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  • November 2023 (Revised February 2025)
  • Background Note

Corporate Climate Targets

By: Willy C. Shih, Michael W. Toffel and Kelsey Carter
Companies that are addressing climate change by mitigating their greenhouse gas emissions often set reduction targets. This note describes several types of widely used carbon reduction targets, including carbon neutral, science based, net zero, real zero, and carbon... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Sustainability; Environmental Strategy; Climate Risk; Target-setting; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Accountability; Policy; Measurement and Metrics; Strategic Planning; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • June 12, 2019
  • Article

Business as Usual Will Not Save the Planet

By: Mark R. Kramer, Rishi Agarwal and Aditi Srivinas
The United Nations’ 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) were explicitly designed to engage the private sector in addressing the world’s most pressing challenges. Four years into the UN’s 15-year timeline, the question is whether companies are advancing serious... View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Development; Environmental Sustainability; Goals and Objectives; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Planning
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  • 01 Jan 2003
  • News

One More Time

Keywords: Frederick Herzberg
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao Advises New MBA Students on Business Values

because of the actions of an unscrupulous few,” she told the audience in Burden Auditorium. “Each of you has an extraordinary opportunity to help turn around the crisis in confidence we face today. You are the future business leaders of... View Details
  • 23 Apr 2020
  • Blog Post

Fireside Chats with Harvard Faculty: A COVID-19 Symposium

public health sectors need to work together. Mobilizing for a National Response View Video Professor Juliette Kayyem and Professor Dutch Leonard detail what crisis management looks like in a COVID world,... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Faculty Books

Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture by Laura Alfaro (World Scientific) This casebook has three main topics: the determinants and effects of international capital flows;... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management
  • November 1996
  • Case

Del Webb Corporation (B), The

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Samanta Graff
On November 16, 1987, the Del Webb board appointed Phil Dion chairman and CEO. This case outlines the development and implementation of a strategy to focus exclusively on real estate development and to liquidate all other assets. Discusses the appointment of two new... View Details
Keywords: Crisis Management; Management Succession; Strategic Planning; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict of Interests; Real Estate Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Outside Voices

In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Pete Ryan; immigration; repatriation; innovation; public policy; Greece
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • News

Keeping Red Lobster Fresh

to date. He returned to Red Lobster as CEO in 2014, and in this episode of Skydeck, I talk to him about the challenges and opportunities he saw, how to lead during times of change, and why social responsibility is so important to both him... View Details
Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 01 Apr 2020
  • News

What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages

essay with the Washington Post, which published it on March 27. The concern about shortages of masks, ventilators, hospital gowns, and testing kits got me to thinking about the Vietnam War, when I was the senior civilian official View Details
  • 13 Apr 2022
  • News

New School

Waldron says. “We were having a crisis in education before the pandemic, in terms of disparities in kids’ learning gains.” Now, after two years of disrupted learning in many places, those inequities are even more apparent, and progress is... View Details
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • News

Don’t Scare the Bankers

York. Their work is representative of a broad faculty response to the financial crisis. Mr. Ji, if you can hear me, times have changed: Someone needs to scare the bankers and scare them straight. View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Offices of Bank Holding Companies; Management
  • 18 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Embracing Activism for Social Change

behavioral health professionals in situations where their expertise would make a critical difference in resolving crisis situations, or even preventing them in the first place,” explains 2020–2021 HBS Leadership Fellow Sarika Mendu (MBA... View Details
  • 05 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

The story behind Dean Kamen's Segway scooter, and his combustive meeting with the kingpins of Apple and Amazon. Excerpt from Code Name Ginger. 5. Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan Harvard Business School professor William... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans

assess public education reform needs, and assemble different aspects of the city’s recovery plan into a report to be submitted to President George W. Bush (MBA ’75). The trip inspired an ongoing effort that has sent some students back to... View Details
Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Health, Social Assistance
  • 20 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

Polman advocating on climate change; Merck CEO Ken Frazier protesting President Trump’s response to a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville; or Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy speaking out against gay marriage, the current trend of CEO... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

Embracing Activism for Social Change

behavioral health professionals in situations where their expertise would make a critical difference in resolving crisis situations, or even preventing them in the first place,” explains 2020–2021 HBS Leadership Fellow Sarika Mendu (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 19 Feb 2010
  • News

The MBA Oath Debate

misplaced response to the financial crisis. It assumes that the financial crisis was caused by unethical MBAs gambling with other people’s money,” a point Vermaelen contests. He concludes: “Rather than... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 03 Mar 2010
  • What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?

"identity"? Does this require yet one more intrusion by government into the private sector? In fact, is it even achievable in countries like the U.S. at this late date? Will such efforts result in the same slow responses to an... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

for society. Students and researchers in organizational behavior, management, positive psychology, leadership, and corporate responsibility will find this book of interest. Publisher's Link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne