Impact-Weighted Accounts at Harvard Business School is working to produce a scalable methodology that increases transparency to impacts on the environment, employees, and customers and promotes comparability between organizations. Critical in this process is transforming the currently disclosed metrics through scientifically studied pathways into impacts to the end stakeholders and then converting those impacts into intuitively understood and comparable monetary values using a range of validated pricing methods including preferences or damage costs. This allows for the construction of accounting statements that include the impact organizations have on society.

Dataset contains details of several companies and their product impact as a percentage of their revenues. It is an output of HBS’ Impact Weighted Accounts (IWA) project.

Impact-Weighted Accounts at Harvard Business School is working to produce a scalable methodology that increases transparency to impacts on the environment, employees, and customers and promotes comparability between organizations. Critical in this process is transforming the currently disclosed metrics through scientifically studied pathways into impacts to the end stakeholders and then converting those impacts into intuitively understood and comparable monetary values using a range of validated pricing methods including preferences or damage costs. This allows for the construction of accounting statements that include the impact organizations have on society.