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- January 2024
- Case
ECOALF: Fashion for the Future
By: Elizabeth A. Keenan, Diego Aparicio, Carlota Moniz and María José Satrústegui
ECOALF, a Spanish fashion brand and sustainability pioneer, aimed to tackle the industry's challenges of excessive consumption and production. The brand's mission was to create timeless apparel exclusively from recycled and eco-responsible materials, matching the... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Decisions; Business Earnings; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Communication Intention and Meaning; Values and Beliefs; Mission and Purpose; Competition; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Social Marketing; Marketing Channels; E-commerce; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Fashion Industry; Spain; Germany; Italy; Europe; United States
Keenan, Elizabeth A., Diego Aparicio, Carlota Moniz, and María José Satrústegui. "ECOALF: Fashion for the Future." Harvard Business School Case 524-057, January 2024.
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
collection of innovative research and management insights that build upon the foundations of the first book but takes the study of brand relationships outside of traditional realms by applying new theoretical frameworks and considering new contexts. The result is an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
analyzed on a case-by-case basis in order to account for the unique characteristics of every business, corporations turned elsewhere to satisfy their craving for standardized approaches to strategy making.18... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 20 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management
the city grapples with profound challenges—rising temperatures, volatile weather patterns, and a growing strain on its infrastructure. In its effort to address climate related risks, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) launched... View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
PublicationsFamilienunternehmen in Westdeutschland. Corporate Governance und Gesellschafterkultur seit den 1960er Jahren (Family business in West Germany since the 1960s) Authors:Christina Lubinski Publication:Vol. 21, Schriftenreihe... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job
Plaid’s Head of Corporate Development on our research. By taking advantage of these academic opportunities, I was able to learn about Plaid’s products, their customers, growth vectors, and much more. In essence, I was able to understand... View Details
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
nonetheless offer a host of principles (the Reverend Louis Sullivan's Global Sullivan Principles), management standards (the Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability's AccountAbility 1000), best practice guidelines (the OECD... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
incompetence, and negligence by a corporate board. The board at Merrill Lynch was so disconnected from the company that when shareholders met in December 2008 to approve the company’s sale to Bank of America — after five straight... View Details
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
into account in-season coaching changes, strike-shortened seasons, league expansions and reorganizations, the introduction of a salary cap, drag on team performance due to divisional rivalries, player-selection skew due to a team’s draft... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
automobiles. Unilever and Nestlé account for 40 percent of the entire U.S. ice cream market. Yet quantitative data suggests that the return on assets of foreign-owned companies in the U.S. is consistently lower than U.S.-owned firms.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
major corporations such as Chemical Bank, General Electric, Royal Dutch Shell, Unilever, and the Arthur Young accounting partnership. He was in demand as a speaker, giving talks in English, Dutch, French,... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
economic welfare. Paper: http://pubs.aeaweb.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.27.1.45 Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in China: Symbol or Substance? Authors:Marquis, Christopher, and Cuili Qian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Professors Lorsch, Palepu, Kanter, Healy, Koehn, and Hall. Spangler Center, Fall 2002. Photography by Webb Chappell. With corporate America rocked by revelations of conflict of interest, malfeasance, negligence, and greed, a group of HBS... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 10 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs
professors. For example, it’s been an amazing experience to learn operations from an army Colonel, corporate accountability from a former prosecutor, and entrepreneurship from a successful startup founder.... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
communication levels in their paper, “Communication Within Firms: Evidence From CEO Turnovers,” published in Management Science. And when corporate communication breaks down, it can lead to confusion and stress, low morale, delayed... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
the worldwide drug market. But today, the U.S. share has climbed to about 50 percent while the European slice has dwindled to 21 percent. What's more, many drug makers in Europe have moved their R&D facilities to the U.S., where they make most of their income.... View Details
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
Reexamination of Tunneling and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods Authors:Jordan I. Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract The last decade of corporate governance research has been focused in large part on identifying what leads... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
Because the current empirical literature does not account for this intertemporal channel, it may underestimate the total work disincentive effect of SSDI. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2295538 J. Richard Hackman... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- October 2011 (Revised June 2013)
- Case
Novo Nordisk: A Commitment to Sustainability
By: Robert G. Eccles and Michael P. Krzus
The case describes the early commitment of a European pharmaceutical company, Novo Nordisk, to integrated reporting. Novo Nordisk is one of the pioneers of integrated reporting and it emerged out of its commitment to a "Triple Bottom Line approach to managing the... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Business Ventures; Business or Company Management; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Business Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry
Eccles, Robert G., and Michael P. Krzus. "Novo Nordisk: A Commitment to Sustainability." Harvard Business School Case 412-053, October 2011. (Revised June 2013.)