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  • 14 Dec 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University

  • December 2016 (Revised December 2018)
  • Case

From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem

By: Elie Ofek and Margot Eiran
In June 2016, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel’s strong innovation track record and the country’s reputation as the “startup nation.” Despite the economic miracle the country had wrought since its founding, he... View Details
Keywords: Israel; Israeli Start-up Nation; Innovation Economy; Entrepreneurial Mindset; Scaling-up; Unicorns; Innovation Clusters; High-tech; Innovation Management; Multinational Corporation R＆D Centers; Social Equality; Two-tier Economy; Liberalizing An Economy; Foreign Investment; Military Service; Quality Of Human Capital; Socioeconomic Gaps; Labor Force Participation; Government Initiatives; Innovation and Management; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Economy; Equality and Inequality; Education; Resource Allocation; Globalization; Israel
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  • 25 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location, and patents of firms active in R&D since 1921; and a historical state-level corporate tax database... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • January 2008
  • Article

Do Well by Doing Good? Don't Count on It

By: Joshua D. Margolis, Hillary Anger Elfenbein and James P. Walsh
Research over 35 years shows only a weak link between socially responsible corporate behavior and good financial performance. However, there's no evidence of risk in doing good, only in being exposed for misdeeds. View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Profit; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Effectiveness; Behavior
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  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Profits and Purpose

second-year MBA course Reimagining Capitalism in 2012, Rebecca Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor, has been helping students explore the roles that the corporation View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • January 2003 (Revised August 2003)
  • Case

General Mills and the Hawthorne Huddle (A)

Examines the role of General Mills in the formation and leadership of the Hawthorne Huddle. The Huddle was in the Hawthorne neighborhood in Northern Minneapolis, which in 1997 was plagued with high crime and poverty. The Huddle served as a forum, held the first... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Management Succession; Social Issues; Consumer Products Industry; Minneapolis
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  • 28 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

business in emerging markets, despite the growing political risks and low remittances from major markets such as India. The Special Committee of Durham, Maljers, and Angus launched a major View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
  • 19 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

investors, could provide this commitment mechanism. Common ownership of competitors within industries and long-time horizons in ownership of shares are key characteristics for investors that could act as stewards of the commons. View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

    Brian L. Trelstad

     

    Brian Trelstad is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the General Management Unit and the Faculty Chair of the Advanced Leadership Initiative. He teaches elective courses on Social Entrepreneurship and Systems... View Details

    Keywords: education industry; health care; service industry; emerging market private equity; private equity (other); venture capital industry
    • March 2025 (Revised March 2025)
    • Case

    Good for the Seller, Good for the Buyer and Good for Society: Sampo-yoshi, Sustainability and Trust at ITOCHU

    By: Sandra J. Sucher and Bethelehem Y Araya
    In 2024, ITOCHU CEO Masahiro Okafuji was at a crossroads. As the thirteenth CEO since ITOCHU’s founding in 1858, he had fueled the company’s growth since 2011 by bringing ITOCHU’s founding philosophy of Sampo-yoshi (good for the seller, good for the buyer and... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainability; Trust; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Japan
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Anger and Regulation

    By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
    We propose a model where voters experience an emotional cost when they observe a firm that has displayed insufficient concern for other people's welfare (altruism) in the process of making high profits. Even with few truly altruistic firms, an equilibrium may emerge... View Details
    Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Consumer Behavior; Monopoly; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Emotions; Welfare
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    • March 24, 2015
    • Article

    Starbucks' 'Race Together' Campaign and the Upside of CEO Activism

    By: Aaron Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
    When Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz asked his baristas to engage customers in a discussion about race in America, it was a clear case of the growing trend of "CEO activism." Despite the criticism of that particular initiative, CEO activism—from Shultz to Chick-Fil-A's... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Communication Strategy; Race
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    • 22 Mar 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

    comes to creating new ones? A: Answering this question goes back to our definition of innovation. Innovation is invention times impact. Invention is nice, but if it has no economic or social impact it is... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
    • 04 Feb 2020
    • Video

    Francis Okomo-Okello

    Francis Okomo-Okello, chair of a leading Kenyan luxury hotel group and of the subsidiary of a major foreign bank, discusses his approach to corporate social responsibility programs based on full understanding... View Details
    • 16 Oct 2019
    • News

    Where ESG Fails

    • 31 Aug 2020
    • What Do You Think?

    Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

    organizations in the study are pulling away from the other two-thirds in diversity and inclusion, registering increasingly higher probabilities of being the most profitable. They are exhibiting progress in achieving greater gender View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 21 Oct 2013
    • News

    Built to Last

    Keywords: capitalism
    • 30 Nov 2021
    • In Practice

    What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

    The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
    Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
    • 22 May 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

    Claudine, Andrea Prat, and George Serafeim Abstract—We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of U.S. companies based on approximately 500,000 survey View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Video

    Vimal Shah

    Vimal Shah, Co-Founder and Chairman of Kenya-based Bidco Africa, explains the ethical and economic basis for the group’s commitment to waste minimization, rejecting what he refers to as superficial Corporate Social Responsibility to instead foster opportunities across... View Details