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- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
rural regions, and regulatory uncertainties. “One of the exciting things about Alibaba and Ant Financial is Jack Ma’s vision of financial inclusion across China. So you have rural potato farmers who have really no bank accounts and no... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
the Colorado Sun. The acquisition was backed by a mix of national and local impact investors. “While impact capital has made a huge difference in other social-problem areas, there has been no front door for... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
as the School’s first Goldman Sachs Fellow, and was elected copresident of the African American Student Union (AASU). “I had never taken an accounting or finance class before I went to HBS,” he notes. “The AASU study groups and community... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details
- 08 Nov 2021
- News
New Director Named for Mid-US Research Office
School. This will include serving as a key source of new research and curriculum content on a wide range of fields, including finance, technology, marketing, accounting and control, strategy, and entrepreneurship, to develop further... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
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Leading with Heart
the team the following three core values that they can expect from me and hold me accountable to. The first value that I have is one of congruence—that what I think, feel, say, and do will always be congruent. The second one, which is a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
acquisitions, analyzed the impact of accounting information. The stock market, he found, reacts positively to an open disclosure of a merger, coupled with independent corporate governance. His current... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
global regulators may take action in time, the best companies are implementing sustainable accounting now, rather than waiting and playing catch-up later. Whether focused on energy, agriculture, infrastructure, or less obvious sectors... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
it, by establishing accounting methodologies for the valuation of impacts that a company has on society—e.g., carbon emissions generated, water withdrawal from water-scarce locations, employee wages, job... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
very different perspective. Then George joined us the third year. I have to say that I had never realized how important accounting was to the future of civilization until I started working with George. We can talk about saving the planet,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Mar 2011
- News
Philanthropy’s Dilemma
process of seeking answers to six key questions, each comprising a chapter: What are my values and beliefs? What is “success” and how can it be achieved? What am I accountable for? What will it take to get the job done? How do I partner... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Advancing Racial Equity
cross-section of the School’s community, the REP is woven into every aspect of the HBS experience and includes the School’s pledge to hold itself accountable to measurable progress. “HBS is redoubling its commitment to combat racism to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
holding its own; in fact, Clorox has adopted many of its sustainability practices. “The idea that Burt’s Bees could in fact have a huge impact on Clorox’s culture is something that students find intriguing,” he says. “I think they were... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
and the other misdeeds of the mortgage crisis, remains the standard when it comes to unbridled corporate greed. Enron went bankrupt in 2001 after using a series of accounting schemes to exaggerate its bottom line and then bullying people... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Brightest Young Business Leaders by John Coleman (MPA/MBA ’10), Daniel Gulati (MBA ’11), and W. Oliver Segovia (MBA ’10) (Harvard Business Review Press) Recent Harvard MBAs share personal stories about assuming the mantle of leadership in ways unlike previous... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
types of narratives, and lots of pretty pictures. The amount of detail and the level of complexity in the financial section have grown considerably in response to the increasing onslaught of accounting rules and regulations. What’s more,... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
taught his case in Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA). The case asks students to consider how the company is doing in terms of its responsibility to its investors, customers, employees, and society. Students were split on the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Private capital, public good
only pays for results, and investors benefit only if society benefits. Successful SIB partnerships yield multiple winners: government gains accountability for taxpayer funds; high-performing nonprofits reap growth capital; investors... View Details