Institute for Business in Global Society

Explore the latest research and insights on how organizations can embed sustainability throughout their operations and value chains.

Dive into strategies and insights about how business can drive economic mobility for all stakeholders.

Sharpen your skills as an inclusive leader and keep up to date on the latest research on how to build inclusive organizations.

Investigates the changing purpose of the firm in society and how this can generate new models of capitalism.

Delve into the latest thinking on how to develop and deploy AI responsibly.

Every day, business leaders make choices that shape lives. But what does it actually look like when those choices unlock opportunity for workers, families, and entire communities? The HBS Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS) gathered over 60 leaders in Nashville, across business, government, and nonprofits, to explore a single question: What is our role in creating opportunity for everyone?

Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein shares insights on what it was like managing the company through near-collapse, his journey from the Bronx projects to Wall Street's top job, and his views on today's most pressing economic challenges.

Nearly 3 out of 4 S&P 500 companies have revised their emissions data—and 135 million tons of carbon went underreported. That's equivalent to the combined annual emissions of Venezuela, Nigeria, Qatar, and Kuwait.
Harvard Business School professors Ethan Rouen and Lauren Cohen reveal groundbreaking research showing that 74% of S&P 500 companies have revised their emissions data at least once, with the majority of revisions going upward (meaning they initially underreported).

Gunnar Trumbull, Harvard Business School professor, reveals a shocking gap in how academia teaches climate strategy to business leaders.

Harvard Business School BiGS Fellow Dr. Broderick Turner explains why it's time for CEOs, technologists, marketers, and others to take a more inclusive approach to developing new technology to drive better outcomes for more people before it's too late.

University of Toronto Professor Sarah Kaplan argues that businesses must move beyond superficial diversity initiatives to unlock innovation, citing how gender-diverse perspectives can transform product strategies and drive meaningful corporate change.

BiGS Fellow Dr. Jamillah Bowman Williams discusses why it is important for business leaders to move past the business case when discussing the need for diversity - and offers advice on what they can do instead.

Professor Ed Freeman challenges profit-first business models, arguing that companies can better solve societal problems by embracing stakeholder interdependence and purpose-driven value creation.

HBS Professor Bob Kaplan explains why the current method of tracking carbon emissions is not working, and proposes a new framework to fix it, called E-liabilities.