Filter Results:
(17)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (162)
- Faculty Publications (23)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (162)
- Faculty Publications (23)
Page 1 of 17
Results
Sort by
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
president and served for one year on the School's faculty. There's a lot of talk these days about corporate responsibility. What are a company's obligations to its stakeholders? A company's stakeholders... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
unpopular social issues, enabling spirituality, redistributing wealth to the needy, supporting cultural activities, and effectively and efficiently providing long-term solutions for social needs. Government... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
and customer satisfaction, factors that contribute to revenue growth. So how can shareholders and other stakeholders know if a company’s commitment to a sustainable society is contributing to a sustainable strategy that will create value View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
next day, three major buildings lay in ruins, and some three thousand workers faced the prospect of losing their jobs. But not only did Malden Mills' CEO Aaron Feurstein vow to rebuild his facility, he also promised to pay his workers full salaries View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
sector—which accounts for two-thirds of the jobs—we will not only improve the standard of living but eventually contribute to the peace process. The tragic events of last summer in the region were a setback, but I went into this with a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
strengthened his belief that those who prosper in business are obligated to serve the greater good. His decadelong presidency of the World Bank provided the ultimate opportunity to pursue that mission on a global scale. Wolfensohn’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
effects, allows executives to benefit from short-term rises in stock price, and creates conflicts of interest for corporate insiders vis-à-vis ordinary shareholders. Pay-for-performance systems that lack View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
and Gore heroes for solving a problem that, at the time, very few knew existed. Shouldn’t we be able to look to our political and business leaders to make decisions that are in our long-term best interest,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
commitments to diversity as seriously as our obligations to our customers and shareholders." In accepting Levi Strauss's award, Haas noted that the company "has always tried to be a source of positive change in the communities in which we... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
industry’s problems surprise you? What we found was absolutely shocking. First, we uncovered the so-called late-trading and market-timing issues. Beyond that, we have moved on a whole series of other issues, producing the greatest rule-making period View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
business, but there is a real opportunity for a switch in the way that business views government: In a long-term view, business would benefit from a strong democracy because it would yield better economic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
Treadwell Illustration by Jeff Smith A thirty-year resident of Alaska, Mead Treadwell (MBA ’82) is chairman of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. The commission, which reports to the President and Congress, sets direction for the U.S.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
will recognize their obligations to society.” As in the 1920s, however, the strongest public advocate for professionalization in the most comprehensive sense of the term was HBS Dean Wallace B. Donham, who... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
students. ‘Shareholder value’ was of utmost importance. Notions of obligation to the society in which the corporation is embedded have been set aside, even mocked. CEOs loved this model, as it provided cover View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
Teacher WAC student Richard A. Schaub (MBA ’56) I originally entered HBS as a member of the Class of 1953 but was called away for a three-year military obligation before finishing all the required... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
All other obligations flow from these primary responsibilities. Sue Schooner (MBA 1983), executive director, Girls Group, Ann Arbor, Michigan Take a serious interest in the people who work for you. Mentor,... View Details