Filter Results
:
(125)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (125)
- Faculty Publications (20)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (125)
- Faculty Publications (20)
- September–October 2023
- Article
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility
By: Mark R. DesJardine, Jody Grewal and Kala Viswanathan
Common owners face an incredible investment challenge: managing systematic risk. Because common owners hold shares in multiple firms across an industry, an action (or inaction) by one firm that affects industry peers is felt more severely by common owners than by...
View Details
Keywords:
Common Ownership;
Environmental Sustainability;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Institutional Investing;
Corporate Governance;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Investment Return
DesJardine, Mark R., Jody Grewal, and Kala Viswanathan. "A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility." Organization Science 34, no. 5 (September–October 2023): 1716–1735.
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
of rapid profit improvement. The question facing CEO Thomas J. Wilson was how to maintain the momentum. This case tracks the evolution of Allstate's strategy over 20 years, examining the logic behind the strategic changes, and the...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
School Case 308-094 After an international IPO yielding extraordinary returns to original investors, Banco Compartamos, Mexico's leading microfinance institution, contemplates its future strategic and competing priorities: maintaining...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
variables are you tracking? How are you creating accountability for performance on those variables? (4) What strategic boundaries have you set? Does everyone know what actions are off-limits? (5) How are you generating creative tension?...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310003-PDF-ENG SK Telecom: Pursuing Happiness through Corporate Social Responsibility Harvard Business School Case 410-042 Since 2006, SK Telecom has worked to develop strategic corporate social...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- Web
Executive Education - Leadership
woman of color. The HR-Executive Suite Connection HBS Campus | 01–04 MAY 2024 Discover how top HR executives can play a more strategic role and contribute more value as a member of a company’s senior leadership team. Owner/President...
View Details
- Web
Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
time-driven activity-based costing is used in health care delivery organizations around the world. Length: 28 min.See All Media Videos Key Stakeholders Providers Stay competitive by adopting a strategic approach, restructuring the...
View Details
- 12 Sep 2023
- What Do You Think?
Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?
medium-sized, for-profit retailing organization. You have been asked to approve changes to the company’s orientation program that probably would not have crossed your desk several years ago. Your human resources group has proposed changes...
View Details
Keywords:
by James Heskett
- Web
Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
Fellowship The Alderbas Family Fellowship was established through the generosity of Adel Alderbas (MBA 2013) in honor of his 5th Reunion to support students with demonstrated financial need. Alderbas is a director at Wafra, focusing on View Details
- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
Reorganize for Resilience: Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business (Harvard Business Press). Gulati, whose research explores leadership and strategic challenges for building high growth organizations in turbulent markets, is the...
View Details
- Research Summary
Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
Acceptance Rate 3% More Key Enrollment Statistics New Faculty Twenty-three faculty members, including new tenure-track professors, visitors, and practitioners, participated in START, a deep-dive orientation to the School that took place...
View Details
- Web
Becoming a Board Member - Alumni
customers/clients, strategic alliances, international opportunities, and/or new technologies. +–Board Bio Template Interested in joining a board of directors? In addition to your resume, you will also need a board bio to showcase how your...
View Details
- Web
Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
Integrated Reporting and Investor Clientele By: George Serafeim In this paper, I examine the relation between Integrated Reporting (IR) and the composition of a firm's investor base. I hypothesize and find that firms that practice IR have a more long-term View Details
- 07 Dec 2021
- Op-Ed
Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge
Unfortunately, many organizations lack a strong development culture. They view leader development as a tactical issue instead of a strategic imperative. In contrast, companies with strong development cultures invest in their middle...
View Details
Keywords:
by Hise Gibson and Shawnette Rochelle
- Web
Departments - Employment
went before. help faculty disseminate their knowledge to practitioners. Customer Base HBS and HU Faculty, Students, Staff, HBS Alumni, Visiting scholars and researchers Culture Baker Library encourages a work environment based on knowledge sharing, collaboration,...
View Details
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
and professional activities of academic biomedical scientists. In qualitative and quantitative analyses, we show that scientists match to their postdoctoral mentors based on two dominant factors, geography and scientific focus. They then adopt their advisers' View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
short-termism is associated with various proxies for earnings management, suggesting that our proxy partially captures opportunistic behavior. We also show that firms focusing more on the short-term have a more short-term oriented...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
discuss how these findings advance understanding of how organizational structure and corporate leadership interact and of how organizations can more effectively realize the strategic value of corporate social responsibility activities....
View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA...
View Details
Keywords:
Jennifer Gillespie