Social Trends ＆ Culture - Publications - Faculty & Research

Web

2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

by launching the Akamai Technical Academy, which asked the question: “Why don’t we go out and find smart people to train, and create our own talent pool?” Slides Impact Investing at a Crossroads Amelia Angella (MBA 2001), Director, HBS View Details

Sandra J. Sucher

Sandra Sucher, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, is an internationally recognized trust researcher. The Power of Trust, her third book, is based on two decades of global research on how companies build stakeholder trust and how,... View Details

Keywords: hotels ＆ motels; hotels ＆ motels; hotels ＆ motels; hotels ＆ motels; hotels ＆ motels; hotels ＆ motels; hotels ＆ motels; hotels ＆ motels; hotels ＆ motels; hotels ＆ motels; hotels ＆ motels

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

supply-demand curve, none of the substantive problems of political economy are resolved, while the social whole simply disappears from sight.” In concert with that sensibility, capitalism scholars have interrogated the structures of... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

Web

Skydeck - Alumni

Taylor Becker (MBA 2025) shares personal anecdotes and life lessons from his collaboration with the late finance icon Byron Wien (MBA 1956) Joy to the World How Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010) , CEO of East Boston Social Centers, is making... View Details

Web

HBS - The year in Review

Education were combined under one management structure to reflect and respond to emerging trends toward programs that utilize both in-person and online components, and will further amplify HBS’s efforts in professional development.... View Details

13 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 13

framework highlights three broad and interrelated drivers of foundational competitiveness: social infrastructure and political institutions, monetary and fiscal policy, and the microeconomic environment. We estimate this framework using... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 2022
What Do You Think?

Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?

the question is extended more broadly to organizations in general, there is little for us to go on in responding to the question. The impact of culture on performance has interested me for several decades, having teamed in 1992 with John... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

01 May 2020
What Do You Think?

Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

of remote work. On the other hand, remote work can provide an alternative to a toxic office culture resulting from management neglect. Armando Del Bosque commented, “Organizational culture helps us find what... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Web

Curriculum - Business & Environment

polycrisis) are often addressed as technical, political and economic problems. It seems unlikely that we will avert disaster unless or until the world is swept by a massive cultural shift and a social... View Details

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

Beyersdorfer, a research associate, coauthored the BP case, "IR at BP: Investor Relations and Information Reconnaissance." (Research associate Anders Sjöman was third author on both cases.) In this interview, Miller, Dessain, and Beyersdorfer identify View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

31 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

almost every society on how much we should allow the private sector to handle prosocial objectives,” says Zhang, who studies workplace culture and social inequality. “What we saw here is that if the private... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

the momentum for homogenization was strong, it was striking that markets stayed differentiated by inherited cultural and social preferences. And globalization today is working in a far more complex fashion.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

09 May 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

promote social equality. He pondered whether public policy could make a difference or whether the market and societal currents, responsible for these trends, were too strong for him and his government to try to contend with. Several... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

negotiated relationship that individuals have with other individuals or that individuals have with society. In addition, there is a cultural quality about what constitutes a leader that changes across social... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

Web

Events - Business History

both history departments and law schools; however, the two disciplines have taken divergent paths. Historians have emphasized the external social and cultural pressures that have shaped firms’ behavior, such... View Details

13 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 13

Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the Article: http://hbr.org/2010/07/column-powerlessness-corrupts/ar/1 Are You Ignoring Trends That Could Shake Up Your... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

hrs Module 1 Describing and Summarizing Data Recognize trends in data and detect outliers, summarize data sets concisely, and analyze relationships between variables. Highlights Histograms and Summarizing Data Understand How to Interpret... View Details

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

Working PapersProduct Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges Are the Benefits Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Ingrid M. Nembhard Abstract The value of teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the interdisciplinary nature of the work... View Details