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- 2007
- Chapter
The Complete Business of Serving the Poor: Insights from Unilever's Project Shakti in India
By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Dalip Sehgal and Rohithari Rajan
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Entrepreneurship; Poverty; Developing Countries and Economies; India
Rangan, V. Kasturi, Dalip Sehgal, and Rohithari Rajan. "The Complete Business of Serving the Poor: Insights from Unilever's Project Shakti in India." Chap. 13 in Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value, edited by V. Kasturi Rangan, John A. Quelch, Gustavo Herrero, and Brooke Barton, 144–154. John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
- 14 May 2024
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series – How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship Today, the concept of “sustainable innovation” seems commonplace and is generally accepted as a viable path... View Details
- 2014
- Chapter
Technology Diffusion: Measurement, Causes and Consequences
By: Diego A. Comin and Marti Mestieri
This chapter discusses different approaches pursued to explore three broad questions related to technology diffusion: what general patterns characterize the diffusion of technologies, and how have they changed over time; what are the key drivers of technology, and what... View Details
Comin, Diego A., and Marti Mestieri. "Technology Diffusion: Measurement, Causes and Consequences." In Handbook of Economic Growth. Vol. 2, edited by Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf, 565–622. Elsevier, 2014.
- Forthcoming
- Article
Disclosure Standards and Communication Norms: Evidence of Voluntary Sustainability Standards as a Coordinating Device for Capital Markets
By: Khrystyna Bochkay, Jeffrey Hales and George Serafeim
In this paper, we examine how the development of voluntary sustainability standards has affected the nature of information covered in conference calls. Using industry-specific dictionaries of sustainability terms contained in the disclosure standards developed by the... View Details
Keywords: Voluntary Disclosure; Accounting Standards; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainability Standards; ESG; ESG Disclosure; Accounting; Corporate Disclosure; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Standards; United States
Bochkay, Khrystyna, Jeffrey Hales, and George Serafeim. "Disclosure Standards and Communication Norms: Evidence of Voluntary Sustainability Standards as a Coordinating Device for Capital Markets." Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming). (Pre-published online March 17, 2025.)
- Web
Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Land, "Chairman's Letter," Polaroid Corporation Annual Report 1976, 5. Polaroid advertisements featured the testimony of Polaroid users who claimed their cameras had made them "the life of the party." 78... View Details
- August 2020
- Article
Improving Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: The Role of Institutional Environments and Monitoring Program Design
By: Jodi L. Short, Michael W. Toffel and Andrea R. Hugill
Activism seeking to improve labor conditions in global supply chains has led many transnational corporations to adopt codes of conduct and monitor suppliers for compliance. Drawing on thousands of audits conducted by a major social auditor, we identify structural... View Details
Keywords: Monitoring; Supplier Relationship; Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Sustainable Operations; Sustainable Supply Chains; NGO; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Governance Compliance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Global Range; Working Conditions
Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill. "Improving Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: The Role of Institutional Environments and Monitoring Program Design." ILR Review 73, no. 4 (August 2020): 873–912.
Tomomichi Amano
Tomomichi Amano is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at HBS. He teaches the Marketing course in the MBA required curriculum.
Professor Amano draws on economic theories to understand novel mechanisms by which new... View Details
Professor Amano draws on economic theories to understand novel mechanisms by which new... View Details
- Web
IT Strategy: Empowering the Future of Generative AI Innovation at HBS | Information Technology
HBS IT and Harvard University IT (HUIT), the team ensured alignment with broader institutional goals and encouraged responsible exploration of AI tools. By collaborating across HBS and Harvard, the team... View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries
- July 2023 (Revised July 2023)
- Background Note
Generative AI Value Chain
By: Andy Wu and Matt Higgins
Generative AI refers to a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that can create new content (e.g., text, image, or audio) in response to a prompt from a user. ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude are examples of text generating AIs, and DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion are... View Details
Keywords: AI; Artificial Intelligence; Model; Hardware; Data Centers; AI and Machine Learning; Applications and Software; Analytics and Data Science; Value
Wu, Andy, and Matt Higgins. "Generative AI Value Chain." Harvard Business School Background Note 724-355, July 2023. (Revised July 2023.)
- 1992
- Chapter
Issues of Participation and Rights Allocation in Tradeable Permits Systems to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By: James K. Sebenius and Michael Grubb
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Climate Change; Pollutants; Science-Based Business
Sebenius, James K., and Michael Grubb. "Issues of Participation and Rights Allocation in Tradeable Permits Systems to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions." In Tradeable Permits to Reduce Greenhouse Gases, edited by Jan Corfee, 181–222. Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 1992.
- 03 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
“I Can Acquire Important Skills, But Also Gain the Big Picture Perspective of a Founder.”
protagonists in cases he admired. To his surprise, “They were all very responsive – most of them wrote back in twenty-four hours.” By the spring, he knew he wanted to eliminate high-tech ventures from his... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 26 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress
dollars a year—representing 5 to 8 percent of national spending on health care. The biggest factor in these costs was high demands at work, responsible for an estimated $48 billion in spending; followed by... View Details
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
Two years have passed since more than 700,000 Rohingya people fled a bloody ethnic cleansing campaign in Myanmar and created the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh. But not much has changed since then. At the Kutupalong camp, feelings View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 30 Jan 2014
- HBS Seminar
Rebecca Henderson, Harvard Business School
- 3 Dec 1997
- Keynote Speech
The US Corporation as a Citizen of the World." Speaker. "CEO Forum & Annual Dinner
By: Lynn S. Paine
- April 2016
- Teaching Note
Cree Inc.: Introducing the LED Light Bulb
By: John Gourville and Michael Norris
This case is taught as part of the first year required marketing course in the Harvard Business School's MBA program. This course is built around the "Four Ps," with modules focusing on product, promotion, place, and pricing. The Cree case is used in the product policy... View Details
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Strategist?
and even its core competencies, its continued existence depends on finding and continuing to find a compelling reason for it to exist. Shepherding this never-ending process, being the steward of a living strategy, is the defining View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: What Mark Zuckerberg Can Learn About Crisis Leadership from Starbucks
crisis. Now, we have a new exemplar: Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson. His response to the eviction of two African American men from a Starbucks store in Philadelphia will define for today’s leaders how to... View Details
- 29 Sep 2010
- Working Paper Summaries