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  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

In what is believed to be the largest study of its kind, MBA students at Harvard Business School recently analyzed the financial returns generated by 110 early-stage companies backed by Investors' Circle, a national network dedicated to... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • April 2021
  • Teaching Note

Social Media War 2021: Snap vs. Facebook vs. TikTok

By: David B. Yoffie and Daniel Fisher
This teaching note provides analysis and a teaching plan for the Social Media War 2021: Snap vs. Facebook vs. TikTok case. View Details
Keywords: Strategy Development; Competitor Analysis; Strategy; Network Effects; Competitive Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Social Media
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  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez
Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Gender; Training; Recruitment; Personal Development and Career
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  • July, 2024
  • Article

Consumer Protection in an Online World: An Analysis of Occupational Licensing

By: Chiara Farronato, Andrey Fradkin, Bradley Larsen and Erik Brynjolfsson
We study the demand and supply implications of occupational licensing using transaction-level data from a large online platform for home improvement services. We find that demand is more responsive to a professional's reviews than to the professional's... View Details
Keywords: Occupational Licensing; Consumer Protection; Perception; Experience and Expertise; Public Opinion; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Demand and Consumers
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez
Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details
Keywords: STEM; Selection and Staffing; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Training; Equality and Inequality; Competency and Skills
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  • July – August 2010
  • Article

Vision Statement: Mapping the Social Internet

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Tommy McCall
Fresh data on internet user behaviors around the globe show an East-West divide. View Details
Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Emerging Markets; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet
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  • Web

Margot Dushin Archives | Social Enterprise

SEMIFINALISTS Margot Dushin 16 Mar 2020 In February 2020, the HBS New Venture Competition received 53 entries to the Social Enterprise Tr... The Network Effect: HBS and the Arts in NYC Margot Dushin 06 Feb... View Details
  • Web

Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

Description of silent animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two different categories Get social by collaborating with a global community of peers before, during, and after... View Details
  • Web

Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

increasing prominence over the past two decades, HBS alumni have been at the forefront of change—from starting new organizations to imbedding an entrepreneurial spirit within established ones; from funding innovators in the field to creating new forms of View Details
  • 15 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS

July, HBS hosted an information session for prospective students about the level of impact these initiatives can have on the community and the world.   In this post, we are sharing the discussion from the Social Enterprise Initiative... View Details
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Growth of the Social Enterprise

Social enterprise groups are traditionally organized along one of two lines: The affiliation model favors decentralized control, while the branch model concentrates control at a central headquarters. Most View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • March–April 2012
  • Article

The Rise and Fall of Small Worlds: Exploring the Dynamics of Social Structure

By: Ranjay Gulati, Maxim Sytch and Adam Tatarynowicz
This paper explores the interplay between social structure and economic action by examining some of the evolutionary dynamics of an emergent network that coalesces into a small-world system. The study highlights the small-world system's evolutionary dynamics at both... View Details
Keywords: Culture; System; Relationships; Globalization; Industry Clusters; Information; Networks; Competitive Strategy; Computer Industry
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  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

Young Alums Honored for Social Enterprise

New Schools; and Marc Sternberg (MBA ’00), founder and principal of the Bronx Lab School, each received the club’s Social Enterprise Award for their work in public education. HBS professor James Austin, cofounder and former chair of the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 10 Apr 2021
  • News

Trump's Plan to Start His Own Social Media Platform Is Doomed to Failure, Say Experts

  • Web

Anand Shukla Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results SPNM Perspectives: Anand Shukla, Brightside Anand Shukla... View Details
  • 15 Dec 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands

markets faster through the existing distribution network of the acquirer, or through the ability to invest quickly in significantly expanded facilities. Compared to an IPO, it allows the careful delineation of accountability and... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants

1996 graduates of West Point. Proceeds from the annual event go to the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans. The theme was “convergence,” and that’s precisely what some 800 students, business leaders, social entrepreneurs, and... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • Web

Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Featured Exercises Build a foundation of self-awareness through a 360° assessment (Emotional and Social Competency Inventory) Explore the internal drivers of your motivations as a leader through the Personal Values Questionnaire... View Details
  • Web

Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

reflection, conversations, tools, and networking to help them lead positive change in the world. The Rising Leaders for Social Impact Forum builds a robust community that connects students and alumni,... View Details
  • 23 May 2019
  • Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology