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      Pay for Environmental Performance: The Effect of Incentive Provision on Carbon Emissions
      Ranking National Environmental Regulation and Performance: A Leading Indicator of Future Competitiveness?
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      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Auditor Independence and Outsourcing: Aligning Incentives to Mitigate Shilling and Shirking

      By: Ashley Palmarozzo, Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
      Multinational corporations (MNCs) hire auditors to assess their business partners’ compliance with quality, working conditions, and environmental standards. Independent third-party auditors are widely assumed to outperform second-party auditors employed and thus...  View Details
      Keywords: Concurrent Sourcing; Transaction Cost Economics; Outsourcing; Suppliers; Monitoring; Business Strategy; Vertical Integration; Supply Chain Management; Quality; Safety; Risk And Uncertainty; Apparel And Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; China; India; Bangladesh
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      Palmarozzo, Ashley, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel. "Auditor Independence and Outsourcing: Aligning Incentives to Mitigate Shilling and Shirking." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-078, January 2021.
      • December 2020
      • Case

      Château Margaux: Serving Up the Third Wine

      By: Elie Ofek
      In fall 2019, Corinne Mentzelopoulos, owner of the famous first-growth Château Margaux, is pondering a series of decisions with respect to the chateau's third wine. Margaux du Château Marguax, as this wine was called, was launched in 2013 with a particular goal in mind...  View Details
      Keywords: Brand Management; Pricing; Wine Industry; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; performance Evaluation; Price; Distribution Channels; Growth And Development Strategy; France
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      Ofek, Elie. "Château Margaux: Serving Up the Third Wine." Harvard Business School Case 521-054, December 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Updating the Balanced Scorecard for Triple Bottom Line Strategies

      By: Robert S. Kaplan and David McMillan
      Many companies are now attempting to achieve triple bottom line performance on financial, environmental, and societal metrics. Successful strategies for such performance, however, generally require new relationships among multiple players in multiple sectors across a...  View Details
      Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Adaptation; environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; performance; Strategy
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      Kaplan, Robert S., and David McMillan. "Updating the Balanced Scorecard for Triple Bottom Line Strategies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-028, August 2020.
      • May 2020
      • Teaching Note

      Danone: Changing the Food System

      By: David E. Bell, Federica Gabrieli, Daniela Beyersdorfer, Amy Klopfenstein and Aldo Sesia
      Teaching Note for HBS No. 520-053.
      This is a teaching note for the case “Danone: Changing the Food System?” The case examines the efforts of one of the world’s largest food and beverage companies to resolve the social, environmental, and economic issues within its...  View Details
      Keywords: Food; Goods And Commodities; Agribusiness; Animal-based Agribusiness; Plant-based Agribusiness; Strategy; Corporate Strategy; environmental Management; environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Agriculture And Agribusiness Industry; Food And Beverage Industry; Europe; France; Paris
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      Bell, David E., Federica Gabrieli, Daniela Beyersdorfer, Amy Klopfenstein, and Aldo Sesia. "Danone: Changing the Food System." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 520-066, May 2020.
      • 2020
      • Article

      Public Sentiment and the Price of Corporate Sustainability

      By: George Serafeim
      Combining corporate sustainability performance scores based on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data with big data measuring public sentiment about a company’s sustainability performance, I find that the valuation premium paid for companies with strong...  View Details
      Keywords: Sustainability; Esg; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investment Management; Investment Strategy; Big Data; Machine Learning; environment; environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance; performance; Asset Pricing; Investment; Management; Strategy; Human Capital; Public Opinion; Value
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      Serafeim, George. "Public Sentiment and the Price of Corporate Sustainability." Financial Analysts Journal 76, no. 2 (2020): 26–46.
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      Companies Must Include Environmental and Social Performance Measures

      By: George Serafeim
      Keywords: Sustainability; Impact; Esg; Transparency; Accounting
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      Serafeim, George. "Companies Must Include Environmental and Social Performance Measures." Financial Times (February 24, 2020).
      • January 2020 (Revised July 2020)
      • Case

      Chemours (A)

      By: David G. Fubini and David Lane
      The July 2015 spin-off of DuPont’s performance chemicals division as the independent company Chemours burdened new CEO Mark Vergnano and his team with perilous challenges. Despite market-leading offerings in several areas, the company faced a glutted market for its...  View Details
      Keywords: Transformation; Chemicals; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Chemical Industry; United States
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      Fubini, David G., and David Lane. "Chemours (A)." Harvard Business School Case 420-001, January 2020. (Revised July 2020.)
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Intelligent Design of Inclusive Growth Strategies

