Social Institutions - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

ongoing sources of geographic and social mobility. Because individuals derived most of their meaning from institutions grounded in enduring social relations—institutions like... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 May 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts

Harvard Business School MBA '03 students Raj De Datta, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Meghna Modi recently won the Social Enterprise track of the annual HBS Business Plan contest with their plan for brokering microfinance loans to families in... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Financial Services

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

Even when a strategic fit is not immediately obvious, common ground can often be discovered. —James E. Austin Similarly, the National Science Resources Center (NSRC) a nonprofit organization created by the Smithsonian Institution and... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

01 Jun 2024
News

Outside Voices

Afroditi Xydi (MBA 2022), especially considering that 67 percent of those who left hold advanced degrees. Xydi, who earned a master’s in engineering from MIT, cofounded the nonpartisan Deon Policy Institute in 2022 with the aim of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Pete Ryan; immigration; repatriation; innovation; public policy; Greece

01 Jun 2006
News

Allston Plan’s First Building

A 500,000-square-foot science complex will be the first building of Harvard University’s new Allston campus. The complex, which will house the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and a number of cross-departmental science initiatives, will be... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Jun 2016
News

Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues

development challenges facing India and other emerging economies, through impact investing in areas such as affordable housing, financial inclusion, and access to energy. The other is VSG Capital Advisors, an investment bank that is bringing long-term View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

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Workshops & Technical Talks - Research Computing Services

Training Training Workshops & Technical Talks 11ms See below for trainings, reference materials, and resources at Harvard and beyond. R R workshop materials (e.g., Intro to R; R Regression models) from Harvard's Institute for Quantitative... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

Get Well Soon

Medical Center” (CCHMC) details how one institution has implemented its own version of health-care reform, taking overall perfor-mance levels from well below average to the top 10 percent in the industry. Coauthored by HBS assistant... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

07 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

down leads and making personal visits with potential clients. They also spend considerable resources in traditional marketing, especially the large firms. Those setup costs must be recovered over time through fees. Wealthfront keeps those costs low by finding clients... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

14 Feb 2018
News

A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace

economists, organizational scientists, and demographers show that socially diverse groups––those with a diversity of race, gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation––are more innovative than homogeneous groups,” Coleman says. “By... View Details

11 Aug 2014
HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

couple it with loss aversion, and you put people in a position where they're more likely to go out and exercise." StickK has incorporated another economic principle—the power of social norms—to keep people on track. Users create an online... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Health

December 2013
Article

Reputational Contagion and Optimal Regulatory Forbearance

By: Alan Morrison and Lucy White

Existing studies suggest that systemic crises may arise because banks either hold correlated assets or are connected by interbank lending. This paper shows that common regulation is also a conduit for interbank contagion. One bank's failure may undermine confidence in... View Details

Keywords: Reputation; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

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September 2000
Case

Japanese Financial Crisis and the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, The

By: Malcolm S. Salter and Andrew Eggers

Illustrates the failure of Japan's banking elite to adjust to new economic conditions. View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Behavior; Japan

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01 Mar 2005
News

One-on-One with Edwin Reed

Reed Edwin C. Reed (MBA ’79) spends Saturdays with his family, but on Sundays, you’ll always find him at the office. Reed is the CFO of the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Jamaica, Queens — a powerhouse religious institution... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

"five contexts framework"—issues to consider, in essence—to understand institutional variations between countries. We excerpt a summary of the five contexts. As we helped companies think through their globalization strategies,... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

05 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 5

embodied in the regulatory schemes they help to implement. Drawing on insights from the literatures on street-level bureaucracy and on regulatory and audit design, we theorize and investigate the economic incentives and social View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Sep 2020
News

HBS Goes Back To School

Photo: Hensley Carrasco SEPTEMBER 17 The HBS Social Enterprise community welcomed first-year students with a welcome video which features insights and advice from students, administrative leaders, and second-year students. “The Kick-off,”... View Details

02 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?

in business in any event, were socialized in corporate ethics courses with the rest of the world's best and brightest?" Others objected to the assumption that teaching values to adults is difficult at best and impossible at worst.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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