Social Mobility - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

"With the virtual mobility of global labor insured, only those companies and nations will grow ... that make the best use of entrepreneurial qualities...." How governments should spend money in support of innovation clearly... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

03 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising

Consumers," HBS professor John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld, research director of Canada's Mobile MUSE Consortium, pinpoint 5 qualities of success in this new world of digital media marketing. In this new reality, it's the consumer who... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Publishing; Advertising

01 Sep 2011
News

Coming Full Circle

says Srivastava, recalling that he reached out to classmate and HBS associate professor Noam Wasserman (MBA 1999, PhD 2002) to get a better sense of whether academia would be a good fit. Now, Srivastava is following three streams of research on View Details

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

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Policy for Social Mobility Scott Duke Kominers, Jeff Huizinga, and Allison M. Ciechanover “Opportunity Insights—a non-profit that researches drivers of economic opportunity and develops policy solutions to... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Screen Grab

(including ESPN, Disney Channel, Food Network, and CNN) to mobile devices. Sony’s PlayStation Vue offers more channels but at a higher price tag, and later this year, Apple will launch a web TV service. “Everyone is obsessed with figuring... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

09 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

for the most part. And private conversations, by their nature, can't mobilize an organization to address the gaps between its business strategy and the structure, capabilities, and market realities it faces. In our experience, the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat

01 Jun 2018
News

Disrupting India’s Dental Market

slotting into a job in an established business had little allure. He wanted to start something new, ideally a for-profit enterprise that would have a visible social impact. But when he thought about health care delivery, Singh found... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

04 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS

address poverty at scale which led him to focus on education and education policy as key to opening up possibilities. After two years teaching social justice in an economically distressed community with Teach for America, Mbanusi joined... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital

30 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

that can turn these problems into opportunities. The book provides examples of business efforts that promote social good without sacrificing profit: a mobile communications rollout in rural China that... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

01 Mar 2019
News

Case Study: Off to a Fine Art

determine specific style demands, then only ordering inventory against confirmed bookings. Clay will lose access to last-minute renters, but it will preserve precious capital, which is better used for building a strong social and web... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

as the delivery of parts, affected their work. The high-performance teams often refused to admit people whom they thought to be below their level of expertise, leading to disparities among the teams. There was reduced mobility between... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5

country, they will be met with violence and inevitably more lives will be lost. I hate that a man’s death must be turned into a spectacle on social media and the 24-hour news cycle for several days, rightfully prompting the View Details

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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Professor of Management and Organizations at New York University, Stern School of Business. Interview with Kira Hudson Banks on "Corageous Self Awareness for Social Change" Kira Hudson Banks, St. Louis University Kira Hudson Banks is an... View Details

29 Mar 2023
News

Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

university students who lost their homes and/or families in the earthquake zone. "Next up," says Sirali, "is the third phase, focused on rehabilitation." The Group, she notes, is diligently formulating its high-impact social investments.... View Details

16 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

DePaul University analyzed patents issued between 2008 and 2017. To Cohen’s surprise, among the top 50 green patent producers were Exxon Mobil (ranked 11), Royal Dutch Shell (18), BP (27), ConocoPhillips (28) and Chevron (30). The energy... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

July 2022
Teaching Note

TraceTogether

By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta

This Note provides guidance for teaching "TraceTogether," HBS Case No. 820-111. View Details

Keywords: Government Administration; Crisis Management; Health; Health Pandemics; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Adoption; Health Industry; Public Administration Industry; Singapore

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27 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

work). The case examines the beginnings of the band among four school friends and follows the development of the enterprise as a business and as a powerful social and cultural force in its own right. It also investigates the individual... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Apr 2016
First Look

April 26

Greening Walmart: Progress and Controversy In 2005, Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, launched a sustainability initiative aimed at reducing waste and making the company more environmentally and socially conscious. By 2015, the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)

School as an undergraduate chemical and biomolecular engineering student at the University of Maryland. She was accepted into the 2+2 program and set out after graduation to explore potential careers and build her skills. After a year and half as a Process Engineer at... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Contributing to a Better Future

role in determining what great business leadership looks like in the 21st century. NEW DIRECTOR SEES BUSINESS AS A VECTOR FOR SOCIAL CHANGE Drew Keller (MBA 2022), who was appointed director of the Institute for the Study of Business in... View Details

Keywords: April White

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