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Inequality | Institute for Business in Global Society

2002
Casebook

Creating Business Advantage in the Information Age

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin and F. Warren McFarlan

Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Information Industry

October 2021
Case

Sam Bernards: A Career in Building Businesses

By: Kim B. Clark and Sarah Eyring

Educators

July 2008 (Revised May 2017)
Teaching Note

Financial Leadership in Novartis Consumer Health Businesses

By: Boris Groysberg and Geoff Marietta

Teaching Note for HBS No. 406-102. View Details

Keywords: Health Industry; Australia; Japan; Venezuela

November 1987
Case

International Business Machines: Changes in Marketing Organization

By: Frank V. Cespedes

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Marketing; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry

2015
Chapter

Reliable Sustainability Ratings: The Influence of Business Models on Information Intermediaries

By: Robert G. Eccles, Jock Herron and George Serafeim

A new generation of corporate reporting—integrated reporting—is emerging that will help investors and other key stakeholders such as employees, customers, suppliers, and NGOs develop a deeper and more comprehensive appreciation of corporate performance than what is... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Business Models; Business Model

1990
Article

Ideas, Policies, and Outcomes in Business History

Keywords: Policy; Outcome or Result; Business History

March 2023
Article

Developing Moral Muscle in a Literature-based Business Ethics Course

By: Inge M. Brokerhof, Sandra J. Sucher, P. Matthijs Bal, Frank Hakemulder, Paul G. W. Jansen and Omar N. Solinger

Moral subjectivity (e.g., reflexivity, perspective-taking) is a necessary condition for moral development. However, widely used approaches to business ethics education, rooted in conceptualizations of ethical development as objective and quantifiable, often neglect... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Business Education; Growth and Development; Teaching

2022
Book

Purpose + Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World

By: George Serafeim

The roadmap and best practices to reap the enormous value that can emerge when your business prioritizes social and environmental goals—such as climate change, diversity and inclusion, and sustainability—right alongside the pursuit of profit.

We not only... View Details

Keywords: ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Profitability; Business And Society; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Goals and Objectives; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Value Creation; Organizational Change and Adaptation

2001
Book

Cases in Strategic Marketing Management: Business Strategies in Muslim Countries

By: John A. Quelch

11 Nov 2013
News

Being a Military Veteran in Business School

Keywords: veterans; military

October 2019
Supplement

The Golden Triangle: Back in Business (A)

By: William R. Kerr

2015
Book

Ethical Innovation in Business and the Economy

By: Georges Enderle and Patrick E. Murphy

October 1985
Background Note

How Management in Government Differs from Business

By: J. Ronald Fox and Paul Morrison

Tech startups are often associated with Silicon Valley and men. To contrast that perception, we went on a quest to find some of the women interning at Boston startups this summer; to talk to some of the people hiring them; and explore how these companies are... View Details

13 Nov 2011
Other Presentation

The Role of Business in Society: Creating Shared Value

By: Michael E. Porter

This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's books and articles, in particular, Competitive Strategy (The Free Press, 1980); Competitive Advantage (The Free Press, 1985); "What is Strategy?" (Harvard Business Review, Nov/Dec 1996); and On Competition... View Details

Keywords: Society; United States