Social Attachment To Place - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 May 2016
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Samsung Global Strategy Group

focus on filling a role called Global Strategist. Interns spend two months living and working in our headquarters in downtown Seoul. Global Strategists work as internal consultants for our various business units for 1.5 to 2 years, after... View Details

Keywords: Technology

01 Jun 2013
News

Revitalizing America

entrepreneurs to places with unmet needs, where their imaginations can be stimulated to find new solutions—for example, the cloth incubators for premature babies who lack... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

26 Apr 2016
First Look

April 26

sustainably, and demanded its suppliers do the same, this would have an impact on its own bottom line and make the world a better place for everyone. Students can explore whether Walmart is making these changes View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Feb 2007
What Do You Think?

Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?

implementation that we forget why we are here in the first place . 'Why' is just as important as the 'How'; they are not mutually exclusive." As Nari Kannan put it, "To survive and thrive, I think companies need View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

21 Mar 2016
HBS Case

Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'

firm-driven communication using the brand, my definition of advertising, still has a place for many, many companies. They should track consumer-to-consumer communication, i.e. word-of-mouth, but in some cases with word-of-mouth there’s... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Advertising; Travel

06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

reversed decades of progress, particularly in places that lack access to vaccines, worsening hunger, poverty, gender inequality, and conflict—the impacts of which could be more deadly than COVID-19 itself.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Social Assistance

15 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

urban population, expected to reach 3 billion over the next four decades, will require housing, places to work, and transportation systems. Second, the natural resources... View Details

Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

Boston predict which places might be violating public health regulations. And it is working with an education nonprofit in Watertown, Mass., Education Resource Strategies, to study how school districts spend... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 7

for firm and board characteristics, we find that independent directors' dissent is associated with breakdown of social ties between the independent director and the board chairperson, who locates at the center of the board bureaucracy in... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google

hundreds of millions of dollars. It also helped create viral marketing, which lets users help suppliers sell the product. Potential for commercial success once again triumphed over social station. Openness View Details

Keywords: by Shane Greenstein; Information Technology

12 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

Management, a "sustainable" investing firm established in 2004 by David Blood and U.S. Vice President AI Gore. Places students in the position of David Lowish, director of global industrials, who must decide whether View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

understanding the risks and opportunities created by environmental and social issues and trends and responding to both in a meaningful way. When and where a sincere commitment View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

that may be to do. In this article, the authors look at research from behavioral economics, social psychology, and other disciplines and offer practical tactics for leaders hoping View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

19 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations

Social networks matter for more than just efficient Internet communication. They're also crucial for the strong performance of stock recommendations by analysts, according to researchers at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

15 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS

2020 Adelante Conference (10/24-10/25): This year's theme is "Emerge," focusing on Latinx resilience and progress. We want to help our community emerge from the current challenges we face -- a global pandemic, inequity, View Details

13 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 13

trade reasonably close to their intrinsic value. In place of earnings forecasts, management should provide information about the company's strategic goals and main value drivers. They should also discuss the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Introducing the HBS Heartland Club

that their voices are valued at HBS, they can find their place in the HBS community, and can have a vast array of opportunities post-graduation. What we are doing now The Heartland Club is actively building community on campus through... View Details

01 Mar 2007
News

The Plight of the Global Poor

QUEZON CITY, THE PHILIPPINES: On the edge of this municipality of Manila lies the Payatas dumpsite, the home and sole provider to thousands of scavengers. Payatas and places like it are symbols of a glaring... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; bottom of the pyramid (BOP); Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance

21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

shareholders the right to place board nominees on the company's proxy ballot. Said SEC chairman Mary Schapiro: "This would turn what would otherwise be a somewhat illusory [shareholder] right View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

21 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

PublicationsThe Rise of the Modern Firm Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Walter A. Friedman, eds. Publication:Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2012 This authoritative volume focuses on the rise of modern firms, from their early history View Details