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      Corporate Sustainability: A Strategy?
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      • December 2020
      • Case

      Urban Company

      By: Krishna G. Palepu
      Urban Company is an India based market platform that helps customers book home services and at home beauty services. The company differentiated itself by investing heavily in building customer trust. Rather than merely positioning itself as a lead generating...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Market Platforms; Emerging Markets; Strategy; Technology Industry; Service Industry; India
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      Palepu, Krishna G. "Urban Company." Harvard Business School Case 121-041, December 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Accounting for Product Impact in the Airlines Industry

      By: George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
      We apply the product impact measurement framework of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) in two competitor companies within the airlines industry. We design a monetization methodology that allows us to calculate monetary impact estimates of fare...  View Details
      Keywords: Product Innovation; Impact; Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; Esg; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Esg Ratings; Social Corporate Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Impact; Air Transportation; Aviation; Product Design; Product Positioning; Society; Product; Environmental sustainability; Measurement And Metrics; Framework; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Air Transportation Industry
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      Serafeim, George, and Katie Trinh. "Accounting for Product Impact in the Airlines Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-066, November 2020.
      • November 2020
      • Case

      The 1,000-Year Plan: Lee Kum Kee and Sustaining a Family Culture

      By: Lauren Cohen, Dawn H. Lau and Billy Chan
      The Lee family, whose Hong Kong-based Lee Kum Kee company has established itself as a legend within the Chinese and Asian sauce world, sets out to create a daring new vision of what family legacy means. With the family business having been established in 1888, and by...  View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Mission And Purpose; Values And Beliefs; Business And Community Relations; Organizational Structure; Strategic Planning
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      Cohen, Lauren, Dawn H. Lau, and Billy Chan. "The 1,000-Year Plan: Lee Kum Kee and Sustaining a Family Culture." Harvard Business School Case 221-047, November 2020.
      • 2020
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      Luxury Tourism and Environmentalism

      By: G. Jones
      This chapter examines the evolution of luxury tourism and its environmental impact. Whilst mass tourism is widely seen as environmentally damaging, the impact of luxury tourism is nuanced. During the first stage of the growth in the nineteenth century, the numbers of...  View Details
      Keywords: Luxury Consumption; Environmentalism; Tourism; Green Business; Luxury; History; Ethics; Globalization; Environmental Management; Business History; Tourism Industry; Antarctica; Latin America; North And Central America; Europe; Switzerland; Chile; Costa Rica; Africa; Kenya
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      Jones, G. "Luxury Tourism and Environmentalism." Chap. 31 in The Oxford Handbook of Luxury Business, edited by Pierre-Yves Donzé, Véronique Pouillard, and Joanne Roberts. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020. Electronic.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      The European Commission's Sustainable Corporate Governance Report: A Critique

      By: Mark Roe, Holger Spamann, Jesse Fried and Charles Wang
      In July 2020, the European Commission published the “Study on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance” by EY. The Report purports to find evidence of debilitating short-termism in EU corporate governance and recommends many changes to support sustainable...  View Details
      Keywords: Short-termism; Hedge Funds; Securities Regulation; Agency Costs; Political Economy; Payouts; Repurchases; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Research And Development; Investment; European Union
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      Roe, Mark, Holger Spamann, Jesse Fried, and Charles Wang. "The European Commission's Sustainable Corporate Governance Report: A Critique." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-056, October 2020.
      • October 2020 (Revised January 2021)
      • Case

      Divesting Harvard's Endowment

      By: Daniel Green, Luis M. Viceira and Holly Fetter
      By early 2020 Harvard University was facing growing pressure from students, faculty, and alumni to divest its $40 billion endowment of financial stakes in fossil fuel producers. Its previous policy of avoiding the issue was quickly becoming outdated—$21 trillion of...  View Details
      Keywords: Divestment; Harvard University; Esg; Higher Education; Investment Portfolio; Environmental sustainability; Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact
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      Green, Daniel, Luis M. Viceira, and Holly Fetter. "Divesting Harvard's Endowment." Harvard Business School Case 221-009, October 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
      • October 2020
      • Case

      Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations During COVID-19 (C)

      By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu
      The case opens in August 2020 as Ozgur Tort and Mustafa Bartin, CEO and chief large-format and online retail officer of Migros Ticaret A.S. (Migros), Turkey’s oldest and one of its largest supermarket chains, are navigating Migros through COVID-19 and the unprecedented...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Strategy; Technology Platform; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Crisis Management; Health Pandemics; Strategic Planning; Food And Beverage Industry; Turkey
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      Moreno, Antonio, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations During COVID-19 (C)." Harvard Business School Case 621-062, October 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Accounting for Product Impact in the Consumer-Packaged Foods Industry

