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  • 15 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 15

we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing outcomes to controls similar in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Connect with Clubs - Recruiting

Hire Talent Connect with Clubs Hire Talent Connect with Clubs Partner with a HBS Student Club Reach targeted groups of students by connecting with over 50 career-related student clubs. Work with club leaders to sponsor events, advertise... View Details
  • 22 Apr 2024
  • Research & Ideas

When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?

impact investing companies with data from Revelio Labs, for an 83 percent match rate, to study what effect the investments had on target companies. Additional value to traditional investing? The key finding: Impact investment funds mostly... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Web

Impact Investing | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

The practice of investment is changing. A rapidly growing share of assets around the globe are making investment choices targeting not just return, but also sustainability, values-alignment or impact. An active community of faculty are... View Details
  • March–April 2017
  • Article

Advancing Conservation by Understanding and Influencing Human Behavior

By: Sheila M. Reddy, Jensen Montambault, Yuta J. Masuda, Ayelet Gneezy, Elizabeth Keenan, William Butler, Jonathan R. Fisher and Stanley T. Asah
Behavioral sciences can advance conservation by systematically identifying behavioral barriers to conservation and how to best overcome them. Behavioral sciences have informed policy in many other realms (e.g., health, savings), but they are a largely untapped resource... View Details
Keywords: Adaptive Management; Awareness; Behavioral Economics; Behavioral Science; Conservation Intervention; Conservation Planning; Decision-making; Incentives; Nudge; Management; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Marketing; Decision Making; Environmental Sustainability; Economics
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  • Web

Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

sustainability disclosure, and alternative ways of measuring IR. Moreover, I show that investor activism on environmental or social issues or a large number of concerns about a firm's environmental or social impact leads a firm to... View Details
  • Article

Transition to Clean Technology

By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley and William R. Kerr
We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth where clean and dirty technologies compete in production and innovation, in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more advanced to start with, the... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry
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  • 02 Sep 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?

conditions? What’s wrong with a conscious pursuit of a low-retention strategy if it is based on providing exciting, demanding jobs, even if they lead to “burn out” among some employees?  Is it a problem of sustainability?  After all, McDonald’s and others have been... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Consumer Products; Fashion
  • 12 Sep 2023
  • What Do You Think?

Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?

statement? Nike’s decision to feature in its ads Colin Kaepernick, an American footballer whose patriotism has been questioned, ultimately resulted in what was described by one observer as a “bold success.” On the other hand, brands like View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 11 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 11

Sustainable Evaluation System Strategy By: Eccles, Robert G., and Peijun Duan Abstract—China's sustainable development faces three challenges: first, the follow-up momentum of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2013
  • What Do You Think?

How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?

analysis." Several argued along with Munyaradzi Mushato, who said, ''the need for a sustainable strategy is actually higher in a volatile market space why deliberately go out to plan to build a short-lived competitive strategy?"... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

perceived more spontaneous kinds of thought to reveal greater self-insight than more controlled kinds of thought in Study 1 (e.g., intuition versus deliberation), and perceived thoughts with the same content and target to reveal greater... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

across industries and the concomitant demands for value creation engender variations in firms’ collaborative behaviors. On average, firms in technologically dynamic industries pursue more-open ego networks, which fosters access to new and diverse resources that help... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

argued that without this profit, businesses targeting the poor will not attract the level of investment necessary to be sustainable or scaleable across the entire BOP. According to this view, above-average... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

the organization to creating long-term, sustainable value. Sustaining The Scorecard Once the Balanced Scorecard had been installed at Mobil, it became the agenda for an annual meeting of the top 125 managers... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 23 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 23 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 23

Principles that Matter: Sustaining Software Innovation from the Client to the Web Author:Marco Iansiti Abstract Economic analysis often reviews the role of principles—such as respect for intellectual property rights—in driving innovation.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

of process compliance. Q: What key innovations are you seeing on the delivery sector? A: Some of the most important innovations are not technologic—they are in the way we organize care delivery. As I've mentioned, these include disease management programs that View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 19 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 19, 2008

penalties for failing to meet the analyst consensus estimate are higher for firms that give quarterly earnings guidance and in the post-SOX period. Our evidence suggests that (i) boards appear to react directly to managers' ability to meet earnings View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Mid-US - Global

address four key pillars: culture, infrastructure, nutrition education, and food access. This case explores how Campbell’s navigated complex partnerships, power dynamics, and contextual differences across cities to drive sustainable... View Details