Social Value - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Jun 2012
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Shared Value: How Corporations Profit from Solving Social Problems

01 Jun 1998
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HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector

The role of business in improving public education, reducing welfare dependency, and revitalizing urban areas was the subject of a stimulating forum held at HBS on April 6-8. The conference, titled "Business Leadership in the Social... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America

Consortium between Universidad de San Andrés, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and CEDES (a public policy think tank), Argentina Faculdade de Economia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil The HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE) was... View Details

01 Apr 2001
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Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters

notes that judging criteria will be essentially the same, with one primary difference: determining the social value contributed to society. Judging will be conducted by panels composed of venture... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Information

01 Jun 2013
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Harvest Time

Morgan Stanley and after launching an adventure-tour start-up, Ransom cofounded Wildfire, a social media marketing company acquired last year by Google for a reported $350 million. Discussing her thoughts on leadership and the culture at... View Details

Keywords: social media; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

30 Apr 2025
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A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado

DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

02 Jun 2014
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How to Win the Argument with Milton Friedman

Keywords: Milton Friedman; shareholder value; community

01 Sep 2010
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You’ve Been YouTubed

of the old. One of the points we debate in class is whether social media are better at destroying value than creating it. In social media an entity’s size and brand recognition... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; social media; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services; Air Transportation; Transportation

12 Mar 2013
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New Thinking for China

Chen. The son of a scientist and a brain surgeon, Chen learned the value of education at an early age, graduating from an American high school and Boston University before coming to Harvard Business School. After his return to China in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; higher education, teaching, china, social entrepreneurship

01 Jun 2023
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Action Plan: Net Proceeds

about packaging. Think about the ingredients in packaging the same way you think about ingredients in your food, Goodwin advises. Choosing recycled plastic is better. If you do choose virgin plastic, look for rigid types that retain their View Details

Keywords: April White; recycling; corporate social responsibility; waste management; water; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

01 Sep 2017
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Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable

some sort of compensation for it—through donations or subscriptions. That is the path forward. How is social media changing the consumption of information and the consumer’s ability to access a diversity of ideas? —Janet Simpson Benvenuti... View Details

Keywords: April White; New York Times; newspapers; Google; Wirecutter; social media; Facebook; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

17 May 2011
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Building resumes, rebuilding lives

01 Sep 2013
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Who Are We?

SOCIAL MEDIA James Kondo Managing Director, East Asia, Twitter M. James Kondo 103 alumni work in social media 41 at Facebook 31 at LinkedIn 7 at Twitter High Tech: 135 at Google 104 at Microsoft 23 at Apple... View Details