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  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

business sector is economic value creation, the altruistic dimension prevails in the third sector. In our cases, social leaders approached companies for a variety of reasons that most certainly included... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

    Matthew C. Weinzierl

    Matt Weinzierl is Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program at Harvard Business School, where he is the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, and a Research... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace
    • 24 Mar 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

    countries with a strong FTR language scored 26 percent lower on CSR values than those with a weak FTR language. Of course, that finding could be confounded by other cultural factors—especially since many of the weak FTR language countries... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • December 2011
    • Article

    Globalization and Beauty: A Historical and Firm Perspective

    By: G. Jones
    This paper uses the beauty industry to explore the impact of globalization over the very long run. As the first wave of modern globalization started in the nineteenth century, there began a massive homogenization of beauty ideals around the world that has, to some... View Details
    Keywords: Globalization; Business Ventures; Trends; Societal Protocols; Value; Brands and Branding; Perception; Entrepreneurship; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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    • August 2013
    • Article

    Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices

    By: Victor Manuel Bennett, Lamar Pierce, Jason A. Snyder and Michael W. Toffel
    Competition among firms yields many benefits but can also encourage firms to engage in corrupt or unethical activities. We argue that competition can lead organizations to provide services that customers demand but that violate government regulations, especially when... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Crime and Corruption; Management Practices and Processes; Ethics; Consumer Behavior; Customer Satisfaction; Auto Industry; Service Industry
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    • 2011
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Height Taken but Worth Unknown: Valuation as an Institutional Process

    By: R. Daniel Wadhwani and Mukti Khaire
    Drawing on research from organizational studies, sociology, history, and anthropology, we develop a framework for understanding valuation as an institutional process in markets. We posit that three institutional elements—categories, criteria, and standards—are integral... View Details
    Keywords: Interactive Communication; Markets; Standards; Situation or Environment; Perception; Valuation
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    • October 2023
    • Case

    Kevin O'Leary: Building a Brand in Shark-infested Waters

    By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
    For more than fifteen years, successful Canadian entrepreneur and investor Kevin O’Leary had developed his brand into a global powerhouse. Since his first appearance on the Canadian television program Dragons’ Den in 2006 and his meteoric rise to stardom through the... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Brand; Crisis; Brands and Branding; Entrepreneurship; Crisis Management; Social Media; Public Opinion; Power and Influence; Financial Services Industry
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    • 05 Oct 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    The Vanguard Corporation

    as well as something with enormous social value because a lot of food goes to waste. Q: Can you give us other examples of how this works in practice? A: In Brazil, Banco Real has grown in 10 years from a... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    I am a field researcher studying the relational nature of work. Organizations are inherently social institutions and provide myriad opportunities for relationship formation. My work begins with the simple insight that all relationships are not equal: interpersonal... View Details

      Michael Beer

      MICHAEL BEER

      Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

      • 20 May 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

      When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • 20 Oct 2015
      • HBS Seminar

      Elizabeth Pontikes, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States

      By: Shai Bernstein, Rebecca Diamond, Abhisit Jiranaphawiboon, Timothy McQuade and Beatriz Pousada
      We characterize the contribution of immigrants to US innovation, both through their direct productivity as well as through their indirect spillover effects on their native collaborators. To do so, we link patent records to a database containing the first five digits of... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation; Economic Growth; Immigrants; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Patents; Innovation Strategy
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      • March 2011 (Revised December 2012)
      • Case

      Demand Media

      By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
      Google search had helped Demand Media grow to be a $1.9 billion online publisher. Then, social media and smartphone apps began to change the way people navigated the Internet. How should Demand Media respond? The business ran on a radically new model in which a stable... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Information Publishing; Consumer Behavior; Customization and Personalization; Internet and the Web; Publishing Industry
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      • 17 May 2004
      • Research & Ideas

      Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

      attention to social values has played a part in ethical violations we are dealing with today? A: I'm not sure the lack of scholarly attention has necessarily played a part in ethical violations. However, my... View Details
      Keywords: by Manda Salls
      • 11 Oct 2024
      • Blog Post

      Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)

      which business and social impact can work together to be a force for good in the world. Business is a driving force in our world, whether we like it or not. So, what are we going to do with that driving force? I also wanted my career to... View Details
      • 23 May 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective

      environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. The trend of mandatory sustainability reporting picked up steam as consumers, investors, and civil society in general increasingly demonstrated that they value the View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • Article

      The Deception Spiral: Corporate Obfuscation Leads to Perceptions of Immorality and Cheating Behavior

      By: D.M. Markowitz, M. Kouchaki, J.T. Hancock and F. Gino
      In four studies, we evaluated how corporate misconduct relates to language patterns, perceptions of immorality, and unethical behavior. First, we analyzed nearly 190 codes of conduct from S&P 500 manufacturing companies and observed that corporations with ethics... View Details
      Keywords: Obfuscation; Corporate Unethicality; Deception; Deception Spiral; Organizations; Values and Beliefs; Ethics; Perception; Behavior
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        Benjamin C. Esty

        Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details

        Keywords: banking; asset management; investment banking industry; consumer products; shipping; wine; financial services
        • 2018
        • Working Paper

        Hot or Not? What Makes Product Categories Attractive to Fair Trade and Eco-labeling Organizations

        By: Kristin Sippl
        This paper probes extant theory on product diversification in the empirical realm of fair trade and eco-labeling organizations (i.e., certification organizations). While much is known about diversification in for-profit firms, less is known about the more complex... View Details
        Keywords: Hybrid Organizations; Fair Trade; Eco-labeling; Goods and Commodities; Diversification; Strategy
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