Social Attachment To Place - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Mar 2021
News

Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia

director, and started small by simply updating the museum’s English-language entry on Wikipedia. That led to conducting strategy, management, and proposal-writing workshops for, among others, the National Museum, the Royal University of... View Details

Keywords: mentorship; nonprofit management; retirement; leadership

17 Apr 2019
News

Give It to Me Straight

direction on caring personally and moving up to radical candor, we move the wrong direction on challenging directly, and we wind up in the worst place of all, manipulative insincerity. This is where the... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

31 Mar 2023
Blog Post

How to Come Out at Work

felt the most affirmed and championed when my team has seen my distinct lived experience as an asset, not just an advertisement opportunity. Social Finance did just that and allowed me to leverage my queer... View Details

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

perceived them to be extremely efficient. At the same time, large work organizations destabilized extended family and community relations: first, by removing individuals from their family and community and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

more than just school buildings, teachers, and textbooks. In much of the developing world, the poor lack faith that changing their lives is possible; few believe in the existence of a social or economic ladder that, with the proper... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

04 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

measurement systems are currently in place and being utilized within the organization? What are the important criteria to the company and its constituencies and stakeholders? What does the company desire... View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

30 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell

companies, and those that do sell generally part with them very reluctantly, given all that selling represents. We sympathize with a family's emotional attachment to its company. But given how fast... View Details

Keywords: by Jonathan Pellegrin; Food & Beverage; Retail

25 Jan 2016
Blog Post

3 Tips on Coming to HBS with a Partner

actual class taking part (but that does not mean they cannot still come to a class or two!). They join in for all social events, join clubs, and participate on our intramural sports teams. A partner in our... View Details

03 Oct 2023
HBS Case

Layoffs Can Be Bad Business: 5 Strategies to Consider Before Cutting Staff

The pattern has become painfully predictable in recent years: As the economy shows signs of a slowdown, companies hand out layoff notices to stabilize profitability and calm investor fears. That cycle seems View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Telecommunications; Technology; Financial Services; Manufacturing

04 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

Chatter, Microsoft's Yammer, and Jive Software's suite of namesake products. The global enterprise social software market is forecast to grow to $8.14 billion in 2019,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services

July 2011 (Revised June 2013)
Case

Foxconn Technology Group (A)

By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim and Beiting Cheng

In 2010, Foxconn Technology Group, the largest and fastest growing multinational company in the Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) industry, came under public scrutiny after a string of employee suicides reached the international press. Although the company was... View Details

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Educators

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11 Oct 2006
What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

Summing Up Dependency ratios are useful as general indicators of future economic and social health. But they must be managed downward on both a micro and macro basis, in the opinion of the majority of respondents View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Dec 2010
News

How to Survive Past Start-up

military members wanted to connect with one another. At the time, there was no central place on the Internet for them to do so. Military.com was born. For Beck, the opportunity... View Details

Keywords: Bill Murphy Jr.; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2009
News

A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

approach not just to insurance and reimbursement, but also to the places where medical services are delivered, the way we use technology, the way pharmaceuticals are developed,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

17 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

Employees are feeling alienated Abdelal and DeLong see all of these phenomena as stemming from a common cause: the rise of contractual relationships with employees in place of emotional investment. “We’ve moved more and more from the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2023
What Do You Think?

How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

by thinking about how it might have changed an important decision, had we had it in place when we made the decision. My experiences in researching and putting a value on an effective culture tell me that if notions concerning deep purpose... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

However, we also heard that restaurateurs remained steadfastly committed to their goal of nurturing and nourishing people, providing a place of succor and community in a strange new world. Our conversations... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

New Paths to Success in Asia

Businesses in the Asia-Pacific region today are caught up in a dizzying swirl of economic, cultural, political, technological, and social change. Enormous opportunities await managers who can harness these power currents View Details

Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

means closeness, and while social distancing remains important to mitigating the spread of COVID-19, psychological proximity—interpersonal trust, alignment on values and strategy, shared understanding of key... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

03 Jun 2009
Working Paper Summaries

It Is Okay for Artists to Make Money…No, Really, It’s Okay

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Lee Devin; Entertainment & Recreation

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