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- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
Affects Our Behavior. It turns out that working on a relatively large machine (like a desktop computer) causes users to act more assertively than working on a small one (like an iPad). “We wanted to study how interacting with a device... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
metal through intense heat. "The bakery allows us to bring our mission to others. Normally the people who would interact with Haley House are either in need or are very socially radical. We can then... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
already being done by business enough? George Serafeim: Think about the following: in the past two decades, most companies have established sustainability departments, hired more people for social impact, invested more resources, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
What’s in a Name
business leaders to respond to the demands of woke capitalism. Chugh is a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business, where she teaches courses on leadership, management, and negotiations; her new book is A More Just Future: Psychological Tools for Reckoning with... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
sign on for classes such as “barefoot therapy,” which helps with neuropathy and balance issues; special events such as virtual travel or dance parties; or enrichment programs about European artists. Members who chat and connect online say that the opportunity for View Details
- 13 Aug 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Parents’ Guide to Harvard Business School
experience to students' parents, Narayandas leads a mini-case study of Coca-Cola as it decides whether to deploy a new generation of interactive vending machines. Narayandas also discusses the evolution of the modern enterprise, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
States a rich field of study and one that's a specialty for Harvard Business School professor Roy Chua. Chua, a native of Singapore who speaks fluent Mandarin, draws on human psychology to better understand important social processes in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Shared Value Measurement - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
rigorously track the interdependency between social and business results, they miss important opportunities for innovation, growth, and sustainable social impact at scale. An approach to shared value... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control
additional sources of innovation beyond their research and development can set up simple methods for harnessing user feedback. Traditionally, a company might offer a suggestion box to engage users, but that’s one-way communication. In contrast, creating an actual... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Anti-Social Media
limit their social interactions, and in the case of pair, to just your life partner. It focuses on intensity and familiarity rather than broad and shallow interactions. Honestly, I find most new tools and sites to be variations on a... View Details
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Emerging Topics - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
strategies with tangible social benefits, is gaining widespread acceptance within the business and nonprofit communities. These are some tools and emerging research topics. Shared Value Measurement An approach to shared value measurement... View Details
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
a mutual course benefiting each of their strategies, HBS professor James Austin, head of the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), took note. "Here was a new arena," he says, "in which the goals of different kinds of... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 21 Feb 2014
- Blog Post
Cautious Optimism: A Recap of the Harvard India Conference
over 100 speakers and 650 attendees. On the day of a snowstorm, we were heartened to see participation from all across the US and India. The discussions at the conference covered a wide range of topics, from individual sectors like retail and View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
They must also allow people to interact and bond with each other—to feel the camaraderie of being a part of a team. They must enable people to keep learning and to find ways of exercising their curiosity and expressing their own ideas—to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2018
- News
A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace
economists, organizational scientists, and demographers show that socially diverse groups––those with a diversity of race, gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation––are more innovative than homogeneous groups,” Coleman says. “By View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
creative edge, says Assistant Professor Roy Y.J. Chua. "Creativity is not always about coming up with something that is totally new—most often it is about connecting ideas to create something different," says Chua. "If you have a multicultural View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Oscar Winners
Post-Gazette (September 4, 2013), a customer's online account presents "a Facebook-style timeline of your interactions with doctors, pharmacists, hospitals, and so on. Clicking one icon will refill your prescription. Click another and you... View Details
- 12 Jan 2021
- News
Keeping the Coast Clear
life experience prior to landing at Save the Bay has been informed by interacting with lots of different people in different disciplines and different sectors and figuring out how to connect with them on a level where we can find common... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Tu Veux Sprechen Conmigo Online?
“It’s cool to say you speak six languages,” Karen Ong (MBA ’08) told the Boston Globe (March 12, 2008). “But the process of learning a language is boring.” So Ong decided to do something about it. She created MyHappyPlanet.com, an online View Details
- 07 Jun 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
impact.” Key items on his agenda include leveraging interactive learning technology, establishing knowledge-sharing partnerships with other institutions, and networking with NGOs, foundations, and companies that can help alumni put their... View Details