Role Of Business In Society - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 9

opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Apr 2020
Blog Post

Fireside Chats with Harvard Faculty: A COVID-19 Symposium

leading role in organizing the business community in the fight against COVID-19—will be the symposium’s keynote speaker. Perspectives on the... View Details

12 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Accounting Information as Political Currency

Corporate donations to political campaigns reveal a lot about mutual back-scratching in the political and business arenas. Now new research from Harvard Business School reveals... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 12

organizational networks, and new avenues of sustainable business growth. Providing comprehensive coverage of the field of management, the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Oct 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal

Keywords: by Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, John Helliwell, Robert Biswas-Diener, Imelda Kemeza, Paul Nyende, Claire Ashton-James & Michael I. Norton

01 Oct 1997
News

visit to HBS a few months later, Norton asked about a job and McCormack later signed him on. With no inkling of the sports revolution ahead, the rookie was off and running. Twenty-five years later, thanks largely to television, the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

06 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

Business Research 60, no. 6 (June 2007): 640-648 Abstract This article extends the discussion of congruity or the preference by consumers for alternatives similar to themselves 1) by examining the effect... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jun 2018
Research Event

Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?

iPhoto For businesses and other organizations seeking to overcome roadblocks to sustainability over the last few decades, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Energy

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

Ventures By: Lee, Matthew, and Laura Huang Abstract—Recent studies find that female-led ventures are penalized relative to male-led ventures due to role incongruity, or a perceived “lack of fit,” between... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

economist and Harvard President Emeritus Lawrence H. Summers, University of Michigan Professor Gerald Davis, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino

Web

Partners - Case Method Project

MD DC FL VT MA CT DE ME NH RI 1000 teachers across the country See if teachers are already using the case method in your area! View All All States All States Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut District View Details

June 2011 (Revised September 2011)
Case

Two Key Decisions for China's Sovereign Fund

By: Robert C. Pozen and Xiaoyu Gu

The China Investment Corporation (CIC) was China's sovereign wealth fund (SWF), established with $200 billion of registered capital in September 2007 to diversify China's foreign exchange holdings and increase risk-adjusted returns on those assets. CIC was unusual in... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Growth and Maturation; Decisions; Capital; Investment Banking; Investment Funds; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Wealth; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; China; United States

Citation

Educators

Purchase

Web

Academics - Health Care

MBA Experience Academics Why HBS for Health Care? Harvard Business School The first-year “required curriculum” (RC) incorporates health care cases and topics in many courses ranging from Marketing and... View Details

Web

Reconceiving Products & Markets - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases CSV Explained CSV Explained The Three Levels of CSV Adding a Social Dimension to... View Details

09 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809019 AMD Dresden: Copy Inexactly! Harvard Business School Case 609-004 The establishment and growth of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jun 2013
News

How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case

partnerships, collaborations, and sharing pieces of the pie." Moving quickly in a short-opportunity window is another lesson of the case, says Reiss, who also cites the... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

11 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 11

productivity of EHR use and delegation. We then explored the interaction between these 2 strategies and the role of practice size. Results: Greater EHR use and greater... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

$1.6 billion. The case explores the reasons for the success of this global venture. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808127 The University of Texas MD... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Jan 2022
What Do You Think?

Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?

the court of public opinion again. If you were a McDonald’s board member, what would you have done differently? Why? What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. Editor's note: Heskett... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

October 2012
Article

Giving Time Gives You Time

By: Cassie Mogilner, Zoe Chance and Michael I. Norton

Four experiments reveal a counterintuitive solution to the common problem of feeling that one does not have enough time: giving some of it away. Although people's objective amount of time cannot be increased (there are only 24 hours in a day), this research... View Details

Keywords: Time Perception; Well-being; Volunteering; Prosocial Behavior; Helping; Time Management; Welfare