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2022
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The Partnership Imperative: Community Colleges, Employers, & America's Chronic Skills Gap

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Manjari Raman

The nature of work has changed dramatically across industries in the last few decades due to rapid and repeated waves of automation. Nowhere is this more evident than in middle-skills positions—those that require less than a four-year college degree but more than... View Details

Keywords: Future Of Work; Human Capital; Competency and Skills; Training; Higher Education; United States

2009
Article

Acting Globally but Thinking Locally? The Enduring Influence of Local Communities on Organizations

By: Christopher Marquis and Julie Battilana

We develop an institutionally oriented theory of how and why local communities continue to matter for organizations in a global age. Since globalization has taken center stage in both practitioner and academic circles, research has shifted away from understanding... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Business and Community Relations; Local Range; Civil Society or Community; Power and Influence

21 Dec 2022
News

HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

iStock MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR On February 27, Dean Srikant Datar sent a message to the HBS community regarding the invasion of Ukraine, noting the resources available to those looking to offer support and highlighting learning... View Details

19 Jul 2023
News

Pen Pals Summer Cookout: Community and Friendship in the Sunshine

April 1979 (Revised May 1993)
Teaching Note

Community Television of Southern California: KCET, Teaching Note

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Media; Media and Broadcasting Industry; California

1998
Working Paper

Outperforming Equilibrium Models of Communication in Bargaining Games

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Leigh Thompson, Robert Gibbons and Max Bazerman

06 Feb 2025
News

When Migrants and Locals Innovate Together, Communities Gain

08 May 2019
News

Fellowships Fuel a Passion to Help Underserved Communities

Amyra Asamoah (MBA/MPP 2020) Amyra Asamoah (MBA/MPP 2020) Since enrolling in HBS’s joint MBA/Master of Public Policy program with the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) in 2017, the only thing Amyra Asamoah (MBA/MPP 2020) hasn’t been able to do is get enough sleep. In... View Details

Punctuated Generosity: How Mega-events and Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Philanthropy in U.S. Communities

This article focuses on geographic communities as fields in which human-made and natural events occasionally disrupt the lives of organizations. We develop an institutional perspective to unpack how and why major events within communities affect organizations in the... View Details

Video

HBS Online Partners with Empowered to Educate for the 4th Annual Community Challenge

1971
Chapter

Some Social Issues in the Community Development Corporations Proposal

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Social Issues; Civil Society or Community

March – April 2007
Article

Brokerage, Boundary Spanning, and Leadership in Open Innovation Communities

Keywords: Leadership; Innovation and Invention; Civil Society or Community

August 1984 (Revised May 1992)
Case

MCI Telecommunications Corp. (C): Data Communications Market Opportunity Assessment

By: John F. Cady and Frank V. Cespedes

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Communication Technology; Telecommunications Industry

May 2024
Article

Housing Policies and Energy Efficiency Spillovers in Low and Moderate Income Communities

By: Omar Isaac Asensio, Olga Churkina, Becky D. Rafter and Kira E O'Hare

Housing policies address the human dimensions of increasing urban density, but their energy and sustainability implications are hard to measure due to challenges with siloed civic data. This is especially critical when evaluating policies targeting low- and... View Details

Keywords: Energy Efficiency; Public Policy; Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Housing; Analytics and Data Science; Policy; Income; Environmental Sustainability; Real Estate Industry; United States

Aug 2008 - 2008
Conference Presentation

Embeddedness of Social Entrepreneurship: Understanding Variation across Geographic Communities

By: Julie Battilana, Tina Dacin, Johanna Mair and Christian Seelos

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Civil Society or Community

May 2003
Article

How Communication Links Influence Coalition Bargaining: A Laboratory Investigation

By: Gary E. Bolton, Kalyan Chatterjee and Kathleen L. McGinn

Keywords: Communication; Alliances; Negotiation