      By: Robert S. Kaplan, George Serafeim and Eduardo Tugendhat
      Improving corporate engagement with society, as advocated in the Business Roundtable’s 2019 statement, should not be viewed as a zero-sum proposition where attention to new stakeholders detracts from delivering shareholder value. Corporate programs for sustainable and...  View Details
      Keywords: Inclusion; Sustainability; Performance Measures; environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Strategy; Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Business And Stakeholder Relations
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      Kaplan, Robert S., George Serafeim, and Eduardo Tugendhat. "Intelligent Design of Inclusive Growth Strategies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-050, October 2019.
      • October 16, 2019
      • Article

      Where ESG Fails

      By: Michael E. Porter, George Serafeim and Mark Kramer
      We are entering a new stage of understanding of the linkage between investment performance and social impact. Previous approaches, such as socially responsible investing and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) screening, have obscured the opportunities for...  View Details
      Keywords: Esg; Sustainability; environment; Social Impact; Impact Investing; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Esg Reporting; Shared Value; environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Investment; Value; Strategy
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      Porter, Michael E., George Serafeim, and Mark Kramer. "Where ESG Fails." Institutional Investor (October 16, 2019).
      • 2019
      • White Paper

      Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy

      By: George Serafeim, T. Robert Zochowski and Jennifer Downing
      Reimagining capitalism is an imperative. We need to create a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism that works for every person and the planet. Massive environmental damage, growing income and wealth disparity, stress, and depression within developed...  View Details
      Keywords: Impact-weighted Accounts; Iwai; Background; Economic Systems; Economy; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Measurement And Metrics; Financial Statements
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      Serafeim, George, T. Robert Zochowski, and Jennifer Downing. "Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy." White Paper, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, September 2019.
      • July 2019
      • Article

      Market Reaction to Mandatory Nonfinancial Disclosure

      By: Jody Grewal, Edward J. Riedl and George Serafeim
      We examine the equity market reaction to events associated with the passage of a directive in the European Union (EU) mandating increased nonfinancial disclosure. These disclosures relate to firms’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and would be...  View Details
      Keywords: Nonfinancial Information; Nonfinancial Performance; Esg; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investor Behavior; Disclosure; Disclosure Regulation; Regulation; Sustainability; Corporate Performance; Information; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms; performance; environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance; Outcome Or Result
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      Grewal, Jody, Edward J. Riedl, and George Serafeim. "Market Reaction to Mandatory Nonfinancial Disclosure." Management Science 65, no. 7 (July 2019): 3061–3084.
      • January 2019 (Revised February 2020)
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      Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World? Inside GPIF's Embrace of ESG

      By: Rebecca Henderson, George Serafeim, Josh Lerner and Naoko Jinjo
      In the fall of 2018, Hiro Mizuno, the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of GPIF, the Japanese Government Pension Fund, was reflecting on his efforts to integrate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues into every aspect of GPIF’s portfolio. His efforts ranged...  View Details
      Keywords: Pension Funds; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investment Funds; environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Governance; Leading Change; Economy; performance Improvement; Japan
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      Henderson, Rebecca, George Serafeim, Josh Lerner, and Naoko Jinjo. "Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World? Inside GPIF's Embrace of ESG." Harvard Business School Case 319-067, January 2019. (Revised February 2020.)
      • 2018
      • Working Paper

      Corporate Sustainability: A Strategy?

      By: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
      We explore the conditions under which firms maintain their competitive advantage through sustainability-based differentiation when faced with imitation pressures by industry peers. Specifically, we document growing intraindustry convergence on sustainability actions...  View Details
      Keywords: Sustainability; Corporate Performance; Industry Analysis; Csr; Esg; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Strategy; environment; Social Responsibility; Strategy And Execution; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; environmental Sustainability; Strategy; performance; Corporate Strategy
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      Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim. "Corporate Sustainability: A Strategy?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-065, January 2019.
      • 2019
      • Chapter

      Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations

      By: Bruce J. Fried and Amy C. Edmondson
      Book Abstract: Completely updated to address the challenges faced by modern health care organizations, this edition of Shortell and Kaluzny's Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior offers a more global perspective on how the United States and...  View Details
      Keywords: Groups And Teams; performance Effectiveness; Health; Health Industry
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      Fried, Bruce J., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations." Chap. 5 in Shortell & Kaluzny's Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior. 7th ed., edited by Lawton Robert Burns, Elizabeth H. Bradley, and Bryan Jeffrey Weiner, 98–131. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning, 2019.
      • Third Quarter 2018
      • Article

      Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey

      By: Amir Amel-Zadeh and George Serafeim
      Using survey data from a sample of senior investment professionals from mainstream (i.e., not SRI funds) investment organizations, we provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to...  View Details
      Keywords: Esg; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Sustainability; Investment; Investment Management; Investment Strategy; Metrics; Standard Setting; Accounting Standards; Finance; Investment; Information; environmental Sustainability; Governance; performance Effectiveness; Strategy
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      Amel-Zadeh, Amir, and George Serafeim. "Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey." Financial Analysts Journal 74, no. 3 (Third Quarter 2018): 87–103.
      • Summer 2018
      • Article

      CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics

      By: Thomas Lyon, Magali A. Delmas, John W. Maxwell, Pratima Bansal, Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline, Patricia Crifo, Rodolphe Durand, Jean-Pascal Gond, Andrew King, Michael Lenox, Michael W. Toffel, David Vogel and Frank Wijen
      Corporate sustainability has gone mainstream, and many companies have taken meaningful steps to improve their own environmental performance. But while corporate political actions such as lobbying can have a greater impact on environmental quality, they are ignored in...  View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; environmental Sustainability; Communication; Policy; Business And Government Relations
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      Lyon, Thomas, Magali A. Delmas, John W. Maxwell, Pratima Bansal, Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline, Patricia Crifo, Rodolphe Durand, Jean-Pascal Gond, Andrew King, Michael Lenox, Michael W. Toffel, David Vogel, and Frank Wijen. "CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics." California Management Review 60, no. 4 (Summer 2018): 5–24.
      • January 2018
      • Case

      Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather

      By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Aldo Sesia
      It is 2014 and Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) Partners, a UK-based venture capital firm, has an opportunity to invest in a privately held UK company that manufactured engineered composition leather extracted from waste leather using an environmentally friendly...  View Details
      Keywords: Sustainability; Venture Capital; Investment Strategy; Investment; Strategy; Ownership; Valuation; Energy Conservation; Equity; Technological Innovation; environmental Sustainability; performance Efficiency; Manufacturing Industry; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
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      Gandhi, Vikram S., and Aldo Sesia. "Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather." Harvard Business School Case 318-001, January 2018.
      • 2017
      • Working Paper

      Creating the Market for Organic Wine: Sulfites, Certification, and Green Values

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean
      This working paper examines the history of organic wine, which provides a case study of failed category creation. The modern organic wine industry emerged during the 1970s in the United States and Western Europe, but it struggled to gain traction compared to other...  View Details
      Keywords: Product Launch; Failure; Problems And Challenges; Complexity; Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms; Agriculture And Agribusiness Industry; Food And Beverage Industry
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      Jones, Geoffrey, and Emily Grandjean. "Creating the Market for Organic Wine: Sulfites, Certification, and Green Values." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-048, December 2017.
      • October 2017 (Revised October 2018)
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      JetBlue: Relevant Sustainability Leadership (A)

      By: George Serafeim and David Freiberg
      In 2017, JetBlue, the airline founded on the mission to “bring humanity back to air travel”, was considering becoming one of the first companies to report its sustainability performance according to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards. SASB...  View Details
      Keywords: Sustainability; Metrics; Leadership And Change Management; Airlines; Innovation; Purpose; Esg; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Sustainability Reporting; Change Management; Leadership; Financial Reporting; environmental Sustainability; Mission And Purpose; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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      Serafeim, George, and David Freiberg. "JetBlue: Relevant Sustainability Leadership (A)." Harvard Business School Case 118-030, October 2017. (Revised October 2018.)
      • 2017
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      Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey

      By: Georgios Serafeim
      Using survey data from a sample of senior investment professionals from mainstream (i.e., not SRI funds) investment organizations, we provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. The primary reason...  View Details
      Keywords: Investment Management; Sustainability; Esg; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investment Fund; Investment Strategy; Corporate Accountability; Activist Shareholder; Engagement; environment; Climate Change; Customers; Customer Satisfaction; Employee Engagement; Global Warming; Investment; Decision Making; environmental Sustainability; performance Expectations
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      Serafeim, Georgios. "Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-079, February 2017.
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