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- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?
Chair of the Finance unit, has spent the past four years investigating ways to help low-income families break out of this cycle and thus gain some of the benefits of being connected to the world of financial services. Programs providing... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
metal through intense heat. "The bakery allows us to bring our mission to others. Normally the people who would interact with Haley House are either in need or are very socially radical. We can then View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
Over the past decade, socially-focused websites have attracted hundreds of millions of users and changed the social fabric in fundamental ways. The likes of eHarmony and Match.com enable us meet new people. Platforms including Facebook,... View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
business by-products. Now, some pioneering companies are exploring healthier ways to operate. How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability EffortsThere is a connection between public sentiment about a company and how the... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
Measuring Social Impact Historically, economists and firms alike have banked on the theory that workers are motivated by earning financial incentives and boosting revenues. And in designing development projects for developing countries,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 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
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
For-profit businesses have a common goal: create value for owners or shareholders by creating value for customers. It's a focus that must seem enviably straightforward from the perspective of nonprofit organizations and social enterprises... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 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
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
communities throughout the United States to inspire young people to read. Visa operates the world's leading consumer credit card payment system. Although there is no obvious connection between the credit card business and literacy... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
directly on the project with the team. We collected daily diaries in order to understand everyone's day-by-day subjective experiences. We analyzed the connection between the daily events that people reported, their reactions to those... View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
title is SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth and Social Good (Crown Business). Sean Silverthorne: What is a vanguard company? Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Vanguard means ahead of the pack, the leaders, the ones... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
financial capital is important, generating human capital and social capital can be just as important, if not more so, and often gets short shrift. “We think there should be a ‘demo day’ for hiring employees or developing View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
seemed obvious. Q: Customers are ruled by these four drives, just like everyone else. So what product, or product strategy, is needed to attract the four-drive customer? A: Those who study brands have found that great brands are based on a strong emotional View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
growing academic interest in the influence of social networks on entrepreneurial successes and failures, Nanda says. As an example, he cites Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, a 1994 book by... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability
Recent articles have looked at research into the history, efficacy, and social responsibility found at the intersection of business and the environment. Here is a sample of some of the latest work from the School. How CEOs Sustain... View Details