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  • 31 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

challenger mindset and willingness to disrupt Digitally mature companies encourage employees to challenge the status quo—even if this means fundamentally rethinking the core business. Everyone in the organization is responsible for listening to signals from customers,... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
  • 21 Nov 2023
  • Op-Ed

The Beauty Industry: Products for a Healthy Glow or a Compact for Harm?

In my recently published book Deeply Responsible Business, I write about business leaders since the 19th century who have acted responsibly, often by putting the welfare of their communities above the idea of maximizing profits. I make a sharp distinction between... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • November 2019 (Revised April 2020)
  • Case

Danone: Changing the Food System

By: David E. Bell, Federica Gabrieli and Daniela Beyersdorfer
Emmanuel Faber, Chairman and CEO of the food and beverage company Danone, believed that humankind had only ten years to bend the curve on climate change and restore the biodiversity that the global food and agricultural ecosystem was critically dependent on. Upon... View Details
Keywords: Animal-Based Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Food; Nutrition; Quality; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Business Model; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; France
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  • 07 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

philanthropic arm (Chaudhary Foundation) works with stakeholders and develops a blue print for short- and long-term relief measures. The management needs to address several questions as they navigate the foundation's course. What element... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

measures reduce US dependence on supply chains linked to China? And what should we do with prices of imports from Vietnam and Mexico on the rise? Paper on Global Supply Chain Great Reallocation CASE STUDY Acquiring and Engaging Talent for... View Details
  • Web

Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations Key... View Details
  • Web

Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online

Sustainable Business Strategy Professor Rebecca Henderson Become a purpose-driven leader by learning how to influence key stakeholders and integrate values into your work to catalyze system-level change. 3 weeks, 7-9 hrs/week Pay by... View Details
  • April 2021 (Revised January 2022)
  • Case

SA Taxi: A Vehicle for Empowerment? (A)

By: Nien-he Hsieh, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha and F. Christopher Eaglin
SA Taxi was a vertically integrated business that operated in South Africa’s distinctive taxi industry. Despite being plagued by violence, informal structures, unsafe road practices and lack of government support, the taxi industry had grown to become South Africa’s... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Ownership; Ownership Stake; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Equality and Inequality; Race; Situation or Environment; Transportation Industry; South Africa; Africa
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  • 2007
  • Chapter

Beyond Dependence: Conceptualizing Information and Accountability in NGO-Funder Relations

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
This paper explores the linkages between information systems and accountability in nongovernmental and nonprofit organizations (NGOs). The information systems in four NGOs are introduced: two Indian NGOs engaged in natural resource management and rural development, an... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Accountability; Information Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Information Technology; India; District of Columbia
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  • April 2021 (Revised January 2022)
  • Supplement

SA Taxi: A Vehicle for Empowerment? (B)

By: Nien-he Hsieh, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha and F. Christopher Eaglin
SA Taxi was a vertically integrated business that operated in South Africa’s distinctive taxi industry. Despite being plagued by violence, informal structures, unsafe road practices and lack of government support, the taxi industry had grown to become South Africa’s... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Ownership; Ownership Stake; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Equality and Inequality; Race; Situation or Environment; Transportation Industry; South Africa; Africa
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  • 01 Mar 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

principle for organizing that reflects your company’s very sense of self.” It is intended to provide a rationale for why each employee comes to work. In achieving deep purpose, Gulati maintains that tradeoffs in decision-making that will affect various View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 29 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

things or at least convince everyone that things are under control? Wu: It’s essential that he continue to actively engage with all stakeholders here. In the short term, calming the advertisers down is going... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology
  • Web

Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

engagement and performance, reduce the time it took teachers to develop and grade learning assessments, enable administrators to better track data, and provide parents more insight into their children’s learning. Founder and CEO Pankaj... View Details
  • 16 Feb 2023
  • HBS Case

ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
  • Web

Becoming a Board Member - Alumni

shareholder and stakeholder satisfaction Commitment to the mission (nonprofit board) View our Board Bio Template. Find a Career Coach Does your board bio need a refresh? HBS alumni receive six complementary career coaching sessions a... View Details
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

forthcoming Abstract A broad literature has emerged over the past decades demonstrating that firms' environmental strategies and practices are influenced by stakeholders and institutional pressures. Such findings are consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2022
  • White Paper

The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement

By: Matt Sigelman, Joseph Fuller, Nik Dawson and Gad Levanon
The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement is a new effort to give companies and other stakeholders a set of robust tools that measure how well major employers are doing in fostering economic mobility for workers and how they could do... View Details
Keywords: Upward Mobility; Career Advancement; Personal Development and Career; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Wages; Human Capital; Recruitment
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  • March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
  • Case

The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio
In Maseru, the capital of the Kingdom of Lesotho, the stirrings of industrialization and modernization were promising, and more than 50,000 workers, mostly women, were employed in the textile sector; the figure reflected more than a threefold increase in just a few... View Details
Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Trade; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Financial Crisis; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Foreign Direct Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Lesotho
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  • Web

Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online

purpose-driven leader by learning how to influence key stakeholders and integrate values into your work to catalyze system-level change. 3 weeks, 7-9 hrs/week Pay by August 7 $1,850 Certificate Global Business Professor Forest Reinhardt... View Details
  • 02 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 2

strategies leads to better access to finance. We hypothesize that better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne