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  • 07 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services
  • 06 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

measures. The Global Reporting Initiative captures ESG information from over 80 percent of the world’s largest corporations. Every company wants to be known as a good global citizen, and ESG reporting helps... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

"G" (governance) component of ESG reporting. The governance matters we identify in this paper must be addressed before turning our attention to the broader set of ESG considerations in credit... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

sustainability strategy and integrating it across all of its business units. The case provides a deep dive into the challenges and successes of trying to integrate impact, sustainability, and ESG across the firm and how that strategy... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

operational inefficiencies in recycling facilities, which can’t recycle compostable plastic. After months of research and analysis, Puri and his team resolved to package their produce in #1 PET plastic, the type most universally accepted at recycling facilities. “As an... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

Report begins with identifying the most important financial and ESG metrics for the company in its given industry and the strategy it is pursuing to achieve its goals. In some cases, revenue growth may be critical; in others, earnings... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518097-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 319-067 Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World? Inside GPIF's Embrace of ESG In the fall of 2018, Hiro Mizuno, the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

performance has increased over time and that the premium is increasing as a function of positive public sentiment momentum. An ESG factor going long on firms with superior or increasing sustainability performance and negative sentiment... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

publishes summaries of working papers written by Harvard Business School faculty—along with links to the full text of those papers. Here are the five most downloaded working papers of 2017: Why and How Investors Use ESG Information:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 26

Case 111-120 In 2011, the European Commission was deciding on how to best modify the existing European Union policy on corporate disclosure of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Previous directives had recommended that European companies report... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2018
  • First Look

March 13, 2018

strategy as a first-mover and the effort to demonstrate that investments can have both positive financial and social returns. Protagonists Eric Rice and Patrick Kent must find ways to show that it is possible to drive impact through a public markets vehicle and show... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

ESG dimensions should be mandated by regulation, and if yes, what form such regulation should take. The underlying debate, of course, relates to the broader issue of the role of the business organization within civil society and whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

having the most material ESG issues, as well as investors anticipating proprietary and political costs as a result of the mandated disclosures. Overall, the results are consistent with the equity market perceiving that this disclosure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jan 2012
  • Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing
  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

analysts-and the words "sustainability" or "sustainable" failed to receive a single mention-the ESG briefing was delivered to an investor audience made up exclusively of the "buy side." Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

were used to identify which countries qualified for emerging markets investments. The case also raises the issue of the difference between "value" and "values" investing and the future importance of ESG investing.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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