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Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter Elton Mayo Human Relations and... View Details
- 14 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India
(left) and solar-powered first-aid kit (right). Recently, SELCO Foundation and IKEA Foundation, in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) and various State Health Missions, launched a ground-breaking initiative... View Details
- Web
The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture , 1884–1929 . “Businesses, especially manufacturing and communications industries at the forefront of both labor activism and welfare capitalism, responded... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
order to maximize shareholder wealth, consideration has to be given to the welfare of other stakeholders, particularly if one is thinking about long-term performance. Interest in stakeholder management has been around for a while. It goes... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
imposes on society by securing subsidies, driving employees toward public welfare systems, creating urban sprawl, and destroying jobs in competing operations. Thus, juxtaposing these customer savings against the estimate cited by Fishman... View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
After all, employees are worried not just about keeping their jobs and how their business is faring, but about the welfare of their families and friends, their personal finances, and even the logistics of squeezing in a germ-harrowing run... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
managers with more information to guide decision-making toward increasing social welfare in areas where it makes sense for the firm and in the context of the new tech-driven business ecosystem. “More and more, firms are having to interact... View Details
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
protection weakened Price controls Influence: Low 80 1980 s 19 Reaganomics Heavy defense and deficit spending Savings and Loan bailout Chrysler bailout Breakup of AT&T Influence: Medium-Low 90 1990 s Family and Medical Leave Act Americans with Disabilities Act View Details
- January 2011 (Revised April 2023)
- Course Overview Note
The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: Overview
By: Tom Nicholas
This is a course overview note for The Coming of Managerial Capitalism. CMC is chronologically organized. It starts in the late eighteenth century when America gained independence, spans the remarkable rise to industrial maturity during the nineteenth and twentieth... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Business or Company Management; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Welfare; War; Transformation; Information Technology; Finance; Situation or Environment; Decision Making; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; United States
Nicholas, Tom. "The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: Overview." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 811-033, January 2011. (Revised April 2023.)
- June 2022 (Revised August 2023)
- Case
Strategic Innovation at the United Nations: A Network of Ecosystems
By: Frank Nagle, Elizabeth J. Altman and Amy Klopfenstein
In 2021, Gina Lucarelli, leader of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Accelerator Labs, prepared for a meeting with UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner. The two planned to discuss the future of the Accelerator Labs, a network of social innovation labs located... View Details
Keywords: Change; Disruption; Transformation; Change Management; Education; Learning; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Local Range; Geopolitical Units; Country; Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Information Technology; Information Management; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Psychology; Social and Collaborative Networks; Society; Social Issues; Welfare; Strategy; Cooperation; Adaptation; Public Administration Industry; North and Central America
Nagle, Frank, Elizabeth J. Altman, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Strategic Innovation at the United Nations: A Network of Ecosystems." Harvard Business School Case 722-363, June 2022. (Revised August 2023.)
- April 1978 (Revised May 1993)
- Teaching Note
Child Care Task Force, Teaching Note
- November 19, 2020
- Article
How to Build a Life: Sedentary Pandemic Life Is Bad for Our Happiness
By: Arthur C. Brooks
The times when we most want comfort and rest may paradoxically be the times we most need to move, for the sake of our well-being. View Details
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: Sedentary Pandemic Life Is Bad for Our Happiness." The Atlantic (November 19, 2020).
- September 1989
- Case
Funding the United States Social Security System
Schleifer, Arthur, Jr. "Funding the United States Social Security System." Harvard Business School Case 190-041, September 1989.
- July 1979
- Case
Food Stamps--1970
By: Joseph L. Bower
Bower, Joseph L. "Food Stamps--1970." Harvard Business School Case 380-002, July 1979.
- March 2014
- Case
LGBT Issues at Exxon Mobil Corporation
By: Joseph L. Badaracco and Matthew Preble
In late September 2013, Exxon Mobil Corporation announced that it would begin offering benefits to the spouses of its employees in same-sex marriages. This short supplement touches upon what led Exxon Mobil to this decision, some insights into its previous relationship... View Details
Badaracco, Joseph L., and Matthew Preble. "LGBT Issues at Exxon Mobil Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 314-116, March 2014.
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
HBS Faculty Member Honored
Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility,” the coauthors propose a way for firms to contribute to social welfare without sacrificing corporate success. Porter was also honored (with coauthor Elizabeth Olmsted... View Details
- Article
Why Work Requirements Hurt the Poor
Kominers, Scott Duke. "Why Work Requirements Hurt the Poor." Bloomberg Opinion (August 20, 2018).
- October 1987 (Revised March 1992)
- Supplement
Boston Fights Drugs (B): Converting Research to Action
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Jennifer Lawrence
Describes the results of the advertising pre-test described in the (A) case. The group must now decide how to implement its findings for maximum impact. View Details
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Jennifer Lawrence. "Boston Fights Drugs (B): Converting Research to Action." Harvard Business School Supplement 588-032, October 1987. (Revised March 1992.)
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
"Our message," says Margolis in this interview, "is that as business plays an increasingly important role in society, it is important to correct the drift away from social welfare and devote more research attention to... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- May 2023
- Article
A Public Health Approach to Negative News Media: The 3-to-1 Solution
By: Tyler VanderWeele and Arthur C. Brooks
There is clear evidence that the prevalence of negative media reporting has increased substantially over the past years. There is evidence also that this negative reporting adversely affects social interactions, as well as health and well-being outcomes. Given the wide... View Details
Keywords: News; Social Networks; Contagion; Population Health; Media; Health; Welfare; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Journalism and News Industry
VanderWeele, Tyler, and Arthur C. Brooks. "A Public Health Approach to Negative News Media: The 3-to-1 Solution." American Journal of Health Promotion 37, no. 4 (May 2023): 447–449.