Social Accounting - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2020
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Saving Grace

Illustration by Neil Webb About a year before he reached retirement, Frank Chapman started mapping out the travels he and his wife envisioned for their golden years. A career accountant for British telecom companies, he thought it best to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

2022
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The Evolution of ESG Reports and the Role of Voluntary Standards

By: Ethan Rouen, Kunal Sachdeva and Aaron Yoon

We examine the evolution of ESG reports of S&P 500 firms from 2010 to 2021. The percentage of firms releasing these voluntary disclosures increased from 35% to 86% during this period, although the length of these documents experienced more modest growth. Using a... View Details

Keywords: Voluntary Disclosure; Textual Analysis; Modeling And Analysis; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; AI and Machine Learning; Accounting

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23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007

accountability at the project and policy levels, particularly through the establishment and enforcement of social and environmental safeguards and complaint and response mechanisms. But they have been much... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2007
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Power Trip

entrepreneurial innovation, savvy management, or transformational leadership. For Paths to Power, we dug deeper into the wealth of demographic information in the database to determine how factors such as social class, education, religion,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Mar 2014
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Rivalry: Greatness in Early Modern Political Economy By: Reinert, Sophus A. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://global.oup.com/academic/product/mercantilism-reimagined-9780199988532;jsessionid=E3E521312198AD3D948C42CEACF0AC86?cc=us&lang=en&... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

(c) accountability in implementation. Examples are drawn from the experiences of South Africa and Brazil. Several preliminary factors are identified that may enhance policy learning, while acknowledging the constraints of bounded... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Sep 2015
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Giving Kids a Better Chance

Marshall Tuck (MBA 2000) combined an interest in social issues and the entrepreneurial lessons he learned at HBS to launch a charter school organization in Los Angeles. In just a few years, the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools took... View Details

01 Apr 2011
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My First HBS Class

classroom case discussions, the students were models of decorum and probity. I attended two different classes, a second- and a first-year course. I came completely unprepared to a popular second-year Strategy course called Competing with View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Twitter: Alumni Business & Environment Executive Education Faculty Accounts Harvard Business Review Harvard Business School Jobs MBA Recruiting Rock Center: Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Initiative HBS... View Details

27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

innovation to the firm, and then drove change among its managerial and technical staff by making everyone accountable for sourcing half the innovations from outside P&G. An important element in P&G's effort was to create an... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

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Joan Colligan Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Environment Executive Education MBA Recruiting Rock Center: Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Initiative HBS Working Knoweldge More HBS Twitter: Alumni Business & Environment Executive Education Faculty View Details

01 Mar 2016
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Feedback

bring much-needed accountability into the system? —Jim Mills (MBA 1986) Tim Draper’s investment in the school voucher campaign was not for naught. It caused the legislature to panic and pass a surprisingly progressive charter school law... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?

happiest part of my day is normally in the evening when [I] sit down with my wife as we account for our day’s earnings from our different sources of income.” Since GiveDirectly launched, cash payments have become a growing, though still... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2012
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Alumni Books

Angst, Awareness, Action by Jay P. Desai (AMP 180, 2011) (Pearson) Accountability, the bedrock of governance, is under siege in India. Widespread unaccountability is preventing the country from unlocking its full economic and social... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

Just Has to Make Money by Robert C. Hacker (MBA 1972) (North American Publishing Company) Nobody has more stories than agency account people. Having been inside hundreds of clients’ organizations and six agencies and seen it all, Hacker... View Details

05 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?

motorists represent the prevalence of “consumer inertia” in the retail gas market. Consumer inertia is the tendency of some customers to buy or continue buying a product, even when superior options exist. Companies that can accurately View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

of social structure and the relations of power that underlie them. The article proposes a more empirical approach to framing accountability—"thick description"—that might enable scholars to better understand how View Details