Socialism - Publications - Faculty & Research

December 2005 (Revised January 2007)
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Ben & Jerry's: Preserving Mission & Brand within Unilever

In the months after Ben & Jerry's was acquired by Unilever, Ben & Jerry's head social mission faces challenges and opportunities unique in the company's history, including: how to manage employee morale; whether to include synthetic ingredients to meet consumer... View Details

Keywords: Brands and Branding; Problems and Challenges; Mergers and Acquisitions; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Management Teams; Governing and Advisory Boards; Value Creation; Corporate Governance; Employee Relationship Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Retail Industry; United States

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23 Nov 2015
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Gad Allon, Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

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the effects that groups have on individuals. Students in the macro track use sociological methods to examine organizations, groups, and markets as a whole, including topics such as the influence of individuals on organizational change, or the relationship between View Details

Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?

A framework for understanding the roles you can play in a movement for social change.

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7 PM – 9 PM GMT, 15 Apr 2015

HBS London Young Alumni Reception

HBS alumni MBA 2005-2014 are invited to an evening of socializing and networking in London. View Details

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT, 12 Mar 2015

HBS Houston Young Alumni Reception

HBS alumni MBA 2005-2014 are invited to an evening of socializing and networking in Houston. View Details

21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54887 forthcoming Production and Operations Management The Operational Value of Social Media Information By: Cui, Ruomeng, Santiago Gallino, Antonio Moreno, and Dennis J. Zhang... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 Oct 2013
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Built to Last

Keywords: capitalism

21 Feb 2013
HBS Seminar

Barry Wellman, University of Toronto

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Journal of Financial Economics 165 (March 2025). Optimal Illiquidity By: John Beshears , James J. Choi, Christopher Clayton, Christopher Harris, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian We study the socially optimal level of illiquidity in... View Details

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Women's Student Association

Keywords: Affinity

25 Apr 2014
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Robert Goodwin - Making A Difference

09 Jun 2015
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The Transparency Revolution

March 2007 (Revised April 2007)
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McDonald's Corporation: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Jessica Droste Yagan

McDonald's seeks to learn from a successful response to Greenpeace's Amazon deforestation campaign in order to make its supply chain more socially and environmentally responsible. View Details

Keywords: Food; Supply Chain Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Management Systems; Food and Beverage Industry

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Lillete Dubey

Lillete Dubey, Director of India-based Primetime Theatre Company, shares her views on theater as a platform for social issues, contending that effective plays should engage audiences organically rather than deliver overt messages. View Details

16 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Is MySpace.com Your Space?

Social networking sites such as MySpace.com are some of the most trafficked on the Web—MySpace had 46 million unique users in June and features nearly 100 million personal profiles posted by users, many of whom are in their teens and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Information; Publishing

28 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 28

quarters following the buying pressure. These results provide new evidence that firm managers are able to identify and exploit overvalued equity. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1364974 Working PapersCorporate View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Oct 2024
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We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?

doing so may expose a weakness: a lack of self-control that would make others judge them harshly, says Harvard Business School Associate Professor Julian Zlatev in a recent paper published in the Journal of Personality and Social... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Impact Investing

In the last decade, inspired by the success of commercial microfinance, the concept of applying the practice of equity investing to the delivery of high social impact interventions has drawn increasing attention in development circles, business academia and... View Details

21 Sep 2018
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