Ideas Worth Teaching
~ February 14, 2019  ~
GRAND CHALLENGES
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge: Sean Silverthorne

How should markets reward social performance? Can green business be profitable? How can polluters become sustainable leaders? And what is the path forward for global action on climate change? This selection of readings brings together some of Harvard's latest research on sustainability in business and management.
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Vox: Sean Illing

How can companies keep diversity efforts from becoming problematic examples of "racial capitalism"?
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TEACHING INNOVATIONS
Poets & Quants: Nathan Allen

What makes a business school good, and is that what we're measuring?
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GRAND CHALLENGES
The Guardian: Damian Carrington

"Love them or loathe them, we humans cannot survive without insects." When private action harms the public good, where do we draw the line, and how?
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FUTURE OF WORK
Bloomberg: Janet Paskin

"Workers aren't waiting for the traditional forms of organizing": What do new labor strategies mean for workers and their employers?
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TEACHING INNOVATIONS
The Ringer: Victor Luckerson

"The finance industry wrecked the world a decade ago because of its misunderstanding of complex, automated systems that spun out of control--and its confidence that someone else would ultimately pay the price if things went wrong." In computer science or business, how can universities do more to include "social good"?
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