Publications

2005
Book

Building Assets Building Credit: Creating Wealth in Low-Income Communities

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky

Keywords: Assets; Credit; Wealth; Poverty

January 1999
Case

Willow Creek Community Church (B): Cracks In the Foundation

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Educators

1976
Journal Article

The New Utopian Vision? Bringing Community to the Family

By: R. M. Kanter

22 Jul 2024
News

Enhancing Community and Connection with Rituals feat. Michael Norton

07 Oct 2020
Podcast

How US community colleges can bolster the post-Covid recovery

The US is facing a tsunami of demand for skills training and job placement. Its 1,100 community and technical colleges offer the best institutional infrastructure and student support for the task, but key reforms are needed. So argues The Indispensable Institution:... View Details

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

2022
White Paper

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

August 2004 (Revised March 2005)
Case

MGM Mirage's Bid for Mandalay Resort Group (A): Communicating During the Merger Process

After MGM Mirage decides to announce publicly its bid for Mandalay Resort Group, both companies face vital decisions about how to communicate with their various stakeholders during the merger negotiations. View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Corporate Disclosure; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Communication Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

Educators

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

May 2007
Article

The Governance of Open Source Initiatives: What Does it Mean to be Community Managed?

The concept of 'open source' software initially referred to software projects managed by grassroots communities in public forums. Since 1998, the concept has been adapted and diffused to new settings that extend beyond software. While the open source community has... View Details

Keywords: Governance; Open Source Distribution

19 Jul 2023
News

Pen Pals Summer Cookout: Community and Friendship in the Sunshine

19 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating Black History: Elevating the Voices of Our Student and Alumni Communities

We’ve enjoyed the opportunity to honor the history and legacy of Black and African American members of our community who have and continue to lay the foundation for the next generation of innovative, successful, and transformational... View Details

April 2008
Case

TerraCog Global Positioning Systems: Conflict and Communication on Project Aerial

By: Michael Beer and Sunru Yong

TerraCog, a successful privately held high-tech firm that develops GPS (global positioning system) and similar products for consumer markets, has recently been caught off-guard by a competitor's new product that makes novel use of satellite imagery. When TerraCog... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Meetings; Decision Making; Group Dynamics; Human Resource Management; Conflict; Information Technology; Leadership; Conflict Management; Competition; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Communication; Decision Choices and Conditions; Crisis Management; Technology Industry

Educators

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

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 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