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  • January 2023 (Revised July 2025)
  • Technical Note

LCA Action Planning: Responsibility and Accountability

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Nien-he Hsieh and Marilyn Morgan Westner
LCA action plans integrate responsibility and accountability into decision-making and planning. This module note was designed for the LCA course and reviews six steps leaders can follow to develop a practical LCA action plan for their business. It shows how integrating... View Details
Keywords: Responsibility; Accountability; Management Challenges; Corporate Accountability; Leadership; Planning; Decisions; Strategy
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Sucher, Sandra J., Nien-he Hsieh, and Marilyn Morgan Westner. "LCA Action Planning: Responsibility and Accountability." Harvard Business School Technical Note 323-060, January 2023. (Revised July 2025.)
  • 01 Oct 2014
  • HBS Conference

2014 LCA Conference

  • January 2023 (Revised February 2025)
  • Module Note

LCA Module Overview: Customers

By: Nien-hê Hsieh
This note provides an overview of key questions, themes, and concepts to be covered in the module and provides a brief description of each case and how it relates to these questions, themes, and concepts. View Details
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Hsieh, Nien-hê. "LCA Module Overview: Customers." Harvard Business School Module Note 323-068, January 2023. (Revised February 2025.)
  • December 2022 (Revised November 2024)
  • Module Note

LCA Module Overview: Investors

By: Nien-hê Hsieh
This Note provides an overview of cases, key concepts, and overall arc for the module on responsibilities to investors in Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA). View Details
Keywords: Corporate Accountability
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Hsieh, Nien-hê. "LCA Module Overview: Investors." Harvard Business School Module Note 323-052, December 2022. (Revised November 2024.)
  • December 2014 (Revised December 2020)
  • Course Overview Note

The Basic LCA Framework

By: Joseph L. Badaracco and Rebecca Henderson
Keywords: Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Values; Responsibility; Leadership; Corporate Accountability; Values and Beliefs
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Badaracco, Joseph L., and Rebecca Henderson. "The Basic LCA Framework." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 315-060, December 2014. (Revised December 2020.)
  • March 2023 (Revised March 2025)
  • Module Note

LCA Module Overview: Society

By: Nien-hê Hsieh
Leadership and Corporate and Accountability (LCA) is a required course in the first-year MBA curriculum at Harvard Business School to help managers determine and deliver on their economic, legal, and ethical responsibilities. This note summarizes the cases and outlines... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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Hsieh, Nien-hê. "LCA Module Overview: Society." Harvard Business School Module Note 323-096, March 2023. (Revised March 2025.)
  • February 2023 (Revised March 2025)
  • Module Note

LCA Module Overview: Employees

By: Nien-hê Hsieh
This note provides an overview of key questions, themes, and concepts to be covered in the module and provides a brief description of each case and how it relates to these questions, themes, and concepts. View Details
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Hsieh, Nien-hê. "LCA Module Overview: Employees." Harvard Business School Module Note 323-072, February 2023. (Revised March 2025.)
  • 07 Sep 2013
  • HBS Conference

2013 LCA Conference: Capitalism and Culture: International Perspectives

  • 08 Sep 2012
  • HBS Conference

2012 LCA Conference: Exploring the Relationship between Business and Government

  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

New MBA Leadership Course

course. Like others in his class, Mulkerin met the news of the first-year offering — which had received widespread media coverage — with a groan. “I thought it would be eighty minutes of preaching,” says Mulkerin, who was pleasantly surprised when View Details
Keywords: HBS; LCA; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • November 2023 (Revised August 2024)
  • Background Note

Life Cycle Assessment: An Overview

By: Willy C. Shih, Michael W. Toffel and Kelsey Carter
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a holistic approach to quantifying the environmental impacts—including resources consumed and wastes produced—associated with the entire life cycle of a product, from the production or extraction of the raw materials used in its creation,... View Details
Keywords: Life-cycle; Environmental Performance; Design; Environmental Management; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Measurement and Metrics; Standards; Accounting; Environmental Accounting
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Shih, Willy C., Michael W. Toffel, and Kelsey Carter. "Life Cycle Assessment: An Overview." Harvard Business School Background Note 624-052, November 2023. (Revised August 2024.)
  • November 2023 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

Decarbonizing Shipping at A.P. Møller-Maersk (A)

By: Willy Shih, Michael W. Toffel and Kelsey Carter
Container shipping was responsible for moving more than 80% of globally traded goods, and almost 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions. A.P. Møller-Maersk, one of the top three container lines, conducted an extensive lifecycle assessment (LCA) of alternative fuels,... View Details
Keywords: Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Energy Sources; Environmental Sustainability; Ship Transportation; Shipping Industry
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Shih, Willy, Michael W. Toffel, and Kelsey Carter. "Decarbonizing Shipping at A.P. Møller-Maersk (A)." Harvard Business School Case 624-049, November 2023. (Revised November 2024.)
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21st Century Energy — Dr Crawford teaches this EC course, which exposes students to business models and management diilemmas, all along the energy value chain — from oil sands and pipelines, to coal and natural gas, hydro and nuclear, wind and solar, to biofuels. The... View Details
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By: John F. Batter
As as Senior Lecturer I teach the EC course Law, Management and Entrepreneurship (cross-listed in the General Management and Entrepreneurial Management Units) in both the Fall and Spring semesters. While I have retired from my public and private company litigation... View Details
Keywords: Fiduciary Duty; Securities; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Mergers; Law

    George A. Riedel

    George A. Riedel is the Henry B. Arthur Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit, where he currently teaches TEM (The Entrepreneurial Manager) and acts as a Section Chair in the Required Curriculum (RC). He has also taught TOM (Technology and... View Details

      Rohit Deshpande

      Rohit Deshpandé is a Baker Foundation Professor and Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching in the Advanced Management Program,... View Details

      Keywords: advertising; agribusiness; airline; banking; beauty products; beverage; financial services; home video games; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; tourism; video games
      • 01 Mar 2006
      • News

      End of Campaign Celebrated

      and Bill George talked about the new required MBA course, Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA). They provided a firsthand look at LCA by leading discussions using two cases developed for the course. In the first, a young trading... View Details
      Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
      • 01 Mar 2011
      • News

      On the Outside at HBS

      role models for all students. Another positive step would be for HBS to facilitate more open classroom dialogue during case studies, not just in the context of LEAD or LCA but also in TOM and Finance, to create opportunities for... View Details
      • Profile

      Brittani Rettig

      "Several cases in Leadership and Corporate Accountability are the most memorable. Particularly "The Fall of Enron" and the Harvard Business Review article by Charles Handy, "What's a Business For?" I got so passionate in View Details
      Keywords: Consulting; Services; Health Care
      • 01 Dec 2004
      • News

      Finding a Balance

      political issues for students, so it fits well with the LCA curriculum.” Cipla’s CEO, Dr. Yusef Hamied, figures prominently in the case. A Cambridge University–educated chemist, Hamied is revered by some for his humanitarian projects... View Details
      Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
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