Social Worth Affirmation - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

28 May 2019
News

INK: Maker’s Manual

worth the resources they might require and the money we might spend and the time we devote to using them. You write that being an entrepreneur is more about tenacity than intellect. Was that something you always knew you had? I knew I had... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

18 Jun 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Why Leaders Need Great Books

year, will eventually earn them a decent funeral by the time they die. The problem, though, is that if they miss even two weeks' worth of payments, they forfeit everything they've contributed to date. Big Demand According to Joseph L.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2003
News

New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO

(MBA ’91), and Alex Gutierrez (MBA ’99). Photo courtesy Nan Coulter The HBS Club of Dallas held its third annual Crimson Charity Gala on May 17 and raised over $30,000 for Dallas Reads, the leading adult literacy program in North Texas. “The gala is a fun excuse to get... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2011
News

Water for Life

has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial success with View Details

Keywords: Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

03 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 3

well) to the thoughtful adoption of social media technology. And they offer guidance on how to balance the benefits of open-ended talk with the realities of strategic execution. Drawing on the experience of leaders at diverse companies... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2009
News

Building Your Own Dream Team

This era of social networking would surely have been invented by Keith Ferrazzi (MBA ’92) had it not sprouted on its own. Ferrazzi is well known as a professional networker in the best (or worst, depending on whom you’re talking to) HBS... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2010
News

This Is What I Do

preserved, Bailey believes, because it is the right thing to do. And done right, it will be transformational. “Ultimately the tourist is the agent of change,” says Bailey. “When a tourist decides that a sustainability-enhanced experience is unique and View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

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

07 Jul 2015
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

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

investigates dialog and objects in recurrent social practices. Drawing from both streams, this paper seeks to shed light on the complexity of cross-boundary teaming, while highlighting factors that may enhance its effectiveness. We... View Details

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

04 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 4

worth is easily recognized. Together, these results suggest that price primacy highlights considerations of product worth and can thereby influence purchasing. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

Web

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

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

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

21 Dec 2021
Blog Post

Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising