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- Winter 2023
- Article
Moral Firms?
Building a new political economy requires transforming our markets, our institutions, and our policy and regulatory regimes. In this essay, I argue that it also requires transforming the purpose of the firm: from a singular focus on maximizing financial returns to the...
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Henderson, Rebecca. "Moral Firms?" Daedalus 152, no. 1 (Winter 2023): 198–211.
- 31 Aug 2021
- Video
Welcome MBA Class of 2023
- 09 Jan 2015
- News
Report: Don't let integration cause physician micromanagement
- March 2021 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
Making Impact Investing Markets: IFC (A)
By: Shawn A. Cole, John Masko and T. Robert Zochowski
In 2017, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) faced the first big investment decision in its new Scaling Solar project. Founded in 1956, IFC was an international investment body with national governments as shareholders, whose mission was to promote economic...
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Keywords:
Impact Investing;
Development Economics;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Renewable Energy;
Climate Change;
Environmental Sustainability;
Borrowing and Debt;
Credit;
Equity;
Bonds;
Financing and Loans;
Growth and Development;
Emerging Markets;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Investment;
Decision Making;
Financial Services Industry;
Energy Industry;
Zambia
Cole, Shawn A., John Masko, and T. Robert Zochowski. "Making Impact Investing Markets: IFC (A)." Harvard Business School Case 221-061, March 2021. (Revised April 2021.)
- March 22, 2022
- Article
The Great Resignation or the Great Rethink?
By: Ranjay Gulati
Unsettled by the pandemic, most people are considering our jobs with fresh perspective. Some are quitting, in what has been dubbed the Great Resignation. But, for many, it’s more of a Great Rethink. Do we really like our employers’ culture? Do we feel that we’re fairly...
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Gulati, Ranjay. "The Great Resignation or the Great Rethink?" Harvard Business Review (website) (March 22, 2022).
- 21 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 1: HBS/HKS Faculty Reflections
Graduating more than ten HBS | HKS Joint Degree classes is an accomplishment in which all of us — students, alumni, faculty, and staff — can take considerable pride. The program’s mission of developing...
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- 17 Jun 2019
- News
‘How Perfect Do I Need to Be?’
- December 2012 (Revised October 2013)
- Case
Developing the Materiality Matrix at Telefónica
By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim and Asun Cano-Escoriaza
Telefónica, one of the largest telecommunication companies in the world and headquartered in Spain, has been issuing a corporate sustainability report since 2002. In its 2011 Sustainability report, the company included a "materiality matrix," and was one of only five...
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Keywords:
Sustainability;
Sustainability Reporting;
Sustainable Strategy;
CSR;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Communication Technology;
Environmental Accounting;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability;
Telecommunications Industry;
Spain
Eccles, Robert G., George Serafeim, and Asun Cano-Escoriaza. "Developing the Materiality Matrix at Telefónica." Harvard Business School Case 413-088, December 2012. (Revised October 2013.)
- Web
Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building, Managing, and Scaling the First Sales Team as a Founder, Investor, or Advisor - Course Catalog
exercise in frustration and futility. The purpose of this course is to demystify sales and help you understand how to manage go-to-market functions within entrepreneurial...
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- August 1996 (Revised August 1997)
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TNT Limited's Logistics Services in Asia (A): The Strategy
By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Meredith Hellicar's mission as general manager of corporate development is to make TNT Ltd. one of the biggest and most diverse transport and logistic companies in the world, with approximately $5 billion in turnover in 1993, a leading provider of logistics services in...
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Keywords:
Business or Company Management;
Managerial Roles;
Distribution;
Logistics;
Mission and Purpose;
Partners and Partnerships;
Strategy;
Diversification;
Transportation Industry;
Asia;
China;
Indonesia;
Thailand
Yoshino, Michael Y., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "TNT Limited's Logistics Services in Asia (A): The Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 397-017, August 1996. (Revised August 1997.)
- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention
Education remains a top priority, even today. She’s finding that a big part of her mission is educational, specifically helping the average investor understand the differences between ESG and impact...
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- March 2023 (Revised September 2023)
- Case
Wilshire Lane Capital
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Lindsay N. Hyde and Stacy Straaberg
In September 2021, Adam Demuyakor (MBA 2017) was faced with decisions about how to launch his venture capital (VC) investment firm. His previous investment activities were a series of angel investments and special purpose vehicles alongside two part-time general...
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Keywords:
Ownership Stake;
Investment Funds;
Venture Capital;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Real Estate Industry;
Technology Industry;
Los Angeles;
California;
United States
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Lindsay N. Hyde, and Stacy Straaberg. "Wilshire Lane Capital." Harvard Business School Case 823-062, March 2023. (Revised September 2023.)
- 21 Apr 2020
- News
To Be More Resilient in a Crisis, Focus on Meaning, Not Happiness
- October 2014
- Module Note
Market Design in Online Businesses (Abridged)
By: Peter Coles and Benjamin Edelman
The purpose of this note is to characterize the challenges entrepreneurs may face in creating a well-functioning ecosystem of users, and to equip entrepreneurs with tools to overcome these obstacles. The note is meant to accompany the final module of the "The Online...
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Keywords:
Platform Design;
Network Effects;
Market Design;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Industry;
Advertising Industry
Coles, Peter, and Benjamin Edelman. "Market Design in Online Businesses (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Module Note 915-016, October 2014.
- 08 Jul 2022
- News
How to Conduct a Great Performance Review.
Robin J. Ely
Robin Ely is the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on leadership, identity, and organizational culture change.... View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
being values-based, led by principles and a sense of purpose at the heart of the enterprise. They are dealing with the crisis of capitalism by offering a new and different...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2011
- News