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- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
impacting people’s behavior and underlying firm culture,” he says. Accenture rethinks its code Compliance can be difficult for employees when they are faced with a 50-page document filled with generic principles and discussions of regulation that fall outside their... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
barriers that limited firms' geographic scope and unleashing a seemingly unlimited set of new threats, challenges, and opportunities to create value globally. Globalization presents managers with an environment to create value that is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
can induce a controlling shareholder to list equity. Higher valuations support listings associated with greater agency costs. We test the predictions that follow from this idea on a sample of publicly listed corporate subsidiaries in Japan. When there is greater View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Women on Boards: How Lara Druyan and Ann Lucena Are Shaping the Future of Corporate Leadership - Blog: RGE Report
$2 billion fund and its many different stakeholders. Identify the scope of the problem, Druyan says, and then start generating solutions. Channeling this approach, she ultimately found and hired a new CEO who was well-suited to guide the... View Details
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
the alumni clubs, SEI, and HBS professors was powerful,” says Ava Zydor (MBA 1984), one of the co-organizers from the HBS Club of New York. “It greatly enhanced the scope and impact of the summit. We were excited to see how much... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- March 2010 (Revised June 2010)
- Case
The Greening of DUMBO
By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson and Abhijit Prabhu
The Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass (DUMBO) has seen a revitalization since the late 1970s. The neighborhood's business improvement district (BID) is charged with supplementing New York City's efforts in several areas, including... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Local Range; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Wastes and Waste Processing; Urban Development; Public Administration Industry; New York (city, NY)
Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, and Abhijit Prabhu. "The Greening of DUMBO." Harvard Business School Case 410-079, March 2010. (Revised June 2010.)
- June 2010 (Revised August 2010)
- Case
State Grid: Corporate Social Responsibility
By: Christopher Marquis, Nancy Dai, Dongning Yang and Hong Wu
In October 2009, State Grid, the largest utility company in the world, and a pioneer and leader in CSR practices in China, was planning its 2009 CSR Report and long-term CSR implementation. Some of the specific challenges faced at the time include: How could the... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Management Systems; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Accountability; Behavior; Change Management; Global Range; Employees; Utilities Industry; China
Marquis, Christopher, Nancy Dai, Dongning Yang, and Hong Wu. "State Grid: Corporate Social Responsibility." Harvard Business School Case 410-141, June 2010. (Revised August 2010.)
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
employees will protest or leave if they tried to do that. And a lot of companies were able to hire from a broad geographic scope that they wouldn’t have otherwise done outside of the pandemic. What do you even do about people who are in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship
remote interns. “It's important to select projects which are important or notable to a large group. This ensures that many people in the organization are invested in the intern's success, and it widens the scope of available mentors who... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Fast Answer
Global Climate Change
style="color:black">Measuring and reporting GHG emissions such as carbon dioxide and methane are key first steps to reducing emissions. This training consists five modules including scope 1-3. It... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
worldwide are from HBS. One exciting challenge for us is the increasing pace and scope of innovation. The coming years will require both careful strategic investment and creativity in preserving HBS’s research edge. —Lynsey Fitzpatrick View Details
- January–February 2013
- Article
Golfing Alone? Corporations, Elites and Nonprofit Growth in 100 American Communities
By: Christopher Marquis, Gerald F. Davis and Mary Ann Glynn
We examine the link between corporations and community by showing how corporate density interacts with the local social and cultural infrastructure to affect the growth and decline of the number of local nonprofits between 1987 and 2002. We focus on two sub-populations... View Details
Keywords: Business and Community Relations; Civil Society or Community; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Business Growth and Maturation; Profit; Local Range; Welfare or Wellbeing; Business Processes; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Trends; Management Practices and Processes; United States
Marquis, Christopher, Gerald F. Davis, and Mary Ann Glynn. "Golfing Alone? Corporations, Elites and Nonprofit Growth in 100 American Communities." Organization Science 24, no. 1 (January–February 2013): 39–57. (Read a summary of the article in Stanford Social Innovation Review.)
- September 20, 2004
- Comment
How Consumers Value Global Brands
By: Douglas Holt, John A. Quelch and Earl L. Taylor
In 2002, we carried out a two-stage research project in partnership with the market research company Research International/USA to find out how consumers in different countries value global brands. First, we conducted a qualitative study in forty-one countries to... View Details
Keywords: Global Brands; Brand Value; Multi-national Brands; Social Responsibility; Global Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Brands and Branding; Social Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Holt, Douglas, John A. Quelch, and Earl L. Taylor. "How Consumers Value Global Brands." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (September 20, 2004).
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
is a limit to the scope of top management intervention. What do you think? To Read More: Michael Birshan, Marja Engel, and Olivier Siboney, Avoiding the quicksand: Ten techniques for more agile corporate resource allocation, McKinsey... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund
develop the course curriculum, including identifying course content and scoping field projects for students. The course launched in the fall, with around 30 students participating and supporting around 10 BIPOC-owned Boston businesses.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
enabled everyone to say, 'Here's what we're doing to improve things.'" Rossotti dramatized the scope of the agency's IT problems by taking key congressional staffers on a bus trip-first to the virtually paperless office of a credit card... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- Web
Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health - Blog: Health Supplement
building in the space and that limits the scope and ambition of the solutions being developed. As an example of this, during a recent deep dive into the menopause space, I could only find one company using a B2B SaaS model despite the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
beyond this letter’s scope to counter Tobias’s many fallacious arguments about the national debt, in which he ascribes no responsibility to the congressional Democrats who originated most of the spending over the past half-century. If... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
plans that Associate Dean McArthur enumerated indeed foreshadow the accomplishments of Dean McArthur and his faculty colleagues. Just as Kim Clark knew that it would be impossible to represent in one symposium the full scope of happenings... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young