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- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
has been discussed for decades. Here is research and writing from Harvard Business School that discusses both the concept in theory and examples of CSR in practice. A Good Place to Start Statement on the Purpose of a... View Details
- 06 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 6
Part of that effort was the creation of a strategic corporate social responsibility program called Our World, Our Family. The case tracks Western Union's earlier CSR initiatives and how they resulted in the creation Our World, Our Family.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
treaties, tariff policies, and regional trade agreements that can be put in place to enhance the effectiveness of CSR and a country's long-term competitiveness. When international quotas on textiles and garments are eliminated at the end... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
on that higher reputation identity, he says. Companies also can boost their employees’ trust with CSR efforts and transparency on the many metrics they have access to these days. Minor cites the example of Sears, which sends a weekly... View Details
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
develop the capacity to examine and evaluate individual CSR-oriented actions, a process that requires both an understanding of the motivation behind them and an assessment of their impact on society and on the firm. Second, they need to ensure that the firm's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
relevant for industries characterized by product proliferation and horizontal differentiation. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/banand/matchmaker2011published.pdf Accelerating the Adoption of Integrated Reporting Authors:Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
impact. This will allow them to calculate a total population health footprint and publish an annual health impact report, along the lines of today’s sustainability reports. Now that Target has centered its CSR strategy around wellness, it... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
with direct incentives for CSR is an effective tool to increase firm social performance. The findings provide evidence identifying corporate governance as a determinant of managerial incentives for social performance and suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
organizations that adopt it within a highly scrutinized regulatory environment but absent in a direct regulatory threat. The Quest for the 'Holy Grail' of Integrated Financial and CSR Reporting Authors:Robert Eccles and Michael Krzus... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
CSR performance is weaker for firms that have greater exposure to diverse global languages as a result of (a) being headquartered in countries with a higher degree of globalization, (b) having a higher degree of internationalization, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
Abstract—More than a billion people in the developing world remain in extreme poverty and outside the formal economy. Traditional CSR programs have done little to alleviate the situation and rarely produce transformative change. Instead... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased transparency. Using a large cross-section of firms, we find that firms with better View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
companies. Ambuja is a leader in CSR activities and is attempting to quantify its impact, both positive and negative, using the “True Value” framework developed by the global accounting firm KPMG. True Value is an innovation in this area... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
actions. We investigate a core premise of the institutional logics perspective, that of the alignment of institutional logics and organizational practices and design, in the organizational adoption of CSR practices. We hypothesize that,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
sector. In a way they become the catalysts for internal change. Q: Many alumni get involved with corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. Critics of CSR often cite Milton Friedman, who famously said that "the social... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31216 Breaking New Ground: The Emerging Frontier of CSR in the Extractive Sector Authors:V. Kasturi Rangan and Brooke Barton Publication:Chap. 9 in Global Challenges in Responsible Business,... View Details