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  • Research Summary

Non-Financial Incentives

My research shows how firms combine many facets of internal governance to motivate managers. A perspective that underlies much of my research is that managers are not motivated by financial rewards alone: “it’s not just about the... View Details

  • 29 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 29, 2016

that innovation comes from the edges"). Thus, the program is not viewed as a subsidized Corporate Social Responsibility activity but as a positive net benefit activity, as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2014
  • Case

Nestlé SA, 2014

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2014, Nestlé was the largest producer of packaged foods and beverages in the world. 2013 revenues were $103.7 billion and operating profits $16.1 billion (15.5% of sales). The company owned 29 mega brands, each generating more than Euro 1 billion ($1.25 billion).... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products; Acquisitions; Strategy; Goods and Commodities; Nutrition; Emerging Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Europe
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  • 04 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

A few years ago, a colleague at Harvard Business School visited Clayton Christensen's office to talk about leading a values-driven life. "He told me that he had decided against having religion in his life," Christensen recalls, explaining that his colleague didn't see... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • February 2020 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

Wellthy: The Economics of Caring

By: Brian L. Trelstad and Joseph B. Fuller
In 2014, Lindsay Jurist-Rosner (MBA ’09) founded Wellthy, a B2C business that coordinates care for working professionals seeking help to support loved ones with chronic diseases or aging parents. With personal experience as a young professional providing care for her... View Details
Keywords: B2B Vs. B2C; Future Of Work; Health; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; United States
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    Frank Nagle

    Frank Nagle is an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Nagle studies how competitors can collaborate on the creation of core technologies, while still competing on the products and services built on top of them - especially... View Details

    • 2015
    • Chapter

    The Fourth Wave: Business Management and Business Education in the Age of the Anthropocene

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman and John Ehrenfeld
    Sustainability has become mainstream in both management practice and management research. Firms incorporate sustainability strategies into their core mission. University administrators promote sustainability as central to their curricula. Scholars pursue sustainability... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Natural Environment; Leading Change; Management Systems
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    • 15 Sep 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    High Ambition Leadership

    economic and social value. The goal of the corporation is to add value to employees, customers, suppliers and other partners, and community/society. These CEOs and the companies they lead make decisions with... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    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 transnational corporations to adopt codes of conduct and monitor suppliers for compliance, but it is unclear whether these formal organizational structures raise labor standards. Drawing on... View Details
    Keywords: Monitoring; Supplier Relationship; Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Sustainable Operations; Sustainable Supply Chains; NGO; Globalization; Corporate Accountability; Operations; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Labor; Working Conditions; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Evaluation; Safety; Risk and Uncertainty; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Electronics Industry; China; Indonesia; India; Bangladesh
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    • March 2022
    • Case

    Metric

    By: Christina Wallace, Rebecca Cink and Maria Lappas
    Megan Murday, the founder of Metric, an environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) analytics startup, must decide which customer segment to target as a beachhead market. She received positive feedback from a Swiss venture capital (VC) firm, indicating their... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Mission and Purpose; Customers
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    • 13 Dec 2014
    • News

    The openness revolution

      Edward B. Berk

      Ted Berk is the Barry and Teri Volpert Fellow and a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Private Equity Finance in the elective curriculum and Finance I & II in the required curriculum.

      Ted... View Details

      • September 2010 (Revised April 2012)
      • Case

      Better World Books

      By: Michael I. Norton, Fiona Wilson, Jill Avery and Thomas J. Steenburgh
      Better World Books, a young start-up, provides a socially conscious alternative to Amazon, collecting and selling used books to keep them out of the waste stream, while donating a portion of their profits to support global literacy efforts. The case presents an... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Online Technology; Retail Industry
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      • March 2022
      • Technical Note

      Ethical Analysis: Society

      By: Nien-hê Hsieh
      How should managers determine and deliver on their responsibilities to society? This note summarizes prevailing approaches to this question and outlines an approach centered on what distinguishes society from other key constituencies, such as investors or customers.... View Details
      Keywords: Social and Collaborative Networks; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Structure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Ethics; Analysis
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      • February 2015 (Revised August 2016)
      • Case

      Nokia's Bridge Program: Redesigning Layoffs (A)

      By: Sandra J. Sucher and Susan J. Winterberg
      "Not another Bochum." Nokia Board Chairman Jorma Ollila was clear in the goals he set for the 2011 restructuring that Nokia's new CEO, Stephen Elop, had decided was necessary to address the dramatically changed competitive environment the company faced in smartphones... View Details
      Keywords: Layoffs; Plant Closure; Outplacement; Shared Value; Business or Company Management; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Restructuring; Employee Relationship Management; Telecommunications Industry
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      • December 2008
      • Case

      The Financial Crisis of 2008

      By: J. Gunnar Trumbull
      This case presents excerpts from the speeches of observers to the 2008 financial crisis, including former and current central bankers, a private banker, and a Nobel-prize winning economist. They present different interpretations of the causes of the financial crisis... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Management; Policy; History; Perspective
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      • 02 Dec 2019
      • What Do You Think?

      How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?

      in understanding between departments staffed with employees whose responsibilities and training vary widely? Inherent organizational conflict takes many forms—for example, between home office staff (“who don’t understand how the business... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation
      • Teaching Interest

      Overview

      Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) is a course about the broad economic and political context in which business operates. Throughout their careers business leaders are asked to formulate and lead their firm's responses to the external... View Details
      Keywords: International Economy; Macroeconomics; Political Economy
      • 2009
      • Case

      The Prediction Lover's Handbook

      By: Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris
      When picking assessment tools to inform better decisions about future paths, executives are faced with a wide variety of options--some of which are well established, while others are in early stages of development. The authors provide an insider's guide to prediction... View Details
      Keywords: Analytics; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction
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        Race and Mass Incarceration in the United States

        The late 20th century saw a dramatic shift in the criminal justice system of the United States. While incarceration rates had remained stable through the 1960s, they quintupled by the 2000s to 707 per 100,000, far... View Details