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  • June 2013 (Revised September 2016)
  • Supplement

Governance and Sustainability at Nike (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Nien-he Hsieh and Lara Adamsons
Two members of Nike's executive team must decide what sustainability targets to propose to Nike's CEO and to the corporate responsibility committee of Nike's board of directors. Set in 2012, the case traces the evolution of Nike's approach to environmental and social... View Details
Keywords: Nike; Hannah Jones; Mark Parker; Phil Knight; Philip Knight; Eric Sprunk; Jill Ker Conway; Phyllis Wise; Don Blair; Sustainable Business And Innovation; SB＆I; Flyknit; DyeCoo; Footwear; Athletic Footwear; Apparel; Athletic Apparel; Sustainability; Greenpeace; Detox Campaign; Dirty Laundry; Water; Water Use; Water Pollution; Water Resources; Corporate Responsibility Committee; Judgment; Board Of Directors; Board Committees; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Footwear Industry; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Ethics; Fairness; Globalized Firms and Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance; Alignment; Supply Chain; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Judgments; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Asia; China; United States; Oregon; Portland
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  • 24 Jun 2015
  • HBS Case

Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality

school systems typically devote up to 85 percent of their budgets to personnel. This creates heavy managerial burdens and difficulties in aligning staffing to meet the needs of students and parents. AltSchool's microschool strategy... View Details
Keywords: Re: John Jong-Hyun Kim; Education
  • 25 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Developing the Global Leader

Krishna Palepu that will extend ALD's objectives to include cultivating a greater capacity for cultural intelligence. "It's not so much about understanding geopolitics," George says. "The characteristics that I've cited above are far more... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 22 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

Compliance programs help companies align the interests and behavior of employees with external expectations and regulation. The case discusses how AB InBev, a major brewer, developed its compliance program. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

ongoing evolution and recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking research with micro-data from these labor platforms. We undertake new empirical analyses of Upwork data regarding 1) the alignment of micro- and macro-level approaches... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 22 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 22, 2015

competitive landscape, Cineplanet, the leading movie cinema chain in Peru, hired a team of IDEO designers to reinvent the movie-going experience for Peruvians. Cineplanet’s management team wishes to better align the company’s operating... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

importance of organizational governance, and the role of governing boards in particular, in prioritizing and aligning potentially conflicting objectives and interests in order to avoid mission drift and to maintain organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 12

clients. A critical component of the One-Firm initiative was a technology-enabled performance management system that articulated metrics for individual and group performance and aligned these with the overall performance of IDFC. While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 14

cannot price discriminate among stores because the intermediaries' incentives are aligned with the marginal stores. Second, competition among intermediaries may lead to more or less search diversion relative to monopoly, depending on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 23

decide which customers to serve and which to turn away, configuring pricing strategies to align with the value delivery stream customers experience, and determining whether inbound marketing programs can generate enough scale or whether... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 5

Scorecard to accomplish a turnaround and cultural change after eight consecutive years of financial losses and market share declines. The team uses the strategy map to align financial and project resources to the strategy and to motivate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

experiment, we find that CEO activism can sway public opinion and increase consumers’ intentions to purchase products from the CEO’s company. However, we find that these two effects of CEO activism depend on the alignment between the CEO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

more than 20 case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining the work of school improvement. At the center of this work is the concept of organizational coherence: aligning... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 26

serve as the glue across functions and business units. But without clarity about strategy and the ability to articulate strategy, people can only pick up random, disconnected cues about priorities, and alignment is then hit-and-miss,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 3

Performance with New Core Values The leadership team at Atlantis Paradise Island, under new ownership, decided that better alignment of the core values with the vision and mission statement would create a more compelling and consistent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2022
  • In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

people of color rising in executive ranks (finally), communities will look to them to represent the needs of vulnerable populations. 2022 could be the year of the coalition. The leadership skill most in demand will be the ability to work across divides to View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

different ends of the career spectrum with a shared belief in their powerlessness" These companies have created new business opportunities by identifying societal problems that align with—or become part of—the firm’s operating... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • 09 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

threat of such legal action. Forecasters' reliance on science and statistics as methods for accessing the future aligns their story with conventional narratives of modernity. The German sociologist Max Weber, for instance, argued that a... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

forms of innovation: process innovations ... innovations in the way we think ... innovations in organization structure ... and so on." These comments pose the question of whether too many elements, many of them counter to human nature or the training we receive,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 21 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

the last possible moment, just the information from the required books you need to pass the course. With Cram.com you would have no need to even buy the book. That may not be a desired outcome from society's perspective, but it is a product View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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