Social Enterprise Initiative - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

inside a firm. With effort, some people did develop an innovative vision of what changes would be needed and a smart strategy of how to make those changes. Then, in trying to explain this to others and achieve sufficient buy-in, the View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

25 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better

should for the moment be interpreted as suggestive correlations rather than firm causality statements. Even so, encouraged by the results of the initial study, the group is planning to continue along this line of research by expanding the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

environment conditions. Both are most strongly associated with stronger economic outcomes, with lower impact on other dimensions of the New Growth Path. The third section creates a new dataset of cluster initiative intensity at the... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

distinct challenges of leading larger, more dispersed teams Develop strategies for planning and engineering organizational change and innovation initiatives Shape your organizational culture and architecture to maximize talent, leverage... View Details

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Research - Health Care

organizations should... October 2024 Article Greater Covid-19 Vaccine Uptake among enrollees Offered Health and Social Needs Case Management: Results from a Randomized Trial By: Margae Knox, Elizabeth A. Hernandez, Daniel M. Brown,... View Details

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CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

thinking. Profits involving a social purpose represent a higher form of capitalism—one that will enable society to advance more rapidly while allowing companies to grow even more. The result is a positive cycle of company and community... View Details

17 Nov 2015
Blog Post

What is HBS START Week?

whom they will spend the rest of the year; it’s an exciting day! Initial cases are led by FIELD faculty and are designed to ease students into the structure of a case discussion. Socially, the SA and the START Ambassadors lead a series... View Details

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Wyss House | About

development of environmental management cases and supported the School’s social enterprise efforts, establishing the Hansjörg Wyss Visiting Scholars Fund in 2003. In 2007, he received the School’s highest... View Details

October 2022
Case

Cost Plus Drugs

By: Alexander MacKay and James Barnett

In September 2022, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Company CEO Alex Oshmyansky considered the future of the company. Cost Plus Drugs was a retailer for more than 340 generic oral medications, selling their drugs at significantly lower prices than typical pharmacies.... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Health; Markets; Social Enterprise; Society; Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Business Divisions; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Texas

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Non-Adherence in Health Care: A Positive and Normative Analysis

By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson

Non-adherence in health care results when a patient does not initiate or continue care that a provider has recommended. Previous research identifies non-adherence as a major source of waste in US health care, totaling approximately 2.3% of GDP, and have proposed a... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Behavior; Economics; Analysis; Mathematical Methods

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02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

1932. A typical property bought in 1920 would have retained only 56% of its initial value in nominal terms two decades later. An investment in the stock market index (including dividends) would have outperformed an investment in a typical... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Apply frameworks, tools, and goal-setting and tracking exercises to your own strategic initiatives Evaluate and elevate your team’s management of the core tensions of strategy execution, including how... View Details

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

Applied Corporate Finance Investors as Stewards of the Commons? By: Serafeim, George Abstract—Over the past few years, there has been a significant increase in the number of initiatives seeking to mobilize investor voice towards positive... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Peggy Mativo-Ochola

business skills to social programs Peggy came to HBS with "an awareness that some of the challenges in education can’t be solved by teaching alone; we have a lack of resources that could be alleviated by business." Personally,... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Sustainability, Environment and Climate category for the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s “ Climate Rising Podcast ” with Kate Zerrenner and Craig McDonald. Michael W. Toffel : Winner of the 2023 Case Centre Award in the Ethics and View Details

12 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Trying Out New Career Options with SIPs (Short Intensive Programs)

Rising” will offer big picture understandings of the continent, and the ways in which its past informs the present. Effective Strategic Philanthropy Faculty: Brian Trelstad Non-profit organizations and social View Details

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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade

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

21 Nov 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values

basically the manifesto that she uses to create this ethos within Stella McCartney. A: Yes. I think she does not communicate her initiatives as much as we would have thought. First of all, it was interesting to see in class that many... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Fashion

05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5

that communities play an underappreciated role in organizational theory—critical not only to occupational identity, knowledge transfer, sense-making, social support, innovation, problem-solving, and collective action but, enabled by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

the lives of most White people much worse. Take single-family zoning. Legislating that only single-family homes of a certain size can be built together was a radical experiment that initially aimed to separate Black home buyers from White... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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