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  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Health Care’s New Frontier

new billing requirements, insurance eligibility, and patient communication regulations. We respond as soon as new developments arise.” Investments in constant innovation will make it difficult to sustain the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

1932. A typical property bought in 1920 would have retained only 56% of its initial value in nominal terms two decades later. An investment in the stock market index (including dividends) would have outperformed an View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 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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  • 2009
  • Chapter

Self-regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives and Contributions from the Management Literature

By: Andrew A. King and Michael W. Toffel
Scholars of management have long considered how institutions can help resolve market imperfections and thereby improve human welfare. Most previous research has emphasized the use of for-profit firms. Such institutions cannot effectively address many environmental... View Details
Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Competitive Advantage
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  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

sustainable deals can be applied to international and financial transactions. Also crossing unit lines is Professor Richard E. Walton who contributes expertise in strategic negotiation to the examination of economic and social contracts... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199694945.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199694945-e-026 September 2014 Journal of Financial Economics The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Straddling Two Worlds

succeeded in business. “I've really had two careers,” he observes, “one as a for-profit financial entrepreneur and one as a crusader for economic development.” As a managing partner in his own investment firm, Tierney has the freedom to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 28 Apr 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

to going to HBS, it wasn’t until I took “Investing in the 21st Century: Return, Risk and Impact,” taught by Professors Shawn Cole and Vikram Gandhi, that I had a chance to learn about what impact investing was and understand how big the... View Details
  • 03 Jun 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?

produce sustained economic superiority or a model to be emulated in the U.S. is debatable. While some would like to see a convergence around the best features of the European and U.S. approach to management, there was limited confidence... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 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
  • 16 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Surveying the VC Landscape

and the Impact on Innovation, you explore the implications of the recent collapse in venture activity on innovation. Given recent cuts in corporate support for R&D, do you feel this is cause for concern to the innovation process? Or do you feel private equity View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 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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  • 16 Feb 2012
  • Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

government's sustained commitment to keeping China's economy in good health. This allows them to invest with confidence. The Chinese care about China, of course, but they are rooting for America as well.... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
  • Web

How Proxy Advisers Get Companies Talking to Shareholders | Working Knowledge

Finance and Investing How Proxy Advisers Get Companies Talking to Shareholders Featuring Aiyesha Dey . By Jay Fitzgerald on June 4, 2025 . An analysis of say-on-pay votes by Aiyesha Dey showed how the "ISS treatment" significantly... View Details
  • Fast Answer

Real estate: emerging markets

financial market stability and sustained market access by emerging market borrowers. Regulations Doing Business Data and analysis that measures the business environment of more than 180 countries and selected cities around the globe.... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Banking on HBS

Challenge Indeed, the Bank's stated mission is to reduce poverty and improve living standards by promoting sustainable growth and investments in people. To those ends, it provides loans, technical... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 12 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The New Real Estate

decreasing vacancies) coupled with continuing low interest rates. During the last year, we saw four big stories in real estate that underscore this continuing-to-boom market: record prices, new capital market instruments, and growing interest in both View Details
Keywords: by Arthur I. Segel; Construction; Real Estate
  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Cold Call Podcast

A Rose by Any Other Name: Supply Chains and Carbon Emissions in the Flower Industry

Keywords: Re: Willy C. Shih & Michael W. Toffel; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 08 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 8

investment banking analyst seeks to reconstruct which financial ratios go with which companies. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812129-PDF-ENG COSCO: Implementing Sustainability... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54963 Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Capital By: Lerner, Josh, Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar, and Nan R. Zhang Abstract—This paper undertakes a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman