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  • 02 Feb 2021
  • Working Paper Summaries

Nonprofits in Good Times and Bad Times

Keywords: by Christine L. Exley, Nils H. Lehr, and Stephen J. Terry
  • 17 Jun 2011
  • HBS Case

KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

to take the best ideas from the US fast-food model and adapt them to serve the needs of the Chinese consumer." Initially this involved hiring the right people. For Su this meant Chinese managers who read and spoke the language, who... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage
  • 24 Jul 2017
  • Research & Ideas

People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things

Credit:  Martin Barraud Here’s a tip for persuading people to finish more tasks, buy more products, or donate more money: Simply present assignments, requests, or items as arbitrary sets, rather than as individual units. New research reveals that people are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

New Books Executive Education HBS Alumni Bulletin HBS News HBS Working Knowledge MBA Admissions Harvard Business School Alumni Business & Environment Executive Education MBA Recruiting Rock Center: Entrepreneurship Social View Details
  • 28 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

"In some sense people in these societies are running faster than their rules and laws can keep up. So they are creating the rules as they go along. And entrepreneurship is, after all, doing things in new ways, ahead of social norms... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Web

Strategy for Universities & Nonprofits - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the Value Chain The Goals of Social Organizations The fundamental purpose of a social enterprise is societal value creation Value = Societal Outcomes Achieved Cost of... View Details
  • 06 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Four Strategies for Making Concessions

Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie's book A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations: An Analysis of a Social Interaction System (ILR Press, 1991). The head of a manufacturing firm was preparing to View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
  • 31 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

annual salary offer of $115,000 is unfair on its own. They might be perfectly happy with that salary if it weren't for the information that it's below average." And it's not just a matter of money. In several studies of social comparison... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Educator Resources - Race, Gender & Equity

materials. Managing Differences: Social Diversity & Effective Work Harvard Business Publishing The materials in this collection offer students concepts and applications towards becoming equity-focused managers. Course Explorer Harvard... View Details
  • Web

Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education HBS Alumni Bulletin HBS News HBS Working Knowledge MBA Admissions Harvard Business School Alumni Business & Environment Executive Education MBA Recruiting Rock Center: Entrepreneurship Social View Details
  • Summer 2016
  • Article

Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View

By: Shane Greenstein and Feng Zhu
The diffusion of the Internet and digital technologies has enabled many organizations to use the open-content production model to produce and disseminate knowledge. While several prior studies have shown that the open-content production model can lead to high-quality... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Internet and the Web; Balance and Stability; Operations; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Dissemination
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  • August 2019 (Revised April 2021)
  • Case

Unifying Divisions: Joro's Mission to Preserve the Planet

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Marilyn Morgan Westner
The case focuses on the initial startup team and Founders’ agreements. In March 2018, Sanchali Pal proposed renegotiating the informal founders’ agreement and equity split she and her co-founders had drafted the previous spring. They had been working together for over... View Details
Keywords: Founders' Agreements; Business Startups; Climate Change; Agreements and Arrangements; Conflict Management
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  • 16 Apr 2019
  • Blog Post

How Being an Introvert Influenced My Business School Experience

I was lucky to be supported by the HBS Social Enterprise Summer Fellowship, without which I likely would not have taken the leap. My decision to pursue entrepreneurship, often referred to as a lonely path,... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

participants who read the professional networking story gave much higher ratings to the cleansing products than those who imagined the friendly party. The neutral products received similar ratings across the board. The Effect On Job Performance Having proven their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Nov 2023
  • News

A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway

Clubs News Clubs News Southern California Holiday Gala Will Boost Scholarship Fund After a brief hiatus due to the pandemic, the HBS Association of Southern California (HBSASC) is once again hosting its annual Holiday Benefit Gala on December 9 to support the HBSASC... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • August 2023 (Revised October 2024)
  • Case

Plug Power (A)

By: Jonas Heese, Joseph Pacelli and James Barnett
Set immediately after a December 2019 short-seller attack, the case explores Plug Power’s long challenging history. It then focuses on two key issues raised in the short-seller report related to lease accounting and stock warrants that Plug purportedly used to boost... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Environmental Accounting; Financial Reporting; Ethics; Management; Social Enterprise; Investment; Stocks; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States; Europe
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  • March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
  • Case

OneTen at Delta Air Lines: Catalyzing Family-Sustaining Careers for Black Talent (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
It was December 10, 2020, and Ed Bastian, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Delta Air Lines (Delta), had just finished a meeting with Joanne Smith, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer, and Keyra Lynn Johnson, the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer.... View Details
Keywords: Recruitment; Training; Race; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Job Design and Levels; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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  • April 2009
  • Case

Invest Early: Early Childhood Development in a Rural Community

By: Stacey M. Childress and Geoff Eckman Marietta
Invest Early was an early childhood development partnership in rural northern Minnesota between 14 different organizations, which worked together through an advisory board, governing board, and leadership team in order to deliver coordinated early childhood services to... View Details
Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Rural Scope; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Community Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Action Plan: Wild at Heart

At first glance, Heather Evans (MBA 1983) might not seem the likeliest candidate for a career in ecological landscaping. A former chief marketing officer and “true urbanist” (“to the extent I used to hate visiting people in the country!”), Evans spent most of her life... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; gardening; entrepreneurship; sustainability
  • 20 Oct 2023
  • News

Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

fees to students with the greatest financial need—roughly 10 percent of the student body. In the past year, Kierstead noted that two courses were introduced into the RC curriculum: Social Purpose of the Firm, which examines the role of... View Details