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- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
name Shoktidoi) for the nearly 50 million Bangladeshi children using an innovative social business model. The case describes the progress as of 2008 and poses questions regarding how the company might... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
learning about the impact of business on poverty reduction, something about which we know surprisingly little today. Q: How much progress do you think has been made towards reducing global poverty? Are there other key components to... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
the institute's culture, which had previously allowed faculty scientists complete autonomy over their research. Center leaders are required to develop a business plan, adhere to agreed-upon performance metrics, and undergo regular View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
education in local communities? To switch to renewable power? All of these actions might improve social welfare, and some of them might improve profitability, but they are very different, and the business case for each of them is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
and giving them direction, there are other ways in which you can make sure that progress is happening. You don’t need to physically have face time to make sure that work is getting done. In fact, in some ways that could be... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
section of stock returns, also predicts excess bond returns. These relationships remain in place even when bonds and stocks become "decoupled" at the index level. They are driven by a combination of effects including... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
damaged the US’s social psyche, as did widespread drug use and chemical dependency. Vivid pictures of violence in Vietnam on TV plus incessant riots in major US cities began to blur the differences between crime, punishment, and View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Transfers usefully move resources from lowest- to highest-valuation networks, but transfers tend to cause socially costly growth in the Internet's routing table. We propose a market rule that avoids excessive trading and comes close to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
As much as some employees will crave the return of in-person social connections in the office, they have become accustomed to the flexibility that comes with virtual work—from less time to commute to more time with family and pets. I... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
Israeli start-ups raised record-breaking amounts of venture capital, and exits for the year totaled over $8 billion. On the other hand, government expenditure on R&D had decreased and Israel’s position in the Global Innovation Index... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
of goods and services. Progress is slow, and estimates are that it will be years before any substantive change is seen. Some even fear that India’s escalating population will overwhelm any improvements. “India has very good software in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
arena.” Related Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-Ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters In the process of teaming up with fellow students to write business plans, working with their faculty advisors (and getting... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
company and spend every dollar I had and the few dollars that I didn't have. While a wonderful experience searching for a company, it certainly was a financial hardship. I spent a couple of years working actually in the social sector. I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
quite new. He returned to India and ended up having a very successful career in business — first as the general manager and then as CEO of a small company, and later as the head of progressively larger companies. So my entire relationship... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
progressed along their path to power. Discovering common attributes that made these influential business leaders possible to build successful and sustainable companies in a very adverse and unfriendly context is an extremely necessary... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
encompasses the birth of the consumer society, the shift away from an industrial economy, and the decline of the social contract between companies and workers. So the Times articles were chosen — from a huge array of possibilities — to... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
transcend our differences. As a participant in, and a beneficiary of, what we know as “the great American experiment,” I feel compelled to pay it forward by contributing to our collective progress towards a better United States. Part of... View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
integrating the latest research about the interplay between human behavior, societal needs, and regulatory institutions. The book concludes by setting out a potential research agenda for the social sciences. Creating Value through... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
necessary for eliciting effort from those affecting the quality of interdependent teamwork. We consider the role of incentives versus social processes in catalyzing collaboration. We test our hypotheses using a unique data set of 260... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
policies can be partially explained by respondents' low trust in government and a disconnect between concerns about social issues and the public policies meant to address them. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne