Role Of Profit And Social Impact - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 May 2011
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theory. It provides examples that show how social logic guides the practices of widely admired, high-performing companies, and why people and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2023
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How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

unknown. Excellence: When achieving high standards matters more than short-term performance. Altruism: When a company serves customers, employees, and others first and assumes that View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2023
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Students at Success Academy stay more focused on the dot rug. Photo courtesy HBS Multimedia Development To tell the compelling stories of a developer working to revitalize Miami Beach, a Maine lobsterman confronting the economic risks of climate change, and a charter... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2023
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Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

entrepreneur, advised them in his role as a Harvard i-lab mentor. “We are in debt to him because he changed the trajectory for us,” says Jung. She adds that working at the i-lab with a network of advisors,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

September 2023
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Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy: Experimental Evidence from Nine Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Vincenzo Galasso, Vincent Pons, Paola Profeta, Martin McKee, David Stuckler, Michael Becher, Sylvain Brouard and Martial Foucault

We study the impact of public health messages on intentions to vaccinate and vaccination uptakes, especially among hesitant groups. We performed an experiment comparing the effects of egoistic and altruistic messages on COVID-19 vaccine intentions and behaviour. We... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Vaccination; Vaccine Hesitancy; Information Campaigns; Health Pandemics; Behavior; Information

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30 Mar 2020
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The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

9/11, crying with my coworkers was one of the most transformational moments in my career. Work teams may bond over this current crisis.” 10. Let workers blow off steam With many employees feeling anxious and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 May 2010
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PublicationsAnnual Review of Financial Economics Editors:Andrew W. Lo and Robert C. Merton Publication:Vol. 1. Palo Alto: Annual Reviews, 2009 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Book... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jan 2023
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Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

In a fraught ethics and legal climate, leaders need to know how to steer clear of trouble more than ever. Corporate Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions, released in... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Bandiera and B. Kelsey Jack A substantial body of research investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect View Details

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Student Journey - Entrepreneurship

Schedule office hours with the i-lab Team. What sources of funding are there? HBS offers several funding sources for students and their startups in various stages of... View Details

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part of the Harvard Summer Undergraduate Research Village. This program has been designed to enable motivated undergraduates to pursue summer business research in a defined project and also participate in a... View Details

November, 2016
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Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces

By: Ray Fisman and Michael Luca

Online marketplaces such as eBay, Uber, and Airbnb have the potential to reduce racial, gender, and other forms of bias that affect the off-line world. And in the early days of Internet commerce, the relative anonymity of transactions did make it harder for... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Race; Gender

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06 Mar 2006
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Four Strategies for Making Concessions

Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie's book A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations: An Analysis of a Social Interaction System (ILR Press,... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

generally refers to spiritual dryness, or profound loneliness and doubt. The best social science indicates that across the globe, our communities are becoming lonelier and less... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

may be delayed, or not happen, to the detriment of all parties. Inter-claimholder conflicts played a large role in Navistar International's restructuring. The company had amassed a $2.6 billion liability for... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

12 Dec 2005
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Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

Most managers think the legal department is that office down the hall where they go to keep out of trouble or write a binding patent agreement. And that's shortsighted, says Harvard Business School professor... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

01 Jan 2013
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their "least-cost energy" strategy, focusing on minimizing the cost and the environmental impact of energy services such as heat and light.... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2023
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Preparing Global Leaders

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi The importance HBS places on fostering a global perspective among its students, program participants, and faculty members is evident when one looks at the numbers: During the past academic year, 52 percent of HBS cases published were... View Details

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By: Ethan S. Bernstein

I have spent my career studying novel talent management practices and their effect on collaboration and performance. My core research focuses on two interrelated organizational trends that have become salient in the 21st century: workplace transparency (who gets to... View Details

12 Feb 2020
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Trying Out New Career Options with SIPs (Short Intensive Programs)

Rising” will offer big picture understandings of the continent, and the ways in which its past informs the present. Effective Strategic Philanthropy Faculty: Brian Trelstad Non-profit organizations View Details

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