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Social Progress Index - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Research Areas Research Areas Antitrust & Competition Policy CEO Leadership Environmental Quality Innovation & Innovative Capacity Philanthropy Social Progress Index Social Progress Index Social Progress Index Social progress is defined as the capacity of a... View Details
  • January 16, 2020
  • Article

How Global Leaders Should Think About Solving Our Biggest Problems

By: Mark R. Kramer, Marc W. Pfitzer and Helge Mahne
The corporate social conscience will soon be on full display in Davos, Switzerland, where global leaders from business, government, and civil society will assemble on January 21 for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. Hundreds of millions of dollars will be... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Global Range; Partners and Partnerships; Strategy
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  • June 2021 (Revised October 2021)
  • Supplement

CFM International (B): LEAPing Into the Future

By: Ranjay Gulati, Yves Doz and Kerry Herman
By 2017, after a long and highly successful run, the joint venture CFM’s and its parent firms’ leadership faces new challenges and must once again reconsider their commitment to the JV. CFM’s engines have come to dominate the narrow body aircraft market, but technology... View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Strategy; Decision Making; Technological Innovation; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Manufacturing Industry
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Emotional Acknowledgment: How Verbalizing Others' Emotions Fosters Interpersonal Trust

By: Alisa Yu, Justin M. Berg and Julian Zlatev
People often respond to others’ emotions using verbal acknowledgment (e.g., “You seem upset”). Yet, little is known about the relational benefits and risks of acknowledging others’ emotions in the workplace. We draw upon Costly Signaling Theory to posit how emotional... View Details
Keywords: Emotion; Costly Signaling; Interpersonal Trust; Emotional Valence; Interpersonal Relationships; Empathic Accuracy; Emotions; Relationships; Trust; Interpersonal Communication
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  • May–June 2015
  • Article

Dead Weight: How Greece Wound up Trapped in the European Union

By: Debora L. Spar
In the early 1990s, Greece fell far afield of the economic criteria laid out by the Maastricht Treaty, the EU's founding document. In 1999, when the European monetary union was launched, Greece failed to meet the criteria again, but managed to squeeze into the body two... View Details
Keywords: EU; Geopolitics; Economic Conditions; Economy; Financial Crisis; Greece; European Union
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  • February 2001 (Revised October 2002)
  • Background Note

Entrepreneurial History: A Conceptual Overview

By: Nancy F. Koehn
Analyzes HBS cases on five entrepreneurs and the companies they built: Josiah Wedgwood, Henry Heinz, Marshall Field, Howard Schultz of Starbucks, and Michael Dell. These five cases and their accompanying teaching notes comprise a course module on entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Demand and Consumers; Competition; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Customer Focus and Relationships; Business Strategy; Society
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  • May 1994 (Revised August 1994)
  • Case

Motorola-Penang

By: Shoshana Zuboff and Janis Lee Gogan
S.K. Ko managed Motorola's Penang, Malaysia factory, producing telecommunications components and equipment. As a female manager of a multi-ethnic and labor-intensive plant in Asia, Ko faced a number of challenges. She had already promoted quality circles and quality... View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Transformation; Decision Making; Ethnicity; Gender; Training; Leading Change; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Problems and Challenges; Technology Industry; Malaysia
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  • March 1991 (Revised July 1993)
  • Case

Kyocera Corp.

By: John P. Kotter
Examines the three factors critical to this company's remarkable success in the high tech field. The first factor is the founder, Dr. Inamori's powerful leadership. The second is the strong corporate culture or philosophy of the firm. The third element in Kyocera's... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Information Infrastructure; Leadership Style; Management Systems; Management Style; Organizational Culture; Practice; Profit; Planning; Technology Industry; Electronics Industry
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  • 25 Apr 2023
  • HBS Seminar

Bart Vanneste, UCL School of Management

    Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity, Engagement, and Performance

    Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered report accepted by JAR, to test whether an information sharing system recording... View Details

      Case: The Allergan Board Under Fire (A)

