ibanez, Maria R., Ashley Palmarozzo, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel. "Second- versus Third-party Audit Quality: Evidence from Global Supply Chain Monitoring." Working Paper, August 2024.
- 31 Jan 2022
- News
Michael Trejo Brings Business Back to the Valley of the Sun
capacity for growth, addressing sustainability and environmental impact, and reinvesting in the local community. “We’re right where we want to be as a business,” Trejo told the magazine. “We’re growing, and we want people and communities... View Details
- 25 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
ClimateCAP is an initiative manage by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business whose mission is to prepare business leaders to understand and respond to the climate challenge. They provide learning resources for MBA students interested in the intersection of business... View Details