Corporate Social Responsibility Through an Economic Lens

Forest L. Reinhardt, Robert N. Stavins, Richard H. K. Vietor

NBER Working Paper No. 13989
Issued in May 2008

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Reinhardt is the John D. Black Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; Stavins is the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, University Fellow of Resources for the Future, and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research; and Vietor is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at Harvard Business School. Exceptionally valuable research assistance was provided by Matthew Ranson, and our research benefited greatly from conversations with William Alford, Max Bazerman, Robert Clark, Joshua Margolis, and Mark Roe. The authors are grateful to Suzanne Leonard, Charlie Kolstad, and an anonymous referee for valuable comments on a previous version of the manuscript, but all remaining errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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