Publications

July 2025
Case

Microsoft’s Performance Across Three CEOs

This case traces Microsoft’s evolution from its founding through 2024. Students analyze how changes in operating segments both reflected and shaped Microsoft’s strategy, culture, and financial communication. The case provides rich quantitative exhibits (segment... View Details

Keywords: Financial Accounting; Financial Statement Analysis; Disclosure; Disclosure Strategy; Disclosure Tone; Organizational Transformations; Transformation; AI; Digital; Organizational Change; Accounting; Financial Statements; Strategy; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States

Educators

September 2023 (Revised September 2023)
Teaching Note

Roche: Innovation and Access to Healthcare

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-075. In May 2022, Roche Group, one of the largest healthcare companies in the world, hosted its first investor event focused exclusively on its efforts to impact access to healthcare. While Roche had recently set an ambitious goal to... View Details

Keywords: ESG; Access To Care; Healthcare; Healthcare Access; Innovation; Social Impact; Affordable; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Resource Allocation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Health Industry

December 2022
Teaching Plan

JetBlue: Relevant Sustainability Leadership (A) & (B)

Teaching Plan for HBS Case Nos. 118-030 and 119-044. View Details

November 2017
Editorial

Facebook, BlackRock, and the Case for Purpose-Driven Companies

Purpose-driven companies have been shown to outperform their peers over the long term. But purpose-driven companies are also hard to come by. Why is that? Because purpose is costly. At the very least, it requires a credible commitment to that purpose. And credible... View Details

Keywords: Facebook; BlackRock; Purpose; Corporate Purpose; ESG; Short-termism; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Governance; Leadership

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May 24, 2016
Editorial

The EU Has Trust Issues, and It's Taking Down Greece's Economy

Keywords: Greece; Europe; European Union; Crisis; Economy; Financial Crisis; European Union; Greece

Editorial

Tsipras' Second Chance: Greece to Hold Elections

Editorial

The Value of Accounting: The Case of Greece

June 2015
Teaching Note

Greece's Debt: Sustainable?

May 2015
Teaching Note

Aviva Investors

Keywords: Responsibility; Responsibilities To Society; Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Sustainability; Activist Investors; Investment Management; Investment Strategy; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Environmental Sustainability; Investment Activism

May 2015
Teaching Note

Statoil: Transparency on Payments to Governments

2014
Working Paper

The Role of the Corporation in Society: An Alternative View and Opportunities for Future Research