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- 18 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
When It Comes to Climate Regulation, Energy Companies Take a More Nuanced View
Common wisdom holds that oil and gas companies, electric utilities, and other industries known for their large carbon emissions generally oppose clean energy policies. Now, a study of corporate advocacy spanning 30 years reveals that many companies are more flexible...
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- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
“algorithmic bias” as one of the “most important emergent issues plaguing our society today.” Google turns its back on Gebru Gebru joined Google in 2018 as co-lead of the company’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence unit, shifting her focus...
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- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
Conviction is common to all. Integrity is a complex characteristic very much determined by national cultures. What is honest in one society is not in another, and vice versa. Adaptability is a pronounced characteristic of American...
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory
constituency can be given full satisfaction if the firm is to flourish and survive. Moreover, we can be sure, externalities and monopoly power aside, that using this value criterion will result in making society as well off as it can be....
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by Michael C. Jensen
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Modernization Regimes
Professor Fabbe is currently conducting fieldwork for a book project that focuses on how societies respond to crisis and how states seek to use modernization initiatives to strengthen social resilience and cohesion. Towards this end, she is researching local... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
seemed like the quickest way to have an impact, if I wanted to give back to a society that somehow valued this specific ability I had.” Seoul as seen from Namsan Mountain. In 1970, Korea’s GDP per capita was just under $280. By 2021, it...
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- 15 Jul 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Policy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes
- 2012
- Working Paper
Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It
By: Kash Rangan, Lisa Chase and Sohel Karim
The authors argue for a strategic and pragmatic, rather than ideological, approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) that contrasts sharply with the prevailing Shared Value framework offered by Porter and Kramer (HBR; Jan.-Feb. 2011). We assert that, despite...
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Corporate Strategy;
Values and Beliefs;
Profit;
Practice
Rangan, Kash, Lisa Chase, and Sohel Karim. "Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-088, April 2012.
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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
This course is part of the Business in Society and Strategy track. Introduction to Sustainable Business Strategy Sustainable Business Strategy $1,850 Next 3-week session starts September 4th Apply Become a purpose-driven leader by...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Change
taboo.” “Japan has been such a closed, male-dominant society; women who have made it up the ladder in the society are strong and very resilient.” Now that’s starting to change. In the press and across social media, Tanaka has been...
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- 31 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World
about his message What gets lost is the author’s own mixed feelings about single-minded pursuit of profit and his hopes for a humanitarian society in which wealth and power are in balance. “Happiness is more generally and equally diffus’d...
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by Julia Hanna
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets...
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by Avery Forman
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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online
This course is part of the Business in Society and Finance & Accounting track. Introduction to Sustainable Investing Sustainable Investing $1,850 Next 6-week session starts July 24th Apply Evaluate environmental, social, and governance...
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
saw an unprecedented explosion of venture capital activity worldwide, far eclipsing 2000 and earlier venture peaks. What was behind this dramatic surge of activity? How severe will be the inevitable downturn that followed? How will these events affect the nature of...
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Online Business Courses for Organizations | HBS Online
Business Essentials Leadership & Management Entrepreneurship & Innovation Strategy Finance & Accounting Business in Society There are multiple ways for employees to learn. They can complete one course to earn a Certificate of Completion...
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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
for his contribution to economic development, and has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and other honorary societies. In 2000, he was named a University Professor by Harvard University, the highest...
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Employee Welfare – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
brought to national attention poor working conditions experienced by industrial workers. In the ensuing economic climate of the late 1920s and 1930s, many executives came to believe that the foundation of business and of a democratic View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
research portal allows users to search in depth. South Sea Bubble Exhibit Press Release Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society Expanded Reach & Impact In January 2023 RC students completed a new short course on the Social...
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- 15 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom
©iStockphoto Here's some heartening news for working mothers worried about the future of their children. Women whose moms worked outside the home are more likely to have jobs themselves, are more likely to hold supervisory responsibility at those jobs, and earn higher...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 2016
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Win-Win Corporations: The Indian Way of Shaping Successful Strategies
By: Shashank Shah
Why did Ratan Tata decide to pay for all the victims of 26/11 whether injured in the Taj or anywhere else? Why did HDFC’s Aditya Puri insist that employees leave for home by 5:30 p.m.? How did HUL develop a cheaper, better product to beat its competitor, Nirma? What do...
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Shah, Shashank. Win-Win Corporations: The Indian Way of Shaping Successful Strategies. Gurgaon, India: Penguin Random House, 2016.