Socialization - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 May 2021
Blog Post

Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast

Rebekah Emanuel (MBA 2015), Director of Social Entrepreneurship for the Harvard Innovation Labs (i-Lab) and host of the third season of the BEI’s Climate Rising podcast, reflects on the role of entrepreneurship in confronting climate... View Details

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Kristin Brennan

a major turning point, big decision or dilemma, and can be particularly helpful finding language to approach difficult conversations. Kristin often works with students and alumni who are figuring out how social impact will play into their... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise

10 Jul 2023
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

generally refers to spiritual dryness, or profound loneliness and doubt. The best social science indicates that across the globe, our communities are becoming lonelier and less fulfilled. John of the Cross teaches how to find deep meaning... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 May 2023
Video

Rae Johnson presents "Embodied Activism: Cultivating 'Somatic Bandwidth' for Rage and Love"

29 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

Documenting the actual levels of inequality within and across countries is generally considered a critical input to the design of economic and social policy (7–10); we suggest that assessing laypeople’s understanding of those levels, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2019 (Revised March 2023)
Case

Rand Fishkin at Moz (A)

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann

In 2016, senior management at Moz, a venture capital–backed startup providing software tools for digital marketing professionals, must decide how to address a looming cash flow crisis precipitated by failed efforts to broaden its product line. Seattle-based Moz had... View Details

Keywords: Startups; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Failure; Business Startups; Diversification; Growth Management; Technology Industry

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24 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 24

definition of profit by changing accounting rules. On one level, this corporate behavior embodies the capitalist spirit articulated by Milton Friedman: "The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits." But the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EDT, 18 May 2021
Virtual Programming

Books@Baker: Mitchell Weiss

Is government too big, too slow, and too mired in bureaucracy to tackle climate change, crumbling infrastructure, and other tough social problems? Join HBS professor Mitchell Weiss as he talks about these and other ideas from his new book, We the Possibility:... View Details

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

now—at the dawn of the twenty-first century—it is hard to conceive of any more important or pervasive governmental function. The federal government now devotes a larger part of its budget to social insurance (such as unemployment and... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

15 Jul 2021
News

On Twitter, Bad News Spreads Faster Than Good

28 Feb 2011
News

Make money and do good is the new corporate buzz

18 Mar 2019
News

Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

22 Feb 2019
News

The Right and Wrong Way to Do ‘CEO Activism’

26 Jan 2018
News

Les entreprises doivent s’engager dans une transformation profonde

04 Feb 2020
Video

Adi Godrej

Adi Godrej, Chair of the India-based Godrej Group, discusses the role of business and the importance of firms’ engaging in socially responsible projects. He discusses his company’s involvement in educational... View Details

Fall 2012
Article

Enacting Our Field

By: Alnoor Ebrahim

This keynote address, delivered to the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council at its 25-year "benchmark" conference, examines the pedagogical challenges facing the field of nonprofit management in American higher education. It interrogates four binary distinctions commonly... View Details

Keywords: Conferences; Higher Education; Teaching; Social Issues; Innovation and Invention; Programs; Management; Nonprofit Organizations

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February 2022 (Revised October 2022)
Case

Ample Hills Creamery

By: Tom Eisenmann, Lindsay N. Hyde and Tom Quinn

Ample Hills Creamery started in 2010 as a temporary ice cream pushcart in Brooklyn, New York City. On the strength of inventive flavors and clever marketing, husband-and-wife founders Brian Smith and Jackie Cuscuna built a premium, artisanal dessert empire of 16 retail... View Details

Keywords: Brands and Branding; Business Growth and Maturation; Partners and Partnerships; Logistics; Profit; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Food and Beverage Industry

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January 2014
Teaching Note

Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Malone

The case includes law, business, and public health perspectives on an African American leader's social entrepreneurship and leadership in other social movements. Later in his life, Dr. Benjamin Hooks championed the eradication of lead poisoning. Prior to that Hooks... View Details

Keywords: Leading Change; Health Disorders; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; United States

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June 2023
Supplement

Clash of Two Giants Simulation Exercise

By: Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti

Many markets are organized around platforms that connect consumers with complementary applications and services. These platforms are two-sided because both sides - consumers and those providing applications or services - need access to the same platform to interact. A... View Details

Keywords: Customer Acquisition; Platform Strategy; Technology Platform; Digital Platforms; Competitive Strategy; Network Effects

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