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  • Spring 2012
  • Article

The Need for Sector-Specific Materiality and Sustainability Reporting Standards

By: Robert G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus, Jean Rogers and George Serafeim
Even though the supply of sustainability information has increased considerably in the last decade, companies are still failing to disclose material information in a comparable format. We believe this has two downsides. On the one hand, companies are not adequately... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Reporting; Standard Setting; Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Accounting; Standards; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Corporate Disclosure; Competitive Advantage; Capital Markets; Accounting Industry; United States
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  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

When innovation is everyone’s job

    Endogenous Productivity of Demand-Induced R&D: Evidence from Pharmaceuticals

    When people want more new drugs, firms are happy to invest in ideas that cost more. And as they run out of "low hanging fruit" while demand keeps growing, R&D costs will naturally grow.

    Abstract: We examine trends in the productivity of the... View Details
    • 2022
    • Chapter

    Luxury Tourism and Environmentalism

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    This chapter examines the evolution of luxury tourism and its environmental impact. Whilst mass tourism is widely seen as environmentally damaging, the impact of luxury tourism is nuanced. During the first stage of the growth in the nineteenth century, the numbers of... View Details
    Keywords: Luxury Consumption; Environmentalism; Tourism; Green Business; Luxury; History; Ethics; Globalization; Environmental Management; Business History; Tourism Industry; Antarctica; Latin America; North and Central America; Europe; Switzerland; Chile; Costa Rica; Africa; Kenya
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    • 22 Jul 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality?

    Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole; Banking
    • May 2010 (Revised January 2012)
    • Case

    Lincoln Financial Meets the Financial Crisis

    By: Robert C. Pozen and Peter Goodspeed Spring
    In March of 2009, Lincoln Financial Group's CEO Dennis Glass was facing a difficult decision as to how he would replenish his company's capital, which could quickly fall to dangerously low levels as a result of the financial crisis. Though the cost of raising capital... View Details
    Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Financial Crisis; Capital; Private Equity; Crisis Management; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Insurance Industry
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    • 20 Feb 2017
    • News

    MBAs in space: rocket science absorbs business school thinking

      Howard H. Stevenson

      Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

      Keywords: broadcasting; communications; computer; construction; financial services; forest products; health care; high technology; industrial goods; insurance industry; investment banking industry; manufacturing; paper; professional services; real estate; service industry; software; venture capital industry
      • 05 Jul 2006
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Reinventing Savings Bonds

      Keywords: by Peter Tufano & Daniel Schneider; Financial Services
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Updating the Balanced Scorecard for Triple Bottom Line Strategies

      By: Robert S. Kaplan and David McMillan
      Many companies are now attempting to achieve triple bottom line performance on financial, environmental, and societal metrics. Successful strategies for such performance, however, generally require new relationships among multiple players in multiple sectors across a... View Details
      Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Adaptation; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Performance; Strategy
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      • November 2009 (Revised June 2012)
      • Case

      Crisis and Reform in Japan's Banking System (A)

      By: Thierry Porte, Rawi E. Abdelal, Laura Alfaro and Jonathan Schlefer
      In 1997, amidst Japan's ongoing financial problems, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto sought to restructure the financial sector to make it more transparent and globally competitive. He hoped that this effort, dubbed the "Big Bang" after the British financial... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; Banks and Banking; Crisis Management; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Japan
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      • 10 Dec 2012
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Vulnerable Banks

      Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Augustin Landier & David Thesmar; Banking; Financial Services
      • 08 May 2009
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Capitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan

      Keywords: by Robert Dujarric & Andrei Hagiu
      • 05 Jul 2006
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Why IT Matters in Midsized Firms

      Keywords: by Marco Iansiti, George Favaloro, James Utzschneider & Greg Richards; Technology; Computer
      • May 2024
      • Article

      Production Complementarity and Information Transmission Across Industries

      By: Charles M.C. Lee, Terrence Tianshuo Shi, Stephen Teng Sun and Ran Zhang
      Economic theory suggests that production complementarity is an important driver of sectoral co-movements and business cycle fluctuations. We operationalize this concept using a measure of production complementarity proximity (COMPL) between any two companies. We show... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Markets; Networks; Investment Return; Business Cycles
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      • 2 Dec 2021
      • Interview

      How To Make Healthcare Innovation Happen

      By: Regina E. Herzlinger
      Regina Herzlinger has been called “the godmother of consumer-driven healthcare” because of her groundbreaking scholarly articles and books on the subject. As a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School for nearly 50 years, her focus has supported... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention
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      • April 2016
      • Teaching Note

      IBM and the Reinvention of High School (C): Toward P-TECH's Rapid National Expansion

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Kelsi Stine-Rowe
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 316-130. This Teaching Note accompanies the third case in a 3-case series on P-TECH and the Reinvention of High School. The case focuses on the development and early diffusion of organizational innovation—how to create pilot projects for... View Details
      Keywords: IBM; P-TECH; Stanley Litow; Robin Wilner; Cuomo; Scaling; Innovation; New York State; New York City; Business Model; Innovation Strategy; Innovation Leadership; Education; Business and Community Relations; Change; Technology Industry; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)
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      • March 2014
      • Case

      Managing Change at Axis Bank (A)

      By: Paul Healy and Rachna Tahilyani
      Axis Bank is India's third largest private sector bank. In April 2009, Shikha Sharma, an outsider, was appointed as its CEO. She took over from a person who had overseen ten years of rapid growth at the bank. The selection of an outsider as the new CEO surprised many... View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Valuation; Finance; Banks and Banking; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; India
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      • October 2004
      • Article

      FDI and Economic Growth: The Role of Local Financial Markets

      By: Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Selin Sayek
      The purpose of this paper is to examine the various links among foreign direct investment, financial markets and growth. We model an economy with a continuum of agents indexed by their level of ability. Agents have two choices: they can work for the foreign company in... View Details
      Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Financial Markets; Economic Growth; Cost; Wealth; Investment Return; Knowledge
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      • 2019
      • Report

      U.S. Nuclear Energy Leadership: Innovation and the Strategic Global Challenge

      By: Joseph B. Lassiter III
      Throughout 2018, the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center convened a “Task Force on US Nuclear Energy Leadership,” which comprised civilian and military experts in foreign policy, defense, and nuclear energy. Senators Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)... View Details
      Keywords: Nuclear Energy; Environment; Energy Sources; Energy; Energy Generation; Energy Conservation; Energy Policy; Global Range; Energy Industry
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