Social Interactions - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

13 Aug 2018
Blog Post

Following My Dream: Launching a Venture

smoothie increases happiness and is also a great socializing experience: more than 40% of our users stated to have met someone new or interacted with a colleague they had not talked to for a long time. The... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

01 Aug 2002
News

HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive

FishLogic's Javier Segovia, Patrick George, Benjamin Vigoda, and Gonçal Pagan: producing programmable signal-processing chips that cost less and work faster. Lucas Klein, Matthew Mugo Fields, and Jason Green of BEST Education Partners, winners of the View Details

04 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee

do it to learn. We do it to push ourselves to think harder about the things that we care about. In our classrooms, we encourage debate, but we don't encourage people to just shout at each other. We encourage debate in the spirit of learning, so there is a civility with... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Entertainment & Recreation

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Corporate Training Programs | HBS Online

an integrated development curriculum for upskilling and team-building. Whether you’re investing in early-career professionals or executives, we welcome the opportunity to support your organization’s learning and development goals. Completion Rates Participants engage... 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

05 May 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless

sorts, on an epic scale. “If you have a local leader who is from your social category, you are probably more likely to approach him or her for help.” As Harvard Business School professor Lakshmi Iyer and her colleagues discovered, it's... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

04 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 4

examine the link between corporations and community by showing how corporate density interacts with the local social and cultural infrastructure to affect the growth and decline of the number of local... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Sep 2019
News

Putting the Game Within Reach

Fan Experience “New mixed reality integrations, sports betting, and gamified experiences are changing the way that fans are consuming sports. We are already seeing this with immersive media, particularly in the interactivity that is... View Details

Student-Profile

Talia Gillis

to employees without legal representation, highlighted how difficulties in calculating social benefits, severance packages or assessing settlement offers created significant barriers for employees, rendering many legal protections futile.... View Details

Fast Answer

Scaling Minority Businesses (SMB)

population, age, race, income, employment, and education. Social Explorer- Access census data for the United States through the use of interactive maps and reports. American Community Survey... View Details

27 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?

emotions on unrelated decisions (chapter 2), and the consequences of having an (overly) narrow focus when evaluating information and making decisions (chapter 3). Forces from our relationships are factors that characterize our relationships and View Details

16 Dec 2015
Blog Post

Unexpected Moments at HBS

Saturday afternoon and was greeted by a dozen strangers. They spoke with her for two hours, shared stories of her son, and inquired about her life growing up in a tiny western Ohio manufacturing town. She had more genuine, inspiring View Details

Profile

Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo

looking forward to in your career? The impact I can make. The ability to move things forward, to make change. For me, impact is not just about profits, but also the social environment, the overall effect. I look forward to proposing... View Details

Keywords: Investment Banking; Consulting

01 Jun 2022
News

Students Ready to Make an Impact

interactions with faculty and alumni, competitions, and programming provide a launch pad for these students. Further, all MBA students take a required course that introduces them to thinking like an entrepreneurial manager. This section... View Details

20 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

paper explores the influence of social categories on the perceived trade-off between relatively bad but equal distribution of resources between two parties and profit maximizing, yet asymmetric, payoffs. Studies 1 and 2 show that people... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Harvard Business School

organization included increasing Black enrollment in the MBA program; raising more fellowship funds for Black students; adding new courses relevant to Black students; and promoting meaningful social View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World

One afternoon in 1997, while World Bank senior financial analyst Margaret Hanson Costan was in Paris discussing donations to the Bank, her husband, Jay, got a phone call. The social worker with whom they had been working to adopt a baby... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan

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

Keywords: Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

HBS Working Knowledge readers want it all, judging by our all-time most popular articles. Here you'll find stories on everything from maintaining a professional image to writing a business plan, from how to market on social media to why... View Details