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July 1987
Case

Investor Relations at AT&T

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein

Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Telecommunications Industry

28 Jun 2004
Lecture

Aligning Fiscal and Social Performance: Creating Organizations that Answer Stakeholder Needs

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Finance; Performance; Organizations; Business and Stakeholder Relations

Article

Relational Contracts and the Theory of the Firm

By: George P. Baker, Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy

Keywords: Contracts; Theory; Business Ventures

Web

The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

campaigns to encourage public confidence in the steel industry. Photographs appeared in general-interest and business magazines, corporate reports, company publications, and... View Details

January 2020
Article

Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance

By: Ethan Rouen

I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation between the ratio of CEO-to-mean employee compensation and... View Details

Keywords: Pay Disparity; Pay Ratio; CEO Pay Ratio; Income Inequality; Executive Compensation; Employees; Wages; Equality and Inequality; Business Ventures; Performance

2020
Book

Capitalism at Risk: How Business Can Lead

By: Joseph L. Bower, Dutch Leonard and Lynn S. Paine

Who should take the lead in fixing market capitalism? Business—not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion, mass... View Details

Keywords: Capitalism; Business And Society; Economic Systems; Economic Growth; Policy; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Corporate Strategy

March 2014 (Revised October 2015)
Case

Teach For China and the Chinese Nonprofit Sector

By: William C. Kirby and Erica M. Zendell

Teach For China was founded in 2008 with the mission of expanding educational opportunity across China. By 2013, Andrea Pasinetti's lofty dream had taken flight: over 300 graduates from top American and Chinese universities were participating in its 2-year teaching... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit; China; Business And Government Relations; Business And Poverty; Business And Society; Emerging Market Entrepreneurship; Emerging Market; NGO; Education; Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise; Emerging Markets; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Education Industry; China

Educators

01 Dec 2023
News

Leadership Transition for External Relations

MESSAGE FROM ANGELA CRISPI AND DEAN SRIKANT DATAR To: HBS Faculty and Staff From: Angela Crispi and Srikant Datar Re: Leadership Transition – Janet Cahill, External Relations We write to let you know that Janet Cahill (AMP 189) has decided to step down from her... View Details

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

strong investor relations (IR) departments, according to HBS professor Gregory S. Miller. Two cases he recently coauthored describe how these different firms in the oil and gas industry—controversial of late... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

February 2012 (Revised October 2012)
Background Note

A Glossary of Technical Terms Related to Bankruptcy in the U.S.

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Jim Sharpe and Ravi Mehta

Quick reference guide of various terms related to the United States Bankruptcy Code. View Details

Keywords: Bankruptcy; Financial Crisis; Financial Distress; Turnarounds; Legal Aspects Of Business; Crisis Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Finance; Law; United States

Educators

01 Sep 2006
News

Sahlman Heads External Relations

contributed important ideas to the study of business. But the manifestation of those ideas is in what the alumni and the people touched by our alumni end up doing with that knowledge.” Sahlman (MBA ’75), who assumed his new role July 1,... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

1989
Book

Keeping the Corporate Image: Public Relations and Business, 1900-1950

By: R. S. Tedlow

Keywords: Business History; Public Relations Industry

April 2025
Case

Techint: Strategic Choices for Community Impact

By: Lauren Cohen, Virak Prum, Kenneth Charman, Pedro Levindo and Mariana Cal

In early 2024 Erika Bienek, Chief Community Relations Officer at Techint, had to decide whether to invest in a new company-owned and operated technical school in Veracruz, Mexico, or invest instead in strengthening the city’s public education system. Techint, a global... View Details

Keywords: Technical Institutes; Community Relations; Social Impact; Argentina; Mexico; Brazil; Conglomerate; Stakeholder Management; Government And Business; Community Impact; Philanthropy; Business Conglomerates; Business Subsidiaries; Business Headquarters; Family Business; Decision Making; Private Sector; Public Sector; Education; Curriculum and Courses; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Teaching; Training; Learning; Energy; Engineering; Construction; Values and Beliefs; Geography; Global Range; Local Range; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Recruitment; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Knowledge; Resource Allocation; Industry Clusters; Infrastructure; Family Ownership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Creativity; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Construction Industry; Education Industry; Energy Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Europe; Italy; Latin America; North and Central America; Mexico; North America; United States; South America; Argentina; Buenos Aires; Brazil

Educators

1979
Book

Keeping the Corporate Image: Public Relations and Business, 1900-1950

By: R. S. Tedlow

Keywords: Business History; Public Relations Industry

17 Sep 2009
News

Special Award from the Institute for Public Relations

fall 1995
Article

Stakeholder Negotiations over Third World Natural Resource Projects

By: James K. Sebenius and Hannah Riley

Keywords: Business and Stakeholder Relations; Global Range; Projects; Negotiation

2003
Report

Effectiveness of Stakeholder Participation Processes: Yacyretá Hydroelectric Project, Paraguay and Argentina (LAC Region)

By: Alnoor Ebrahim

Keywords: Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Performance Effectiveness; Energy Industry; Paraguay; Argentina

01 Apr 2000
News

New Home for External Relations

The recent growth of faculty associated with key academic initiatives in areas such as entrepreneurship, information technology, and global business has contributed to an acute shortage of office space at... View Details

June 2012 (Revised August 2014)
Supplement

Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa (B)

By: Eric Werker and Ian McKown Cornell

Incoming and outgoing foreign direct investment in an environment of politics, geography, globalization, and history. Updates the 2006 case to 2012. The subsequent six years only reinforce the message of the original case. Since the end of apartheid, South Africa had... View Details

Keywords: Global Business; Developing Countries; Business Government Relations; Economic Growth; Foreign Direct Investment; Globalized Markets and Industries; Developing Countries and Economies; Business and Government Relations; South Africa