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October 2009
Article

A Decision-making Perspective to Negotiation: A Review of the Past and a Look into the Future

By: Chia-Jung Tsay and Max Bazerman

Through the decision-analytic approach to negotiations, the past quarter century has seen the development of a better dialog between the descriptive and the prescriptive, as well as a burgeoning interest in the field for both academics and practitioners. Researchers... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Negotiation; Perspective; Ethics; Emotions; Perception; Relationships; Management Practices and Processes; Training; Behavior

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October 2020 (Revised February 2024)
Case

Divesting Harvard's Endowment

By: Daniel Green, Luis M. Viceira and Holly Fetter

By early 2020 Harvard University was facing growing pressure from students, faculty, and alumni to divest its $40 billion endowment of financial stakes in fossil fuel producers. Its previous policy of avoiding the issue was quickly becoming outdated—$21 trillion of... View Details

Keywords: Divestment; Harvard University; ESG; Higher Education; Investment Portfolio; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

23 Oct 2023
Blog Post

HBS Career Journeys | John Guzek

HBS Career & Professional Development sat down with students to talk about their career journeys. John Guzek (MBA 2023) recounts the origins of his desire to combine social enterprise with entrepreneurship, and how his career coach... View Details

December 1992 (Revised September 1994)
Background Note

Note on Organizational Effectiveness

By: Michael Beer

Discusses what is meant by organizational effectiveness. First, the concept of organizations as social systems is introduced. Second, a model of organization effectiveness is introduced and discussed. View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Performance Efficiency

04 Jul 2012
News

The Female Factor: Diversity, Minus the Tokenism

Video

Nicky Newton-King

Nicky Newton-King, former CEO of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, reflects on South Africa’s social and political environment during her university studies at Stellenbosch University in the mid-1980’s. View Details

Video

Melek El Nimer

Melek El Nimer, founder of the Social Support Society and Unite Lebanon Youth Project in Lebanon, outlines how she developed educational programs and scholarships for Palestinian refugees. View Details

January 2022 (Revised August 2022)
Case

Jackie Robinson: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Max Saffer

This case traces the rise of Jackie Robinson from the poor streets of Pasadena, California to one of the most famous people in America after he overturned the color barrier in baseball. The case describes how as a youth he excelled at basketball, football, baseball,... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Power And Influence; Personal Characteristics; Values And Beliefs; Mission And Purpose; Sports; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Leading Change; Personal Development and Career; United States

Article

In Search of the Hybrid Ideal

By: Julie Battilana, Matthew Lee, John Walker and Cheryl Dorsey

In the first large-scale, quantitative study of nascent social entrepreneurs, researchers from Harvard Business School and Echoing Green examine the rise of hybrid organizations that combine aspects of nonprofits and for-profits and the challenges hybrids face as they... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Organizational Design

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November 2007 (Revised June 2016)
Background Note

Differences at Work: The Individual Experience

By: Sandra J. Sucher

This note presents some basic concepts and findings from social science research that can help you anticipate and manage some of the complexities of differences at work. View Details

Keywords: Demographics

February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
Case

OpenInvest

By: Shawn Cole, Boris Vallée and Nicole Tempest Keller

Founded by a team of hedge fund and NGO alumni, OpenInvest launched its platform in 2015 to enable retail investors to tailor their portfolios to their personal values in an automated way, for instance by screening out weapons manufacturers stocks or overweighting... View Details

Keywords: Fintech; Impact Investing; Investment Portfolio; Customization and Personalization; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Financial Services Industry

2021
Case

Walmart's Blockchain Quest: Integrating New Technology into a Complex Supply Chain

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

Blockchain is a digital, distributed, immutable ledger designed to build trust among parties without requiring an independent, third-party arbitrator or intermediary. The technology has potential to improve a variety of industries, including the complex, fragmented,... View Details

Keywords: Blockchain; Supply Chain Management; Technology Adoption

February 2018 (Revised August 2019)
Case

The Rise Fund: TPG Bets Big on Impact

By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Sarah Mehta

It is March 2017, and TPG, a global alternative investment firm with $74 billion assets under management, has recently launched its inaugural impact-investing fund—the $2 billion Rise Fund. In an effort to “take the religion out of impact investing,” Maya Chorengel,... View Details

Keywords: Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; Equity; Investment; Measurement and Metrics; Financial Services Industry; California; San Francisco

October 2010 (Revised March 2013)
Case

Baxter's Asia Pacific 'Talent Edge' Initiative

By: Jordan Siegel, Mimi Xi and Christopher Poliquin

This case examines whether multinationals have a potential competitive weapon in aggressively exploiting social schisms in host labor markets and in hiring and promoting senior managers from excluded groups. View Details

Keywords: Labor; Selection and Staffing; Groups and Teams

28 Nov 2017
News

Keeping score of ‘friends’ on Facebook and Instagram may be harmful to your health

Teaching

Overview

Michaela teaches management, healthcare and research methods courses across the undergraduate, master and executive levels. Her recent courses include organizational behavior, negotiation, research in health policy, and social entrepreneurship. View Details

06 Nov 2023
Research & Ideas

Did You Hear What I Said? How to Listen Better

to make sure that listeners were really paying attention to the screen, they were given a financial incentive to remember as many commercials as they could. “There’s a lot of social pressure to convey we are listening—we smile and nod,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

August 2011
Supplement

Better World Books Video

By: Michael I. Norton, Fiona Wilson, Jill Avery and Thomas Steenburgh

This video contains an interview with David Murphy, CEO of Better World Books. Topics discussed include: the opportunities and constraints offered by having a social mission, an update on the company, and the future of Better World Books. View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development; Management Teams; Business Model; Social Enterprise; Publishing Industry