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  • 10 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?

that cleans up to 80 may benefit by preventing criticism from environmental NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and by hedging against a toughening of regulation in the near future. However, a firm that spent $50 million more to get to... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

George Serafeim, and David Wood Abstract—A new generation of corporate reporting-integrated reporting-is emerging that will help investors and other key stakeholders such as employees, customers, suppliers, and NGOs develop a deeper and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

patient numbers in both NGO data and government registers by 20% and underreporting of treatment interruptions by 25%. We find no effect on worker or patient satisfaction. This suggests biometric technology is both an effective and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

Liberia in 2005. Both deals have fallen apart as they came under attack by NGOs and as the country took a turn toward democracy. Wisely, both companies have decided that renegotiation is better than defending the indefensible. Q: You... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • 28 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 28, 2016

resource endowment explanation. The paper argues that the ecotourism industry was a co-creation of the public, private, and tertiary sectors. While the role of the government and conservation NGOs is acknowledged in the existing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

Politics we observe firms working more closely with NGOs and other special interest groups to preempt unfavorable policy choices, react swiftly to crises, and proactively develop socially responsible strategies. In Public Politics, firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

increasing awareness in the early 2000s, to being a dominant theme today. The High Sustainability firms in this study pay attention to their relationships with stakeholders—such as employees, customers, and NGOs representing civil... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

PlaNet Finance was a French NGO providing technical support and training services to microfinance institutions (i.e., institutions providing financial services to the poor) and other microfinance actors, rating of microfinance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

Basin Project: Role for Dr. Beni Harvard Business School Exercise 909-041 The director of a research coalition and the founder/coordinator of an NGO consortium meet to discuss the possibility of jointly drafting a proposal for an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

Kathleen L. McGinn and Cailin B. HammerHarvard Business School Case 910-017 A growing NGO based in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya, is facing a complete change in leadership as the founders step back. At the same time, a $1 million grant presents... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

leaders from Harvard Business School who discuss theory with practices from the world's top corporations to show how businesses, NGOs and government organizations can use business solutions to add social value to the world's poorest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

reporting's current state of play, the authors provide guidance to ensure wider adoption of the practice and success of the movement, starting with how companies can improve their own reporting processes. But the support of investors, regulators, and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

at Harvard Business School. He has published extensively on the challenges of accountability and performance management facing nonprofit organizations, including the award-winning book NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

problem where many actors must collaborate together, including companies, investors, accounting firms, sell-side analysts, regulators and standard setters, and NGOs and civil society itself. We all have a responsibility for making... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016

large new order from an NGO in Pakistan that would require Rumie for the first time to provide ongoing services such as teacher training, performance monitoring, and other support. Some on the team felt that providing a full suite of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

what those channels would do, what kind of mindset they would foster for children. To enhance its brand, REPRETEL resorted to a partnership with the Fundación Promotora para la Vivienda (FUPROVI), an NGO devoted to the development of... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

Farmers may grow crops for local consumption despite more profitable export options. DrumNet, a Kenyan NGO that helps small farmers adopt and market export crops, conducted a randomized trial to evaluate its impact. DrumNet services... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

Cynthia A. Montgomery, Michael Shih-ta Chen, and Dawn LauHarvard Business School Case 712-414 CARD (Center for Agricultural and Rural Development) is a Philippines-based microfinance organization that began as an NGO and has since... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209138 Fighting Malnutrition and Hunger in the Developing World Harvard Business School Note 909-406 The millennium objectives of reducing poverty and malnutrition are not being met. How do the private, public,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

are doing projects together with the United Nations, with the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Family and education. Joint projects are doing even better advocacy and helping social change as well as supporting the NGOs in the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

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