Publications

Educators

13 Mar 2013
Other Presentation

New Opportunities for Company Performance and Purpose: Creating Shared Value

By: Michael E. Porter

The ideas drawn from "Creating Shared Value" (Harvard Business Review, Jan 2011) and "Competing by Saving Lives" (FSG, 2012). View Details

Keywords: Society; United States

16 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

Tobin’s Q. Collectively, the evidence suggest that current efforts to increase transparency around organizations’ impact on society are effective at improving disclosure quantity and quality as well as... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

October 1998 (Revised December 1999)
Case

Gene Research, the Mapping of Life and the Global Economy

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Juan Enriquez-Cabot

A new firm is being created to speed up the process of mapping humans, animals, and plants by combining gene technology with rapid gene identification to improve the health and well being of the human population and the productivity of crops and animals. How does one... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Technological Innovation; Business Processes; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Productivity; Welfare; Agribusiness; Genetics; Science-Based Business; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

Educators

3 Oct 2012
Other Presentation

Business and Social Good: What is the Role of Investors?

By: Michael E. Porter

Shared Value and Investors Presentation View Details

Keywords: Society; Investment; United States

November 2002 (Revised March 2006)
Case

ApproTEC Kenya: Technologies to Fight Poverty and Create Wealth

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

ApproTEC markets a range of technologies to improve the income of subsistence farmers and other small-scale entrepreneurs in East Africa. Having achieved considerable success in its first eight years, the two founders/entrepreneurs are seeking ways to scale the impact... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Development Economics; Poverty; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Kenya; Africa

Educators

1984
Comment

Capital Structure Change and Decreases in Stockholders' Wealth

By: Michael Jensen

Keywords: Capital Structure; Wealth; Loss

September 2024
Article

Political Elite Cues and Attitude Formation in Post-Conflict Contexts

By: Natalia Garbiras-Díaz, Miguel Garcia-Sanchez and Aila M. Matanock

Civil conflicts typically end with negotiated settlements, but many settlements fail, often during the implementation stage when average citizens have increasing influence. Citizens sometimes evaluate peace agreements by voting on referendums or the negotiating... View Details

Keywords: Civil Unrest; Peace Process; Political Leadership; Peace; Politics; Policy Change; Policy; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Governance; Political Elections; Civil Society or Community; Negotiation; Negotiation Participants; Public Relations Industry; Colombia; Latin America; South America

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22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

provided a good return for a pension fund holder at some point, but that investor and society pay more in the end through increased health care costs. Hayes said that Domini's picture of a system run amok,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

March – April 2007
Article

Brokerage, Boundary Spanning, and Leadership in Open Innovation Communities

Keywords: Leadership; Innovation and Invention; Civil Society or Community

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23 Aug 2019
Blog Post

A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia

point in my career where it was time to pivot. With the encouragement of dear friends and mentors, I stepped away from Silicon Valley and enrolled at HBS to refine my technical business skills (woo liberal... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

April–May 2005
Article

History, Social Divisions and Public Goods in Rural India

By: Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer and Rohini Somanathan

Keywords: History; Goods and Commodities; Public Ownership; Society; India

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Web

Research in Black and White | Baker Library

many of those working in the lab “had graduated from Smith, some with no scientific background. Land proved many times over that a bright young liberal arts student could learn the routines of the laboratory View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

Reaching Out

the way society at large views the role of nonprofit organizations and their management. "There's a growing willingness to work together across the nonprofit, business, and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

2008
Working Paper

Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India

By: Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani

We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions.... View Details

Keywords: Governance Controls; Political Elections; Management Skills; Managerial Roles; Personal Development and Career; Societal Protocols; India

12 Jul 2012
Other Presentation

New Opportunities for Company Performance and Purpose: Creating Shared Value

By: Michael E. Porter

This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's books and articles, in particular, Competitive Strategy (The Free Press, 1980); Competitive Advantage (The Free Press, 1985); "What is Strategy?" (Harvard Business Review, Nov/Dec 1996); and On Competition... View Details

Keywords: Society; United States

Keywords: science; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Jun 2008
News

Watching the Brain Think and the Surprises of Science

watch the brain think? The unpredictability of these big surprises makes us timid in our speculations: It is embarrassing to be publicly wrong, and big surprises make dunces of us all. But avoiding speculation makes science dreary View Details

20 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

and studies how they do business. Each of these companies has exceptional practices when it comes to stakeholder management. Whether the stakeholder is an employee, customer, investor, vendor, or even View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2024
Working Paper

Priceless: How to Create, Trade, and Protect What Matters Most

By: Debora L. Spar

This article explores the concept of the "sacred economy," a realm of human interactions and exchanges that transcends traditional market dynamics. It illustrates the emotional and relational aspects of human connections that cannot be quantified or traded like... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Relationships; Human Needs; Goods and Commodities

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