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  • Working Paper

Diversification as an Adaptive Learning Process: An Empirical Study of General-Purpose and Market-Specific Technological Know-How in New Market Entry

By: Dominika Kinga Randle and Gary P. Pisano
An enduring trait of modern corporations is their propensity to diversify into multiple lines of business. Penrosian theories conceptualize diversification as a strategy to exploit a firm’s fungible, yet “untradeable,” resources and point to redeployment of... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Adoption; Diversification; Market Entry and Exit; Transformation
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  • 29 Nov 2017
  • Blog Post

HBS, A Dream and Trey: How HBS Helped Me Launch My Social Enterprise

"Nice talking to you as well!" I hung up the phone and looked out the window of my company's conference room, high above midtown Manhattan. I had just finished a call regarding my acceptance to HBS with Matt Segneri, Director of the HBS View Details
  • 31 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

Exploring the Art of Business: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Felipe Ceron (MBA 2022)

How can someone learn more about your organization? Visit the School's website and Instagram. This story was originally published on the Social Enterprise Impact Insights blog. View Details
  • September 16, 2022
  • Article

Bored at Work? Learn to Manage It by Putting It to Work

By: Katherine Connolly Baden, Boris Groysberg and Heather Poco
Do you often feel bored at work or in life? Do you want to feel less bored? If so, what can you do to make that happen? Boredom has a bad rap, but is it really so bad? View Details
Keywords: Time Management; Emotions; Motivation and Incentives; Jobs and Positions
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  • Web

Building a Village: Learning and Living at HBS - MBA

Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering... View Details
  • February 2012
  • Article

CEO Relational Leadership and Strategic Decision Quality in Top Management Teams: The Role of Team Trust and Learning from Failure

By: Abraham Carmeli, Asher Tishler and Amy C. Edmondson
In this study, we examine a complex pathway through which CEOs, who exhibit relational leadership, may improve the quality of strategic decisions of their top management teams (TMTs) by creating psychological conditions of trust and facilitating learning from failures... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Decisions; Management Teams; Trust; Learning; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Managerial Roles; Failure
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  • March–April 2012
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The Genesis and Dynamics of Organizational Networks

By: Gautam Ahuja, Guiseppe Soda and Akbar Zaheer
An extensive body of knowledge exists on network outcomes and on how network structures may contribute to the creation of outcomes at different levels of analysis, but less attention has been paid to understanding how and why organizational networks emerge, evolve, and... View Details
Keywords: Economic Sociology; Economics And Organization; Social Networks; Organization And Management Theory; Interorganizatonal Relationships; Networks; Strategy; Change
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  • March – April 2002
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The Local and Variegated Nature of Learning in Organizations: A Group-Level Perspective

By: Amy C. Edmondson
Keywords: Learning; Organizations; Perspective; Local Range
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Recruiting Full-Time Employees | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

HBS can help organizations meet their talent needs, from hiring a graduating MBA student for a full-time position to hiring an alumnus for a senior-level position. There are numerous ways to get involved in recruiting at HBS: Learn more... View Details
  • 11 Jun 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs

Keywords: by Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu & Toby E. Stuart
  • Web

An Emerging Entrepreneur | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

incomplete information. “The course Public Entrepreneurship was very influential in helping me think of the government as an entrepreneurial ally rather than a detractor—especially when you’re trying to scale a solution to social... View Details
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Riding the WAVE | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Riding the WAVE When describing the experience of running WAVE (West Africa Vocational Education), Misan Rewane (MBA 2013) is frank. “It’s been a wild ride. I’ve learned so much, both about myself and how to motivate people.” Rewane... View Details
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A Life’s Work | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Chertavian, who also sits on the Social Enterprise Initiative’s Advisory Board. “Our country needs to embrace the fact that if we’re going to have a globally competitive economy, we must engage every one of our citizens.” In other words,... View Details
  • June 2017
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The Social Trajectory of a Finance Professor and the Common Sense of Capital

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
This paper traces the career of Michael Jensen, a Chicago finance PhD turned Harvard Business School professor to reveal the intellectual and social conditions that enabled the emergence and institutionalization of what we call the “neoliberal common sense of capital,”... View Details
Keywords: Executive Pay; The Firm; Michael Jensen; Neo-Liberalism; Shareholder Value; Agency Theory; Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Transformation
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  • 15 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

anecdotal learnings on the role of gender in social venture commercialization,” says Liza Mueller, director of operations and knowledge management at the New York–based organization. “The research findings... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

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

Cheng (current chairman of Montage) and Leslie A. Kenny (now CEO of Hong Kong–based DotMedia Studio) approached the School’s Initiative on Social Enterprise in order to learn more about the details of... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Information
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Investing in Change | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

read an HBS case study about how the Sesame Workshop CEO, Jeff Dunn... An Emerging Entrepreneur Patricio Bichara 2015 Patricio “Pato” Bichara (MBA 2015) learned something important in the summer between his first and second years at HBS:... View Details
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Systems Change Forum | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

sessions moderated by HBS faculty, participants presented and learned about various systems approaches to social change across a variety of sectors, ranging from climate, healthcare, homelessness, foster... View Details
  • Article

Does 'Liking' Lead to Loving? The Impact of Joining a Brand's Social Network on Marketing Outcomes

By: Leslie K. John, Oliver Emrich, Sunil Gupta and Michael I. Norton
Does “liking” a brand on Facebook cause a person to view it more favorably? Or is “liking” simply a symptom of being fond of a brand? We disentangle these possibilities and find evidence for the latter: brand attitudes and purchasing are predicted by consumers’... View Details
Keywords: Brands; Marketing Effectiveness; Brand Evaluation; Peer Influence; Brands and Branding; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Media
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Connections & Relationships | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Connections & Relationships Background People always tell you that business school isn't just about the available resources and what you learn in class—it's about the other students. My first experience with the View Details