Social Enterprise Initiative - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jan 2010
What Do You Think?

Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?

asked whether the objectives of the kind of agreement being discussed are even relevant to the world's needs. While suggesting that major government initiatives will be needed, Phil Clark suggested a different direction for them. He said,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

30 Apr 2019
News

Leading Schools That Change Lives

Kennealey, who embraces the school’s emphasis on spiritual awareness, social responsibility, and academic excellence (98 percent of graduates are college-bound). He accepted the post at a challenging time. Salesianum had experienced... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

accountability at the project and policy levels since the early 1990s, particularly through the establishment and enforcement of social and environmental safeguards and complaint and response mechanisms. But there remain major shortfalls.... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

03 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

Working PapersRacial Diversity Initiatives in Professional Service Firms: What Factors Differentiate Successful from Unsuccessful Initiatives? Authors:Modupe Akinola and David A. Thomas Abstract Diversity continues to be a key focus for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

Create Opportunity, Profits, Growth, and Social Good and the 2009 Harvard Business Review article "Mergers That Stick." Investment bankers and lawyers still hold sway, and the regulators still must approve the merger of American... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation

16 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

validate their initial results over the coming months. In light of the study results, Cohen says that opening sustainable investment to traditional energy firms might deliver clean energy faster. He points out that although oil companies... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

being able to put the team in place," as she put it, Polished could not take root. But by last December, Polished seemed closer to its initial destination. Rhyne had secured a lease at Boston's Logan Airport, begun building the first... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

01 Sep 2013
News

Leading the Way

University, as well as a leader in the worlds of business and social responsibility. John Hess: My experience at HBS was transformational. HBS faculty pushed me to think differently about leadership and how to solve problems, and I was... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

11 Aug 2016
Cold Call Podcast

Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

science and engineering and applied science but in social science as well. Sometimes it ranks education to the degree that it can on faculty-student ratios. Some of them take a very specific number of journals and these are the only ones... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

fascinating character to animate sometimes dry legalese.” Gleason’s quest for fair trade, or price protection, would not be easy. First off, the term “fair trade” in the 1930s had a different meaning than it does today when we use it to describe a View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

start a company and never harder to build one," and with Dan Isenberg, who notes that equating entrepreneurship with a start-up is not wrong, but is an incomplete picture of business formation. Significant value creation cannot occur without growth, so the failure... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

2008
Working Paper

Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya

By: Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan

In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local or personal consumption despite export options which appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial conducted... View Details

Keywords: Agribusiness; Developing Countries and Economies; Trade; Profit; Product Marketing; Standards; Failure; Risk and Uncertainty; Non-Governmental Organizations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Service Industry; Kenya; Europe

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October 1996 (Revised May 2001)
Case

Cantuga Farmworkers Clinic (A)

By: James E. Austin and Catherine Overholt

The board of directors of a rural health clinic fires its executive director. The case elaborates the evolution and progress of the clinic under this director during a period of growth and a changing health care environment. Factors contributing to and questioning the... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Resignation and Termination; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Rank and Position; Social Enterprise; Health Industry

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16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

so that you can read it cover to cover or slice and dice it like a playlist. You can read it backwards. You can just read about Wall Street or consumption or the end of the social contract. You can make the book yours as you choose.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

ratings that guide investors to select "socially responsible," and avoid "socially irresponsible," companies. We examine how several hundred firms respond to corporate environmental ratings issued by a prominent independent View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

well as domestic companies have found success in emerging markets by positioning themselves as partners in progress—building businesses that also advance market development. Initiatives along these lines can take a number of forms—from... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Jun 2014
News

The First Five Years: Beau D'Arcy (MBA 2010)

luxurious offshore destination for boaters and non-boaters alike." How did your family and friends respond when they heard the idea? "When I first told my parents, I think they were a little skeptical. It's a big idea that's way outside the box, so most people's View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

the merit system was based on peer comparisons at the salaried level. There were no executive bonuses. Stock options were awarded as recognition. But there was also a lot of pressure in the company, said Beer. Managers of thirteen units took the View Details