Social Tools - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jan 2000
Research & Ideas

Strategic Alliances

a mutual course benefiting each of their strategies, HBS professor James Austin, head of the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), took note. "Here was a new arena," he says, "in which the goals of different kinds of... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

25 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People

did. Participants with more prior ties were more likely to miss out on peer effects, or the benefits of learning from those with stronger skills. “The whole premise of these things is that you’re going to learn from other people and make new connections,” Koning says.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Mar 2009
News

A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

to merge with information from other facilities. There’s a new disruptive technology in the works, personal electronic health records (PEHRs), an open-source tool that collects data from all providers and gives patients access over the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2023
News

What’s in a Name

business leaders to respond to the demands of woke capitalism. Chugh is a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business, where she teaches courses on leadership, management, and negotiations; her new book is A More Just Future: Psychological View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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2.1 Academic Standards of Conduct | MBA

2.1 Academic Standards of Conduct 2.1.1 Citing Sources & Plagiarism 2.1.2 Using ChatGPT & Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools 2.1.3 Classroom Recording, Photography & Social Media 2.1.4 Classroom... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Philly Club Hosts Nonprofit Execs

best practices. HBS lecturer Stacey Childress, a cofounder of the Public Education Leadership Project at Harvard, led a case discussion focusing on selecting the right management tools to implement nonprofit strategy. Comcast COO Stephen... View Details

Keywords: clubs; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2018
News

What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)

it’s consistent from company to company.” Her new COO role at Code for America, a San Francisco–based nonprofit dedicated to improving civic tech and “strengthening America’s basic social safety net,” has proven this maxim true. “I... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Peter and Maria Hoey

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

20 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

At a recent Harvard Business School conference, dozens of CEOs committed to the idea of working toward "higher-ambition" goals that go beyond just short-term shareholder value. Inspired by the book Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Emerging Topics - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

strategies with tangible social benefits, is gaining widespread acceptance within the business and nonprofit communities. These are some tools and emerging research topics. Shared Value Measurement An... View Details

13 Apr 2022
News

New School

that creates research-based print and online instructional and assessment tools for US students and teachers, quickly gathered his executive team. “I want you to be prepared to run this company 100 percent remotely, and I want you to... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

According to Herzlinger, although public and nonprofit institutions are entrusted with taxpayer and donor dollars to provide social goods such as education, health, and art, they have few systems and tools... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

30 Sep 2022
News

Scaling Hope

his years of business experience to build the tools he wished had been available when his family was confronting addiction and sharing his own experience of the recovery path. D’Antonio, who attended Harvard Advanced Leadership... View Details

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Market Perspectives - Course Catalog

cases explore concrete situations that highlight the challenges and tradeoffs of decision-makers. Issues explored include: education, urban development, illegal drugs, rent control, housing, drug pricing, racial references, corporate political action, View Details

09 Mar 2021
News

A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible

agencies in 29 states as a tool to assist those who are unemployed bolster their skills. “Our workplaces are changing very dramatically,” Feerick says. “We can provide people with the most up-to-date courses to give them an edge.” A... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Apr 2014
News

Raising the bar for financial literacy

approximately 5 million students, from kindergarten through high school. "Opening a bank account is a one-time event. We're trying to teach kids skills and tools they can apply to any decision they may face going forward," she says.... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

A Measured Approach

sophisticated monitoring and evaluation tools that could make a huge difference in how organizations implement and modify their projects, but they simply weren’t being used by decision-makers on the ground. A big reason they decided to... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Sep 2007
News

Giving New Ventures a Boost

proposed a plan for Judicial Intelligence, a suite of computer-based tools that will help litigators strategically analyze the opinions of judges they will face in court. In the social enterprise track, a... View Details

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

01 Jun 2008
News

Faculty Books

and the social sciences. Bringing together leading scholars, the book is organized in four parts: Approaches and Debates; Forms of Business Organization; Functions of Enterprise; and Enterprise and Society. Capitalism, Democracy and... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management

26 May 2016
News

Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980

consultancy that would apply data-driven strategy to deepen social impact. Today Bridgespan employs about 200 people, and its free online library of articles, background reports, and tools designed to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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