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Content & Community for Students | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
to get involved in the Social Enterprise Club? Sage : When I got to HBS I saw that so much of what happens here is done by student clubs. If I can help one more student decide to pursue a social impact career or convince one prospective... View Details
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
collection of innovative research and management insights that build upon the foundations of the first book but takes the study of brand relationships outside of traditional realms by applying new theoretical frameworks and considering new contexts. The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
office, and how they got the top job. The result was his Leader Filtration Theory, or LFT, which states that a leader's impact can be predicted by his or her career. The more... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
majoring in economics.) “The challenges that exist in the lives of the young people we serve in central Harlem—extreme poverty, domestic violence, a single-parent household—existed in my family in one way, shape, or form,” says... View Details
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
emotional feeling of guilt. The researchers asked 67 college undergraduates to complete a series of tasks that involved recalling past guilt-inducing behavior, confronting an opportunity to cheat, and choosing whether to eat a piece of chocolate View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
39 percent of visits with patients that involved a discussion of DTCA. Thus, most DTCA visits (61 percent) did not result in a prescription for the advertised drug. The most common reasons given were that a different drug was more... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
accommodate mobile employees. This book arms managers with the knowledge they need to become more effective virtual leaders, giving advice on what actions to take to increase far-flung employees’ dedication and engagement, develop or... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
alone do not account for these outcomes of the country’s public health system. There are also disparities in how effectively resources are allocated and managed, says Simon DeBere (MBA/MPA-ID 2022), a 2021 HBS Social Enterprise Summer... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
positive motivational value, how employees at lower levels viewed the fairness of incentive plans, and whether incentives had an effect on corporate performance. The results were surprising. Most noteworthy: making pay contingent on... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
Although much of the globe is awash in it, the allocation of water for human consumption is anything but easy. As the planet's population grows, urbanizes, and is subjected to climate change, many experts foresee a global water crisis (and View Details
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
OpenSecrets.org. Direct stock or bond holdings were straightforward to categorize as risky or not. For mutual funds Minor tapped investment industry experts to help him devise an algorithm to categorize the... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, sold $315.6 billion worth of goods in 2006. With its single-minded focus on “EDLP” (everyday low prices) and the power to make or break suppliers, a partnership with Wal-Mart is either the Holy... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
nonprofits a year,” either through direct engagement or in pro-bono brainstorming sessions. “It’s a wonderful way to give back,” says Club President Jan Gullet (MBA 1977). “We’ve done the research. Our members tell us what they value most... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
was operating as a kind of project manager for her mom—and that she was one of 66 million Americans taking care of an ill, aging, or disabled loved one—she began to build a more modern solution to care management. Wellthy provides loved... View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
that are more or less open to compromise with the incumbent regime of Assad. Our results show, first, that refugees are far more likely to agree to a cease-fire proposed by a civilian as opposed to one... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
or strategic. Separately, two research assistants rated each response based on whether the respondent seemed like an attractive job candidate. Results showed that 77 percent of participants had chosen to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
As a polarizing US presidential election nears, moderating controversial content on social media poses a pressing problem for tech giants. But no matter how many employees they hire, lines of code they write, or new content policies they... View Details
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
from around the world. The resulting book includes several of the papers and lectures that were presented at the conference, providing a wide range of views about China's past, present, and future. In this excerpt, editor William C.... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
risks—including spending hours reading or watching the news. "This is such an impermanent state of affairs that we just have to do as best we can." Rather than ruminating on the virus and replaying possible future View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
either improved productivity or growth in the economy. One result may be the structural unemployment associated with long periods without a job and the obsolescence of skills that occurs with increasing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett