Social Connection - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

suggestions, including starting early (Kcorey: “How about connecting with youth at an earlier age who are interested in business?”), emulating efforts to bring women into management education (Roslyn Payne: “In the 1980’s when University... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

10 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative

purpose of the collaboration and to each other.Cross-sector partnerships do not happen; they are built. To trigger the relationship there generally needs to be an emotional connection with the social... View Details

Keywords: by Diana Barrett, James Austin & Sheila McCarthy

25 Jan 2000
Research & Ideas

Strategic Alliances

that in cross-sector social purpose collaborations, unlike commercial business alliances, an essential ingredient for strong leadership involvement is an emotional connection individuals make with the View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

20 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

At a recent Harvard Business School conference, dozens of CEOs committed to the idea of working toward "higher-ambition" goals that go beyond just short-term shareholder value. Inspired by the book Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

determination, but the benefactor helped to channel that energy into an opportunity with potential. In a sense, this personal network or connection helped to facilitate access to others in positions of influence which in turn provided... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

creative edge, says Assistant Professor Roy Y.J. Chua. "Creativity is not always about coming up with something that is totally new—most often it is about connecting ideas to create something different," says Chua. "If you... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

rank within the organization, et cetera. Another avenue to feeling comfortable in the role or to get information is to think about your social network. Who are you connected to within or outside the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 5

investigates the effect of social ties between acquirers and targets on merger performance. Using data on educational background and past employment, we construct a measure of the extent of cross-firm social... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 May 2013
Research & Ideas

How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy

Toronto. "But more recent research shows how culture endures in spite of globalization. Networks and local regulations also significantly influence how companies react to their local environments." “For philanthropic leaders, View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 May 2016
Op-Ed

World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics

Facility should rapidly deploy money in conjunction with the proposed WHO $100 million contingency fund for emergency outbreaks. Why not let the World Bank, with its broadening social mission under president (and former WHO executive) Jim... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Health

02 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Spending on Happiness

participants were randomly assigned to spend money on others rather than themselves. We asked Norton to elaborate in an email interview, an invitation to which he cheerfully agreed. Sarah Jane Gilbert: What prompted you to conduct this research into the View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

can spoil the barrel, I think we have to look at the nature of the barrel, not just the apples. Organizational design, structure, and culture do play a role and almost always have in corporate scandals. Companies that get into trouble often do so because of minimal... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Who Has the Power in the Music Industry?

the CEO and founder of BandPage, an online service that allows musicians to post information and connect with fans. Their conversation touched on power dynamics, as-yet-untapped areas for future digitization, and a question from the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Felix Oberholzer-Gee; Music

16 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 16

lifestyles of China's rural population. However, the cost of connecting remote locations was high and was often not offset by subscriber fees or usage rates of these populations. Would this investment be relegated to a View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks

"To put it in social terms, you probably know a lot of people who know one another. For many of us, most of our time is spent within small clusters of people—at the office, in our neighborhoods. But you also have View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

house, grab one of them and hug them,” Schlesinger says. And if you’re social distancing alone, use videoconferencing tools to reach out to family and friends, so that you can look at each other as you talk, since eye contact also lifts... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

13 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril

maintaining a good relationship,” Blunden says. “So you should consider how ignoring someone’s advice might impact that relationship and be aware from a connection and career standpoint that these interactions could have a detrimental... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving

justify an excuse to give. Related Reading: Incentives for Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Reputations Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things What do you think? What are... View Details