Social Enterprise Institute - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

Additionally, labor quality and the structure of demand and a long tradition of work in organizational behavior suggests that the successful adoption of productivity enhancing managerial practices requires complementary changes in the firm's "culture" or in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

can anyone garner from a 40-cent fee that customers pay once a week, if that? "Students first take a look at M-PESA and think, 'This is CSR [corporate social responsibility]! Where's the double bottom-line?" Rangan says. “Why... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

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Brian Kenny | About

and implementation of the School’s marketing, communications and public relations efforts around the world. Working with the Dean’s executive team and HBS faculty, Brian oversees the alignment of branding, marketing, and media relations efforts across the HBS View Details

23 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

liberating, creatively and personally. “We had this charismatic appeal, this raw authenticity, but we didn’t have the cultural or social capital to access those worlds and people weren’t exactly excited about opening the doors for us, for... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

theorized to be 1) normative or value-laden, 2) progressing in bursts of change over time, 3) socially constructed and culturally embedded, and 4) associated with logics that shape practices. We develop a framework, outlining the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

performance. The Balanced Scorecard approach has evolved into a tool that can be used to help companies create greater value at the business unit level, the corporate level, and the board level. This is done through three Balanced Scorecards that are linked and work... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

01 Sep 2021
News

Harvard Business School Announces 2021 Goldsmith Fellows

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

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Research Design - Impact Investments

firms. Focus Area 1 The first focus area for the project is specifying the universe of impact investors and their portfolio companies. We define impact investors to be investors with the explicit dual objective of generating social good... View Details

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

Are brand management issues faced by a powerful for-profit company such as Toyota the same as those navigated by an international non-government organization (NGO) such as the Red Cross? Yes and no. In their new book, The New Global Brands: Managing Non-Government... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

focused on a single industry or country and has not accounted for possible variation across social contexts. This paper advances an institutional framework and predicts that gender diversity’s effect on... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2023
News

Bridging the ESG Data Gap

entrepreneurs-in-residence. Murday was at the i-lab the day Harvard’s campus-wide COVID-19 shutdown was announced. “That was a curveball,” she notes, but adds that the Harvard Innovation Labs moved quickly to set up virtual resources. She credits Rebekah Emanuel (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Building Entrepreneurial Organizations - Health Care

Harvard Life Lab Rock Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (students) New Venture Competition The New Venture Competition is an annual student and alumni competition sponsored by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and the Social View Details

16 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

period 1999 to 2007, the results are even more striking: These companies delivered shareholder returns of over 130 percent while the S&P delivered 0.6 percent. They grew their sales 233 percent while the S&P 500 has grown just 10 percent. Q: What are some of... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products

27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27

generations to come. Publisher's Link: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9261.html The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Publication:Best Paper Proceedings... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2023
News

Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

Rumi, the company has grown into a successful for-profit social enterprise that ships spices directly from farmers in Afghanistan to a certification plant in Turkey, then to their Chicago office for... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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

01 Aug 1998
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Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

activities have been prominent, coexistent themes for many years. In addition to her official duties as spouse of the UNC president, for example, Meredith Spangler served as a trustee at several institutions of higher learning, including... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

24 Apr 2023
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Build as Much Buzz as Booze? Inside the Epic Challenge of Cannabis-Infused Drinks

while working as consultants at Bain & Company in 2018. Alcohol alternative with a social mission Considered one of the first cannabis beverage firms, Cann has sold more than 10 million cans of low-calorie flavored seltzer infused... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

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