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- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
trust was no doubt engendered in an earlier day when defined benefit (DB) pension plans were offered by lifelong employers like IBM and General Motors. Today, that system is all but extinct. Merton explains that employers underestimated... View Details
- 2020
- Article
Research on Corporate Sustainability: Review and Directions for Future Research
By: Jody Grewal and George Serafeim
We review the literature on corporate sustainability and provide directions for future research. Our review focuses on three actions: measuring, managing and communicating corporate sustainability performance. Measurement is the least developed of the three and... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainability Management; Nonfinancial Disclosure; Nonfinancial Information; Nonfinancial Performance; Materiality; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Disclosure; ESG Disclosure Metrics; ESG Ratings; ESG Reporting; Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility; Accounting; Finance; Management; Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Diversity; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Disclosure; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Grewal, Jody, and George Serafeim. "Research on Corporate Sustainability: Review and Directions for Future Research." Foundations and Trends® in Accounting 14, no. 2 (2020): 73–127.
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
Ten years ago, the global financial system teetered dangerously on the edge of total collapse. What began as a subprime mortgage crisis in the United States developed into a full-blown meltdown, causing the collapse of major banks... View Details
Arjun Chopra
Arjun Chopra is a Partner at Floodgate and leads the firm's investments in opportunities that transform the ""IT stack"" in ways that help companies change the way they do business and compete. Before Floodgate, Arjun was the CTO at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
Baker: With a strong belief in change within the system, working to reduce corruption so that free markets will function better, to the benefit of rich and poor nations alike. Photos by Katherine Lambert Corruption. Said slowly, even the... View Details
Roger Milliken
Deering, Milliken and Company was founded in 1865 and had primarily been a selling house for cloth producers in the south. When Roger Milliken inherited the business in 1947, he changed the focus of the company, buying numerous mills and... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
was proposed in this country’s Constitution and codified in its modern form in 1836, began to have serious problems in 1982. What went wrong? Two fundamental changes occurred that weakened the system... View Details
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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Filter Results: (52) Submit People Alumni Executive Education Faculty MBA Students Topics Business for Social Impact Impact Investing K-12 Education Nonprofit Strategy & Governance Public Sector Social Entrepreneurship Format Text Video Driving Social View Details
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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
for Environment & Sustainability A systems-level view of climate change Having researched the intersection of business and the environment for nearly 30 years, Hoffman plans to look at climate change as a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
curb cost increases while ensuring quality treatment. Those goals have not been reached, largely because patient and physician resistance to stringent gatekeeping has led to more relaxed controls and freedom to use out-of-network services, at ever-increasing costs. A... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
proper nutrition. The project in India is Nanhi Kali, an organization dedicated to keeping underprivileged girls in school by providing academic and direct material support. Our Honduras project is focused on Central American Medical Outreach, which strengthens... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
change during the past two decades. Hierarchy has to be replaced by networks, bureaucratic systems transformed into flexible processes, and control-based management roles must evolve into relationships... View Details
- 02 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Laura Mackay...
continue to follow my Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise professor’s advice: “skate to where the puck will be!” I will do everything I can to use my HBS education and experience to the fullest and to be in the driver’s seat of the innovation and View Details
- 14 May 2024
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship
importance of a culture that encourages progress, outlining how “sustainability-oriented innovation involves making intentional changes to an organization's philosophy and values.” But what kind of philosophy and values lead to a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
worship. Those words, and Mom’s commitment to making our lives better, continue to motivate me. I hope I can continue to use these experiences, having lived on both sides of poverty and finance, in corporate board rooms and communities, to lead collective action toward... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Catchphrases, Mottos, Cheers, and Mascots
Let me sing the praises of the unknown genius who devised the system in which an MBA section is taught all its first-year courses in one classroom. According to A Delicate Experiment, Jeff Cruikshank’s history of the early years of HBS... View Details
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
in press Journal of Systems and Software Technical Debt and System Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Defect-related Activity By: MacCormack, Alan, and Daniel J. Sturtevant Abstract—Technical debt is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
lock-in in light of hyperbolic discounting, multiple selves, and wise policy design. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-038.pdf The Political Economy of Capitalism Author:Bruce R. Scott Abstract Capitalism is often defined as an economic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
“I’m a root-cause kind of guy,” says Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), reflecting on a military, government, and civilian career that has taken him from counterdrug operations in Colombia to assisting with the peace process in Sudan to rebuilding the health care View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
problems." Nevertheless, there was enthusiasm for disclosure, perhaps using a system of disclosing "pay bands" within which holders of specific jobs are compensated. Pete described a specific example this way. "Back in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett