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09 Jan 2018
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Facebook Score, Emotional Intelligence, Make Marriage Work

February 2008 (Revised February 2009)
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The International Finance Corporation's Grassroots Business Initiative

Grassroots Business Initiative was set up to financially assist small enterprises engaged in creating social value. Three years later, Harold Rosen, its creator, wished to explore an alternative funding model to provide it with scale and sustainability. View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Microfinance; Investment Funds; Social Enterprise

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Find at Harvard

Brian Trelstad is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the General Management Unit and the Faculty Chair of the Advanced Leadership Initiative. He teaches elective courses on Social Entrepreneurship and Systems... View Details

Keywords: education industry; health care; service industry; emerging market private equity; private equity (other); venture capital industry

29 Jun 2011
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Facebook's virtual currency draws antitrust complaints from consumer advocates

John Beshears

John Beshears is the Albert J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit, teaching the second-year MBA course "Negotiation." He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Off-the-Shelf or Do-It-Yourself?

14 Sep 2017
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If You Think Everyone Else Has More Friends, You're Not Alone

Julian J. Zlatev

Julian Zlatev is an assistant professor of business administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. He teaches the second-year Negotiation course.

Professor Zlatev’s research interests include ethics and morality, trust, impression... View Details

2017
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Of Margins and Modalities

Amit Goldenberg

Amit Goldenberg is an assistant professor in the Negotiation Organization & Markets unit, an affiliate with Harvard’s View Details

2020
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Emotions and Emotion Regulation

By: Svenja A. Wolf, Amit Goldenberg and Mickaël Campo

This is the first textbook to explore and explain the contribution of social groups and social identity to all aspects of sports and exercise—from leadership, motivation and communication to mental health, teamwork, and fan behaviour. In the context of increasing... View Details

Keywords: Emotion Regulation; Emotions; Social Psychology

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14 Jun 2019
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A Simple Strategy For Happiness

Carolyn J. Fu

Carolyn Fu is an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy Unit. She studies innovation strategy in the context of high degrees of social construction – where the value of an innovation is continuously redefined between firms and their... View Details

Edward McFowland III

Edward McFowland III is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the first-year TOM course in the required curriculum.

Professor McFowland’s research interests – which lie at the... View Details

Shirley Lu

Shirley Lu is an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit. She teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum.

Professor Lu conducts research in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) disclosure,... View Details

James W. Riley

James Riley is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum.

Professor Riley is an economic sociologist. He conducts ethnographic research to... View Details

24 Jul 2017
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How to fight 'time famine' and boost your happiness

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Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact (MBA)

Health, and development more broadly, is not something we give to people: it is something they produce themselves, interacting with supply-side and institutional factors. This course trains students to see through the lens of the end-user and to use the levers of... View Details

24 Jun 2019
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Bookstores Find Growth as ‘Anchors of Authenticity’

17 Sep 2010
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