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- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
Apple's Tim Cook is one of an increasing number of CEOs using the corporate bully pulpit to promote social views. @iStock In their paper Do CEO Activists Make a Difference? Evidence from a Field Experiment, the researchers address two key questions: One, can CEO View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
in 1968. Connell's prominence as head of one of the country's largest privately held companies has been matched by his involvement in a vast array of civic and philanthropic activities in the Greater Boston... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, critics of a globalized information and entertainment industry claim that transnational media... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2021
- What Do You Think?
Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?
bleep up.” Nancy Chorpenning joined the above discussion, saying, “That’s a pretty cynical view. If ‘corporations are people,’ do they not have civic responsibilities?” Jon Mertz opined that CEO activism... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Women's History Month | Baker Library
first woman to purchase a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and was the first woman to own and direct a NYSE-member brokerage firm. Throughout her career, Muriel Siebert was actively involved with a wide range of non-profit, View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
Why companies support nonprofits and other socially responsible activities is an intriguing question for both academics and practitioners. After all, there is no clear-cut evidence that corporate "do-gooding" results in greater... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Books
proper subjects of moral assessment. In Paine's schema, which likens society to a large civic association, companies can choose to be “dues payers,” “sustaining members,” or “sponsoring members,” but they cannot realistically choose... View Details
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
in student, staff, and faculty lives. It provides opportunities to go deeper. It can help launch your startup. In particular, the Social Enterprise Initiative is the nexus of activity in thinking about how to apply business skills to have... View Details
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
residents of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket such as the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Cape Wind has also confronted opposition from other political leaders as well as Native American groups, tourism and business associations, recreational fishing and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason, agents for corporate leadership in the social sector like Jackson, nonprofit executives like Britt, nonprofit board members, or even soup kitchen volunteers, more and more HBS alumni are finding that, as HBS professor James E. Austin puts it, "the boundaries... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
Clubs News Clubs News Harvard Business School is in the midst of a year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the African American Student Union (AASU50), with a wide range of events and activities underway to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
consider: Where are you in the senior executive life cycle? How much cross-organization collaboration is required? How much time do you spend on activities outside your direct span of control? What's the scope of your role? What's the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Publication:In 21st Century Management: A Reference Handbook, 490-499. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2008 Abstract The idea that artists' work can usefully inform business practice has gained support in recent years. Managers have long described some business View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
receiving a Social Enterprise Summer Fellowship from HBS in 2021, DeBere received one in 2020, which enabled him to serve as a research intern for OpenUp, a civic technology company based in South Africa that shares Afya Pamoja’s vision... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
public knowledge. She is also the Director of the Women's Media Center Speech Project and an advocate for women's freedom of expression and expanded civic and political engagement. She currently serves on the national boards of the... View Details
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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online
reflective leadership model through a critical analysis of Facebook. Highlights Intro to Protagonists and Tech Effects Frances Haugen - Civic Integrity Work Mossberg and Spar about Privacy Show Hide Details Concepts Leadership Changes in... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
better informed politically and had more political discussions with their neighbors during the electoral campaign, making them more civically engaged overall. Increasing the immigrant vote In the second study Pons performed, particularly... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
gentrification and daily quality of life,” says John Peters (MBA 1986), who worked on two separate projects for the Mayor’s Office for Civic Innovation (MOCI): the Strategy Project, focused on clarifying the MOCI’s vision and mission; and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
field research methods, this paper connects these achievements to bureaucratic norms, unwritten rules within the state that guide the behavior of public officials and structure their relations with civic agencies outside the state.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
know-how. A key barrier to empirical progress on this front has been a lack of direct measures of absorption. In this paper, we develop a novel measure of absorptive capacity that attempts to directly track the influence of external sources of know-how on the internal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne