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  • 21 Apr 2021
  • News

New Research Finds The ‘Old Boys Club’ At Work Is Real—And Contributing To The Gender Pay Gap

  • 2018
  • Speaking truth: Mobilizing Change Through Artistic Expression

"Black Can Be Me": Voicing the Musical Blackness through Song, Scholarship, and Social Media

  • Article

Young and No Money? Never Mind: The Material Impact of Social Resources on New Venture Growth

By: Mukti Khaire
Although growth is a desirable outcome for new ventures due to the many advantages of large size, most new firms fail to grow, largely due to their limited resources and adaptability. This paper addresses the question of how new ventures grow despite their limited... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Status and Position; Advertising Industry; Chicago; New York (city, NY)
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap

By: Zoë B. Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Offices are social places. Employees and managers take breaks together and talk about family and hobbies. In this study, we show that employees’ social interactions with their managers can be advantageous for their careers, and that this phenomenon contributes to the... View Details
Keywords: Career; Promotions; Social Interactions; Networking; Gender; Personal Development and Career; Wages; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • 29 Apr 2020
  • Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

The Harvard Business School Initiative on Social Enterprise is embarking on a new intellectual endeavor to understand a fast-changing and fertilearena — the Social Capital Markets. For years, money given to... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

taxes, there's an inverse relationship; they end up contributing to society," Emerson says. "We are trying to find out what investments are needed to achieve social value." At HBS, Emerson will explore how... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America

Consortium between Universidad de San Andrés, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and CEDES (a public policy think tank), Argentina Faculdade de Economia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil The HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE) was... View Details
  • Web

Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

leadership among the business community by founding the Ebola Private Sector Mobilization Group (EPSMG). Our project evaluated the role that AM and EPSMG played during the Ebola crisis in Liberia. Measuring the "Impact" in Impact Investing Spring 2015 | Focus: Impact... View Details
  • 11 Jun 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs

Keywords: by Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu & Toby E. Stuart
  • April 2017 (Revised March 2024)
  • Case

Making Target the Target: Boycotts and Corporate Political Activity

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Victor Wu
Through the challenges facing Target, the case examines ways in which corporations can become involved in political and legislative debates and processes, ranging from campaign contributions to lobbying to political activism. In 2016, Target CEO Brian Cornell must... View Details
Keywords: Boycott; Corporate Political Activity; Lobbying; LGBTQ; Campaign Contributions; Campaign Finance; Retail; Shareholder Activism; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Problems and Challenges; Laws and Statutes; Rights; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Media; Political Elections; Taxation; Corporate Accountability; Values and Beliefs; Fairness; Diversity; Customers; Communication; Business and Government Relations; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 20 Aug 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster

emulated? Anything that can contribute to social capital. The content must be easy to create but not as easy as photographing one's morning cappuccino. For example, someone in Toronto snapped a selfie with... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton
  • 04 Apr 2023
  • Book

Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology
  • Web

Leadership Collaborative | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

group convenings with other alumni practitioners to discuss problems of practice Programs to work with and advise students and other alumni on social impact careers and topics Opportunities to contribute to... View Details
  • 1 Aug 2003 - 6 Aug 2003
  • Conference Presentation

Do I contribute more when I trust more? A study on two boundary conditions of trust

By: K. Y. Ng and Roy Y.J. Chua
Keywords: Trust; Decision Choices and Conditions
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  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Crowdfunding as 'Donations': Theory & Evidence

By: Kevin J. Boudreau, Lars Bo Jeppesen, Toke Reichstein and Francesco Rullani
For a wide class of crowdfunding approaches, we argue that the reward structure (for funders) is closer to that of charitable donations to public goods than it is to traditional entrepreneurial finance. Many features of the design of crowdfunding platforms can... View Details
Keywords: Crowdfunding Platforms; Entrepreneurial Finance; Free-riding; Voluntary Contributions To Public Goods; Online Technology; Entrepreneurship; Social and Collaborative Networks; Finance; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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  • 12 Nov 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Finance and Social Responsibility in the Informal Economy: Institutional Voids, Globalization, and Microfinance Institutions

Keywords: by Hao Liang, Christopher Marquis & Sunny Li Sun
  • Research Summary

Overview

Matthew's research examines how entrepreneurial organizations and their managers create social and institutional change. His latest project focuses on hybrid organizations that combine aspects of non-profits and companies to create innovative organizational forms. In... View Details
Keywords: Organization Theory; Hybrid Organizations; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Corporate Social Responsibility; Innovation
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A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

establishing a family precedent for service. “I turned to Leadership Fellows because I was interested in contributing to the social good,” says Mizuho. “For those of us entering the View Details
  • Web

A Life’s Work | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

charity but on the reality that its participants are contributing meaningful skills in the workplace. “In my mind, the progress that we see today in social entrepreneurship is the next step in the civil... View Details