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Assent-maximizing Social Choice

By: Katherine A. Baldiga and Jerry R. Green
We take a decision theoretic approach to the classic social choice problem, using data on the frequency of choice problems to compute social choice functions. We define a family of social choice rules that depend on the population's preferences and on the probability... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Theory; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods; Society
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Baldiga, Katherine A., and Jerry R. Green. "Assent-maximizing Social Choice." Social Choice and Welfare 40, no. 2 (February 2013): 439–460.

    A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media

    Almost no one had heard of social media a decade ago, but today websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have more than 1 billion users and account for almost 25 percent of Internet use. Practically overnight, social media seems indispensable to our... View Details

    • December 2014 (Revised October 2017)
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    Social Business at Novartis: Arogya Parivar

    By: Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer and David Lane
    Late in 2013, Novartis CEO Joseph Jimenez was considering whether or how to deepen the company's investment in Arogya Parivar, its profitable program that sold Novartis medicines in rural India while expanding access to medicine and health information to millions of... View Details
    Keywords: Shared Value; India; Kenya; Vietnam; Novartis; Arogya Parivar; Social Business; Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Pharmaceutical Industry; Viet Nam; Kenya; India
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    Porter, Michael E., Mark R. Kramer, and David Lane. "Social Business at Novartis: Arogya Parivar." Harvard Business School Case 715-411, December 2014. (Revised October 2017.)
    • June 2016
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    Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation for Corporate Social Responsibility

    By: Bryan Hong, Zhichuan (Frank) Li and Dylan B. Minor
    We link the corporate governance literature in financial economics to the agency cost perspective of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to derive theoretical predictions about the relationship between corporate governance and the existence of executive compensation... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Incentives For CSR; Non-financial Performance Measures; Agency Costs; Board Independence; Institutional Holdings; Managerial Power; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Executive Compensation; Corporate Governance
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    Hong, Bryan, Zhichuan (Frank) Li, and Dylan B. Minor. "Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation for Corporate Social Responsibility." Journal of Business Ethics 136, no. 1 (June 2016): 199–213.
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    Scandal, Social Movement, and Change: Evidence from #MeToo in Hollywood

    By: Hong Luo and Laurina Zhang
    Social movements have the potential to effect change in firm decision-making. In this paper, we examine whether the #MeToo movement, spurred by the Harvey Weinstein scandal, led to changes in the likelihood of Hollywood producers working with female writers on new... View Details
    Keywords: Gender Inequality; Social Movement; Scandal; Creative Industries; Project Selection; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Social Issues; Film Entertainment; Projects; Change
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    Luo, Hong, and Laurina Zhang. "Scandal, Social Movement, and Change: Evidence from #MeToo in Hollywood." Management Science 68, no. 2 (February 2022): 1278–1296.
    • November 2007 (Revised September 2010)
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    Social Identity Profile

    By: Sandra J. Sucher
    This survey asks students to identify their various social identities and the impact these identities have on how they behave and are treated in HBS and in other settings. View Details
    Keywords: Business Education; Behavior; Identity; Culture; Social Issues
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    Sucher, Sandra J. "Social Identity Profile." Harvard Business School Exercise 608-091, November 2007. (Revised September 2010.)
    • 02 Jun 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’

    book excerpt What My Research Revealed, In Broad Strokes From A Social Strategy: How We Profit From Social Media By Mikolaj Jan Piskorski As I began my research, it quickly became clear that there are two... View Details
    • March 2013
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    Breaking Them in or Eliciting Their Best? Reframing Socialization around Newcomers' Authentic Self-expression

    By: Daniel M. Cable, Francesca Gino and Brad Staats
    Socialization theory has focused on enculturating new employees such that they develop pride in their new organization and internalize its values. Drawing on authenticity research, we propose that the initial stage of socialization leads to more effective employment... View Details
    Keywords: Socialization; Authenticity; Self-Expression; Best Self; Outsourcing; Employee Retention; Organizational Culture; Retention; Identity; Customer Satisfaction
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    Cable, Daniel M., Francesca Gino, and Brad Staats. "Breaking Them in or Eliciting Their Best? Reframing Socialization around Newcomers' Authentic Self-expression." Administrative Science Quarterly 58, no. 1 (March 2013): 1–36.
    • December 2012
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    What Drives Corporate Social Performance? The Role of Nation-level Institutions

    By: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
    Based on Whitley's "National Business Systems" (NBS) institutional framework (Whitley 1997, 1999), we theorize about and empirically investigate the impact of nation-level institutions on firms' corporate social performance (CSP). Using a sample of firms from 42... View Details
    Keywords: Environment; Environmental Performance; Corporate Social Responsibility; Sustainability; Institutions; Institutional Theory; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance
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    Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim. "What Drives Corporate Social Performance? The Role of Nation-level Institutions." Journal of International Business Studies 43, no. 9 (December 2012): 834–864.
    • 2021
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    Assessing the Strength of Network Effects in Social Network Platforms

    By: Marco Iansiti
    Network effects have risen to the forefront of platform competition discussions (e.g. the House Judiciary investigation of competition in digital markets, claiming that Facebook, for example, is entrenched due to strong network effects and high switching costs). While... View Details
    Keywords: Social Networks; Platform Competition; Network Effects; Competition; Social Media; Digital Platforms
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    Iansiti, Marco. "Assessing the Strength of Network Effects in Social Network Platforms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-086, February 2021.
    • March 2014
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    Cheating More for Less: Upward Social Comparisons Motivate the Poorly Compensated to Cheat

    By: Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein and Scott Rick
    Intuitively, people should cheat more when cheating is more lucrative, but we find that the effect of performance-based pay rates on dishonesty depends on how readily people can compare their pay rate to that of others. In Experiment 1, participants were paid 5 cents... View Details
    Keywords: Dishonesty; Social Comparison; Pay Secrecy; Motivation and Incentives; Fairness; Decision Making; Compensation and Benefits
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    John, Leslie K., George Loewenstein, and Scott Rick. "Cheating More for Less: Upward Social Comparisons Motivate the Poorly Compensated to Cheat." Special Issue on Behavioral Ethics. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 123, no. 2 (March 2014): 101–109.
    • July 1998 (Revised March 1999)
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    Social Security Reform

    Examines various approaches to pension reform. Examines the current Social Security system in the United States, pension reform in other countries, and the leading approaches to reform. Concludes with analysis of three questions: 1) would returns be higher in a private... View Details
    Keywords: Privatization; Retirement; Welfare or Wellbeing; Government and Politics; Public Administration Industry; United States
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    Kennedy, Robert E., and Brian Irwin. "Social Security Reform." Harvard Business School Case 799-011, July 1998. (Revised March 1999.)
    • 20 Mar 2013
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    Sizing Up Social Impact

    • April 2014
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    Corporate Social Responsibility:: A Way of Life at the Tata Group

    By: Shashank Shah
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; India
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    Shah, Shashank. "Corporate Social Responsibility: A Way of Life at the Tata Group." Journal of Human Values 20, no. 1 (April 2014): 59–74.
    • July 13, 2023
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    Threads Foreshadows a Big—and Surprising—Shift in Social Media

    By: Scott Duke Kominers and Liang Wu
    Threads, Meta’s Twitter competitor, has become the fastest downloaded app in history. One of the reasons for this is because it allows users to port over their profiles and follows from the already popular social media platform Instagram, also owned by Meta—a feature... View Details
    Keywords: Decentralization; Twitter; Facebook; Instagram; Crypto Economy; Blockchain; Network; Industrial Organization; Competition; Open Innovation; Open Platforms; Open Source Innovation; Social Networks; Social Media; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry
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    Kominers, Scott Duke, and Liang Wu. "Threads Foreshadows a Big—and Surprising—Shift in Social Media." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (July 13, 2023).
    • May 2015
    • Teaching Note

    Walmart: Segmenting Social Impact

    By: Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer and Pamela Sud
    This case provides a sample of Walmart's social engagement activities and asks students to categorize each as philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, or creating shared value. View Details
    Keywords: Creating Shared Value; Society; Value Creation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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    Porter, Michael E., Mark R. Kramer, and Pamela Sud. "Walmart: Segmenting Social Impact." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 715-436, May 2015.
    • 2023
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    Estimating Causal Peer Influence in Homophilous Social Networks by Inferring Latent Locations.

    By: Edward McFowland III and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
    Social influence cannot be identified from purely observational data on social networks, because such influence is generically confounded with latent homophily, that is, with a node’s network partners being informative about the node’s attributes and therefore its... View Details
    Keywords: Causal Inference; Homophily; Social Networks; Peer Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Power and Influence; Mathematical Methods
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    McFowland III, Edward, and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi. "Estimating Causal Peer Influence in Homophilous Social Networks by Inferring Latent Locations." Journal of the American Statistical Association 118, no. 541 (2023): 707–718.
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    Designing Social Networks: Joint Tasks and the Formation and Endurance of Network Ties

    By: Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning
    Can managers influence the formation of organizational networks? In this article, we evaluate the effect of joint tasks on the creation of network ties with data from a novel field experiment with 112 aspiring entrepreneurs. During the study, we randomized individuals... View Details
    Keywords: Accelerators; Entrepreneur; Social Networks; Field Experiment; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Design; Networks; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Media; Information Technology Industry; India
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    Hasan, Sharique, and Rembrand Koning. "Designing Social Networks: Joint Tasks and the Formation and Endurance of Network Ties." Art. 4. Journal of Organization Design 9 (2020).
    • October 2023
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    Social Finance: Driving Accountability

    By: Robin Greenwood, Richard S. Ruback and Robert Ialenti
    Social Finance is a Boston-based nonprofit that works at the intersection of finance and policy. It raises, allocates, and manages capital to fund projects in the areas of education, early childhood development, criminal justice, and health. The case explores how... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Training
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    Greenwood, Robin, Richard S. Ruback, and Robert Ialenti. "Social Finance: Driving Accountability." Harvard Business School Case 224-043, October 2023.
    • March 2013
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    Competing with Social Networks: Social Failures

    By: Mikolaj J. Piskorski
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    Piskorski, Mikolaj J. "Competing with Social Networks: Social Failures." Harvard Business School Module Note 713-494, March 2013.
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