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- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
It's a startling idea: Instead of relying on regulators to protect our privacy against telemarketers, data miners, and consumer companies, we should capitalize on the value of our personal information and get something of View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
entrepreneurial and get my hands dirty—I develop fitness choreography, select music, work with graphic designers on the look and feel of my blog, and write all the content." How did Grit by Brit come into being and what are your goals for it? Grit by Brit started... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
in order to capture value in the by-product market ("full+ conversion"), or only convert part of its waste into by-product so as not to flood the by-product market ("partial conversion"). As waste is now a useful input... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
such as corporate governance, the relationship between values and leadership, corporate accountability and the challenges of financial disclosure, executive compensation, and the role of intermediaries in... View Details
- March 2023
- Teaching Note
Sustainability Reporting at Dollar Tree, Inc.
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 122-044. The case discusses the ESG strategy of Dollar Tree Inc., a U.S. Fortune 500 company in the deep discount retail industry and the shareholder pressure faced by the company. In 2022, the company faced a shareholder resolution from... View Details
Keywords: ESG; Sustainability; Shareholder Activism; Dollar Tree; Sustainability Reporting; ESG Reporting; Board Of Directors; Shareholder Engagement; GHG; Environmental Accounting; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Trends; Communication; Announcements; Voting; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Reports; Business or Company Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Strategic Planning; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Situation or Environment; Opportunities; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Strategy; Adaptation; Alignment; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation; Retail Industry; United States; Virginia
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
Download the paper (purchase from NBER required: $5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13470 Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz Abstract Civil society actors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
LME Fund Makes HBS Dreams a Reality
This year’s 34 recipients hail from the United States and nineteen other countries, including many from the developing world. They are among the 841 first- and second-year students at the School who receive support from a variety of HBS fellowships. Donor contributions... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
http://www.people.hbs.edu/liyer/BCCI_JEBO_Final_Sept2013.pdf August 2013 Contemporary Accounting Research The Role of Performance Measures in the Intertemporal Decisions of Business Unit Managers By: Bouwens, Jan, Margaret A. Abernethy,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
interviews conducted by the authors, this book is filled with colorful stories about selecting and working with management, pioneering new markets, adding value through operational improvements, applying private-equity principles to... View Details
- 09 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 9
future contracts and the AQC's value as part of the solution to untenably high U.S. health care costs. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/612016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-088 Apple Inc. and the iPhone 4 Antenna Issue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Becoming an Ethical Negotiator
strikes a lot of people as the wrong answer, myself included, but what's interesting is how different people reach that conclusion. Some people say that the father's attitude is shortsighted, for instance, that he failed to take into View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
losses in June. Will crypto overcome the challenges on the road to mainstream adoption? What’s standing in its way? HBS faculty members Charles C.Y. Wang, who has written about public firms’ investments in, and accounting for,... View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 14, 2009
result. The latter result, together with transitivity of blocking, leads to an elementary proof of the so-called stable median matching theorem, showing how the often incompatible concepts of stability (represented by the political economist Adam Smith) and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
treatments and toward value for patients; he defined “value” as “health outcomes per dollar spent.” Instead of the current system of disjointed, episodic medical interventions, Porter argued for an integrated model that addresses the... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
had a culture that emphasized effort, rather than results. Education has historically valued egalitarianism, and in the new accountability environment, differentiating based on individual performance rather... View Details
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
escalating, high-profile campaign against Third World debt, poverty, war and disease. “Any CEO who thinks his or her job is about maximizing shareholder value is living in the past.” Koehn, a Harvard Business School historian who has... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
inferences are formed as a function of what is chosen. Specifically, when observers encounter someone else's choice (e.g., of political candidate), they use the chosen option's attribute values (e.g., a candidate's specific stance on a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
challenges, not on the hard work of winning hearts and minds, Shapiro ultimately lost his company. He was forced to sell Monsanto to Pharmacia-Upjohn, which bought it for its pharmaceutical division, valuing the agricultural biotechnology... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
value individual freedom, having the ability to answer this question will be seen as a benefit. However, if too many people do indeed opt out of purchasing plans, the potential downside is that, collectively, costs may rise. Risk pools of... View Details
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Rob Casper
“I stopped the patrol after an hour and huddled with my squad leader. How can we add value here? What can we help them with?” We abandoned the patrol plan, broke out the heavy machine guns, and called in some helicopters – things our... View Details