Social Attachment To Place - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Dec 2007
HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

collaborative tasks from writing assignments to playing digital instruments. At the same time it needed to address constraints such as the lack of electrical power in many remote rural areas—a problem it... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer

25 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

workplace friendships, firms can minimize the psychological costs of homesickness, which increase depending on how far the employee is from home, according to Choudhury’s study, Social View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

with busy film executives, however. Indeed, says Luo part of what makes the Black List interesting in the first place is the “light-touch” approach that surveys executives about scripts they are already coming across in the course of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

Facebook’s vision and mission statement.” Brendan Coffey led the way in proposing that “FB needs a much more active strategy to place the user in a position of control with respect View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

John Irving’s Lessons for Business

fun because it's really hard work, they still have a deep level of attachment to their work. And you see that repeatedly with Irving. It's obvious that he just can't imagine himself doing anything else.... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

10 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote

public. Boaty blowback highlights the potential danger of giving consumers the power to vote, even though customer engagement is a primary goal of almost every social media strategy. The problem: Even though... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

not be any sort of attack on this very fundamental right. On the other hand social media platforms still have an obligation to the public that they serve YouTube needs to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

14 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

how it affects social value in society at large. That could soon start to change. Karthik Ramanna, an associate professor at Harvard Business School who studies the political economy of corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities

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

07 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. In "The Dark Side of Creativity: Original Thinkers Can Be More Dishonest," the authors report that inherently creative people tend to cheat more than... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

positions. One of the first things Thomas and Gabarro discovered in their research was a variation in the rules of the traditional "corporate career tournament." According to the tournament concept, Thomas explains, managers who... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

28 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback

have an experience and learn about products, but now that can be decoupled from the act of taking possession of a product because there are better and cheaper ways of doing that. Malls are going to increasingly transform into View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Retail

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The New CEO’s Wrong Message

Bearing full responsibility for a company's success or failure, but being unable to control most of what will determine it. Having more authority than anyone else in the organization, but being unable to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

contest. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54708 June 2018 Management Science Personal and Social Usage: The Origins of Active Customers and Ways to Keep Them Engaged By: Lee,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Oct 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits

Sean Silverthorne: What organizations are included in "social enterprise," and why do you define it in the way that you do? Herman "Dutch" Leonard: We include as a "social enterprise" any organization that View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Status: When and Why It Matters

evidence that buyers are willing to place a premium on status, holding constant quality and the reputation for quality." What sounds easy in theory may be difficult in practice, however: "Look... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit

constructive co-existence of unit autonomy and organizational affiliation, organizations must have in place a clear process for making decisions as to who will perform the functions necessary for the system,... View Details