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  • 2004
  • Report

Seeking NGO-Donor Partnership for Greater Effectiveness and Accountability

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
Keywords: Non-Governmental Organizations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Partners and Partnerships; Governance; Performance Effectiveness
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  • 18 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

Seventeen years after the dawn of social media marketing, this medium continues to be an intriguing puzzle—a place where brands are investing more time and money, but are still struggling to determine what works well and where the returns... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology
  • 06 Jul 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity among Professionals

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn & Katherine L. Milkman; Legal Services
  • Research Summary

Social Networks and Unraveling in Labor Markets

This paper develops a model of local unraveling (or early hiring) in entry-level labor markets. Information about workers' productivity is revealed over time and transmitted credibly via a two-sided network connecting firms and workers. While employment starts only... View Details

    Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World

    A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.

    In the first decades after World War II, many newly... View Details
    • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 28 Oct 2015
    • Webinars: Career

    Harnessing Social Media for Thought Leadership, Networking, and Job Searching

    LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Klout, Hootsuite, Blogs #Overwhelmed? The world of social media for business professionals is getting increasingly complex. Sasha Grinshpun, HBS MBA 2002 and founder/ executive coach at sasha360.com, will provide the best-in-class... View Details
    • May 2011 (Revised March 2013)
    • Case

    Marshall & Gordon: Designing an Effective Compensation System (A)

    By: Heidi K. Gardner and Kerry Herman
    CEO Kelly Browne wrestles with the design of a new compensation system to promote the collaboration and cross-selling necessary for supporting her firm's new strategy. Marshall Gordon International, a global public relations (PR) firm, has recently expanded its service... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Customer Relationship Management; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Organizational Culture; Partners and Partnerships; Motivation and Incentives; Alignment; Public Relations Industry
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    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production

    By: Daniel P. Gross
    Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received limited attention as an economic behavior and has historically proven difficult to study. This paper studies the incentive effects of competition on... View Details
    Keywords: Incentives; Tournaments; Radical Vs. Incremental Innovation; Motivation and Incentives; Competition; Creativity; Innovation and Invention
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    • 1 Aug 1983
    • Conference Presentation

    Effects of Motivational Orientation on Creative Writing

    By: Teresa M. Amabile
    Keywords: Creativity; Nonverbal Communication; Motivation and Incentives
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    • July–August 1994
    • Article

    Effective Oversight: A Guide for Nonprofit Directors

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger
    Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Management
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    • September 2002
    • Article

    The Effects of Contracts on Interpersonal Trust

    By: Deepak Malhotra and J. Keith Murnighan
    Keywords: Contracts; Trust
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    • Article

    Effects of Description of Options on Parental Perinatal Decision-Making

    By: Marlyse F. Haward, Leslie K. John, John M. Lorenz and Baruch Fischhoff
    Objective: To examine whether parents' delivery room management decisions for extremely preterm infants are influenced by (a) the degree of detail with which options-comfort care (CC) or intensive care (IC)-are presented or (b) their order of presentation. Methods: 309... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Values and Beliefs; Personal Characteristics; Attitudes; Motivation and Incentives; Family and Family Relationships; Health Care and Treatment
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    • April 2021
    • Teaching Note

    Social Media War 2021: Snap vs. Facebook vs. TikTok

    By: David B. Yoffie and Daniel Fisher
    This teaching note provides analysis and a teaching plan for the Social Media War 2021: Snap vs. Facebook vs. TikTok case. View Details
    Keywords: Strategy Development; Competitor Analysis; Strategy; Network Effects; Competitive Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Social Media
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    • 02 Aug 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

    A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
    • 15 Aug 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Competition and Social Identity in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm

    Keywords: by Takao Kato & Pian Shu
    • 09 Jul 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

    in social initiatives. We propose a research agenda that takes these initiatives, these investments, as a starting point, and not as an ultimate policy objective. We suggest a set of questions that focus on how companies make their View Details
    Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
    • 01 Mar 2014
    • News

    Building Capacity in the Social Sector

    "It's nice to seed growth like this. All I've really done is to start the plant." — Ferdinand Thun (MBA 1960) Looking back over the two-decade history of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), former director Laura Moon says "alumni... View Details
    Keywords: SEI; Educational Services
    • Research Summary

    The New Social Contract: Contractors, Firms, and Agencies

    The emergence of a 'new social contract' linking employees and organizations - perhaps most notable for the absence of a promise of lifelong job security - has been widely remarked. A related trend, less noted but potentially important, has been the emergence of a... View Details
    • Article

    Returnable Reciprocity: Returnable Gifts Are More Effective than Unreturnable Gifts at Promoting Virtuous Behaviors

    By: J.J. Zlatev and Rogers, T.
    Increasing virtuous behaviors, such as initiating healthy habits, is an important goal for policymakers and social scientists. To promote compliance with requests to perform virtuous behaviors, we study “returnable reciprocity.” Whereas traditional reciprocity involves... View Details
    Keywords: Nudges; Reciprocity; Want-should Conflicts; Wellness; Health; Behavior; Change; Well-being
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    • 2009
    • Other Unpublished Work

    When Weak Ties and Social Alternatives Benefit Organizational Commitment: Evidence from Wikipedia

    This study examines the social mechanisms reinforcing participant commitment to collaborative work. Previous literature largely fails to acknowledge the wider context of individual workplace commitments, or suggests that multiple concurrent work and life commitments... View Details
    Keywords: Social and Collaborative Networks
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