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  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

in the minds of many retailers over whether loyalty programs offer a sustainable and profitable business model. Retailers such as Sainsbury's in the United Kingdom illustrate this hesitation. They were early adopters of loyalty programs... View Details
Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 05 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 5

Authors:Tiona Zuzul and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract Building on research in strategy formation and organizational innovation, this paper reports on a field study of a young company in the sustainable cities industry. We examine how company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 31

Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines the impact of leveraged buyout firms' bank relationships on the terms of their syndicated loans. Using a sample of 1,590 loans financing private equity sponsored leveraged... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Supplement

Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Amram Migdal and Susan Pinckney
Arla implemented a data-based price incentive system to measure, track, and influence climate friendly changes to reduce CO2 emissions across the world’s fourth largest dairy cooperative. View Details
Keywords: Dairy Industry; Business Earnings; Earnings Management; Environmental Accounting; Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Making; Decisions; Voting; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Financial Strategy; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Geopolitical Units; Global Strategy; Ownership Type; Cooperative Ownership; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Natural Environment; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; European Union; Germany; Denmark; Sweden; Luxembourg; Belgium
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Accounting for Product Impact in the Telecommunications Industry

By: George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
We apply the product impact measurement framework of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) in two competitor companies within the telecommunications industry. We design a monetization methodology that allows us to calculate monetary impact estimates of network... View Details
Keywords: Product Innovation; Impact; Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; Social Corporate Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Impact; Telecommunications; Product Design; Product Positioning; Society; Product; Environmental Sustainability; Measurement and Metrics; Framework; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Telecommunications Industry
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  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

the conditions to thrive tomorrow. We argue that organizational sustainability depends on attending to strategic paradox, engaging contradictory yet interrelated strategies simultaneously. Drawing on our research and the work of others,... View Details
  • November 2019
  • Supplement

Hapag-Lloyd AG: Complying with IMO 2020

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney
A new environmental regulation known as IMO 2020 was creating what one industry analyst called “the biggest shakeup for the oil and shipping industries in decades.” According to the new regulation, all ocean-going ships would have to limit their sulfur emissions by... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Ship Transportation; Strategic Planning; Game Theory; Pollutants; Supply Chain; Corporate Accountability; Capital Budgeting; Environmental Sustainability; Shipping Industry; Transportation Industry; Germany
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  • September 2011 (Revised February 2013)
  • Case

Trucost: Valuing Corporate Environmental Impacts

By: Michael W. Toffel and Stephanie van Sice
Trucost provided corporate environmental performance data and analysis to institutional investors and corporate managers, but after operating for a decade had yet to achieve profitability. Trucost was struggling to effectively differentiate its high quality products... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Distribution Channels; Investment; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Information; Value; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry
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  • 19 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 19

"co-specializes" in related areas (complementarities). In our setting, we find evidence of such complementarities in specialization. Decoding Inside Information Authors:Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy, and Lukasz Pomorski Publication:Journal of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

an in-depth analysis of the opportunities and challenges, both traditional and contemporary, of doing business in India. Great Service Made Simple by Frederic B. Sargent (OPM 2) (The Sustainable Service Institute) A short story with... View Details
  • 18 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

either mitigation or adaptation. It’s both. Businesses can and must play a key role in driving society’s ability to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Professor John Macomber, a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Unit at HBS, has been... View Details
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52405 forthcoming Critical Finance Review Inflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds By: Campbell, John Y., Adi Sunderam, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract—The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

exploration to concepts from behavioral economics that could help build a sustainable platform for the app. In the end, the case questions ask the team to decide on a basic business and financing strategy if... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

governance are the most daunting because the very foundations of governance—vote allocation proportionate to economy, representation by finance ministries, absence of parliamentary scrutiny, and the relative voicelessness of the poorest... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • March 2008 (Revised April 2009)
  • Case

The Xiamen PX Project: The Rule of Contract or Citizens in China Today

This case examines the effect of environmental activism on China's investment climate, focusing on the petrochemical sector. It shows how tensions between a country's national economic development goals and political constraints make for a more unpredictable investment... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Conflict and Resolution; China
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  • 15 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 15

  PublicationsBuilding Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations Authors:Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract We explore how new types... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • May 2010
  • Teaching Note

Re-THINK-ing THINK: The Electric Car Company (TN)

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III
Teaching Note for [810105]. View Details
Keywords: Production; Product Launch; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Environmental Sustainability; Brands and Branding; Distribution; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Auto Industry; Indiana; Norway
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  • 08 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 8, 2016

Abstract—This working paper examines the impact of two entrepreneurs who offered alternative paths to reach their shared goal of a more sustainable world. Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins were respective founders of the prominent outdoor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2020 (Revised August 2021)
  • Case

Australia: Commodities, Competitiveness, Climate and China

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Laura Alfaro
For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms—inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit, and growing dependence on China. Between 1996 and 2007, however, Australia had most of these issues under control... View Details
Keywords: Commodities; Competitiveness; Carbon Tax; Environment; Capital Flows; Current Account; Mining; Economy; Problems and Challenges; Climate Change; Taxation; Competition; Financial Condition; Government and Politics; Inflation and Deflation; Environmental Sustainability; Australia
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  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

Vegemite, the iconic Australian spread. The team must decide whether to bid for the division and, if so, how much to offer and how to finance the all-cash bid. Making these decisions was difficult because this would be Bega’s largest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne