Social Progress Index - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Mar 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?

On Friday, we will celebrate International Women's Day 2019, an annual event to promote the advancement of gender equality and gauge our progress across many domains. In business, researchers tell us, progress is happening but is still... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Mar 2010
HBS Case

Developing Asia’s Largest Slum

and improved services in the same area. Written with the assistance of Namrata Arora, a research associate at the HBS India Research Center, the case considers the potential risks and rewards of approaching an area like Dharavi with a new model in mind: slums as... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

13 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

The Inner Life of Leaders

progress in life and in business. HBS Working Knowledge asked Zaleznik to reflect on the inner life of leaders. Martha Lagace: Your book is an intellectual and introspective discussion of leadership that seems rare in the literature of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2020
What Do You Think?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

has enough leverage to practice it. Boards of directors play an important role in championing the cause of stakeholders of all kinds. DF in AZ put it this way: “If a company promises a fundamental shift towards shareholder capitalism but doesn’t show any View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 23

relevant for industries characterized by product proliferation and horizontal differentiation. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/banand/matchmaker2011published.pdf Accelerating the Adoption of Integrated Reporting Authors:Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Should I Pay the Bribe?

frustrated by the "explanations" offered for the country's economic and social problems. One of the more standard arguments was that corruption was the cause of all our problems. It seemed that we could become rich by becoming... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55053 2018 Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Revenue Farming Reconsidered: Tenurial Rights and Tenurial Duties in Early Modern India, ca. 1556–1818 By: Sheth, Sudev J... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 20

Moreover, we show that this effect occurs not only in the case of IGOs that focus on economic issues, but also on those with social and cultural mandates. This demonstrates that relational governance is important and feasible in the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

experts to discuss how researchers can impact a broader audience, by lending their scientific expertise to pressing social issues, current events, and public debates. The landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

Lorsch: People talk about curbing the power of CEOs, but I frame the issue in terms of enhancing the power of boards. Over the last decade, I think there's been a lot of progress made in boardrooms. Problems remain, of course, but... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

an action plan to implement back home what they've learned on campus. We then visit each district a few months later to check on the progress of their action plans, and to identify topics to study in the next cycle. Then the knowledge... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

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 virtual Cheers bar where people... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business

top executives "to get rich no matter what happens to the shareholders." Options should be indexed options. These options pay for performance, not for volatility in the markets. Pervasive conflicts of interest are other key... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

Tripsas "Big breakthroughs are great, but we found that even incremental progress evokes a powerfully positive inner work life," Amabile notes. "In my Managing for Creativity course, I ask students to consider how they will... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

17 Sep 2024
HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

kinds of climate targets have emerged, including terms such as “carbon neutral,” “science based,” “net zero,” “real zero,” and “carbon negative.” While leaders setting climate goals might gravitate toward the term of the moment, their View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

company. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/719456-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-038 Index In December 2017, Marc Freed-Finnegan and Jonathan Wall, the co-founders of retail technology company Index, had to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

employees tended to be most engaged by regular, incremental progress toward the accomplishment of a meaningful goal—a phenomenon Amabile calls The Progress Principle, which is also the title of her new book.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Connecting With Nonprofits

organizational marketing. Understanding Cross-sector Collaboration My field-based research on collaborations between businesses and nonprofits, encompassing a wide range of industries and social sectors, revealed a distinctive pattern in... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

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

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