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Exchange rates: current & historical

menu, choose Exchange Rate Indices. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Statistical Release - Foreign Exchange Rates:  Exchange rates against the U.S. dollar and several countries back as far as the 1970s in some cases. View Details
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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

impact investing. Partners Abry Partners, LLC BostonXChange Charlesbank Capital Partners, LLC ImpactAssets, Inc. Investment Committee Heidi Brooks, MBA 2003 COO, National Institute for Children’s Health Quality; Board Member, Boston... View Details
  • 11 Sep 2023
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Reflections on My First Semester Teaching at HBS

teachers try to prepare our lesson and board plans, there’s nothing you can do to truly simulate the unexpected/chaotic/living conversation in advance. I’m truly grateful for my section’s willingness to support my growth as a teacher over... View Details

    James L. Heskett

    James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details

    • 13 Jan 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?

    Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 24 Apr 2018
    • Op-Ed

    Op-Ed: What Mark Zuckerberg Can Learn About Crisis Leadership from Starbucks

    support of founder Howard Schultz and his team in Philadelphia. Zuckerberg did not seem to rely upon the wisdom of Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg or lead board director Susan Desmond-Hellmann. Instead, he trotted out his deputy... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George; Technology; Food & Beverage
    • 01 Mar 2019
    • News

    The Burden Legacy

    on boards and committees in support of the arts. He died in 1989. The brothers’ commitment to the visual arts influenced the Burden family’s philanthropic support of Harvard. In addition to Burden Hall with its cutting-edge design, the... View Details
    Keywords: Linda Kush
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    Governance and Accountability in Social Sector Organizations

    This research examines governance in two types of organizations: international NGOs and socioeconomic hybrids.

    First, over the past decade, many of the world's most prominent international nongovernmental organizations and networks (INGOs) ... View Details

    • January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
    • Case

    Pioneer Natural Resources: Enhancing the Capital Return Strategy with Variable Dividends

    By: Benjamin C. Esty, Elisabeth Kempf and E. Scott Mayfield
    In February 2021, Scott Sheffield, the CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources (an independent oil and gas company based in Texas), was considering the possibility of enhancing the firm’s capital return strategy by introducing a variable dividend tied to cash flows in... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Finance; Cash Flow; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Value Creation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Return; Profit; Policy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Energy Industry; United States; North America; Texas
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    • July 2021
    • Article

    Material Sustainability Information and Stock Price Informativeness

    By: Jody Grewal, Clarissa Hauptmann and George Serafeim
    As part of the SEC’s revision of Regulation S-K, many investors proposed the mandatory disclosure of sustainability information in the form of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data. However, progress is contingent on collecting evidence regarding which... View Details
    Keywords: Voluntary Disclosure; Accounting Standards; Sustainability; Nonfinancial Information; Corporate Social Responsibility; Stock Price Informativeness; Synchronicity; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Accountability; Stocks; Price; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Accounting; Standards
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    • March 2007 (Revised October 2008)
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    The Vancouver 2010 Olympics

    By: Anita Elberse, Catherine Anthony and Joshua Callahan
    It is February 2007, exactly three years before Vancouver hosts the 2010 Winter Olympics. Judy Rogers, City Manager for the City of Vancouver and a member of the Board of Directors for Vancouver's Organizing Committee (VANOC), is keen to ensure the Games will have a... View Details
    Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Social Marketing; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Sports; Public Administration Industry; Sports Industry; Vancouver
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    • February 2025
    • Supplement

    Moleskine: Daniela Riccardi Turns the Page

    By: Ryan Raffaelli
    Newly appointed CEO Daniela Riccardi needed to develop and present an action plan to the board of the company that owned Moleskine. Riccardi was hired because Moleskine had recently overextended its reach and needed more focus and discipline. Having previously served... View Details
    Keywords: Brands and Branding; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Operations; Planning; Retail Industry; Italy
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Corporate Culture Homogeneity and Top Executive Incentive Design: Evidence from CEO Compensation Contracts

    By: Dennis Campbell, Ruidi Shang and Zhifang Zhang
    We examine how corporate cultures characterized by high degrees of homogeneity in the underlying values and beliefs of organizational members are related to the design of CEO incentive compensation contracts. We argue that culture homogeneity within firms lowers... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Culture; Compensation Design; Accounting; Management Control; Incentive Systems; Organizational Culture; Job Design and Levels; Governance; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives
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    • January 2014 (Revised May 2015)
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    Open English

    By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Lisa Mazzanti
    Open English, a Miami-based startup offering online English language learning services, had more than 30,000 active students across Latin America in 2012. The company had just closed a $43 million financing round in order to rapidly scale its service to the next level.... View Details
    Keywords: Technology Strategy; Product Management; Startup; Online Learning; Digital Platforms; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Technology Industry; Miami; Venezuela
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    • October 2012 (Revised August 2018)
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    Carolina for Kibera

    By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Beth-Ann Kutchma and Cailin B. Hammer
    Carolina for Kibera (CFK) is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to promote youth leadership and gender and ethnic cooperation in Kibera, the largest unstructured settlement situated in the heart of Nairobi, Kenya. CFK's programs constructively... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Power and Influence; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Enterprise; Negotiation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Kenya; United States
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    • 18 Jun 2019
    • News

    How to Scandal-Proof Your Company

      Joseph L. Bower

      JOSEPH L. BOWER, Donald K. David Professor Emeritus, has been a leader in general management at Harvard Business School for 51 years. He also served on the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School during its first decade.  He has served in many administrative roles... View Details

      Keywords: banking; chemical; electronics; financial services; home appliances; hotels ＆ motels; information technology industry; insurance industry; private equity (LBO funds); retailing
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      Curriculum - Business & Environment

      Governance and Boards of Directors (Spring 2025) Lynn Paine Throughout the course, we will explore differing conceptions of “good governance” and what they mean in practical terms for boards, executives and companies. We will consider,... View Details
      • 25 Aug 2014
      • HBS Case

      Starbucks Reinvented

      97 percent from the same time a year earlier; for the fiscal year, net earnings were down 53 percent to $316 million. The Starbucks board was reluctant to send 10,000 partners to New Orleans at a cost of $30 million, but Schultz stuck to... View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage
      • 02 Nov 2023
      • News

      Seeding Startups

      Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) was the director of product planning for Microsoft’s MSN when he decided he was ready to become an entrepreneur. He had recently led the growing internet portal’s 1997 acquisition of Hotmail, the first free, web-based email solution, and the... View Details
      Keywords: April White