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  • 2022
  • Article

Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium

By: Nathan Wilmers and Letian Zhang
Employers often recruit workers by invoking corporate social responsibility, organizational purpose, or other claims to a prosocial mission. In an era of substantial labor market inequality, commentators typically dismiss these claims as hypocritical: prosocial... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Equality and Inequality; Wages; Recruitment
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  • April 2009
  • Journal Article

Perspectives on the Productivity Dilemma

By: Paul S. Adler, Mary Benner, David James Brunner, John Paul MacDuffie, Emi Osono, Bradley R. Staats, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Michael Tushman and Sidney G. Winter
For more than a century, operations researchers have recognized that organizations can increase efficiency by adhering strictly to proven process templates, thereby rendering operations more stable and predictable. For several decades, researchers have also recognized... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Efficiency; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity; Adaptation
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  • 29 Mar 2019
  • Blog Post

SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO WAVE

This blog was originally published on the SEI Impact Insights blog. This post is part of the Social Enterprise Initiative 25th anniversary blog series, which highlights some of the faculty, staff, students, and alumni who have been a part... View Details
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

they feel a lack of “agency,” a sense that only the highest rank of management can effect positive social change from within a business. Ironically, an increasing number of C-suite executives, including former Starbucks CEO Howard... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • 02 Aug 2016
  • Blog Post

The Making of An Internship: What Drives Students’ Interests

Join HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) as we follow three students throughout their summer internships, and learn best practices for creating a successful summer program. Meet three Class of 2017 students who share the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • November 1999 (Revised March 2003)
  • Case

Webvan: Groceries on the Internet

By: John A. Deighton and Kayla Bakshi
What are the prospects for grocery shopping on the Web? This case invites a comparison of seven business models, with particular emphasis on Webvan. Why does the investment community value Webvan at $7.8 billion after less than six months of operating experience, and... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Experience and Expertise; Investment; Information; Marketing; Distribution Channels; Service Delivery; Cognition and Thinking; Internet and the Web; Retail Industry; Service Industry
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  • 28 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

Now, consumers learn about a product in different ways—receive directly from the firm through traditional or digital advertising, seek out information themselves through search, or learn from other consumers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising
  • 24 Jul 2019
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

of low-cost, scalable interventions leveraging behavioral insights, and in many cases they’re being applied for the social good.” The success of BIT’s tax letter helped the organization grow. Nicknamed the “nudge unit,” BIT started with... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

Online World David J. Collis, Peter W. Olson, and Mary FureyHarvard Business School Case 709-464 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/709464-PDF-ENG Pratham—Every Child in School and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    Policy versus Practice: Conceptions of Artificial Intelligence

    The recent growth of concern around issues such as social biases implicit in algorithms, economic impacts of artificial intelligence (AI), or potential existential threats posed... View Details

    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Geography, Poverty and Conflict in Nepal

    By: Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer
    This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the geographic, economic and social factors that contributed to the spread of civil war in Nepal over the period 1996-2006. This within-country analysis complements existing cross-country studies on the same subject. Using a... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; War; Poverty; Nepal
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    • 20 May 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

    the Washington Post headlined, If Howard Schultz runs for president, Starbucks will be on the ballot, too. Schultz’s political ambitions mark a growing wave of business leaders speaking out on social issues—termed “CEO activism” by... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • Web

    Education Sector Opportunities at HBS - MBA

    Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
    • Web

    2+2 Program - MBA

    professional position in the public, private, or nonprofit sector before enrolling at HBS. Download the 2+2 Program Brochure to learn more. Who Are We Looking For? The 2+2 program is designed to create a pathway to the MBA for... View Details
    • February 2011 (Revised November 2012)
    • Case

    PatientsLikeMe: An Online Community of Patients

    By: Sunil Gupta and Jason Riis
    PatientsLikeMe (PLM) is an online community where patients share their personal experiences with a disease, find other patients like them, and learn from each other. The company was founded by Jamie and Ben Heywood when their 29-year-old brother was diagnosed with ALS... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Health Disorders; Knowledge Sharing; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Launch; Digital Platforms; Social and Collaborative Networks; Health Industry
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    • 05 Jan 2017
    • Blog Post

    Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

    contracting social services through conversations with industry leaders.  Beyond the academic exposure it afforded me, the joint degree program offered an incredible laboratory to develop my personal theory... View Details
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com

    By: Michael Luca
    Do online consumer reviews affect restaurant demand? I investigate this question using a novel dataset combining reviews from the website Yelp.com and restaurant data from the Washington State Department of Revenue. Because Yelp prominently displays a restaurant's... View Details
    Keywords: Revenue; Network Effects; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry; Washington (state, US)
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    • 02 Jul 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

    Do companies with reputations for acting in socially responsible ways receive public goodwill when unpleasant news hits? The question of how much (or even if) corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy
    • October 2003 (Revised January 2004)
    • Exercise

    Electric Maze Exercise, The

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar
    This team-based exercise uses an educational tool called "The Electric Maze," developed by Interel Corp., to teach insights about the social and psychological challenges facing employees who must engage in collaborative learning. The tool is a grid-patterned rug with... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Leadership; Learning; Groups and Teams; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • 2010
    • Article

    Geography, Poverty and Conflict in Nepal

    By: Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer
    This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the geographic, economic and social factors that contributed to the spread of civil war in Nepal over the period 1996-2006. This within-country analysis complements existing cross-country studies on the same subject. Using a... View Details
    Keywords: Ethnicity; War; Poverty; Geography; Conflict and Resolution; Government and Politics; Economics; Nepal
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