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Donor Societies - Alumni

Giving Donor Societies Giving Donor Societies Leadership Giving Recognizing donor generosity and foresight Our donor societies celebrate the commitment of alumni and friends to... View Details

October 2015
Supplement

The National Geographic Society (B)

By: David A. Garvin

This case was written as an update to the case "The National Geographic Society," HBS No. 311-002, published in 2011. The (B) case describes the 2015 creation of National Geographic Partners, a for-profit joint venture between the National Geographic Society and 21st... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Information Publishing; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Internet; Publishing Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

15 Aug 2022
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The Role of Business in Global Society

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Art Society | MBA

Art Society All recognized student clubs are part of a 501(c)(3) non-profit tax exempt organization, called Student Clubs of HBS, Inc. Each student club at Harvard Business School (HBS) is open to all matriculated HBS students and their... View Details

03 Feb 2011
News

Achieving the Big Society

1988
Article

Poetry in a Nonpoetic Society

By: T. M. Amabile

Keywords: Arts

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HBS Whitehead Society thank you

15 Sep 2016
News

For the Good of Society

Tom Tierney (MBA 1980) is chairman and cofounder of the Bridgespan Group and is a 2016 recipient of an HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video he talks about a new vision for guiding philanthropic activity that helped launch his organization. “If the definition of... View Details

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Introducing the John C. Whitehead Society

March 2015
Module Note

Power and Influence in Society

By: Julie Battilana

This module aims to help students understand how power and influence are employed, both to reproduce the status quo and to effect change in society. It first helps them to understand why, more often than not, power is used to reproduce the existing way individuals and... View Details

December 2011
Background Note

An Aging Society

By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim, Mayuka Yamazaki and Akiko Kanno

Keywords: Society; Age

encouraged us to think about the role and responsibility that business leaders have in shaping society and civilization for the better. Business has a wider responsibility than just making profits, and there are consequences for our... View Details

11 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

high. But when meeting customer demand is bad for society at large, then competition has a flip side," says Victor Bennett, an assistant professor at the USC Marshall School of Business, who cowrote the paper with Lamar Pierce of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

January 2021
Article

Institutional-Political Scenarios for Anthropocene Society

By: Andrew J. Hoffman and P. Devereaux Jennings

Natural scientists have proposed that humankind has entered a new geologic epoch. Termed the “Anthropocene,” this new reality revolves around the central role of human activity in multiple Earth ecosystems. That challenge requires a rethinking of social science... View Details

Keywords: Institutional Change; Institutional Theory; Natural Environment; Society; Environmental Sustainability

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May 2012 (Revised November 2015)
Case

The National Geographic Society (A) (Abridged)

By: David A. Garvin and Annelena Lobb

In January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.–based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of... View Details

Keywords: General Management; Change Management; Media And Publishing; Digital Convergence; Strategy Development; Business Models; Information Publishing; Online Technology; Business Model; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Publishing Industry

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Marketing and Advertising and Society

By: Stephen A. Greyser

Stephen A. Greyser is continuing to write on and conduct research into the role of marketing and advertising in society. He analyzed in 'Marketing and Public Policy' the evolution of legal and consumer-based issues over recent decades and, for a Stanford University... View Details

May 2003
Case

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

By: John A. Quelch

Didier Cherpitel, CEO of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), is implementing a new strategy that will fundamentally change the role of its International Secretariat. The organization is in the early stages of implementing a best... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Brands and Branding

March 2018
Module Note

Module Note for Instructors: Responsibilities to Society

By: Nien-hê Hsieh

This note outlines a framework to help managers discern and deliver on their responsibilities to society that has been taught in the “Responsibilities to Society” module in Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA), a semester-long, first-year required course for... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Leadership; Society