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2019
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Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy

By: George Serafeim, T. Robert Zochowski and Jennifer Downing

Reimagining capitalism is an imperative. We need to create a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism that works for every person and the planet. Massive environmental damage, growing income and wealth disparity, stress, and depression within developed... View Details

Keywords: Impact-Weighted Accounts; IWAI; Background; Economic Systems; Economy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Financial Statements

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17 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

wondered, “If it feels depressing for me, how on earth did he survive when he was actually there and did not know the end of the story?” (Emphasis in the original.) When he posed that question to the admiral, Stockdale answered: “I never... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

24 Jan 2013
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Punctuated Generosity: How Mega-events and Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Philanthropy in US Communities

Keywords: by András Tilcsik & Christopher Marquis

29 Jun 2012
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Trade Credit and Taxes

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley & James R. Hines

26 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 26

PublicationsBanks as Multinationals Author:Geoffrey Jones Publication:New York: Routledge, 2012 Abstract This is a revised edition of a comparative, international study which looks at the history of multinational banks. Researchers from the United States, Japan,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Oct 2023
Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

learned from her depression after a movie she worked on “bombed;” and how to be not necessarily happy all the time, but happier. Here's a transcript of the full conversation. Jeffrey Goldberg: Please join me in welcoming to the stage... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

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Dissertation Summary

From a contractual viewpoint, the employment relations observed in the early 1960s in large unionized manufacturing firms in the U.S. and Japan represented two contrasting cases. Employment relations in the U.S. were based largely on explicit, elaborate, and... View Details

05 Mar 2009
What Do You Think?

How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?

as "transparency," are in vogue these days. Perhaps we should add "self-fulfilling prophecies" to the list. They have become particularly relevant as comparisons of the current economic situation to the Great View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

23 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

weather that depressed sales of natural gas and home heating oil. As you know, this is also the first quarter we are operating with the Balanced Scorecard, so I can see performance across a broader set of indicators. Market shares in our... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

13 Feb 2020
Book

Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

New Video: Books@Baker Virtual Session with Michael Beer After prospering for more than 100 years, General Electric found itself in trouble in the early 2000s, facing the double wallop of a depressed energy sector and the financial crisis... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

24 Feb 2021
Lessons from the Classroom

What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace

becomes clear only a few decades later, in the lead up to the second World War.” World War II (1939-1945): Strategies must reflect their unique circumstances The Treaty of Versailles left Germany spoiling for revenge, and it also left its World War I adversaries in an... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

successful that its U.S. sales reached the equivalent in today's terms of half a billion dollars by the end of the 1920s, before the Great Depression eviscerated what had become the world's biggest beauty company. Coty was a larger than... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

mail carrier to supplement the family's income. Even so, when young Malcolm graduated from high school in 1931, the country was in the midst of the Depression and further schooling was simply not an option. Pumping gas at a service... View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

17 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells

depressing their demand for products. More subtle appeals might be the better way to go.” About the Author Dina Gerdeman is senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: duh84] Related Reading How Gender Stereotypes... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

his hometown, Zenith. He represented the aggressive, expansionist, and highly "American" way of doing business of the 1920s. Willy Loman was also a representative figure. But this time, the salesman seemed to capture the entire tragedy of commercial society... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

of power. In 1938, as the Great Depression was beginning to lift, but war was imminent, many families were struggling, and only 10 percent of engagement rings sold in the United States included diamonds. De Beers hired an ad agency that... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

07 May 2014
What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

have, except for a time after the wars and depression of the twentieth century, outpaced economic growth. As a result, returns to labor have lagged far behind, accentuating the concentration of income and wealth in the hands of an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

of health problems, including depression and social anxiety, which can impact wellbeing and productivity at work. In fact, in a 2017 Harvard Business Review article, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared that “a loneliness epidemic”... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

directly competitive product, if the rival introduces an inferior substitute, it may damage consumers' perceptions and depress sales in the entire product category. As a result, intellectual property protection must be seen as not a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

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Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration

The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details

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