Social Worth Affirmation - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Sep 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems

think a little outside the box. Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager? Few of us want to take less money to move to another organization, but research shows that hooking up with the right manager—whether in sports or... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Jan 2014
News

The Power to Change

technology that will take a long time to develop, the financing challenges that come with that, and a firmly established market status quo. The risks, he says, are worth it. "When people feel like they are part of a grand cause, they stay... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Business and Environment Initiative; Scientific Research and Development Services

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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

commercial images as art and offered a prestigious social milieu that brought together photographers, executives, art directors, and socialites. In New York, the mission of the Art Center, a federation of seven societies including the... View Details

07 Nov 2005
What Do You Think?

Is Less Becoming More?

Typical of comments regarding the issue of choice were those by Mehmet Genc, who said, "As choice increases, search costs increase . . . [and] it takes longer to make a decision. At the same time, due to social changes, we have even... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consumer Products

10 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Because ideas move the world, and I wanted to move the world. I have a PhD in sociology, with a focus on social psychology and organizational behavior. Being a thought leader is a form of leadership, and I'm... View Details

Keywords: by Robin J. Ely

06 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?

With China hosting the Summer Olympic Games starting this week, some reformers see an opportunity to use the world stage as a platform to pressure the country's leadership into expanding social freedoms. Judging by recent news, they don't... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

by consulting company Accenture, Soltes argues that such codes can be worth quite a lot to companies—but only if they go beyond generic platitudes to create a tool that employees can actually use. Author of the book Why They Do It: Inside... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

underutilize these functions," Gulati says. "For years there have been arguments regarding whether they should be centralized or decentralized, but the larger issue is, how do you leverage these people to maximize their impact?" Proving Their View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

cost-benefit approach is proposed to analyze an individual’s incentives to produce speech and is then applied to assess the role social communities play vis-à-vis individual dissent. This analysis underscores the important and complex... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising

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

25 May 2021
Blog Post

The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work

emotional states. Critically, it tends to follow a redemptive sequence in which negative feelings such as longing and loss give way to positive feelings such as happiness, social connectedness, gratitude, and hope. In other words,... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

12 Jan 2015
News

Good Investments

visits often require bus fare—while the Barared booths can be accessed on weekends and off-hours. And customers feel safe topping up their mobile phones here, says Reyes. They tell her that other companies take their money but fail to deliver the credits. Learn More... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; impact investing; ideas; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

21 Dec 2021
Blog Post

From Teach for America – to HBS – and Back Again

that HBS was a residential school. I spoke to students at business schools in NYC and they griped about not having the opportunity to get to know their classmates well because everyone seemed to have other competing social networks. One... View Details

14 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors

King. "It makes you wonder whether all the attention that gets paid to a local dry cleaner is worth it. Now of course, there are other factors that weigh in: for instance, whether a dry cleaner is in a highly populated area."... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing; Chemical

01 Jun 2011
News

America the Unequal

poor Americans to live beyond their means, masking their lack of wealth by increasing their debt. We might think that people who have “zero net worth” have nothing. But in fact, having zero net worth increasingly means owning a lot (cars,... View Details

Keywords: income disparity; class mobility

03 Jan 2008
What Do You Think?

Does Judgment Trump Experience?

judgment calls, framing and naming the judgment call, and mobilizing and aligning the right people to carry it out), making the judgment call, making execution happen, and learning and continuously adjusting after the call is made. Good leaders use knowledge of self as... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

16 Jul 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Obamacare

professional insurance brokers—leaving the sign-up work to recently recruited navigators who were inexperienced non-profit health and social workers and community activists. AHCT realized that, to make it View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

02 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

what about social responsibility?" In summary, there seems to be a strong feeling here that if creative destruction is what it takes to outperform the market over long periods of time—the objective measure used for the study—it may... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

week in advance of delivery. Looking to determine how personal decisions made for tomorrow differ from decisions made for several days from now, researchers from Harvard Business School and the Analyst Institute evaluated a year's worth... View Details