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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

The Future of Social Enterprise

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Herman B. Leonard and Susan McDonald

The Future of Social Enterprise considers the confluence of forces that is shaping the field of social enterprise, changing the way that funders, practitioners, scholars, and organizations measure performance. We trace a growing pool of potential funding sources to... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Performance Effectiveness; Social Enterprise; Consolidation; Value
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  • February 2025 (Revised April 2025)
  • Case

Institutional Neutrality, Restraint or Convenience?

By: Clayton S. Rose, Nicole Zelazko and Alexis Lefort
In the fall of 2023 and winter of 2024, college campuses across the U.S. experienced protests and encampments in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israel by the Islamist militant group Hamas, and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza. These... View Details
Keywords: Distribution; Cost vs Benefits; Ethics; Governance; Leadership; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Adaptation; Disruption; Communication Strategy; Higher Education; United States
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  • 24 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

facilities each year, an increasing number of which are on foreign soil. "Without the FDA, each of us would individually spend a lot more time researching where products come from and what ingredients they contain," says Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health
  • 08 Jun 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 10 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

paper, "Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship," Nanda looks at how entrepreneurial activity is affected across various groups of individuals when a tax reform increases the cost of financing a business.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 02 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 2

or incentives, but a model of innovation that too often fragments efforts by treatment modality (drugs, devices, diagnostics, and clinical treatment). We may improve individual technologies of health care, but fail to provide integrated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2024
  • Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

management and organisational practices. By this time, social science research had already shown that people’s behaviour is shaped as much by situational and contextual factors as by individual character. The 1963 Milgram experiments by... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Program

Transforming Customer Experiences

companies, product companies with service-based strategies, or companies shifting from a product focus to a service focus. The program will be most helpful for individuals who have the authority to initiate change across the organization.... View Details
  • 22 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 22, 2016

counter this ambiguity, this paper proposes that the strength of the greedy signal relates to an individual's volunteer reputation. Results from an online experiment support this possibility: the crowd out in response to public incentives is less likely among View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Program

Disruptive Innovation

Apply theories of causality to understand why things happen the way they do Accurately predict the impact of strategic actions Better articulate your strategic questions and goals Assess the risks and opportunities presented by actions... View Details
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

edited by Roderick M. Kramer and Todd L. Pittinsky. Oxford University Press, 2012 Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Placement - Doctoral

Keenan 2023 Emily Prinsloo Marketing, 2023 Placement: Rice University, Jones Graduate School of Business Dissertation: Three Essays on Cost-benefit Trade-offs in Individual and Organizational Decision-Making Advisors: Michael I. Norton ,... View Details
  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Status Inconsistency: Variance in One's Status Across Groups Harms Well-being but Improves Perspective-taking

By: Catarina Fernandes and Alison Wood Brooks
Most people belong to many different groups. While some people experience consistently high or low status across all of their groups, others experience wildly different levels of status in each group. In this research, we examine how status inconsistency – the degree... View Details
Keywords: Status; Social Hierarchies; Well-being; Perspective Taking; Status and Position; Groups and Teams; Satisfaction; Perspective
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  • 06 Dec 2022
  • HBS Seminar

Elizabeth Lyons, UC San Diego

  • 22 Aug 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

From Green Users to Green Voters

Keywords: by Diego Comin & Johannes Rode; Energy; Utilities
  • 2023
  • Article

Probabilistically Robust Recourse: Navigating the Trade-offs between Costs and Robustness in Algorithmic Recourse

By: Martin Pawelczyk, Teresa Datta, Johannes van-den-Heuvel, Gjergji Kasneci and Himabindu Lakkaraju
As machine learning models are increasingly being employed to make consequential decisions in real-world settings, it becomes critical to ensure that individuals who are adversely impacted (e.g., loan denied) by the predictions of these models are provided with a means... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mathematical Methods
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  • April 2020
  • Background Note

U.S. Food Retail During the Pandemic: March 2020

By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
This note, written in late March 2020 and mainly U.S. focused, looks at the unfolding impact of the coronavirus pandemic on food retailers and their suppliers. It allows student to consider the challenges facing food retail executives as they navigate urgent supply... View Details
Keywords: Coronavirus Pandemic; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Food; Supply Chain; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Trade; Crisis Management; Health Pandemics; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Unfairness Trap: A Key Missing Factor in the Economic Theory of Discrimination

By: Jordan I. Siegel, Naomi Kodama and Hanna Halaburda
Prior evidence linking increased female representation in management to corporate performance has been surprisingly mixed, due in part to data limitations and methodological difficulties, and possibly to omission of a fairness factor in the economic theory of... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Fairness; Performance Productivity; Gender; Japan
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  • Web

Programs for Small Teams

The organizational impact of team collaboration. Sending small teams of executives or individuals to the same program can have a profound impact on long-term organizational... View Details
  • Program

Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation

chief technology officers, chief information officers, and chief HR executives Leaders from corporate strategy, finance, legal, human resources, marketing, manufacturing, customer service, and sales Individuals and teams are welcome to... View Details