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- March 2025
- Case
The Changing Climate on Wall Street
By: Clayton S. Rose, Maxim Pike Harrell and Michael Norris
Increasing and conflicting regulatory requirements and political pressures regarding climate change tested the leaders of U.S. financial institutions, as they struggled to determine how best to comply while managing their business and its risks.
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Keywords: Competency and Skills; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Leadership; Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Adaptation; Risk and Uncertainty; Insurance; Climate Change; Change Management; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; United States; Europe
Rose, Clayton S., Maxim Pike Harrell, and Michael Norris. "The Changing Climate on Wall Street." Harvard Business School Case 325-020, March 2025.
- February 1991 (Revised March 1993)
- Supplement
USSR--1990, Supplement
Provides an update of key social, political, and economic outcomes in the Soviet Union over the period April 1990 to February 1991. View Details
Keywords: Social Issues; Outcome or Result; Government and Politics; Economy; Transition; Soviet Union
Emmons, Willis M., III. "USSR--1990, Supplement." Harvard Business School Supplement 391-161, February 1991. (Revised March 1993.)
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
stakeholders at an HBS workshop last week. Integrated reports combine a company's financial, environmental, social, and governance performance... View Details
- January – February 2011
- Article
Creating Shared Value
By: Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer
The capitalist system is under siege. In recent years business has been criticized as a major cause of social, environmental, and economic problems. Companies are widely thought to be prospering at the expense of their communities. Trust in business has fallen to new... View Details
Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Economic Growth; Economic Systems; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Trust; Human Needs; Welfare; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation
Porter, Michael E., and Mark R. Kramer. "Creating Shared Value." Harvard Business Review 89, nos. 1-2 (January–February 2011): 62–77.
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
debt and served as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in her native Costa Rica from 2010 to 2012. Europe Needs More Europe The game of brinkmanship that the latest Greek View Details
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
- 2022
- Chapter
The Origins of the Developmental State: The European Experience
Book Abstract: There has been a major revival of interest in State Capitalism: what it is, where it is found, and why it is seemingly becoming more ubiquitous. As a concept, it has evolved from radical critiques of the Soviet Union, to being deployed by neo-liberals to... View Details
Keywords: State Capitalism; History; Macroeconomics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Systems; Europe
Reinert, Sophus A. "The Origins of the Developmental State: The European Experience." Chap. 3 in The Oxford Handbook of State Capitalism and the Firm, edited by Mike Wright, Geoffrey T. Wood, Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Pei Sun, Ilya Okhmatovskiy, and Anna Grosman, 53–77. Oxford University Press, 2022.
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
PublicationsCapitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance Author:Bruce R. Scott Publication:Springer-Verlag, 2011 Abstract Two systems of governance, capitalism View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
Publications Managed Globalization: Doctrine, Practice, and Promise Authors: Rawi Abdelal and Sophie Meunier Publication: Journal of European Public Policy 17, no. 3 (April 2010): 349-366 Abstract Two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
largely meant to protect online platforms from defamation lawsuits. The CDA has been stretched beyond recognition to prevent all manner of prudent regulation. We offer specific suggestions to correct this misinterpretation to assure that state View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
typology of social entrepreneuring models. This typology is based on four possible forms of capital that can be leveraged: social, economic, human, and political. Furthermore, our findings reveal that these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
choosing articles and writing context-setting essays to situate and engage readers. I greatly enjoyed playing the role of narrator, distilling biography and View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
investors and business leaders, and very few were interested in “green” activities or even environmental, social, View Details
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711087-PDF-ENG Oddo Securities—ESG Integration George Serafeim, Paul M. Healy, and Aldo SesiaHarvard Business School Case 111-085 The case describes the process of integrating View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Article
Toward a Corporate Culture of Health: Results of a National Survey
By: Michael Anne Kyle, Lumumba Seegars, John M. Benson, Robert J. Blendon, Robert S. Huckman and Sara J. Singer
Context: The private sector has a large potential role in advancing health and well-being, but attention to corporate practices around health tends to focus on a narrow range of issues and on large businesses. Systematically describing private sector engagement in... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Health; Social Determinants Of Health; Health Policy; Public Health; Organizations; Health; Policy; Surveys
Kyle, Michael Anne, Lumumba Seegars, John M. Benson, Robert J. Blendon, Robert S. Huckman, and Sara J. Singer. "Toward a Corporate Culture of Health: Results of a National Survey." Milbank Quarterly 97, no. 4 (December 2019): 954–977.
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
Business School professor Richard H. K. Vietor, How Countries Compete: Strategy, Structure, and Government in the Global Economy. Vietor undertakes a country-by-country examination of the unique View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
of Psychological Science Advisers' By: Teachman, Bethany A., Michael I. Norton, and Barbara A. Spellman Abstract—On September 15, 2015, President Obama issued an Executive Order recommending that executive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Getting Away with 'Cheap Talk' on Climate Goals?
Companies regularly set ambitious climate goals, but these plans often end up like many people’s New Year’s resolutions: unmet aspirations that quietly fizzle out. While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas... View Details
Keywords: by Tim Gray
- 12 Sep 2023
- What Do You Think?
Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?
social, and governance issues at the heart of so-called “stakeholder capitalism.” Corporations that become too visible in support of stakeholder... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
Case 111-120 In 2011, the European Commission was deciding on how to best modify the existing European Union policy on corporate disclosure of environmental, social, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne