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- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
Public health officials who took to social media to push people to get the COVID-19 vaccine may have wondered if they were screaming into a void. Over the course of the pandemic, health agencies around the... View Details
- April 1996 (Revised May 1996)
- Background Note
The Social Enterprise Spectrum: Structuring Social-Purpose Ventures: From Philanthropy to Commerce
With the boundaries between philanthropy and commerce blurring, this note briefly gives nonprofit managers and social entrepreneurs a framework (the Social Enterprise Spectrum) for thinking creatively about structural options in the social sector. View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship
Dees, J. Gregory. "The Social Enterprise Spectrum: Structuring Social-Purpose Ventures: From Philanthropy to Commerce." Harvard Business School Background Note 396-343, April 1996. (Revised May 1996.)
- 27 Aug 2020
- Other Presentation
How Social Media Can Kill or Enhance Your Deals
By: David A. Lax, James K. Sebenius and Ben Cook
Lax, David A., James K. Sebenius, and Ben Cook. "How Social Media Can Kill or Enhance Your Deals." Part 1, New Rules for Negotiators, Lax Sebenius LLC, August 27, 2020.
- August 2003 (Revised October 2003)
- Case
Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative at the Ten-Year Mark, The
By: James E. Austin, Stacey M. Childress and Cate Reavis
In mid-2003, as the 10-year anniversary of Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative approached, the group's faculty and staff decided to analyze its past performance and to formulate its future strategy. View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Performance Evaluation; Strategic Planning; Social Enterprise
Austin, James E., Stacey M. Childress, and Cate Reavis. "Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative at the Ten-Year Mark, The." Harvard Business School Case 304-042, August 2003. (Revised October 2003.)
- October 21, 2012
- Article
Social Media is a Thorny Issue in the U.S.
By: Robert C. Pozen and Theresa Hamacher
- Teaching Interest
Competing with Social Networks
MBA EC 1217
Career Focus
Competing with Social Networks is a Strategy class targeted at students considering careers in high technology, entertainment, social media or consumer packaged goods. It will be useful... View Details
Keywords: Social Networks
- 2021
- Working Paper
Accounting for Product Impact in the Interactive Media and Services Industry
By: DG Park, George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
We apply the product impact measurement framework of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) in two competitor companies within the interactive media and services industry. We design a monetization methodology that allows us to calculate monetary impact... View Details
Keywords: Product Innovation; Impact; Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; Social Corporate Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Impact; Product Design; Product Positioning; Society; Product; Environmental Sustainability; Measurement and Metrics; Framework; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Media; Technology Industry
Park, DG, George Serafeim, and Katie Trinh. "Accounting for Product Impact in the Interactive Media and Services Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-134, June 2021.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Social Is the New Financial: How Startups' Social Media Activities Influence Funding Outcomes
By: Andy Wu, Fujie Jin and Lorin Hitt
- 2018
- Article
Cracking the Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing
By: Julie Battilana
While in recent decades the social and business sectors have evolved on fairly separate tracks, today companies are increasingly expected to generate social value in addition to profit. As a result, they also increasingly face the distinct challenge of pursuing social... View Details
Keywords: Hybrid Organizations; Hybrid Organizing; Multiple Goals; Social Enterprise; Goals and Objectives; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture
Battilana, Julie. "Cracking the Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing." M@n@gement 21, no. 4 (2018): 1278–1305.
- May 2007 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
Digital Divide Data: A Social Enterprise in Action
By: Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein and Wendy Smith
Leonard, Herman B., Marc J. Epstein, and Wendy Smith. "Digital Divide Data: A Social Enterprise in Action." Harvard Business School Case 307-106, May 2007. (Revised May 2008.)
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster
next to his became social currency across Canada. It's easy to write off these fads as simple stunts of digital narcissism, but they matter to marketing because they carry incidental meaning. It was not lost on Ford's reelection team that... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton
- 2004
- Working Paper
Social Enterprise Series No. 31--Corporate Social Entrepreneurship: A New Vision of CSR
By: James Austin, Herman Leonard, Ezequiel Reficco and Jane Wei-Skillern
- 1999
- Working Paper
Social Enterprise Series No. 12: Philanthropic Social Capital Markets Performance Driven Philanthropy
By: Allen Grossman
Grossman, Allen. "Social Enterprise Series No. 12: Philanthropic Social Capital Markets Performance Driven Philanthropy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 00-002, July 1999. (Presented at December 2001 Human Interaction Research Institute at 40 Conference. Monograph available from HIRI.)
- June 2024
- Supplement
GameStop: Social Media Finds a Cheat Code – Instructor Template
By: Joseph Pacelli
- 2000
- Working Paper
Social Enterprise Series No. 18: The e-Philanthropy Revolution
By: James E. Austin
- September 2014 (Revised May 2017)
- Case
Fresno's Social Impact Bond for Asthma
By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
In 2014, Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) were quickly gaining popularity as an investment vehicle which joined together private investors and nonprofits to tackle social issues. Although numerous SIB projects and proposals had cropped up across the U.S. following the launch... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Health Care; Marketing; Bonds; Financing; Asthma; Air Pollution; Air Quality; Chronic Disease; Public Health; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Finance; Health Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
Quelch, John A., and Margaret L. Rodriguez. "Fresno's Social Impact Bond for Asthma." Harvard Business School Case 515-028, September 2014. (Revised May 2017.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
Media versus Special Interests
By: Alexander Dyck, David A. Moss and Luigi Zingales
We argue that profit-maximizing media helps overcome the problem of "rational ignorance" highlighted by Downs (1957) and in so doing makes elected representatives more sensitive to the interests of general voters. By collecting news and combining it with entertainment,... View Details
Dyck, Alexander, David A. Moss, and Luigi Zingales. "Media versus Special Interests." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14360, September 2008.