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- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.
by a government because they generate social profits that are greater than the private profits they could provide. When this condition prevails, a government must either finance the activity or risk that it will be underprovided. In... View Details
Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint
- 04 Feb 2012
- News
Using Business Tools To Combat The World's Big Problems
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
However, like most social sciences, it’s historically based and typically involves one faculty member and their research assistant working on the case project. But there is a real opportunity here to adopt a scaled research model, a lab... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Jul 2010
- News
B-Schools All A-Twitter Over Social Media
- 23 Dec 2010
- News
How Social Networking Has Changed Business
- Teaching Interest
Field Course: Social Innovation Lab
Co-taugh with Prof. John Kim
This course provides students an opportunity to use the discipline of entrepreneurial... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
Webmunk: A New Tool for Studying Online Behavior and Digital Platforms
By: Chiara Farronato, Andrey Fradkin and Chris Karr
Understanding the behavior of users online is important for researchers, policymakers, and private companies alike. But observing online behavior and conducting experiments is difficult without direct access to the user base and software of technology companies. We... View Details
Farronato, Chiara, Andrey Fradkin, and Chris Karr. "Webmunk: A New Tool for Studying Online Behavior and Digital Platforms." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32694, July 2024.
- October 2006
- Teaching Note
Precista Tools AG (TN) (A), (B), and (C)
By: John A. Davis and Courtney Sampson
Teaching Note to (488-046), (488-047), and (488-048). View Details
- TeachingInterests
Field Course: Social Innovation Lab
This course provides students an opportunity to address a social enterprise topic with the discipline of business tools and techniques. Students will work in teams, choosing among three types of projects: a) developing a business plan for your own social enterprise;... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Giving Kids Tech Tools to Make an Impact
Amy Kadomatsu (MBA 1998) believes every student can be an innovator and use technology as a force for good. As chair of the board of directors at Mouse, a youth development nonprofit that empowers students to create with technology to solve real problems, she helps to... View Details
- 08 Dec 2014
- News
Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing
- January 2014
- Case
Social Strategy at Cisco Systems
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Daniel Malter and Aaron Smith
In April 2013, Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn, vice president and general manager for Learning@Cisco Systems, was planning the future of the Cisco Learning Network, an online platform hosted at Cisco.com. Since its launch in 2008, the Cisco Learning Network provided content to... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Competency and Skills; Learning; Web Services Industry
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan, Daniel Malter, and Aaron Smith. "Social Strategy at Cisco Systems." Harvard Business School Case 714-475, January 2014.
- June 2023 (Revised July 2023)
- Case
Social Media Background Screening at Fama Technologies
By: Joseph Pacelli, Jillian Grennan and Alexis Lefort
Fama Technologies is an online screening company that uses AI to analyze job applicants' publicly available online content for signs of risk and culture fit. The case opens with Ben Mones, founder and CEO, looking to secure funding from venture firms. He is running... View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Culture; Talent and Talent Management; AI and Machine Learning; Social Media; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; United States
Pacelli, Joseph, Jillian Grennan, and Alexis Lefort. "Social Media Background Screening at Fama Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 123-010, June 2023. (Revised July 2023.)
- 22 Oct 2014
- Video
Social Impact Investing: Challenges Ahead
- January 2008
- Article
Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman and Willy C. Shih
Most companies aren't half as innovative as their senior executives want them to be (or as their marketing claims suggest they are). What's stifling innovation? There are plenty of usual suspects, but the authors finger three financial tools as key accomplices.... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Prejudice and Bias; Value Creation
Christensen, Clayton M., Stephen P. Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih. "Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things." Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008).
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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
mailing list Business and Environment Initiative The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard Race, Gender & Equity Initiative Health Care Initiative Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | Join mailing list Harvard Innovation Labs New Venture Competition: View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control
World Nutella Day, held on February 5, inspired more than 40,000 Instagram posts as fans of the chocolate-hazelnut spread shared recipe videos, memes, and selfies with jars. It was free marketing for Nutella maker Ferrero, which almost squandered this opportunity when... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- June 2023
- Supplement
Social Media Background Screening at Fama Technologies (B)
By: Joseph Pacelli, Jillian Grennan and Alexis Lefort
Fama Technologies is an online screening company that uses AI to analyze job applicants' publicly available online content for signs of risk and culture fit. The case opens with Ben Mones, founder and CEO, looking to secure funding from venture firms. He is running... View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Culture; Talent and Talent Management; United States
Pacelli, Joseph, Jillian Grennan, and Alexis Lefort. "Social Media Background Screening at Fama Technologies (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 123-086, June 2023.