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  • 2016
  • Book

Finding Purpose: Environmental Stewardship as a Personal Calling

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Both thoughtful and thought-provoking, Finding Purpose aims to challenge our understanding of how humanity interacts with planet Earth, and our role within this. This book is an invitation: would you like to participate in one of the most important projects of... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Ethics; Society; Mission and Purpose; Natural Environment
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It

By: Kash Rangan, Lisa Chase and Sohel Karim
The authors argue for a strategic and pragmatic, rather than ideological, approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) that contrasts sharply with the prevailing Shared Value framework offered by Porter and Kramer (HBR; Jan.-Feb. 2011). We assert that, despite... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Strategy; Values and Beliefs; Profit; Practice
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  • 17 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

for systemically risky firms that would take a holistic look at the five systems to identify weaknesses, make recommendations to managers and boards, and set regulatory policies, including assessing charges for insuring against losses.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business

the findings also send a signal about potential beyond academic performance. Gompers’ advice? Look at candidates in a “much more holistic sense.” “If I were an HR person, and two people were pretty similar, and somebody spent 20 hours a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 2019
  • White Paper

Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy

By: George Serafeim, T. Robert Zochowski and Jennifer Downing
Reimagining capitalism is an imperative. We need to create a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism that works for every person and the planet. Massive environmental damage, growing income and wealth disparity, stress, and depression within developed... View Details
Keywords: Impact-Weighted Accounts; IWAI; Background; Economic Systems; Economy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Financial Statements
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  • 26 Jun 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Leave a Lasting Impression on Customers? Don't Forget the (Proverbial) Fireworks

marketers think of the customer experience like a play in three acts—pre-purchase, purchase, and post-purchase. However, research by De Freitas and fellow researchers looked more holistically at the customer journey and found that most... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation
  • January 2010 (Revised August 2010)
  • Background Note

Advanced Leadership Note: An Institutional Perspective and Framework for Managing and Leading

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Rakesh Khurana
Large-scale societal issues increasingly appear on the agenda of business leaders, including poverty, health, education, business-government relations, and the degradation of the environment. These problems are not entirely new, but the forces of globalization and the... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Framework; Global Range; Leadership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Complexity
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  • 14 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career

says DiDonna, it can help the company by reinvigorating staff. “You see when people come back, they have more autonomy, more creativity—they have a greater perspective that can provide more holistic solutions to problems.” As for those... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 14 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

with more data and analytics, executives we talked to said that leaders still need to adopt holistic thinking and stay open to the unexpected. They must learn to stretch their "own imagination and creativity" to envision what the future... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology
  • 26 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

demonstrates a more holistic approach to learning from large-scale organizational failures. It suggests that we cannot think about individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis in isolation. Instead, we need to examine how... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
  • 08 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

another. The holistic approach is worth more than the sum of its constituent parts, even though working on each part adds something. When these actions come through one person—the manager or team leader—some integration automatically... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 22 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

accounting profit margins, for example, should be trained in “Finance 101,” Cespedes says. Besides, the best sales managers are not only adept at bargaining for a chunk of the company’s budget to benefit their own people, but look for ways to increase enterprise value... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

a more holistic approach in hiring and get rid of the tunnel vision on managing productivity, Minor says. “Even if you don’t care about people and all you want to do is make more money, you still should care about hiring people who care... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 11 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

investor base. For example, adoption of integrated reporting could be a step in this direction. Integrated reporting provides a holistic picture of the business describing the economic, environmental, and social performance of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song
Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Government Administration; Acquisition; Health Industry
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Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920

Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details

Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America
  • 04 Apr 2011
  • HBS Case

Reinventing the National Geographic Society

been immense from the various units—magazines, catalogues, and expeditions—to push their products. Instead, Fahey wanted someone to think holistically about NGS's offerings and how best to approach customers and sell them what they want... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing
  • 30 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

who stick around longer and spend more. “When customers have a more holistic view of the trade-offs of an offering, it helps them make more well-informed choices, which enhances the quality of the customer relationship,” says Buell, who’s... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 29 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

perverting the law, and that this profession should be considered of so little importance and be so neglected by the wise...a forum for empty chatter where anything goes.” To correct this sorry state of affairs, Cotrugli took a holistic... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 19 Aug 2021
  • Op-Ed

Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

productivity. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/WvZ0cFGPFEU8Igj4vKIZ][/div] Diagnostic tools, such as surveys and small group discussions, are critical to developing a more holistic view of the employee experience. In the Army, officers... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

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