Social Effects - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

instruments (including price-setting) to implement desired outcomes. Non-price instruments were very much at the core of MSP strategies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-061.pdf Platform Competition, Compatibility, and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

iPhoto COVID-19 is having a devastating effect on the emotional, psychological, and social well-being (as well as the physical health) of people around the world. Risk factors for addiction, mental illness,... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

friends and acquaintances and reconnect with faces from the past. First college students, then Millennials, and soon after, their parents and grandparents were drawn in by the allure of this pioneering social network that View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

30 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

African government take a stand against an effective AIDS treatment drug? The inability of government to make wise tradeoffs—give up small losses for much larger gain—has been investigated by HBS professor Max Bazerman and his research... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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Strategy and Technology - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Strategy and Technology Course Number 1286 Professor David Yoffie Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Paper/Project Associate Professor Andy Wu Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Paper/Project Overview This course explores the unique aspects of... View Details

02 May 2005
What Do You Think?

Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?

the high cost of replacing iPod batteries (since corrected). The newsgroups, discussion boards, and blogs may contain the seeds of ideas and notions about cutting-edge behaviors suggestive of everything from future business opportunities to View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

It’s India Above China in New World Order

is taking tangible but slow steps towards embracing private entrepreneurship, a big departure from the past. India is continuing to struggle with making things easier for multinationals. So the differences are arguably narrowing; but our view is that the first-order... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Peeling Back the Global Brand

served no purpose at all beyond cosmetic appeal. Yet, silly as it seemed, the effect was real in terms of consumer preferences, he said. We talked about brand more and more as a hierarchy of persuasive elements.— Hans-Willi Schroiff... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

02 May 2016
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Samsung Global Strategy Group

We have even brought an HBS alumnus who previously worked at GSG Korea before transferring to the New York office to our company presentation as a way to effectively show students that GSG could be the right fit. We also add a personal... View Details

Keywords: Technology

18 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows

and CEO of KiraGen Bio, a biotech company that utilizes machine learning-driven multiplex gene editing to engineer CAR-T cells that can resist the immunosuppressive effects of solid tumor microenvironments. With extensive experience in... View Details

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Marco Crespo

international students just aren’t used to raising our hands in a big classroom. Now, I’m much more confident having deep conversations in a different language. Beyond that, I’ve learned to effectively disagree.” The general management... View Details

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Kelly Carson

Project Bridge, and with a for-profit, LifeBound, a publishing and coaching company that teaches study skills, made her "more interested in business in general and nonprofits specifically. I wanted knowledge and skills that would make me a more View Details

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Educating Leaders - 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 Networked Business Research... View Details

28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

firms in our sample, making it difficult to control for these effects across economies. Practical implications—Government involvement in state-owned enterprises may be contributing to a divergence in the pattern of business... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

behavioral research from CEOs, policymakers, and high-stakes decision makers." —Francesca Gino "It's always been obvious to social scientists and business scholars that there are lots of things that you can't learn in the laboratory, but... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

Publications August 2013 California Management Review What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan Abstract—Organizations with View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Scott Wu

and make the government’s international outreach efforts—from agriculture and education to health care—more effective and scalable. Wu describes the work at USAID as “essentially a two-and-a-half year-old venture capital fund housed in... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Technology

01 Dec 2006
News

Enron’s Legacy

for corporate boards. The yes answer reflects the fact that many productive aspects of corporate governance and control that have proven effective in the private-equity industry were noticeably absent at Enron. If Enron’s board (which was... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Enron; Finance

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

decade I believe the research agenda at business schools will be driven by the desire to apply management principles to addressing complex social problems (like balancing energy security with environmental sustainability), whose solutions... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016

of social science and intellectual history more generally. In this book, some of the world’s leading economists and experts on Serra explore the enduring appeal of his Short Treatise. The authors analyse the work in its historical,... View Details