      By: Amanda Rischbieth, George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
      We apply the product impact measurement framework of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) in two competitor companies within the consumer-packaged goods industry. We design a methodology that allows us to calculate monetary impact estimates on customer...  View Details
      Keywords: Product Innovation; Impact; Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; Esg; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Esg Ratings; Social Corporate Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Impact; Nutrition Database; Nutritional Information; Cpg; Consumer Packaged Goods; Iwai; Product Design; Product Positioning; Society; Environmental sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Nutrition; Product; Safety; Consumer Products Industry
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      Rischbieth, Amanda, George Serafeim, and Katie Trinh. "Accounting for Product Impact in the Consumer-Packaged Foods Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-051, October 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
      • October 2020
      • Supplement

      OpenIDEO (B)

      By: Karim R. Lakhani, Anne-Laure Fayard, Manos Gkeredakis and Jin Hyun Paik
      In the midst of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was unfolding, OpenIDEO—an online open innovation platform focused on design-driven solutions to social issues—rapidly launched a new challenge to improve access to health information, empower communities to stay safe...  View Details
      Keywords: Innovation Competitions; Ideo; Contests; Contest Design; Platforms And Ecosystems; Open Innovation; Open And User Innovation Strategy; Diversity; Design; Social Entrepreneurship; Global Range; Collaborative Innovation And Invention; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Social And Collaborative Networks; Health Pandemics; Health; Information; Business And Community Relations
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      Lakhani, Karim R., Anne-Laure Fayard, Manos Gkeredakis, and Jin Hyun Paik. "OpenIDEO (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 621-058, October 2020.
      • October 2020
      • Article

      Collusion in Markets with Syndication

      By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Richard Lowery and Jordan M. Barry
      Markets for IPOs and debt issuances are syndicated, in the sense that a bidder who wins a contract may invite losing bidders to join a syndicate that together fulfills the contract. We show that in markets with syndication, standard intuitions from industrial...  View Details
      Keywords: Collusion; Antitrust; Ipo Underwriting; Syndication; "repeated Games"; Markets; Game Theory
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      Hatfield, John William, Scott Duke Kominers, Richard Lowery, and Jordan M. Barry. "Collusion in Markets with Syndication." Journal of Political Economy 128, no. 10 (October 2020).
      • October 2020
      • Case

      Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress

      By: Elie Ofek and Lia Weiner
      In Israel of 2020 the demand for software engineers was endless. Meanwhile just miles away, Palestinian universities were graduating 3,000 engineers a year, and many of them could not find jobs in the still nascent Palestinian tech sector. Could these dots be...  View Details
      Keywords: Geopolitics; Technology Ecosystem; Software Engineers; Technology; Software; Business Startups; International Relations; Cooperation; Opportunities; Problems And Challenges; Technology Industry; Israel; Palestinian State
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      Ofek, Elie, and Lia Weiner. "Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress." Harvard Business School Case 521-046, October 2020.
      • September 2020
      • Case

      Algramo

      By: Michael Chu, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal
      Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores...  View Details
      Keywords: Packaging-as-a-wallet; Plastic Waste; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Reusable Packaging; Alliances With Fmcgs To Meet Esg Goals; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental sustainability; Strategy; Value Creation; Goals And Objectives; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Latin America; South America; Chile
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      Chu, Michael, Monica Silva, and Mariana Cal. "Algramo." Harvard Business School Case 321-079, September 2020.
      • September 2020
      • Teaching Note

      TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?

      By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-422. TransDigm was a highly acquisitive company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and commercial customers. Over the ten years ending in 2016, its stock price had increase ten times,...  View Details
      Keywords: Value Capturing; Pricing Strategy; Supplier Power; Buyer Power; Porter's Five Forces; Bargaining Power; Monopoly; Aerospace; Acquisition Strategy; Value Drivers; Ethical Behavior; Regulation; Growth Strategy; Business Ethics; Defense; Procurement; sustainability; Value-based Business Strategy; Acquisition; Ethics; Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Growth Management; Performance Evaluation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Value Creation; Competitive Advantage; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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      Esty, Benjamin C., and Daniel Fisher. "TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?" Harvard Business School Teaching Note 721-353, September 2020.
      • 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...  View Details
      Keywords: Water; Water Management; Environment; sustainability; Environmental Impact; Impact-weighted Accounts; Iwai; Organizations; Environmental sustainability; Valuation
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      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.
      • September 2020 (Revised November 2020)
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      d.light