      In 2014, the Allergan Inc. board of directors received a surprise takeover offer from Valeant Pharmaceuticals in alliance with hedge fund activist Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management. In the unprecedented arrangement between an acquirer and a hedge... View Details

        Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration

        Winner of the annual MIT Sloan Management Review Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize, for the most outstanding MIT SMR article on planned change and organizational development. Chosen by MIT Sloan faculty judges Deborah Ancona, John Van Maanen, and Cyrus... View Details

        • September 2022
        • Article

        Energy Innovation Funding and Institutions in Major Economies

        By: Jonas Meckling, Clara Galeazzi, Esther Shears, Tong Xu and Laura Diaz Anadon
        Accelerating energy innovation for decarbonization hinges on public investment in research, development and demonstration (RD&D). Here we examine the evolution and variation of public energy RD&D funding and institutions and associated drivers across eight major... View Details
        Keywords: Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Energy Policy; Government Legislation; Energy Sources
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        • March 2015
        • Case

        Pearson Affordable Learning Fund

        By: Michael Chu, Vincent Dessain and Kristina Maslauskaite
        An in-house venture capital fund for affordable private schools at the base of the pyramid established by Pearson, the world's largest education company, PALF sought to invest in business models providing superior educational outcomes in emerging markets on a... View Details
        Keywords: Impact Investment; Low Cost Private Schools; Investment Fund; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Transition; Investment; Development Economics; Business Growth and Maturation; Social Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Private Sector; Education; Education Industry; Asia; Africa
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        • 2013
        • Article

        Multinational Corporations, Global Justice and Corporate Responsibility: A Question of Purpose

        By: Nien-he Hsieh
        Do multinational corporations (MNCs) have a responsibility to address unjust conditions—not simply by refraining from contributing to injustice, but also by actively working to bring about a just state of affairs? This paper examines whether this question can be... View Details
        Keywords: Multinational Corporations; Global Justice; Corporate Purpose; Corporate Responsibility; Human Needs; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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        • July 2003 (Revised October 2013)
        • Case

        Model N Inc.

        By: Marco Iansiti and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
        The CEO of a Silicon Valley start-up needed to make organizational and product changes to deliver a new software solution to a Fortune 500 customer. He was wondering how he should structure the company to best meet the requirements for this particular customer, while... View Details
        Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Trends; Communication; Customer Focus and Relationships; Selection and Staffing; Time Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Strategy; Software; Computer Industry
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        Insights & Advice - Recruiting

        Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective 26 Jan 2024 Becca Carnahan Student & Alumni Stories 05 May 2025 Shira Amat Meet the Tech Club Meet the Tech Club Meet the Tech Club... View Details
        • June 2023
        • Teaching Note

        From Cradle to Heaven: Taikang Insurance Group

        By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
        Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 320-088. The case explores the rise of Taikang Insurance Group and its quest to be a leader of one of China's fastest-growing industries. Due to China's underdeveloped social welfare state, Taikang saw an opportunity for the private... View Details
        Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Government and Politics; Health Industry; China
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        • April 2018 (Revised September 2018)
        • Case

        Impact Investing for Cancer

        By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Matthew G. Preble
        It is early 2018, and Emily Park, managing director of impact for the Abreu Family Office, is meeting the next day with Tomás and Maria Abreu to discuss the various ways in which the Abreus can allocate a planned $100 million to make a meaningful difference in cancer... View Details
        Keywords: Impact Investing; Investment; Health Disorders; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Decision Choices and Conditions
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        • March 2017 (Revised July 2019)
        • Case

        Interline Brands: Don't Stop Believing

        By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Ricardo Andrade
        Interline Brands, a leading distributor of residential housing maintenance and repair parts and equipment in the U.S., had just held its November 2014 board meeting. The meeting had been productive but not without some soul searching for both the company’s management... View Details
        Keywords: Private Equity Exit; Consumer Goods; IPO; Private Equity; Initial Public Offering; Decision Choices and Conditions
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