Social Impact Bonds - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jun 2014
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How to Win the Argument with Milton Friedman

Keywords: Milton Friedman; shareholder value; community

12 Jan 2004
What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

in markets for labor fueled by dramatic improvements in communication. Those with a global, macro economic view tended to regard these developments as long overdue. Those concerned about the psychological and social View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Naina Lal Kidwai

Keywords: Financial Services, Banking, Sanitation

01 Sep 2007
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Got Global?

differences, their shared experience at Soldiers Field created a common bond that helped increase trust and respect, which led to the desired de-escalation of tensions. In Shirazi’s view, this kind of global View Details

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

01 Dec 2016
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Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?

(Illustration by Edmon de Haro) (Illustration by Edmon de Haro) When Michael Faye (PhDBE 2009) and his cofounders—including Harvard grad students Paul Niehaus and Rohit Wanchoo—first proposed the model for GiveDirectly in 2008, it was radical: The nonprofit would... View Details

Keywords: April White

November 7, 2023
Article

How Courage Can Help Leaders Stay the Course

By: Ranjay Gulati

Keywords: Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Profit; Food and Beverage Industry

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January 2022
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VidyaGyan: Bridging the Rural Urban Divide

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Rachna Chawla, Kairavi Dey and Anjali Raina

Set up in 2008, VidyaGyan was a residential school for children in grades 6-12 from low-income rural families in Uttar Pradesh in northern India. It was the brainchild of Shiv Nadar and Cabinet Secretary T.S.R. Subramanian, who recognized the enormous potential hidden... View Details

Keywords: Non-profit; Education; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Wealth and Poverty; Demographics; Equality and Inequality; Performance Evaluation; Opportunities; Education Industry; South Asia; India

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30 Mar 2015
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Leveraging the power of yes

programs as well as its efforts to distill and disseminate best practices by understanding the true social impact of investing in early-stage companies that provide affordable access to agricultural inputs,... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness

AW: There’s a lot of interesting research that shows that hourly wage workers think about their time differently than salaried employees. When you take the resource of time—which typically links you to things you care about such as View Details

Keywords: April White

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Laura Sophie Wegner | MBA

solve social issues with technological solutions will make many of us cohort members life-long friends, and potentially even co-founders, who support each other beyond the fellowship. Tech areas of interest: Healthcare Technologies,... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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New Releases

feedback on progress toward those goals. Creativity in Context by Teresa M. Amabile (Westview Press) This update of HBS professor Teresa Amabile's classic 1983 book, The Social Psychology of Creativity, includes extensive new theoretical... View Details

01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

both communities and businesses in the coming decades, HBS professors are making a significant contribution to the urban recovery movement. Building Sustainable Communities Many approaches to revitalizing the inner city have focused on the View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

07 Jul 2016
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Creating a Viable Future in Rural Africa

Louise Fenn Ruhr (MBA 1977) is helping empower poor and displaced communities in the developing world—particularly women—cope with the impact of climate change through sustainable food, water, energy, and income-generation programs. As... View Details

12 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

for work, entertainment, and shopping. As hubs proliferate and expand their reach, the danger is that they will exacerbate economic inequality and threaten social stability. It is thus incumbent on all stakeholders—traditional companies,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

neighborhoods. “It’s almost like a social movement,” says Raffaelli, who says indie bookstores are “anchors of authenticity in an ever-increasing digital and disconnected world.” The notion goes beyond a View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

25 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

the COVID-19 pandemic approaches its third exhausting year. Validating someone’s feelings can be as simple as pausing during the day to say, “You seem anxious,” says Zlatev, a professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at HBS. "YOU'RE SHOWING THAT... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

05 Apr 2018
Cold Call Podcast

How a Coal Polluter Became a Renewable Energy Leader

Keywords: Energy

30 Jan 2017
Working Paper Summaries

The Environmental Legacies of The North Face's Doug Tompkins and Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Ben Gettinger; Apparel & Accessories; Retail

17 Apr 2019
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Two Alumnae Among Time’s Most Influential of 2019

Alumnae Jennifer Hyman (MBA 2009) and Aileen Lee (MBA 1997) were selected for the Time 100—the magazine’s annual list of most influential people. Jennifer Hyman (photo by George Etheredge) Jennifer Hyman (photo by George Etheredge) Hyman is the cofounder and CEO of... View Details

04 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 4

nonfinancial information that has not yet been provided. Globalization and Beauty: A Historical and Firm Perspective Author:G. Jones Publication:EurAmerica 41, no. 4 (December 2011) Abstract This paper uses the beauty industry to explore the View Details