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  • 08 Nov 2011
  • News

Capitalism 2.0: Corporate Social Responsibility Is Not the Enemy of Profits

  • 2007
  • Book

From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession

By: Rakesh Khurana
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform.... View Details
Keywords: Social History; Business Education; Moral Sensibility; Profit; Leadership; Managerial Roles; United States
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Khurana, Rakesh. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. (Winner of Association of American Publishers Best Professional/Scholarly Publishing Book in Business, Finance and Management. Winner of Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship for the book which makes an outstanding contribution to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and/or work presented by American Sociological Association.)

    Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in China: Symbol or Substance?

    This study focuses on how and why firms strategically respond to government signals regarding appropriate corporate activity. We integrate institutional theory with research on corporate political strategy to develop a political dependence model that explains (a) how... View Details
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    Social Innovation Field Projects

    By: John Jong-Hyun Kim
    The class will serve as the central clearing house for all independent projects relating to enterprises that are creating social value, with projects ranging from nonprofits to purpose driven for-profit businesses. This course provides students an opportunity to use... View Details
    Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Social Innovation; Social Enterprise
    • December 2022
    • Article

    Social Skills Improve Business Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial with Entrepreneurs in Togo

    By: Stefan Dimitriadis and Rembrand Koning
    Recent field experiments demonstrate that advice, mentorship, and feedback from randomly assigned peers improve entrepreneurial performance. These results raise a natural question: what is preventing entrepreneurs and managers from forming these peer connections... View Details
    Keywords: Social Skills; Business Performance; Entrepreneurs; Peer Relationships; Field Experiment; Entrepreneurship; Performance; Relationships; Interpersonal Communication; Togo
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    Dimitriadis, Stefan, and Rembrand Koning. "Social Skills Improve Business Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial with Entrepreneurs in Togo." Management Science 68, no. 12 (December 2022): 8635–8657.
    • 28 May 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

    Associates. A social responsibility strategy should fulfill two goals: create a positive social impact, and enhance the company's brand, reputation, employee morale, and/or its... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 22 Apr 2014
    • News

    Exploring and defining a vision of responsible business leadership

    Harvard Business School Visiting Scholar Karthik Ramanna talks about the School's role in promoting ethical thinking and responsible action by business leaders. (Published... View Details
    • November 2011
    • Article

    Social Strategies That Work

    By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
    Although most companies have collected lots of friends and followers on social platforms such as Facebook, few have succeeded in generating profits there. That's because they merely port their digital strategies into social environments by broadcasting their commercial... View Details
    Keywords: Social Platforms; Social Strategies; Social and Collaborative Networks; Customers; Relationships; Business Strategy; Profit
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    Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan. "Social Strategies That Work." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 11 (November 2011): 116–122.
    • 22 Aug 2017
    • News

    Corporate Responsibility In The Age Of Trump

    • March 2013
    • Supplement

    Equitas Microfinance (B): Response to the Andhra Pradesh Crisis

    By: V.G. Narayanan, V. Kasturi Rangan and Vidhya Muthuram
    Keywords: Business Model; For-profit Firms; Microfinance; Growth And Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Financial Services Industry; Social Enterprise; India
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    Narayanan, V.G., V. Kasturi Rangan, and Vidhya Muthuram. "Equitas Microfinance (B): Response to the Andhra Pradesh Crisis." Harvard Business School Supplement 113-005, March 2013.
    • 01 Apr 2020
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    Coronavirus Is Putting Corporate Social Responsibility to the Test

    • April 2012 (Revised March 2013)
    • Case

    Social Strategy at Harvard Business Review

    By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and David Chen
    The Harvard Business Review (HBR) Group was an early adopter of social media, boasting a robust presence on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Now the company is seeking to evolve the Group's efforts from social media to social strategy—and start moving both revenue... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Social and Collaborative Networks; Web; Publishing Industry; United States
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    Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan, and David Chen. "Social Strategy at Harvard Business Review." Harvard Business School Case 712-481, April 2012. (Revised March 2013.)
    • January 31, 2019
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    The Backlash to Larry Fink's Letter Shows How Far Business Has to Go on Social Responsibility

    By: Mark R. Kramer
    Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest investor with $6 trillion under management, evoked heated controversy with his remarks last week that his company would change its hiring and potentially its compensation structure to advance diversity and ensure that... View Details
    Keywords: Diversity; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose
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    Kramer, Mark R. "The Backlash to Larry Fink's Letter Shows How Far Business Has to Go on Social Responsibility." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (January 31, 2019).
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    The Future of Economic, Business, and Social History

    By: G. Jones, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen and Stephen Broadberry
    Three leading scholars in the fields of business, economic, and social history review the current state of these disciplines and reflect on their future trajectory. Geoffrey Jones reviews the development of business history since its birth at the Harvard Business... View Details
    Keywords: Economic History; Business History; History; Asia; Africa; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
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    Jones, G., Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, and Stephen Broadberry. "The Future of Economic, Business, and Social History." Scandinavian Economic History Review 60, no. 3 (2012): 225–253.
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    Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    Since its inception, the Social Enterprise Initiative has explored the role of business in creating social value. Early efforts in the late 1990s... View Details
    • July 2017
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    Business Responsibilities for Human Rights: A Commentary on Arnold

    By: Nien-hê Hsieh
    Human rights have come to play a prominent role in debates about the responsibilities of business. In the business ethics literature, there are two approaches to the question of whether businesses have human rights obligations. The “moral” approach conceives of human... View Details
    Keywords: Rights; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Moral Sensibility; Society
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    Hsieh, Nien-hê. "Business Responsibilities for Human Rights: A Commentary on Arnold." Business and Human Rights Journal 2, no. 2 (July 2017): 297–309.
    • 25 Mar 2009
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    Harvard Business School Selects Inaugural Recipient of Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship

    • 04 Apr 2023
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    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
    • July 2014 (Revised November 2014)
    • Module Note

    Responsibilities to Society: The Capitalist's Contract

    By: Karthik Ramanna
    Societies face many pressing challenges with serious implications for business leaders. These include pollution and climate change, poverty and income inequality, obesity and public health, and corruption and regulatory capture. This note presents a way of analyzing... View Details
    Keywords: Responsibilities To Society; The Capitalist's Contract; Leadership
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    Ramanna, Karthik. "Responsibilities to Society: The Capitalist's Contract." Harvard Business School Module Note 115-012, July 2014. (Revised November 2014.)
    • 23 Dec 2010
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    How Social Networking Has Changed Business

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