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- 2020
- Working Paper
Measuring the Cost of Corporate Water Usage
By: DG Park, George Serafeim and T. Robert Zochowski
We develop a methodology that calculates the impact that organizations have on the environment through their water consumption relating to water stress risk. Using the methodology, we derive estimates for four companies that show how assumptions on the geographic...
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Water;
Water Management;
Environment;
Sustainability;
Environmental Impact;
Impact-Weighted Accounts;
IWAI;
Organizations;
Environmental Sustainability;
Valuation
Park, DG, George Serafeim, and T. Robert Zochowski. "Measuring the Cost of Corporate Water Usage." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-036, September 2020.
- 2021
- Working Paper
Corporate Environmental Impact: Measurement, Data and Information
By: David Freiberg, DG Park, George Serafeim and T. Robert Zochowski
As an organization’s environmental impact has become a central societal consideration, thereby affecting industry and organizational competitiveness, interest in measuring and analyzing environmental impact has increased. We develop a methodology to derive comparable...
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Keywords:
Environment;
Impact;
Measurement;
Environmental Ratings;
Corporate Valuation;
Financial Materiality;
Sustainability;
Environmental Impact;
Environmental Strategy;
Impact-Weighted Accounts;
IWAI;
Environmental Sustainability;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Measurement and Metrics;
Valuation
Freiberg, David, DG Park, George Serafeim, and T. Robert Zochowski. "Corporate Environmental Impact: Measurement, Data and Information." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-098, March 2020. (Revised February 2021.)
- 26 Sep 2019
- News
Reimagining Our Capitalist Markets
- 26 Sep 2019
- Video
Reimagining Our Capitalist Markets
- 28 Feb 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
Measuring Employment Impact: Applications and Cases
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by Katie Panella and George Serafeim
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
New Platform Bids to Provide Impact Management Clarity, Boost
- 2021
- Working Paper
Measuring Employment Impact: Applications and Cases
By: Katie Panella and George Serafeim
Applying the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative’s employment impact methodology on eight leading companies, we document wide variability in employment impacts as a percentage of salaries paid, ranging between 59 and 80 percent. We identify opportunities for...
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Keywords:
Impact Measurement;
Employee Compensation;
Accounting;
Employees;
Labor;
Well-being;
Diversity;
Wages;
Compensation and Benefits
Panella, Katie, and George Serafeim. "Measuring Employment Impact: Applications and Cases." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-082, January 2021. (Revised August 2021.)
- 21 Jul 2020
- News
New Models for a New World
George Serafeim
George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he co-leads the Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab in the Digital, Data, and Design Institute. He teaches the course "Risks, Opportunities and... View Details
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asset management;
insurance industry;
automobiles;
industrial goods;
fashion;
food;
green technology
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History Case Method Project Creating Emerging Markets Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard Entrepreneurship Global Health Care Impact Investments Impact-Weighted Accounts Institute for Business in Global...
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Faculty & Research
size. Initiatives & Projects Impact-Weighted Accounts The Impact-Weighted Accounts (IWA) Project was established in July of 2019 and concluded in...
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impact investing sector by studying the universe of portfolio companies that seek to generate social benefits alongside financial returns. Impact-Weighted Accounts The View Details
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Virtual Programs - Alumni
Introduction to BiGS (video) Books: Purpose + Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World Websites:Institute for the Study of Business in a Global Society Impact-Weighted Accounts Project HBS Mobile Download...
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Project Creating Emerging Markets Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard Impact-Weighted Accounts Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness Institute for Business in Global Society Laboratory for...
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justice—particularly the disproportionate effects on marginalized communities locally and globally. Impact Weighted Accounts The mission of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project...
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- 05 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed
Impact-Weighted Accounts Projects at HBS; Fanele Mashwama, a research associate at HBS and Harvard University; and Heather McPherson, MBA candidate at The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Sean...
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- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices...
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by Lane Lambert