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  • 29 Oct 2015
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Social Progress: The Next Development Agenda

By: Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
How do we measure development? The Social Progress Index was launched in 2013 as a holistic approach to benchmarking countries' social performance, independent of economic measures. SPI has been widely taken up on a global basis in evaluating national performance, and... View Details
Keywords: Economic Development; Development Economics; Society; United States
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Porter, Michael E., and Scott Stern. "Social Progress: The Next Development Agenda." DEC Lecture Series Series, World Bank, Economic Development Institute, Washington, D.C., United States, October 29, 2015.
  • 03 Jul 2008
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The Future of Social Enterprise

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan, Herman B. Leonard & Susan McDonald

    Acquirer-Target Social Ties and Merger Outcomes

    This paper investigates the effect of social ties between acquirers and targets on merger performance.  We find that the extent of cross-firm social connection between directors and senior executives at the acquiring and the target firms has a significantly negative... View Details
    • June 2024
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    The Monitoring Role of Social Media

    By: Jonas Heese and Joseph Pacelli
    In this study, we examine whether social media activity can reduce corporate misconduct. We use the staggered introduction of 3G mobile broadband access across the United States to identify exogenous increases in social media activity and test whether access to 3G... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Twitter; Corporate Accountability; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Social and Collaborative Networks
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    Heese, Jonas, and Joseph Pacelli. "The Monitoring Role of Social Media." Review of Accounting Studies 29, no. 2 (June 2024): 1666–1706.
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    Driving Social Change | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    Driving Social Change Background I’ve always been interested in public sector issues and what we call “institutional change,” especially change that breaks with the accepted norms. I studied the English National Health Service, focusing... View Details
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    Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    Meaningful progress on complex social issues depends in part on the entrepreneurial ideas and energy of the next generation. In recent years, we have seen a sustained increase in HBS students launching View Details
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    Improving social value through health care

    • November 2020 (Revised March 2022)
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    Social Salary Setting at Spiber

    By: Ashley Whillans and John Beshears
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 920-050. The case tells the story of Spiber, a Japanese technology start-up company. To reflect the company’s values, the leadership team implemented a new and unique salary-setting process: each employee had the authority to choose their... View Details
    Keywords: Compensation; General Management; Employee Benefits; Incentives; Motivation; Compensation and Benefits; Fairness; Motivation and Incentives; Management; Happiness; Negotiation; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Japan
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    Whillans, Ashley, and John Beshears. "Social Salary Setting at Spiber." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 921-014, November 2020. (Revised March 2022.)
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    2012 Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship: Honorable Mention

    • 2011
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    Corporate Social Responsibility in Indian Public Sector Organisations: A Case Study of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.

    By: Shashank Shah, Shashank Shah, Sudhir Bhaskar and A. Sudir Bhaskar
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Public Sector; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Energy Industry; India
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    Shah, Shashank, and A. Sudir Bhaskar. "Corporate Social Responsibility in Indian Public Sector Organisations: A Case Study of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd." 2011.
    • April 14, 2015
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    The Type of Socially Responsible Investments That Make Firms More Profitable

    By: George Serafeim
    Keywords: Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Sustainability; Investing; Investment Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Profit; Investment; Environmental Sustainability
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    Serafeim, George. "The Type of Socially Responsible Investments That Make Firms More Profitable." Harvard Business Review (website) (April 14, 2015).
    • 24 Apr 2014
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    A social enterprise visionary

    Believing that there was a pressing need for management education that would prepare leaders for the nonprofit sector, the late Wall Street executive John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947, LLD 1995) inspired and supported the creation of the Social... View Details
    • Fall 2014
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    Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing

    By: Matthew Weinzierl
    The price indexation of Social Security benefit payments has emerged in recent years as a flashpoint of debate in the United States. I characterize the direct effects that changes in that price index would have on retirees who differ in their initial wealth at... View Details
    Keywords: Retirement; Compensation and Benefits; United States
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    Weinzierl, Matthew. "Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Fall 2014): 137–196.
    • 02 Jun 2014
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    Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy

    Why are people so drawn to social media? The question long haunted Mikolaj "Misiek" Piskorski and eventually led to his new book, A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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    Advancing Social Enterprise | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    Advancing Social Enterprise Background I graduated from Harvard College in 1990. I was the first college recruiter at Teach for America with Wendy Kopp and I got to know the people who were starting up the View Details
    • 23 Dec 2010
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    How Social Networking Has Changed Business

    • November 2014 (Revised May 2017)
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    Fresno's Social Impact Bond for Asthma

    By: John A. Quelch
    The case desccribes a social impact bond (SIB) to fund home-based remediation programs designed to reduce asthma attacks among Fresno residents (especially children) and thereby save on health care costs (ambulance callouts, emergency room visits etc.). The case... View Details
    Keywords: Programs; Social Issues; Investment Return; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; California
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    Quelch, John A. "Fresno's Social Impact Bond for Asthma." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 515-031, November 2014. (Revised May 2017.)
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    Social media and user-generated content

    In this project, Professor Piskorski, jointly with Andreea Gorbatai, examines inherent trade-offs in provision of user-generated content, using Wikipedia as a research setting. In Wikipedia, every user has the right to add material to an article, but with no... View Details

    • 14 May 2019
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    25 Years of Social Enterprise at HBS

    • 01 Jun 2009
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    Social Innovation Goes Mainstream

    Ten years ago, social enterprise pioneer Linda Rottenberg wasn’t taken seriously when she pitched established foundations to fund her upstart organization, Endeavor, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting high-impact entrepreneurs in... View Details
    Keywords: Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance
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