social activism - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault

that’s how we will have long term success.” Looking forward, the ARF team plans to continue focusing on their four Pillars of Purpose – Justice System Reform, Education Parity, Health & Wellness Access, and Community Outreach & View Details

06 Jun 2005
What Do You Think?

Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?

especially in math and science, so graduates will be able to compete effectively with government-subsidized colleges in India and China." So let's assume that there is no such thing as a level playing field. Does it follow that efforts to make it more level are... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

and incubators at local universities, which themselves enjoyed explosive growth. By 2017, Miami was ranked the number one city in America for startup activity by the Kauffman Foundation. "Each one is changing something about the... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

changing accruals, for example—the adverse impact on company value is probably small. But rarely is the activity so benign. Usually, the shuffling of dollars results from decisions that change the operating characteristics of a company,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture , 1884–1929 . “Businesses, especially manufacturing and communications industries at the forefront of both labor activism and welfare capitalism, responded... View Details

15 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: January 15

designers must think about how to distribute property rights, people, and activities across numerous self-governing enterprises in ways that are advantageous for the group (ecosystem) as well as for the designer's own firm or community.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

world has ever seen. The current climate crisis is far beyond an environmental issue—it is an existential crisis. Moreover, it converges with—and exacerbates—the crises we face in biodiversity, global health, and social justice. As... View Details

February 2006 (Revised September 2006)
Case

Sippican Corporation (A)

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Presents a time-driven version of the Wilkerson Co. activity-based costing case (101092). Faced with declining profits, Sippican Corp. is struggling to understand why it is encountering severe price competition on one product line. The controller collects data that... View Details

Keywords: History; Business Model; Strategic Planning; Cost Accounting; Motivation and Incentives; Resource Allocation; Activity Based Costing and Management; Profit; Business Strategy; Budgets and Budgeting

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06 Aug 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

main classes, and so we can sort of carry the social significance from Sunday into our classroom on Monday and just talk about the ads as consumers, but also turning the tables and examining them as brand managers, and so examining, what... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

22 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

public research organizations, such as universities and hospitals, and private firms are an established policy tool around the world for the delivery of social or public services, and their use as a tool to foster the translation of basic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About

faculty members and students are responsible for understanding and complying with this policy. Faculty members and students are encouraged to seek advice from the Dean or a Dean’s designate for activities or questions not explicitly... View Details

12 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

income for many people. During 2021, as travel resumed, Airbnb hosts collectively earned $34 billion across 6 million active listings. One possible reason that Airbnb prominently features the names and faces of hosts on its site is to... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Technology; Travel

31 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

cognitive-behavioral therapy, as well as mindfulness and meditation-based stress reduction. This first group logged in to complete various activities and games at least twice per week that showed them, for example, how to savor the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

them. They’ll be relieved to know this isn’t easy for anyone.” 8. Focus on outcomes rather than monitoring activities Supervisors who lack experience managing remote workers might seek to keep close tabs on employees—asking them to keep... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

decades thereafter, the NBA’s activity on the continent focused on grassroots development. Its international Basketball Without Borders program, which launched in Africa in 2003, featured athletic development and training as well as... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

of an airliner. Hundreds of hours may go into gathering and analyzing data to sort out exactly what happened and what can be learned. Compare this kind of analysis to what takes place in most organizations after a failure. As noted above, View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

19 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

want corporate platitudes and passive social activism after living in pandemic limbo for so long. A = Align your post-COVID employee policies, resources, and timelines, like you would with any other business... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

disclosure of fundamentals and trading transparency. This is socially inefficient if a large fraction of market participants are speculators, and hedgers have low processing costs. But in these circumstances, forbidding hedgers’ access to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

Facebook’s vision and mission statement.” Brendan Coffey led the way in proposing that “FB needs a much more active strategy to place the user in a position of control with respect to how their data is used.” Bhanu Ramenani suggested one... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

adds, big acquisitions and IPOs started happening in the MENA region, catalyzing a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurial activity and investment: Amazon acquired Souq for $580 million in 2017 and Uber purchased Careem for $3.1 billion in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

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