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  • 30 Jun 2010
  • News

Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business

ascendancy to the chairmanship of a powerful committee, the average firm in his state cuts back capital expenditures by roughly 15 percent, according to the trio's working paper, "Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?" The... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

by calling attention to Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli's compensation package and the company's poor performance. The AFL-CIO Office of Investments advocates for improved corporate governance at public companies, focusing on the problems... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • August 2010 (Revised September 2011)
  • Case

Driving Sustainability at Bloomberg L.P.

By: Christopher Marquis, Daniel Beunza, Fabrizio Ferraro and Bobbi Thomason
Describes the addition of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance indicators to the Bloomberg terminal. The initiative grew out of Bloomberg's broader sustainability initiatives and is an example of how committed employees can create positive social... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Knowledge Dissemination; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Publishing Industry; New York (city, NY)
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  • July 2009 (Revised January 2014)
  • Case

Sustainability at Millipore

By: Michael W. Toffel and Katharine Lee
This case describes Millipore Corporation's approach to becoming a more environmentally sustainable company. As he prepared for his quarterly meeting with the CEO, the Director of Sustainability needed to develop positions on several issues. Tactically, he needed to... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Corporate Disclosure; Operations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Structure; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants
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  • March 2011 (Revised August 2012)
  • Case

Caesars Entertainment: CodeGreen

By: George Serafeim, Robert G. Eccles and Tiffany A. Clay
The case describes the development of Caesar's sustainability initiative program, the effect of the initiative on employee engagement and motivation, and on customer satisfaction. View Details
Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Employees; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Motivation and Incentives; Accommodations Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 21 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 21

  PublicationsThe Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational Companies: Empirical Evidence Authors:David Collis, David Young, and Michael Goold Publication:Journal of International Management 18, no. 3 (September... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

GoodMark from General Mills is just part of his story. His experiences in the corporate world and as a husband, father, philanthropist, and community leader are examples of how to weather storms and thrive, not just in a career but in... View Details
  • 24 Jul 2019
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

millions of extra pounds in tax revenue collected. "I’ve seen behavioral economics come into play in a variety of contexts, ranging from employee compensation and investment decisions to corporate strategy." The letter is an... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

applicability to management Holcomb, Holmes Jr., and Connelly’s work produced important findings that offer lessons about coaching--and potentially about corporate managerial leadership as well. First, coaches differ measurably in their... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 02 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

seen as an "American dream" ... but in practice it is one of the toughest in the world.— Geoffrey Jones However, the U.S. business environment seems to be becoming more unpredictable and hence riskier for foreign corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

lets them make mistakes at those times when they can still afford it. Growth, when it comes, is all the more sustainable as a result. GovWorks's failure is a textbook example of the perils of grandiosity.— Walter Kuemmerle Back in 1987, Leopoldo Fernandez Pujals, a... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • Web

Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment

help you make a plan.” From there, HBS Professor Brian Trelstad spoke with Wendy Woods , Vice Chair of Social Impact and Climate & Sustainability at BCG , on corporate climate commitments and the challenges and successes of how large... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

A Community Investment

Johnson is guided in all of its business practices by a deceptively simple, four-paragraph credo. One tenet reads: "We are responsible to the communities in which we live and work and to the world community as well." We are also a leader in encouraging other View Details
  • 24 Feb 2015
  • Blog Post

Finding Unity in our Diversity: The Second Annual LGBTQ Conference at Harvard

guest Paula Boggs, former Starbucks General Counsel and Obama Administration appointee, presented the afternoon keynote on Saturday, February 7th, chronicling her journey navigating the corporate world at the executive level as a lesbian.... View Details
  • 14 Nov 2024
  • Blog Post

Weekend Sprint: Accelerating Climate Solutions

Corporation and HBS Executive Fellow, explored how to build a successful founding team. Rounding out the afternoon, Ann DeWitt and Richard Collins of Engine Ventures outlined how to raise early climate tech capital. The day ended with... View Details
  • Web

Entrepreneurial Finance (Q3) - Course Catalog

founder, early employee, advisor or investor. However, the course is also appropriate for students interested in gaining a broader view of the financing landscape for young firms, going beyond the basics of venture capital and angel financing to look at venture debt,... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2018
  • News

Advancing Opportunities for Others

senior Asians and Indians, that are in corporate America. Very proud of that conference. “The second thing is we started an in-house, multicultural innovation lab. It is truly an accelerator for entrepreneurial companies that are founded... View Details
Keywords: Finance
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Research Grows from Asian Financial Crisis

success of several major corporations in the region. In the past decade or earlier, he notes, a number of large "corporate groups" gained prominence, many family-owned and some run by HBS graduates. Yoshino sought to understand why these... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Capturing Human Capital

corporations rely on information planning and control systems and processes that are designed to help management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. "They do this by allocating scarce... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference

Genome Research. The evening's keynote speaker, Guidant Corporation group chairman Ginger Graham (MBA '86), reviewed issues and technology advances in the field of cardiology. The next day's presentations included a breakfast seminar... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance