Civic Activism - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

Apple's Tim Cook is one of an increasing number of CEOs using the corporate bully pulpit to promote social views. @iStock In their paper Do CEO Activists Make a Difference? Evidence from a Field Experiment, the researchers address two key questions: One, can CEO View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

18 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 18

influence-seeking risk managers (1) establish and maintain interpersonal connections with decision makers and how they (2) adopt, deploy, and reconfigure tools-practices that we define collectively as toolmaking. Using prior literature and our empirical observations,... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

06 May 2019
News

Startup Talk in Chicago

first competition. “And we’ve established an HBS Alumni Angels chapter, which is now recognized as one of Chicago's most active early-stage investors, with a commitment to supporting high-potential entrepreneurial ventures, adds Meyer.”... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Pritzker; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Aug 2001
News

William F. Connell (MBA '63)

in 1968. Connell's prominence as head of one of the country's largest privately held companies has been matched by his involvement in a vast array of civic and philanthropic activities in the Greater Boston... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; William F. Connell (MBA 1963); James O.Dunn; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2021
What Do You Think?

Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?

bleep up.” Nancy Chorpenning joined the above discussion, saying, “That’s a pretty cynical view. If ‘corporations are people,’ do they not have civic responsibilities?” Jon Mertz opined that CEO activism... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 1998
News

HBS Club of Ireland Puts Management Skills to Work

number of influential local and regional business and civic leaders participated in the weekend. "While some people are already involved in cross-border business, we wanted to use the HBS network to help expand business opportunities and... View Details

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Kraft Accelerator

100 private equity investments. Over the past five decades, the Kraft family has been one of New England's most philanthropic families, donating hundreds of millions of dollars in support of local charities, civic affairs, and health... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

Gleason, agents for corporate leadership in the social sector like Jackson, nonprofit executives like Britt, nonprofit board members, or even soup kitchen volunteers, more and more HBS alumni are finding that, as HBS professor James E. Austin puts it, "the boundaries... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, critics of a globalized information and entertainment industry claim that transnational media... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2002
News

Books

proper subjects of moral assessment. In Paine's schema, which likens society to a large civic association, companies can choose to be “dues payers,” “sustaining members,” or “sponsoring members,” but they cannot realistically choose... View Details

08 Mar 2018
News

HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact

Clubs News Clubs News Harvard Business School is in the midst of a year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the African American Student Union (AASU50), with a wide range of events and activities underway to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

Why companies support nonprofits and other socially responsible activities is an intriguing question for both academics and practitioners. After all, there is no clear-cut evidence that corporate "do-gooding" results in greater... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

consider: Where are you in the senior executive life cycle? How much cross-organization collaboration is required? How much time do you spend on activities outside your direct span of control? What's the scope of your role? What's the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?

When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

07 Sep 2021
News

Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

receiving a Social Enterprise Summer Fellowship from HBS in 2021, DeBere received one in 2020, which enabled him to serve as a research intern for OpenUp, a civic technology company based in South Africa that shares Afya Pamoja’s vision... View Details

Keywords: April White

15 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

Publication:In 21st Century Management: A Reference Handbook, 490-499. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2008 Abstract The idea that artists' work can usefully inform business practice has gained support in recent years. Managers have long described some business View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Aug 2019
Blog Post

The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS

in student, staff, and faculty lives. It provides opportunities to go deeper. It can help launch your startup. In particular, the Social Enterprise Initiative is the nexus of activity in thinking about how to apply business skills to have... View Details

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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

Frances Haugen - Civic Integrity Work Mossberg and Spar about Privacy Show Hide Details Concepts Leadership Changes in the Digital Age Awareness: Considerations and Responsibilities at Facebook Judgment: What Should Facebook Do? How... View Details

25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25

field research methods, this paper connects these achievements to bureaucratic norms, unwritten rules within the state that guide the behavior of public officials and structure their relations with civic agencies outside the state.... View Details