Social Efficiency - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

world has ever seen. The current climate crisis is far beyond an environmental issue—it is an existential crisis. Moreover, it converges with—and exacerbates—the crises we face in biodiversity, global health, and social justice. As... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

expanding trade, ever more efficient logistics, and a relatively benign trading environment. Revolutions in transportation and communications empowered the reconfiguration of global supply chains and a dramatic shift in production to... View Details

27 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 27

reach and richness jointly determine the potential value of the network, while receptivity is crucial in realizing that potential. The Dynamics of Social Structure: The Emergence and Decline of Small Worlds Authors:Ranjay Gulati, Maxim... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

group decided that I would be the social director!" The benefit was having a good excuse to invite Levitt, who was not teaching in the AMP program, to dinner. "We became good friends," she recalls, adding that she applied a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

local convenience stores, whose owners received incentives per order. This increased job efficiency by two or three times, as delivery moved from door-to-door to the pick-up station. Meanwhile, the work to pick and pack items also... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

01 Feb 2001
News

The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts

unpopular social issues, enabling spirituality, redistributing wealth to the needy, supporting cultural activities, and effectively and efficiently providing long-term solutions for View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

longer at the beginning or end. Credit Access and Social Welfare: The Rise of Consumer Lending in the United States and France Author:Gunnar Trumbull Publication:Politics and Society 40, no. 1 (2012) Abstract Research into the causes of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Research Summary

Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Faculty Research Online

employees they hire and the way they socialize those employees. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6795.html. Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Care Even as “Obamacare” becomes an issue in the 2012 presidential election, policymakers... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2008
News

Kash Rangan

carried away by the notion of gaining economic returns on their investments, not huge returns but some returns, as a way of forcing an efficient use of their capital. The shining example was microfinance, which provided attractive... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

24 Apr 2014
News

Preserving Patagonia

in Chilean Patagonia. Drawing on what he gleaned at HBS, he says, "We learned that market-based solutions can be effective and efficient tools to augment the work of governments and NGOs on social issues."... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Everything Old Is a New Opportunity

social sharing platform to help older adults live independently longer and provide tighter connection to family. CareSolver is a startup run by two current HBS students. It activate, educates, and supports the nation's $450... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2013
News

A Healthy Profit

organizations with which Antares has partnered). The goal is to significantly improve the delivery of such products and services by achieving a commercially robust, self-sustaining footing, thereby ensuring lasting social and economic... View Details

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

01 Oct 1998
News

A Community Investment

the HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise, which focuses its teaching, research, and collaborative efforts on nonprofit organizations, other private social-purpose enterprises, and the role of business leadership in the View Details

23 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

classic trading system of exchange is identified with David Ricardo, the early nineteenth-century economist who first analytically clarified it. Imagine that tribe A is good at both hunting and fishing, but more efficient at hunting.... View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

20 Mar 2018
News

Seeing a Way Forward

Daphne Leger (MBA 2012), director of continuous improvement for Mexico-based social enterprise salauno, uses her business savvy to bring affordable eye care to those who most need it. “I firmly believe that business has a key role to play... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

A Mission in Motion

Since its beginnings 20 years ago, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative has been a focal point for applying innovative business practices to drive sustainable, high-impact social change. Conceived by John... View Details

Keywords: summary

01 Sep 2017
News

Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?

Illustration by Jon Krause When trying to explain how blockchain works, it helps to have a mass-culture analogue. Mike O’Grady (MBA 1992), president of Chicago-based Northern Trust, uses social media: Blockchain, he says, is a transaction... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

social events such as movies and bingo nights, providing additional opportunities to observe their patients and identify who has suddenly stopped showing up for activities, an early indication that something seriously wrong might be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health