Social Networking - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Sep 2021
News

One Degree of Difference

of the highly educated, Wallace says the move has boosted the company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts and turned into a competitive advantage. Ovia is among a handful of companies that are rethinking their screening process, for reasons that range from... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

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FSG - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld View Details

01 Jun 2025
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Forward Thinking

1984) moved to Texas, where she quickly noticed the social and cultural imperative to understand football. She didn’t. So Myers spent four years studying the sport and a decade as a middle and high school football coach. Her team won a... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mcfarland Flint; Illustrations by Maria Jesus Contreras; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture

01 Mar 2009
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A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

until we make sure that the treatments and services consumers are getting are effective and affordable, changing the way we consumers pay for the services doesn’t fix anything. What we need is a system of new value networks that will... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

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

March 2005 (Revised April 2005)
Module Note

A Relational Approach to Self-Assessment and Career Development

By: Monica C. Higgins

Describes the main ideas in a module on relational self-assessment as part of a course on self-assessment and career development or as part of a course on leadership and organizational behavior for MBA students or executives. Reflects a "relational" approach to career... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Leadership; Organizations; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks

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01 Sep 2011
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Alumni Team Up to Fight Cancer

networking among its alumni community. Bowes, founding partner of US Venture Partners, and Giusti, founder of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF), discussed the need for innovative, results-oriented biomedical research and... View Details

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

01 Sep 2003
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Spring Reunions

for a busy weekend of activities. Faculty presentations (including a first-ever case-method class for alumni kids); panel discussions featuring alumni participants; social events; and even some quiet moments of reflection unfolded on the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 May 2016
News

Food Rescue Is on a Mission

his wife, who also attended a leadership course at HBS, in 2014. “Ninety-five percent of what we collect is fresh and nutritious. It’s not just filling the stomach.” In the 10 years since that first delivery, SecondBite has grown to 800 volunteers who View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

Research Summary

The Unexpected Effects of Workplace Transparency

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

Workplace transparency provides a foundation for learning and control, and therefore for satisfaction and productivity. Yet my research shows that an obsession with transparency-enhancing tools and structures can backfire, producing the unintended consequences of... View Details

Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Productivity; Field Experiments; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Human Resources; Leadership; United States; Europe; China; Japan

01 Dec 2008
News

NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits

STRATEGIC ADVICE: HBS professor Michael Porter took a question before his presentation. What happens when you bring over 450 CEOs and presidents of New York City’s leading nonprofits together for a daylong educational summit? Answer: a lot of business card swapping and... View Details

18 Apr 2011
News

Capitalism Meets Conservation

Adams: A market-based solution to conservation. Warren Adams (MBA ’95) is making conservation a profitable business in Patagonia. Adams, who sold his pioneering social networking startup PlanetAll to Amazon... View Details

Keywords: Accommodation; Hospitality; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

January–February 2014
Article

IDEO's Culture of Helping

By: Teresa Amabile, Colin M. Fisher and Julianna Pillemer

Leaders can do few things more important than encouraging helping behavior within their organizations. In the highest-performing companies, it is a norm that colleagues support one another's efforts to do the best work they can. That has always been true for efficiency... View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Behavior; Attitudes; Organizational Culture; Relationships; Social and Collaborative Networks

1991
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Organizational Decision Support: An Interacting Team Perspective

By: L. M. Applegate and J. Henderson

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decisions; Social and Collaborative Networks; Organizational Culture

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01 Mar 2006
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Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care

health information network are expected to be substantial. A RAND Corporation study estimates savings to the U.S. health-care system of up to $162 billion a year by improving medical-care delivery, reducing medical errors and adverse drug... View Details

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

November 2009 (Revised January 2010)
Case

Communispace

By: Anat Keinan

Communispace is the market leader in creating and managing private, brand-focused online communities for major corporate clients. These communities have provided its clients with insights into how consumers view their brands, with quick feedback on potential marketing... View Details

Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Brands and Branding; Product Launch; Network Effects; Social and Collaborative Networks; Online Technology; Communications Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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01 Sep 2004
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Across HBS Generations

Every autumn, more than 1,000 alumni and their guests visit HBS for class reunions. They return for the academic and social events, of course, and to reconnect with classmates. But there is another powerful pull as well — something to do... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2014
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Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy

Bookalokal is a social dining platform that launched in Brussels in 2012. The initial concept: Connect travelers with locals through home-cooked, gourmet meals in people's homes. Prospective diners search through Bookalokal's online... View Details

21 Mar 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)

approach, spearheading efforts to cut the rising costs of programming at the network by directing staff members to choose less expensive content and rely less on pricey A-list actors. Horn’s strategy paid off: By 2011, under his... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports; Media & Broadcasting; Education