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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
Responsible Investments That Make Firms More Profitable By: George Serafeim Article Transition to Clean Technology By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley and William R. Kerr We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
production decisions. We find that insurance provision induces farmers to shift production towards higher-return but higher-risk cash crops, particularly among educated farmers. Our results support the view that financial innovation can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
in context by a discussion of how during Jurlique's growth as a successful premium brand there had been substantial changes in market position, in part associated with shifts of ownership. At times the brand had been focused on core green... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
of caring for not only the corporation and shareholders but also the patients and medical professionals. How should leaders of health-related businesses weigh the demand for efficiency and profit alongside the care of patients and the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
implement the layoffs quickly—in less than a year—to minimize workplace disruptions and gain credibility with the capital market. For some companies, however, strategic and business factors could warrant a more gradual approach to downsizing. For example, consider a... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
“algorithmic bias” as one of the “most important emergent issues plaguing our society today.” Google turns its back on Gebru Gebru joined Google in 2018 as co-lead of the company’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence unit, shifting her focus... 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
- 09 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
The Sixth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
experiences of leading investors and entrepreneurs, including Erik Snyder of the Drawdown Fund, Scott Jacobs of Generate and Rodi Guidero of Breakthrough Energy. The final phase of the SIP focused on common challenges faced by climate start-ups, such as balancing View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide
understand a business. “We want to make money and always looking to generate alpha in our investment strategies, so if machine learning can make us profitable and improve our risk management and trading efficiency, so be it.” Kost: It... View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Book
Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer
the core of the near-miraculous turnaround Joly spearheaded at the company during the 2010s. Joly stepped in as CEO of Best Buy in 2012, just after its quarterly profits plummeted by 91 percent and its stock price hit a nine-year low.... View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
on average, the implementation of the preferential incentive plan was associated with improvements in sales. Also, we find that this plan was associated with greater improvements in sales and gross profits as well as reductions in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Strategy-Focused Organization
moving in favorable directions. McCool confirmed his belief in the strategy when he confidently told the employees to stay the course, to keep improving the performance driver measures on the scorecard. And his faith was soon confirmed: By the end of the year, Mobil... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 21 Mar 2019
- HBS Case
The Ferrari Way
in 2015 (ticker symbol RACE). Meanwhile, the automotive industry has been shifting through its biggest changes in decades, with companies scrambling to keep up with the pace of innovation—including drivetrain electrification, wireless... View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
examines a way to offset such potentially deleterious effects—by focusing on time, a resource that tends to receive less attention than money but is equally ubiquitous in our daily lives. Across four experiments, we examine whether View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
PublicationsHas the Shift to Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Promoted Technology Transfer, FDI, and Industrial Development? Authors:Lee Branstetter, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi Publication:The WIPO Journal: Analysis and Debate... View Details
- 08 Sep 2022
- Book
Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?
leaders with business celebrities he says never found their True North. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, for instance, has deflected blame for his company’s many scandals, even pushing back against a whistleblower’s accusation that profits... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
creating racially diverse organizations are getting sidelined." That’s especially important today, since inclusion programs have shifted in recent years toward recognizing more forms of diversity—based on gender and sexual... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Apr 2023
- Book
Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
productivity; and then workers need to capture those productivity gains through higher wages. “What we find is that’s not the case,” Rouen says. “We have seen corporate profits rise and unemployment fall to historic lows, but wages have... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
outcome where stringent regulation in one region shifts production to regions with weaker regulation. It is believed that such leakage increases global emissions. It is also believed that leakage can be eliminated by carbon tariffs, which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne