Social Connection - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Aug 2014
HBS Case

Starbucks Reinvented

work to relax and enjoy the small, affordable luxury of a special coffee beverage seemed to resonate with the social and economic moment, she recalls. Six months later she met Howard Schultz, an entrepreneur who acquired the company in... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

01 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

larger rescue package backed by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and a group of countries. Kim in his home office and library: “It’s where I meditate, where I read, where I write. It’s where I find some little drops of peace.” “I like doing deals...it’s a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

23 Apr 2024
In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

29 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

research agenda to systematically address the social welfare implications of financial innovation. To complement existing empirical and theoretical methods, we propose that scholars examine case studies of systemic (widely adopted)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 2

superior performance and competitive advantage at the individual, organizational, and social levels and 2) empowers the three virtue phenomena of morality, ethics, and legality. We also demonstrate that applying cost-benefit analysis to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

innovators discover new directions by making connections across seemingly unrelated questions, problems, or ideas. Innovative breakthroughs often happen at the intersection of diverse disciplines and fields. Author Frans Johanssen... View Details

Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen

07 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic

minimally disruptive technologies for process questions helped them achieve balance. Relationship interactions: Connecting through huddles, not yoga The importance of nurturing social relationships has come... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Alumni - Global

globally. The numerous alumni clubs and associations provide a wide range of professional, educational and social programs within their communities, reinforcing the HBS mission “to educate leaders who make a difference in the world.”... View Details

12 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

some estimates, with players such as Bumble, Tinder, and OKCupid vying to help people find love. While McFowland is not a dating expert, his work in machine learning and social sciences examines the efficacy of how people interact in... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

cost-benefit approach is proposed to analyze an individual’s incentives to produce speech and is then applied to assess the role social communities play vis-à-vis individual dissent. This analysis underscores the important and complex... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Business History - Faculty & Research

production technology who used attorneys in connection with his patenting work at a time when Japan was still in the process of formally institutionalizing its patent attorney system. In accordance with Lamoreaux and Sokoloff's... View Details

23 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 23

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272712001028?v=s5 From Mind Perception to Mental Connection: Synchrony as a Mechanism for Social Understanding Authors:Thalia Wheatley, Olivia Kang, Carolyn Parkinson, and Christine E.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

organizational scholars, we were interested in organizations as social and cultural contexts that shape how men make sense of themselves—the stories they tell themselves as men about what it means to be male—and in the effect this... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

18 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

exponentially increase the pressure it placed on employees. This contributed to widespread employee burnout. Millennials and Generation Z focus on social good. Millennials, born between 1981 and 1996, and Gen Z, born between 1997 and... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson

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About Us - HBS Working Knowledge

About Us Linking Policy About Us What We Do Since 1999, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge has connected the School’s leading edge research and ideas on business management with practitioners, thought-leaders, and academics.... View Details

2011
Working Paper

How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade

The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details

Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

Key concepts: Business and Society, Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Leadership Patagonia's change of ownership from a privately held company to a perpetual purpose trust and 501(c)(4) nonprofit in order... View Details

27 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 27

Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet

brand or product Website (61 percent); paid bills (56 percent); watched a video clip (51 percent); used a price comparison site (50 percent); listened to an audio clip (44 percent ). “Social networks and the easy connections they... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising; Publishing

January 2025
Case

A Tiger in the Tank: Exxon Sues Investors

By: Clayton S. Rose, Sarah Sasso and James Weber

In June 2024, investors were trying to make sense of ExxonMobil’s (Exxon) lawsuit against two impact investors, Arjuna Capital (Arjuna) and Follow This, that had just been dismissed by the U.S. District Court of Northern Texas. Exxon’s suit challenged the rights of two... View Details