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  • 21 Jul 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • February 2007 (Revised August 2007)
  • Case

Urban Video Game Academy: Getting in the Game

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Susan Saltrick
Urban Video Game Academy was founded to enhance the academic and career prospects of urban youth. How will its founder grow it into a sustainable business? Provides an opportunity to discuss the challenges of social entrepreneurship and how to create a sustainable... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Social Enterprise; Change Management; Education; Education Industry; Video Game Industry
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  • 25 Apr 2023
  • Cold Call Podcast

Using Design Thinking to Invent a Low-Cost Prosthesis for Land Mine Victims

Keywords: Re: Srikant M. Datar; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 12 Sep 2019
  • News

Harvard Case Studies Show ESG Can Also Generate Alpha

  • 21 Nov 2015
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values

Many people equate luxury with excess and folly. Stella McCartney is not one of those people. A lifelong vegetarian and prominent player in the green fashion movement, the designer has shown that luxury and sustainability need not be... View Details
Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Fashion

    David J. Collis

    For the past thirty years David J. Collis has been a professor at the Harvard Business School, where he was only the second ever full-time Adjunct Professor appointed. Previously, he was the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor, the MBA Class... View Details

      Trang Nguyen

      Trang Nguyen is a student at the Ph.D. Business Administration program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

      Trang is interested in research at the intersection of corporate governance... View Details
      • 25 Apr 2014
      • Video

      Sylvia Wachsner - Making A Difference

      • 04 Feb 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to Environmental Sustainability. Past Roads and Future Prospects

      Keywords: by Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Shawn A. Cole, John Ehrenfeld, Andrew A. King, and Auden Schendler

        Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

        Ramon Casadesus-Masanell is the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He joined HBS in 2000 where he has taught the required MBA Strategy course, an elective course on Competing Business Models, and Ph.D. courses on... View Details

        Keywords: apparel; energy; paper; semiconductor; software
        • 07 Oct 2021
        • News

        Building Trust: The Cornerstone of Your Business, with Sandra Sucher

        • 17 Feb 2003
        • Research & Ideas

        Building Communities as Well as Companies

        Morgan Roberts at a recent conference. But what are the nuts-and-bolts details of starting and sustaining a minority-owned business in today's tough economy? Panelists at the 2003 H. Naylor Fitzhugh... View Details
        Keywords: by Julia Hanna
        • February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
        • Case

        Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment

        By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Amram Migdal
        This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ motivations for using her family wealth to start a family office focused on impact investing,... View Details
        Keywords: Impact Investing; Family Office; Development; International Development; International Development Investing; Development Fund; Sustainability; Solar Energy; Solar; Pay As You Go; PAYG; MFI; Social Venture; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Economics; Development Economics; Energy; Energy Conservation; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Assets; Asset Pricing; Capital; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Venture Capital; Cash; Cash Flow; Currency; Currency Exchange Rate; Equity; Private Equity; Financial Instruments; Debt Securities; Stock Shares; Financing and Loans; Microfinance; International Finance; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Price; Geography; Geographic Location; Emerging Markets; Ownership; Ownership Stake; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Value; Valuation; Value Creation; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Green Technology Industry; Africa; United States
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        • February 2008 (Revised November 2015)
        • Case

        Danaher Corporation

        By: Bharat Anand, David J. Collis and Sophie Hood
        Between 1985 and 2007, Danaher has been one of the best-performing industrial conglomerates in the U.S. This case examines the corporate strategy of this diversified, global corporation. It describes the firm's portfolio strategy and the Danaher Business System—a... View Details
        Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation
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        • 08 Jun 2012
        • News

        Shared Value: How Corporations Profit from Solving Social Problems

        • 25 Apr 2014
        • Video

        Carter Roberts - Making A Difference

        • 13 Jul 2021
        • News

        El ADN de Las Noticias: The Power of Trust. How Companies Build It, Lose It, And Regain It.

        • 27 Sep 2021
        • Blog Post

        Working to Change the Food System

        combine data science, biotechnology, and sustainability. If PicoGreens succeeds at scaling sustainable unit economics for microalgae as a production platform, this would have a staggering impact on many traditional means of producing... View Details
        • 01 Feb 2018
        • News

        Ignore environmental, social and governance risks at your peril

        • 24 Feb 2003
        • Research & Ideas

        In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

        Debora L. Spar's research in Africa has looked at the diamond industry, the AIDS crisis, and the democratization of South Africa since apartheid. Now she has turned her attention to Botswana, where an era of sustained growth has been... View Details
        Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell