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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named
I’ve told my straight friends about problems like this, they express surprise and ask what they can do to help.” That’s where Friendfactor comes in. The enterprise is developing a social networking platform... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children
with vulnerable children. Recently, Brochu assumed a new position as the head of human trafficking programs for Geneva Global, a leading social enterprise that implements philanthropists' humanitarian goals... View Details
- April 2014
- Article
The Cost of High-Powered Incentives: Employee Gaming in Enterprise Software Sales
By: Ian Larkin
This paper investigates the pricing distortions that arise from the use of a common non-linear incentive scheme at a leading enterprise software vendor. The empirical results demonstrate that salespeople are adept at gaming the timing of deal closure to take advantage... View Details
Keywords: Incentives; Motivation; Compensation; Gaming; Sales Force Management; Motivation and Incentives; Salesforce Management; Software; Compensation and Benefits; Information Technology Industry
Larkin, Ian. "The Cost of High-Powered Incentives: Employee Gaming in Enterprise Software Sales." Journal of Labor Economics 32, no. 2 (April 2014): 199–227.
- March 2013 (Revised March 2013)
- Teaching Note
Social Finance, Inc. (TN)
By: Shawn Cole
- June 2019
- Supplement
KaBOOM!: Play at Scale (B)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Tricia Gregg
This (B) case describes the changes in the organization’s strategy from one of Building Playgrounds to Influencing Play. It describes the implementation of the strategy and the challenges it faced internally and externally. It goes on to describe how the organization... View Details
Keywords: Scaling Social Enterprise; Scaling Social Impact; Nonprofit Organizations; Nonprofit Scaling; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; United States
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Tricia Gregg. "KaBOOM!: Play at Scale (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 519-106, June 2019.
- Forthcoming
- Article
The Effect of a System for Sharing Best Practices Within Pre-existing Peer Networks
By: Shelley Xin Li and Tatiana Sandino
Peer networks, such as enterprise social networks (ESNs), can facilitate knowledge transfer across employees. However, such systems can also lead to information overload or difficulty in finding useful information. We examine data from a natural field experiment where... View Details
- November 2012
- Case
Tracy Palandjian at Social Finance US (A)
By: Alnoor Ebrahim, Catherine Clark and Beth Bafford
It had been eighteen months since Tracy Palandjian had left her position as a managing director at The Parthenon Group to start an ambitious venture called Social Finance US. With a mission "to mobilize investment capital to drive social change," her new organization... View Details
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Overview
In the light of multiple corporate debacles, financial crises and environmental disasters across the globe, the need for corporate goals to transition from simply maximizing shareholder wealth to optimizing stakeholder welfare is being echoed in various quarters. Dr.... View Details
- September 2010 (Revised October 2014)
- Teaching Note
Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One - Multimedia
By: Anette Mikes
Teaching Note for 110-707 View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Two Decades of Social Progress
The Social Enterprise Initiative began in 1993 with a pioneering mission: develop new insights and innovative approaches to contribute to the well-being of society. Driven by the vision of John Whitehead... View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
a new asset class: impact investment. In a recent commentary published by Reuters, Cohen wrote: “Just as hi-tech business enterprise and venture capital, working in tandem, have attracted increasing numbers of talented risk-takers since... View Details
- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
retained and grown." At HBS, Rangan serves as cochair of the Social Enterprise Initiative (with Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard) and as faculty chair of the Executive Education program Corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
financial assistance from classroom to career. SUPPORTING STUDENTS Her role as senior advisor in the Detroit Mayor’s office is Mendu’s first experience in municipal government, but she has long embraced activism for social change. Before... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
Brooks immersed herself in HBS, resurrecting the inactive role of historian of the African-American Student Union. She also joined the Harbus Foundation and the Management Consulting and Social Enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2021
- News
The Problem of Social Benefit
- 22 Oct 2014
- Video