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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
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approaches to poverty alleviation. Leading academics and corporate, nonprofit, and public-sector managers discuss how businesses, NGOs, and government organizations can use business solutions to improve the lot of the world’s poorest 3... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
cases, managers were able to preempt the threats of COVID-19 by interpreting and acting upon imperfect information before their governments did so. 2. Protect and sustain your ecosystem Companies live in the same ecosystems as their... View Details
- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
Integration on Stock Valuations. One example of this was when I was asked to evaluate a large OEM company based in Asia. I evaluated the company’s ESG performance by applying the Sustainability Accounting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
add-on that’s separate from the financial numbers–laden annual report. “To have real impact,” they write, “these separate reports need to be integrated” into a single One Report that reveals how a company is making sustainability a commitment to high View Details
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
the years, with the number of proposals filed doubling from 1999 to 2013. We use recent innovations in accounting standard setting to classify 2,665 shareholder proposals that address environmental, social,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter An estimated $30 trillion in assets worldwide—including half of all professionally managed assets in Europe—are already evaluated through environmental, social, and... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
combining the financial and CSR/sustainability reports into something I call “One Report,” which provides the essential information on a company’s financial, environmental, social, and View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
stakeholders at an HBS workshop last week. Integrated reports combine a company's financial, environmental, social, and governance performance... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
or nonprofit must demonstrate to its shareholders or donors that it can perform efficiently. To state the obvious, companies must make money. How could running a local government be a profitable enterprise?... View Details
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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog
Management or Investment Strategies. Course Content and Objectives An increasing share of assets globally are subject to a non-traditional (environmental, social, and governance [“ESG”] and impact screens),... View Details
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
short run versus large costs of unknowable certainty in the future. As examples of predictable surprises, they suggest such things as the rise of terrorism, compromises of auditor independence (and its implications for the general decline of trust in business),... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Sep 2010
- News
Idea Takes Root
wire. The IIRC deserves better, and here’s why. As Eccles states in his blog, reporting both financial performance and performance in the areas of environmental sustainability, social responsibility, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and chair of the Business and Environment Initiative Five years ago, as George Serafeim recalls, if he had walked into the classroom on the first day and mentioned View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
Rossotti Courtesy HBS Press When Charles O. Rossotti (MBA ’64) was appointed commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in 1997, it was the most feared and loathed of all federal government agencies. People told him that he was taking... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
integrated report. Senior leadership was convinced that Natura's success over the years had been aided by its corporate responsibility and strategy to continuously seek improvements in both financial and nonfinancial (e.g., environmental,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
professionals and institutions in building better financial futures. The Sustainable Investing team is focusing on a variety of environmental, social, and governance projects,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
the eulogy at his funeral. The fellowship program is what drew Osgood to HBS. “I knew what I wanted to do,” says Osgood, who had previously worked as the Chief of Staff/Senior Advisor in New York City’s Department of Parks and Recreation. Osgood spent his fellowship... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
George P. Baker offered him a full-time faculty position at the School. Shortly after that, the Pentagon called again, this time asking Fox to be assistant secretary of the Army, the senior government official responsible for Army... View Details
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Elliot Tobin
accounting—“something more real-world oriented,” he says. Research Elliot’s research focuses on ESG (environmental, social, governance) initiatives and how corporations can do good in the world even when... View Details