Social Attachment To Place - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

questions with the tools generated by the innovation of past decades, including the relationship between money and power, commerce and politics, exchange and social status. Its effort is to find new ways of... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

06 Jun 2008
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?

deeply—entrepreneurs Big companies are no place for big thinkers." Providing time to reflect, particularly in an era of multi-tasking and the tyranny of technology, was most frequently suggested as an... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

screening test for lung cancer. Getaway Jon Staff (MBA 2016) Peter Davis Aaron Vomberg Sarah Ruehlow Business Track Runner-Up Getaway designs tiny houses, places them on beautiful rural land and rents them out by the night View Details

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

fundamental theorem of marketing: understand what your customers really want," Rangan says. To create a distribution channel, M-PESA franchised thousands of mom-and-pop convenience stores to act as... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

01 Oct 2014
What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

available (searching for the lost key at night under the street light where the light is better), limiting options to what's placed in front of us, biases regarding information or its sources, undue trust in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?

When given the choice of whom to work with, people will pick one person over another for any number of reasons: the prestige of being associated with a star performer, for example, or the hope that spending time with a strategically View Details

Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo

19 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports and (b) how the risk of governmental monitoring affects the extent to which CSR reports are symbolic or substantive. First, we examine how firm characteristics... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

investment. As a consequence, that same year Kauffman ranked Miami at 36 among major cities for growth entrepreneurship due in part to the city’s low rate of startup expansion. Some women struggled to sell... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

24 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

their schedules. The first two years of the program are designed so that students obtain the same experience as their fellow peers at each school. JD/MBAs are fully devoted to the academic, extracurricular, and View Details

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Tara Basu Trivedi

challenges regardless of what was going on in her personal life and regardless of the barriers and social norms that society imposed. What’s the best thing about your hometown? I don’t have one town I consider my “hometown,” since I grew... View Details

08 May 2023
Research & Ideas

How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

whites, according to Federal Reserve data, potentially driving some to alternative sources of capital, like Kickstarter and other crowdfunding sites. The pullback in support noted in Kerr’s research is... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

01 Sep 2006
What Do You Think?

Are We Ready for Self-Management?

specific task within a certain time frame." Self-management is perhaps an extreme case of what we have found, in our research, to be one of the features of high-performance work places that are most... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

of an airliner. Hundreds of hours may go into gathering and analyzing data to sort out exactly what happened and what can be learned. Compare this kind of analysis to what takes View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

13 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

least a year ahead of time.” How firms can spot future misconduct Glassdoor isn’t the only site that may uncover wrongdoing, Campbell says. The same analysis could be applied to any social platform in which... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

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Events - Business History

nineteenth century to the latest developments in impact investing and the B-corps." It "distinguishes deep responsibility, which can deliver radical social and ecological responses, from corporate View Details

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Events - Business & Environment

local levels. Download to Calendar Keywords: MBA Program; Mar 09 Social Enterprise Conference 2025 09 MAR 2025 | HBS Campus Open to the Harvard Community The theme of SECON... View Details

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

exports provide positive externalities and thus should be encouraged by government, the policy question is how to do so most effectively. One large body of thinking is devoted to identifying general barriers... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Review of Accounting Studies , 2015) with Dan Amiram and Zahn Bozanic. George Serafeim : Received a 2017 Emerald Management Review Citation of Excellence Award for "Corporate Social Responsibility and Access View Details

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FAQs for Alumni Virtual Programs - Alumni

Programs & Events FAQs for Alumni Virtual Programs Registration In what time zone are the events held? All events take place during Eastern Time. I registered for an upcoming event and now wish to switch my... View Details

02 May 2022
What Do You Think?

Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

good, way to inspire and develop people able to lead in a world demanding more and more social conscience as well as organizational agility and adaptability? Clearly, the case... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

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