Social Structure - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

ranking 16th out of 20 in the number of students who complete high school. Just as importantly, public education is facing a social justice issue that has the potential to undermine our democracy. Even with a dramatic increase in targeted... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

03 Mar 2010
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?

the commitment and loyalty of employees who perceive themselves as the most disposable of corporate assets ." What will it take to turn around negative trends in "identity"? Ajay Kumar Gupta suggests that "creation of View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

1995
Chapter

Regression to the Mean, Expectation Inflation, and the Winner's Curse in Organizational Contexts

By: J. R. Harrison and M. H. Bazerman

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Conflict and Resolution; Competition; Organizational Structure

Citation

09 Mar 2021
Blog Post

New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk

Initiative in which she leveraged her structured finance background and expertise from her tenure at Citigroup to focus on issues ranging from the financial structuring of renewable energy and infrastructure... View Details

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

the structure of managerial capitalism. Our book addresses this growing chasm between today's people and the organizations upon which they must depend for consumption and employment. The last fifty years have seen the rise of a new... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2003
News

New Course on Leadership, Values, and Corporate Accountability

After nearly two years of review and deliberation about the structure and content of the MBA required curriculum, in February Senior Associate Dean and MBA Program Chair W. Carl Kester announced several changes that will be implemented... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Gautam Mukunda leads off his new book, Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter, with the results of social science research that executives may wish not to consider: individual leaders rarely... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

Student-Profile

Mengjie "Magie" Cheng

Magie Cheng (she/her) worked for a social network company in their machine learning group and spent much of her time analyzing user behavior for a wide range of social networking applications. She became... View Details

01 Sep 2016
Blog Post

Reflecting on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program

HBS I am Head Senator of the Student Association. The Senate is in charge of defining the structure of section leadership –for example, each section has a president and more than ten elected positions to support View Details

14 Aug 2019
News

Pasricha on the Perils of Retirement

implications. “Turns out the two most dangerous years of your life are literally the year you were born and the year you retire,” Pasricha tells WBUR. So why do so many people hit a wall when they retire? Pasricha says that we tend to cut out what he calls “the four... View Details

01 Mar 2005
News

One-on-One with Edwin Reed

what sorts of activities do you oversee? Allen’s corporations provide myriad social services and operate a school, a resource center for battered women, senior-citizen complexes with 630 units, a for-profit transportation company, and... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

09 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

Working PapersThe Architecture of Complex Systems: Do Core-Periphery Structures Dominate? Authors:Alan MacCormack, Carliss Baldwin, and John Rusnak Abstract Any complex technological system can be decomposed into a number of subsystems... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2002
News

Driven

In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, HBS professor emeritus Paul Lawrence and professor Nitin Nohria explore one of the most basic questions of human behavior: What motivates us to act the way we do? Drawing on theories of evolutionary biology and View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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 (ACS) 5-Year Estimates... View Details

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Lucky Ones Coffee: Employing People with Disabilities | Information Technology

from the local community, and by early 2023 Holyfield and Matkins operated two coffee shops with 17 employees. The two entrepreneurs must now decide how to grow their business to create still more jobs, and how to structure the business... View Details

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

What's more, since going green is now red hot, a growing number of companies—especially in Europe and Japan—are also starting to issue Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) or Sustainability reports. Sometimes these are mailed with the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

19 May 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts

Harvard Business School MBA '03 students Raj De Datta, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Meghna Modi recently won the Social Enterprise track of the annual HBS Business Plan contest with their plan for brokering microfinance loans to families in... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Financial Services

01 Sep 2017
News

Research Brief: As the Wind Blows

scale up globally, and the 1990s saw lasting social and policy shifts in Germany and Spain that encouraged their entry into the wind game. By 1996, the largest wind energy companies in the world included one US, two German, and five... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

show how institutions simultaneously constrain and enable social action. Two-Sided Platforms: Product Variety and Pricing Structures Author:Andrei Hagiu Periodical:Journal of Economics and Management... View Details