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  • February 1983
  • Case

Managing Product Safety: The Case of the Procter & Gamble Rely Tampon

Presents an accounting of Procter & Gamble's handling of a product safety controversy (1980) surrounding its Rely tampon. May be used as part of a series, Managing Product Safety, that provides an opportunity to compare and contrast the social response strategies... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Crisis Management; Product; Consumer Products Industry; Health Industry
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  • Research Summary

Overview

My work examines the social and economic processes that generate innovation and distribute its rewards in society, in the context of the United States over the past twenty years. For isntance, I have shown that in recent decades product innovations have... View Details
  • 12 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted

Global supply chains took some heat during the COVID-19 pandemic, with consumers waiting months for goods and politicians wringing their hands over trade policy. “Reshoring” is one of the hottest new corporate buzzwords, as many companies... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 02 Jun 2020
  • News

Risking Authenticity in the Digital Age

  • 06 Jun 2023
  • Cold Call Podcast

The Opioid Crisis, CEO Pay, and Shareholder Activism

Keywords: Re: Suraj Srinivasan; Health; Pharmaceutical; Distribution
  • June 1989 (Revised May 1993)
  • Supplement

Rossin Greenberg Seronick & Hill, Inc. (C)

By: John A. Quelch
Teaching objectives: 1) to consider legal and other obligations advertising agencies owe to their clients, 2) to show how aggressive marketing can lead to allegations of misconduct, 3) to explore conflicts of interest which may arise for professional service companies... View Details
Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Ethics; Lawsuits and Litigation; Marketing; Advertising; Advertising Industry; New England
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  • March 2022 (Revised April 2022)
  • Teaching Note

France Télécom (A), (B), and (C)

By: Ashley Whillans
This case series discusses the evolution of France Télécom (now Orange) from a national telephone monopoly to a private company. During this process, the company faced numerous challenges including the entry of new competition from other countries and a workforce that... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Compensation and Benefits; Employee Relationship Management; Business Organization; Well-being; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; France
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  • September 20, 2024
  • Article

It’s Time to Unbundle ESG

By: Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
ESG is at an inflection point. It has come to represent a broad and inchoate aspiration for what business should be doing beyond maximizing shareholder value. With ESG advocates on the defensive, business leaders need a new roadmap to determine which factors to... View Details
Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; ESG Reporting; ESG Disclosure; Sustainability; Climate; Climate Finance; Climate Risk; Social Accounting; Investment; Governance; Safety; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry
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  • June 1995 (Revised September 1996)
  • Case

Union Carbide's Bhopal Plant (A)

By: Debora L. Spar
In December 1984, a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, sprung a leak, releasing thousands of gallons of highly toxic gas into the atmosphere. By the time the leak was sealed, over 2,000 people had died. In a series of three excerpts from published accounts, the case... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Chemicals; Foreign Direct Investment; Chemical Industry; United States; India
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  • May 23, 2011
  • Article

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim
To determine the extent to which corporate and investor behavior is changing to contribute to a more sustainable society, researchers Robert Eccles and George Serafeim analyzed data involving over 2,000 companies in 23 countries. One result: a ranking of countries... View Details
Keywords: Change; Society; Corporate Disclosure; Natural Environment; Rank and Position; Social Issues; Financial Statements; Behavior
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  • 26 May 2022
  • HBS Case

Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

issues like privacy. The authors of the case offer a suggestion for CEOs: Few corporations can expect to steer clear of the lightning-rod issues of the day, so perhaps it’s best to meet them head on as part of the job. “What is new is the... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 13 Jul 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets

that a body like Facebook has for our wellbeing, and how much responsibility should they have, or how careful should they be, in the way that they manipulate our emotions?” Asked whether he believes social... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Media & Broadcasting

    Do Managers Have a Role to Play in Sustaining the Institutions of Capitalism?

    In the latest paper for the Initiative on 21st Century Capitalism, Rebecca Henderson and Karthik Ramanna, professors at Harvard, look to business leaders to ask the important question: Do managers have a role to play in sustaining free and fair capitalism? The... View Details
    • 03 Jul 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

    positions. To enable such assessments, firms must become as transparent about their corporate political responsibility (CPR) as their corporate View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 2012
    • Article

    A Field Study on the Acceptance and Use of a New Accounting System

    By: V.G. Narayanan, Ranjani Krishnan and Jamshed J. Mistry
    This study examines the attitudes, use, and acceptance of a new accounting system in a pharmaceutical corporation that switched from an Activity Based Costing System to the Theory of Constraints System (TOC). Using structuration theory as a framework, we posit that... View Details
    Keywords: Theory Of Constraints; Structuration; Field Study; Accounting; Innovation and Invention
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    Business Ethics

    By: Joshua D. Margolis
    Joshua Margolis is interested in how individuals can exercise leadership in the face of competing ethical and economic responsibilities, and how organizations can enable them to do that. In particular, how can managers and companies simultaneously advance... View Details
    • 16 Feb 2023
    • HBS Case

    ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

    The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services

      Henry W. McGee

      Henry McGee joined the HBS faculty in 2013 after retiring as President of HBO Home Entertainment, the digital and DVD program distribution division of Home Box Office, the pioneering premium television company. A member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit,... View Details

      Keywords: television; motion pictures; media; e-commerce industry; entertainment; broadcasting; distribution; health care; journalism; wholesale; arts; nonprofit industry
      • June 2020 (Revised October 2020)
      • Case

      What Went Wrong with Boeing's 737 Max?

      By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
      This case describes the development of the Boeing 737 Max airplane model and the events leading up to two tragic plane crashes, in which a total of 346 people died: the crash of Lion Air flight 610 on October 29, 2018, in Indonesia, and the crash of Ethiopian Airlines... View Details
      Keywords: Communication; Communication Intention and Meaning; Communication Strategy; Forms of Communication; Announcements; Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Globalization; Global Strategy; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Governance Controls; Human Resources; Resignation and Termination; Leadership; Leadership Style; Management; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Management Style; Management Systems; Risk Management; Time Management; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Digital Platforms; Supply and Industry; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Industry Structures; Operations; Product Development; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Outcome or Result; Failure; Success; Planning; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Strategy; Transportation; Air Transportation; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; Africa; Ethiopia; Asia; Indonesia; North and Central America; United States; Seattle; Chicago
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      • 29 Nov 2010
      • HBS Case

      United Breaks Guitars

      Tweets are in the air we breathe. Most of us know that "friend" can also be a verb. Social media are part of the public discourse now, whether or not we're active users of them. A new case coauthored by HBS marketing professor... View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Hanna