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- 08 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
but their passive investment nature offers few checks on those companies’ executives. Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds As investors increasingly demand investment opportunities that match their social beliefs,... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
people use various online social platforms, makes some predictions. In the first decade of its existence, Facebook, aided by the broad adoption of mobile devices and fast internet connections, emerged as a... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
a mutual course benefiting each of their strategies, HBS professor James Austin, head of the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), took note. "Here was a new arena," he says, "in which the goals of different kinds of... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
communities throughout the United States to inspire young people to read. Visa operates the world's leading consumer credit card payment system. Although there is no obvious connection between the credit card business and literacy promotion, research that revealed that... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home
School, studies how location and geographic mobility affect worker productivity and innovation. His research also examines how companies benefit by allowing employees to work remotely. Choudhury answered questions from participants in a... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
cats, or whatever,” says Andy Wu, assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy unit of Harvard Business School. “What’s overlooked is a comprehensive framework for how you mobilize the resources—such as financing,... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
Organization Science Innovation Outcomes in a Distributed Organization: Intra-Firm Mobility and Access to Resources By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj Abstract—Prior research has established a relation between intra-firm View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
said. Crowdsourcing isn’t exactly new. Lakhani, who is the Principal Investigator of the Crowd Innovation Lab and NASA Tournament Lab at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, pointed out that the HBS campus was actually... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
Now, the evidence is quickly posted to social media for the world to critique—potentially blown out of proportion. “If a customer feels strongly enough to make a recording and perhaps tell friends, that’s a problem a smart retailer would... View Details
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
run on Microsoft’s Windows platform, was the dominant web browser in the 1990s until squashed by Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer. In February 2015 there was the launch of Meerkat, an app that lets users broadcast live streaming video through their View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
mobility effects of workgroup demography by integrating the social identification processes of cohesion, competition, and comparison. Using five years of personnel data from a large law firm, we examine the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
to mitigate sanctions. “Perhaps even more important in today’s environment, you are also limiting reputational risk,” Soltes says, pointing to negative news stories or error-filled posts on social media that can undermine a company’s... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
connected to the Internet. Transfers usefully move resources from lowest- to highest-valuation networks, but transfers tend to cause socially costly growth in the Internet's routing table. We propose a market rule that avoids excessive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
significant increase in the number of initiatives seeking to mobilize investor voice toward positive social impact. In this paper, I provide a framework outlining the role of investors as stewards of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
PC, the organization faced challenges in doing things outside of its established processes. Though many of the team members had worked together for years, they had to find new ways of working as they tried to launch the new mobile... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
called into question by several significant organizational stumbling blocks. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=106073 PublicationsAgency and Institutions: The Enabling Role of Individuals' View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
Publications September 2014 Research in Organizational Behavior The Governance of Social Enterprises: Mission Drift and Accountability Challenges in Hybrid Organizations By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, Julie Battilana, and Johanna Mair Abstract—We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
Arabia's development strategy unfolds in the past six years, it is contrasted to social and political pressures within the country, volatility in global oil markets, and severe political problems in the Middle East. Purchase the case: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
rest of us. An imaginative, tech savvy caregiver we employ in our home dreamed up a business based on an unsatisfactory personal experience. Despite her lack of formal training, resources, and investment, she devised a way to test her idea, order the necessary... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett