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Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems

By: George Serafeim
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    Professor Serafeim teaches with Professor Rebecca Henderson the course "Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems" in the second year of the MBA. Cases taught in this course include among others:

    Fighting corruption and turning around an organization using strong values and management: Turnaround at Norsk Gjenvinning

    Empowering more effective self-regulation mechanisms and exploring the effectiveness of voluntary, self-regulatory and regulatory approaches: Statoil: Transparency on Payments to Governments

    Understanding the flaws of GDP as a measure of economic well-being and designing strategy maps and alternative metrics for strategy execution: Shanghai: GDP Apostasy

    Exploring the role of purpose and values in individual decision making inside organizations: Omar Selim: Building a Values-Based Asset Management Firm

    Understanding the challenge of change in large organization and scenario analysis in environments of transformational change: ExxonMobil: Business As Usual?

    Illustrating the benefits and costs of firm actions to adapt to a low carbon world and fighting climate change: CLP: Powering Asia

    Understanding active ownership and engagement in public markets in the context of environmental and social issues. Aviva Investors

    Exploring the development of environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics and their effect on organizational and market behavior. ESG Metrics: Reshaping Capitalism? 

    Keywords

    Capitalism; Corporate Accountability; Leadership; Sustainability; Climate Change; Inequality; ESG; "ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Corporate Social Responsibility; Culture; Corporate Purpose; Change; Performance; Strategy; Measurement And Metrics; Competitive Advantage

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