      By: Michael Chu, Krishna G. Palepu and Dilyana Karadzhova Botha
      Kenyan off-grid-solar pioneer d.light can power entire homes in rural Africa but must now decide how to fund the growth of its asset-heavy business model. Ned Tozun and Sam Goldman founded d.light in 2006 to transform lives through solar solutions enabling access to...  View Details
      Keywords: Alternative Energy; Business Model; Capital; Emerging Markets; Expansion; Financial Strategy; Renewable Energy; Strategy; Social Entrepreneurship; Energy Industry; Africa; Kenya; India
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      Chu, Michael, Krishna G. Palepu, and Dilyana Karadzhova Botha. "d.light." Harvard Business School Case 321-069, September 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
      • 2020
      • Book

      Better, Not Perfect: A Realist's Guide to Maximum Sustainable Goodness

      By: Max Bazerman
      Every day, you make hundreds of decisions. They’re largely personal, but these choices have an ethical twinge as well; they value certain principles and ends over others. Bazerman argues that we can better balance both dimensions—and we needn’t seek perfection to make...  View Details
      Keywords: Decision Making; Moral Sensibility; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact
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      Bazerman, Max. Better, Not Perfect: A Realist's Guide to Maximum Sustainable Goodness. New York: Harper Business, 2020.
      • 2020
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      Reserve Accumulation, Sovereign Debt, and Exchange Rate Policy

      By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
      In the past decade, foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries increased dramatically. Additionally, emerging countries are increasingly deviating from inflation targeting regimes, managing their exchange rate and engaging in...  View Details
      Keywords: Reserves; Exchange Rate; Sovereign Finance; Currency Exchange Rate; Policy
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      Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Reserve Accumulation, Sovereign Debt, and Exchange Rate Policy." In Asset Management at Central Banks and Monetary Authorities: New Practices in Managing International Foreign Exchange Reserves, edited by Jacob Bjorheim. Springer, 2020. (Book link.)
      • Fall 2020
      • Article

      Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual & the End of the World as We Know It

      By: Rebecca Henderson
      How does one witness to businesspeople about climate change? Climate change is a problem for the collective and the long term, whereas business often requires a ruthless focus on the individual and the quarter. Climate change is an ethical catastrophe whose solution...  View Details
      Keywords: Sustainable Business; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Environmental sustainability
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      Henderson, Rebecca. "Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual & the End of the World as We Know It." Special Issue on Witnessing Climate Change. Daedalus 149, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 118–124.
      • September 2020
      • Article

      Dignity, Inequality, and the Populist Backlash: Lessons from America and Europe for a Sustainable Globalization

      By: Rawi Abdelal
      The greatest challenge to the sustainability of our current era of globalization comes from within the United States. Most Americans have come to reject globalization. We must discern the lessons from the parts of the developed world where the backlash is also...  View Details
      Keywords: Populism; Backlash; Dignity; Globalization; Economic Systems; Equality And Inequality; Policy; Values And Beliefs; United States; Europe
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      Abdelal, Rawi. "Dignity, Inequality, and the Populist Backlash: Lessons from America and Europe for a Sustainable Globalization." Global Policy 11, no. 4 (September 2020): 492–500.
      • September–October 2020
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      Social-Impact Efforts That Create Real Value

      By: George Serafeim
      Until the mid-2010s few investors paid attention to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data—information about companies’ carbon footprints, labor policies, board makeup, and so forth. Today the data is widely used by investors. How can organizations create...  View Details
      Keywords: sustainability; Sustainability Management; Esg; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Esg Disclosure; Esg Disclosure Metrics; Esg Ratings; Esg Reporting; Social Impact; Impact Measurement; Social Innovation; Purpose; Corporate Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility; Strategy; Social Enterprise; Society; Accounting; Investment; Environmental sustainability; Climate Change; Corporate Strategy; Mission And Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Financial Services Industry; Chemical Industry; Technology Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; North America; Europe; Japan; Australia
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      Serafeim, George. "Social-Impact Efforts That Create Real Value." Harvard Business Review 98, no. 5 (September–October 2020): 38–48.
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