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- 22 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
It’s Time to Build: Why the MS/MBA Is Right for You!
In 2021, after working in big tech for just over four years, I felt an itch to try something new. I was seeing friends around me leave their more established jobs to pursue exciting opportunities as early... View Details
- 07 Mar 2019
- News
From SBA chief to fintech backer
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
side. I ended up being an accounting major.” Jones worked for a year after graduation for Anderson Consulting (now Accenture) before heading to Harvard Law School. “I never planned View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Blog
Making the Decision to Attend: Our Participants Share Their Stories
program title, or keywords to find the first-hand accounts that best match your areas of interest. What Will Your Story Be? Once you've immersed yourself in what HBS Executive Education has View Details
- 15 Aug 2012
- News
How to profit from a Senate vote
- 05 Mar 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Board of Directors’ Responsiveness to Shareholders: Evidence from Shareholder Proposals
- 2017
- Working Paper
Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship
By: Eleanor W. Dillon and Christopher T. Stanton
Small business owners and others in self-employment have the option to transition to paid work. If there is initial uncertainty about entrepreneurial earnings, this option increases the expected lifetime value of self-employment relative to pay in a single year. This... View Details
Keywords: Self-employed; Small Business; Business Earnings; Entrepreneurship; Ownership; Compensation and Benefits
Dillon, Eleanor W., and Christopher T. Stanton. "Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-022, September 2016. (Revised March 2018.)
- 18 Jun 2024
- News
What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
How to Not Outlive Your Retirement Savings
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values
organization stand for and what are you willing to commit to and hold all members of your community accountable for? Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are important because they... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 29 Apr 2015
- News
Using Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
- 2020
- Working Paper
Measuring the Cost of Corporate Water Usage
By: DG Park, George Serafeim and T. Robert Zochowski
We develop a methodology that calculates the impact that organizations have on the environment through their water consumption relating to water stress risk. Using the methodology, we derive estimates for four companies that show how assumptions on the geographic... View Details
Keywords: Water; Water Management; Environment; Sustainability; Environmental Impact; Impact-Weighted Accounts; IWAI; Organizations; Environmental Sustainability; Valuation
Park, DG, George Serafeim, and T. Robert Zochowski. "Measuring the Cost of Corporate Water Usage." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-036, September 2020.
- October 2022 (Revised July 2025)
- Case
Driving Decarbonization at BMW
The case describes BMW’s electrification and decarbonization strategy, and how the company measured carbon emissions throughout the life cycle of its vehicles and used tools like carbon abatement cost curves to evaluate decarbonization opportunities. In mid-2022,... View Details
Keywords: Decarbonization; Climate Change; Environment; Sustainability; Carbon Accounting; Carbon; Carbon Abatement; Electric Vehicles; Automobiles; Transportation; Environmental Accounting; Environmental Management; Environmental Sustainability; Accounting; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Supply Chain; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Transportation Industry; Auto Industry; Battery Industry; Germany; China; United States; Europe
Lu, Shirley, George Serafeim, and Michael W. Toffel. "Driving Decarbonization at BMW." Harvard Business School Case 123-008, October 2022. (Revised July 2025.)
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
arsenal of tools as you continue to gear up to defeat this formidable threat. About the Author Euvin Naidoo is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Accounting... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
often fail to take into account the complete value of the customers they are trying to retain. "What's missing from traditional methods is that they focus only on a customer's... View Details
- 23 Apr 2015
- News
How to Embrace Healthy Risk in Investing
- March 2017 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
CEO Activism (A)
By: Michael W. Toffel, Aaron K. Chatterji and Julia Kelley
This case introduces CEO activism, a phenomenon in which business leaders engage in political or social issues that do not relate directly to their companies. The case uses several examples to describe why business leaders are engaging in CEO activism and the potential... View Details
Keywords: Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Environment; Climate Change; Gender Equality; Communication Strategy; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Law; Rights; Risk Management; Media; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Religion; Expansion; Strategy; Social Issues; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Indiana; North Carolina
Toffel, Michael W., Aaron K. Chatterji, and Julia Kelley. "CEO Activism (A)." Harvard Business School Case 617-001, March 2017. (Revised June 2019.)
- 05 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
What You Need to Know about SVMP
barriers in industries like consulting, education, finance, entrepreneurship, and tech. They have been a crucial support system since leaving SVMP. We all celebrate each other's successes and facilitate introductions or referrals View Details
- June 2016
- Supplement
Supply Chain Finance at Procter & Gamble Spreadsheet Supplement
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Scott Mayfield and David Lane
In April 2013, Procter & Gamble (P&G), the world’s largest consumer packaged goods (CPG) company, announced that it would extend its payment terms to suppliers by 30 days. At the same time, P&G announced a new supply chain financing (SCF) program giving suppliers the... View Details
Keywords: Working Capital; Supply Chain Finance; Corporate Treasury; Consumer Packaged Goods; Value Creation; Supply Chain; Supplier Relationships; Banking; Liquidity; Accounts Payable; Accrual Accounting; Financial Reporting; Cash Flow; Cost Management; Banks and Banking; Financial Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Supply Chain Management; United States; Brazil
- 22 Apr 2020
- News