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- 2022
- Book
Purpose + Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World
By: George Serafeim
The roadmap and best practices to reap the enormous value that can emerge when your business prioritizes social and environmental goals—such as climate change, diversity and inclusion, and sustainability—right alongside the pursuit of profit.
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Keywords: ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Profitability; Business And Society; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Goals and Objectives; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Value Creation; Organizational Change and Adaptation
Serafeim, George. Purpose + Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World. New York: HarperCollins Leadership, 2022.
- Profile
Bobby Tuohy
his choices. “I stumbled upon the joint degree program when I was at a crossroads,” he says about his discovery of the joint HBS/SEAS business and engineering program. “It appealed to me because it would allow me to deepen my tech skills in computer View Details
- 2010
- Simulation
Change Management Simulation: Power and Influence
By: Linda A. Hill and William Q. Judge
In this single-player simulation, students play one of two roles at a sunglass manufacturing firm and face the challenges associated with implementing an organization-wide environmental sustainability initiative. The initiative seeks to change raw material inputs in... View Details
- July 2008 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (A)
By: Anette Mikes
An early adopter of Enterprise Risk Management, energy giant Hydro One anticipated new threats and opportunities in an industry that faced climate change and carbon legislation, the deregulation of electricity markets, and the greater adoption of renewable... View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Knowledge Sharing; Managerial Roles; Risk Management; Strategic Planning; Situation or Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Renewable Energy; Energy Industry
Mikes, Anette. "Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (A)." Harvard Business School Case 109-001, July 2008. (Revised January 2012.)
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
On the evening of Wednesday, October 11, Alumni Board members joined with current HBS students in the Spangler Center for "A Conversation about Life Lessons", which was led by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. This October, more than 75... View Details
- 2022
- Chapter
Capitalism and the Environment
By: Geoffrey Jones
Capitalism drove the environmental decimation of the planet. The environment was seen as a free good, while the consequences of dirty industrial and agricultural processes were seen as external to the firm. Public policies largely allowed this to happen, as politicians... View Details
Keywords: History; Environment; Sustainability; Capitalism; Ethics; Business History; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Climate Change
Jones, Geoffrey. "Capitalism and the Environment." Chap. 8 in Evolutions of Capitalism: Historical Perspectives: 1200–2000, edited by Catherine Casson and Philipp Robinson Rössner, 187–211. Bristol, United Kingdom: Bristol University Press, 2022.
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
http://www.ftpress.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0132779781 Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy Publication:Management Science (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
For Alumni - Entrepreneurship
their ventures. Harvard Life Lab Offering a fully equipped wet lab environment and other resources for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups that are founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars.... View Details
John T. Gourville
John Gourville is the Albert J. Weatherhead, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS Marketing Unit in 1995 after receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in marketing and behavioral research. His most... View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
A Rose by Any Other Name: Supply Chains and Carbon Emissions in the Flower Industry
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
global economy. What are the barriers to distributing, to producing, to manufacturing, reliable vaccines to the world? Frazier: So you're actually touching on something that is in my view, a bigger challenge than the science challenge of... View Details
- 17 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity
study gives you the reality of the phenomenon. A lab study answers the question, why is this happening?" The team recruited 136 college students through the study pool at the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory in Cambridge,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Business Track Winner Extend Fertility is dedicated to enriching the lives of women through revolutionary science and service that effectively slows down the biological clock. Fortify Systems Dan Stone David Tom Francis Quek Business... View Details
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
neglected. This trend was exacerbated as research inside the academy moved more toward large computerized databases. Leadership largely dropped off the agenda in mainstream academic institutions. It is ironic, though. If we go back to the origins of the modern social... View Details
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
Grounding innovation in science also results in more unique products. For companies with thousands of patents, the value difference quickly adds up. "If you are willing dive into the frontier of scientific journal articles, the rewards of... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
Electric, and Carnegie Steel were all founded in the 1880s; in the following decade came Wrigley's Chewing Gum, General Electric, Burroughs, and Pepsico. These companies developed modern sales techniques, created procedures for management that paralleled those of the... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
be enormous. Though economists should treat the prospect of a developed space economy with healthy skepticism, it would be irresponsible to treat it as science fiction. In this article, I provide an analytical framework—based on classic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Aug 2022
- Book
University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed
propelled China to the first ranks in science and engineering ..." [And yet] no civilization has a longer or more enduringly successful record than China of educating, examining, and promoting talent to serve state and society. Over the... View Details
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
potential. With diverse experience in hand and a deep passion for the company’s mission, Leahy is showcasing exactly why she is the right person for the job. The Beauty of Combining Art and Science In many ways, Leahy’s path to the... View Details