Programs & Events
Virtual Programs
Virtual Programs
Balancing Profitability and Social Accountability
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
12:00–1:15 p.m. EST
Increasingly, companies are being judged on how they create value for multiple stakeholders—not just shareholders—and how they address their own social accountability. In this virtual conversation with Professors Debora L. Spar and George Serafeim, participants learned:
- Ways to measure and evaluate your company’s performance in the context of grand challenges such as climate change and unequal access to opportunity.
- How to develop an action plan to drive performance improvement on key environmental and social issues.
Debora L. Spar
Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration; Senior Associate
Dean, Business and Global Society
George Serafeim
Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration; faculty chair, Impact-Weighted
Accounts Project
Articles:
Making It Count (HBS Alumni Bulletin)
Social-Impact Efforts that Create Real Value (Harvard Business Review)
How to Measure a Company’s Real Impact (Harvard Business Review)
Media:
Larry Fink at BlackRock: Linking Purpose to Profit (Cold Call podcast)
An 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
