Publications

2014
Working Paper

The Role of the Corporation in Society: An Alternative View and Opportunities for Future Research

By: George Serafeim

A long-standing ideology in business education has been that a corporation is run for the sole interest of its shareholders. I present an alternative view where increasing concentration of economic activity and power in the world's largest corporations, the Global... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Governance; Environment; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainability Research; Sustainability Targets; Corporate Performance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

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Aug 2005 - 2005
Conference Presentation

The Innovative Capacity of Institutional Entrepreneurs: Mechanisms for Generating Alternative Ideas

By: Julie Battilana and E. Boxenbaum

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Cognition and Thinking

26 Feb 2009
News

HBS Hosts Colloquium on Alternative Business Models for Professional Service Firms

12 Dec 2019
News

From Private Equity to Private Debt: Key Trends in Alternative Investments

April 1978
Article

The Returns and Risk of Alternative Call Option Portfolio Investment Strategies

By: Robert C. Merton, Myron S. Scholes and Matthew L. Gladstein

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Investment; Strategy

08 May 2015
News

An alternative view of the role of the corporation in society

Do corporations do well by doing good? Or do firms that engage in environmental and social initiatives destroy shareholder wealth? George Serafeim, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, has studied how increasing the concentration of... View Details

04 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Presenting…an Alternative to Company Presentations: Evercore Grabs Attention with Interactive Events

When it’s on-campus recruiting time, employers feel compelled to create presentations to talk about their mission and purpose. To talk about challenges and opportunities. To talk about functions and roles. For Joanna Walker, Evercore’s Head of US Campus Recruitment,... View Details

September 2023
Supplement

Arcos Dorados: Decarbonizing McDonald’s in Latin America – Alternative Protein Products

By: George Serafeim and Michael W. Toffel

March 2019
Case

Investing in the Future: Corning Inc. and the Alternative School for Math and Science

By: Derek van Bever and Miho Kubagawa

In early 2017, Kim Frock (MBA 1987), founder and administrative head of school for the Alternative School for Math and Science (ASMS) in Corning, New York, is beginning to think through the issue of leadership succession at the school. Founded in close partnership with... View Details

Keywords: Middle School Education; Leadership; Management Succession; Partners and Partnerships; Business and Community Relations

Educators

April 1998 (Revised July 1998)
Teaching Note

RogersCasey Alternative Investments: Innovative Response to the Distribution Challenge TN

By: Josh Lerner

Teaching Note for (9-296-024). View Details

Keywords: Distribution; Investment

January 1984
Article

A Simulation Analysis of Alternative Pricing Strategies for Dynamic Environments

By: Robert J. Dolan

Researchers of the strategic implications of the well-known demand (e.g., adoption and diffusion) and supply (e.g., experience effects) dynamics have typically sought analytical solutions. Their success in this has been achieved partly by limiting the richness of the... View Details

Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Price; Mathematical Methods; Supply and Industry

Article

Beyond the Carrot and the Stick: New Alternatives for Influencing Customer Behavior

By: Frances X. Frei

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Customers; Behavior; Power and Influence

27 May 2017
News

For Siemens and Other Companies, Apprentice Programs Seen as Alternative to College

January 23, 2023
Article

Click-by-click: Using Alternative Data to Make a Business Case for Culture

By: Jillian Grennan and Joseph Pacelli

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Value

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31 Jan 2019
News

The African Model: Asia’s path may not work, but there is an alternative

June 2022
Case

PFA Pensions: The Climate Plus Product

By: Daniel Green, Victoria Ivashina and Alys Ferragamo

The case explores whether alternative investments play a unique role in achieving low carbon dioxide emissions at the portfolio level. This case is set in April of 2020 and follows Kasper Ahrndt Lorenzen, Chief Investment Officer, and Peter Tind Larsen, Head of... View Details

Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Carbon Footprint; Alternative Assets; Alternative Investment Vehicles; Pension Fund Investing; Private Equity; Renewable Energy; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Denmark

Educators

1995
Chapter

Alternative Models of Negotiated Outcomes and the Nontraditional Utility Concerns That Limit Their Predictability

By: S. B. White, M. H. Bazerman and M. A. Neale

Keywords: Negotiation; Outcome or Result; Forecasting and Prediction