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When Weak Ties and Social Alternatives Benefit Organizational Commitment: Evidence from Wikipedia

This study examines the social mechanisms reinforcing participant commitment to collaborative work. Previous literature largely fails to acknowledge the wider context of individual workplace commitments, or suggests that multiple concurrent work and life commitments... View Details

Keywords: Social and Collaborative Networks

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17 Aug 2006
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Unfinished Business: The Impact of Race on Understanding Mentoring Relationships

Keywords: by Stacy Blake-Beard, Audrey Murrell & David Thomas

01 Mar 2009
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Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems

and leverage the skills and experience of already-accomplished leaders. It will prepare them to make an impact on public life through, for example, leading a cause campaign; establishing a foundation; running for political office as a way... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Courses | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Trelstad Global Climate Change (Fall Q1Q2) Professor Gunnar Trumbull Power and Influence for Positive Impact (Fall Q1) Professor Julie Battilana Public Entrepreneurship (Fall Q1Q2) Professor Mitchell Weiss View Details

August 2009
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SK Telecom: Pursuing Happiness through Corporate Social Responsibility

By: Christopher Marquis, Kwang Y. Ryu, Philip H. Mirvis and Bobbi Thomason

Since 2006, SK Telecom has worked to develop strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs that are aligned with its business operations and corporate mission. The case tracks the original assessment process the company went through and successive... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; South Korea

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25 Apr 2014
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Applying business practices to nonprofits to strengthen impact

1999. The Bridgespan Group serves more than 350 organizations and foundations, including Girls Incorporated, Feeding America, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "Finding ways to scale an organization's impact without scaling its... View Details

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Redefining Mogul

By: Ethan C. Rouen

Tiffany Pham taught herself to code and created a technology platform, Mogul, with the goal of providing girls and women around the world with information and opportunities. After several years Mogul had reached more than 146 million women around the world and had... View Details

Keywords: Women; Inclusion; Technology; Branding; Social Impact; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Information; Knowledge Dissemination; Gender; Diversity; Brands and Branding; Expansion; Strategy; Media; Personal Development and Career; Technology Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States

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04 Jun 2012
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New vaccine delivery process wins Harvard University President's Challenge for social entrepreneurship

20 Jun 2016
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Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues

says, it will create a new asset class for socially minded investors, providing them with a reliable ROI that will advance the investing effort. He also believes that changing from a charity-based model of giving has a huge View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

business leaders About the Professor Julie Battilana Power and Influence for Positive Impact Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of View Details

28 May 2012
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A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

the company's bottom line, as well as the environmental or social impacts of one or more of its value chain partners. Theatre 3 encompasses programs targeted at fundamentally changing the business's... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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The Social Contract Model of Corporate Purpose and Responsibility

By: Nien-he Hsieh

Of the many developments in business ethics that Thomas Donaldson has helped pioneer, one is the application of social contract theory to address questions about the responsibilities of business actors. In Corporations and Morality, Donaldson develops one of the... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Both on and off campus, there are many opportunities for students to engage in social enterprise focused activities and community building. Rising Leaders for Social Impact... View Details

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Nora Jendoubi Archives | Social Enterprise

Filter Results: (2) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact... View Details

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