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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Community Building
The Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center opened this month, providing a vibrant hub of activity for the more than 10,000 senior executives who attend the School’s Executive Education programs each year. Located at the eastern terminus View Details
- August 2011 (Revised September 2011)
- Teaching Note
Zensar: The Future of Vision Communities (TN)
By: David A. Garvin
Teaching Note for 311024, 311025, 312705, and 312706. View Details
- 2005
- Book
Gifts of Time and Money: The Role of Charity in America's Communities
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Policymakers, civic leaders, and scholars have increasingly focused their attention over the last decade-and-a-half on the importance of voluntary participation in civil society. From George H. W. Bush's Thousand Points of Light to Bill Clinton's AmeriCorps to George... View Details
Brooks, Arthur C., ed. Gifts of Time and Money: The Role of Charity in America's Communities. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.
- September 2007 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
Still Leading (A): Issues in Transitioning to New Forms of Service Later in Life
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Lance Pierce
Identifies the challenges for experienced leaders who transition from their primary income-earning careers to a next phase of public service or social-purpose work, based on interviews and published sources. View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Personal Development and Career; Transition; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise; Society
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Lance Pierce. "Still Leading (A): Issues in Transitioning to New Forms of Service Later in Life." Harvard Business School Case 308-047, September 2007. (Revised October 2017.)
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders
Tsedal Neeley My intellectual agenda is ambitious and somewhat risky,” says Associate Professor and Marvin Bower Fellow Tsedal Neeley. “I truly believe that HBS is one of the few places on earth where I could boldly pursue my work in the... View Details
- 12 Aug 2010
- News
Building a Community
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
changed the way we work. But according to Rachel Greenwald (MBA 1993), some of the core tenets of interpersonal communication that were important in the office remain just as... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- January 1996 (Revised December 2005)
- Case
First Community Bank (A)
First Community Bank, a bank-within-a-bank at Bank of Boston, was established in 1990 as a unique venture to serve urban communities. By 1995 it has achieved profitability but must manage relationships with the mainstream at Bank of Boston, serve as a change agent and... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Business Ventures; Business and Community Relations; Agency Theory; Change Management; Leadership; Balanced Scorecard; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Banking Industry; Boston
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "First Community Bank (A)." Harvard Business School Case 396-202, January 1996. (Revised December 2005.)
- March 1998 (Revised July 1998)
- Case
United Way Community Services
Describes in detail the fund development and distribution system of United Way Community Services. A key question is how to measure the outcome/impact of the work done by the agencies that receive United Way funding. A follow-on question is how to reinvent the... View Details
Keywords: Capital; Management Systems; Measurement and Metrics; Distribution Channels; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Outcome or Result; Nonprofit Organizations
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "United Way Community Services." Harvard Business School Case 598-138, March 1998. (Revised July 1998.)
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Making community involvement a part of daily business
Margaret Preston (MBA 1983) talks about being involved in community life throughout her career in investment banking, wealth management, and entrepreneurship. (Published April 2014) View Details
- Aug 2011 - 2011
- Conference Presentation
Combining Social and Economic Objectives: On the Challenges of Sustaining a Hybrid Organizational Form
By: Julie Battilana, A.-C. Pache, M. Sengul and Jacob Model
- April 1997
- Article
A Case Study of Organizational Form and Risk Shifting in Savings and Loan Industry
By: B. C. Esty
Esty, B. C. "A Case Study of Organizational Form and Risk Shifting in Savings and Loan Industry." Journal of Financial Economics 44, no. 1 (April 1997): 57–76.
- March 2020
- Article
Gender Differences in Communicative Abstraction
By: Priyanka D. Joshi, Cheryl J. Wakslak, Gil Appel and Laura Huang
Drawing on construal level theory, which suggests that experiencing a communicative audience as proximal rather than distal leads speakers to frame messages more concretely, we examine gender difference in linguistic abstraction. In a meta-analysis of prior studies... View Details
Joshi, Priyanka D., Cheryl J. Wakslak, Gil Appel, and Laura Huang. "Gender Differences in Communicative Abstraction." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 118, no. 3 (March 2020): 417–435.
- Web
The Arts of Communication - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog The Arts of Communication Course Number 7515 HKS Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Candace Bertotti Spring; Q3Q4; 1.5 credits 12 2-hour sessions ---Please Read Before Enrolling--- My goal:... View Details
- Research Summary
The "New" Corporate Communications
Stephen A. Greyser continues to explore the issues and problems
organizations face as they attempt to communicate effectively with a
variety of constituencies. Greyser's work and the course to which it
contributes are structured around the business-media-publics... View Details
- Web
Community College Report - Managing the Future of Work
Research Research The Partnership Imperative: Community Colleges, Employers, & America’s Chronic Skills Gap Read the Report Read the Report To close America’s chronic middle skills gap, U.S. employers have to partner much more actively... View Details
- 04 May 2016
- HBS Seminar
Robert Cannon of the Federal Communications Commission
- May 1999
- Case
African Communications Group (Condensed)
Describes the opportunities that confront the African Communications Group, an entrepreneurial organization that plans to introduce a wireless pay-phone system in Tanzania. Provides a foundation for the analysis of value creation and of value capture. The possibility... View Details
McGahan, Anita M. "African Communications Group (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 799-148, May 1999.
- September 2016
- Article
Communicating Value in Healthcare Using Radar Charts: A Case Study of Prostate Cancer
By: Nikhil G. Thaker, Tariq N. Ali, Michael E. Porter, Thomas W. Feeley, Robert S. Kaplan and Steven J. Frank
Question: Can we create a value-based tool to visualize the outcomes and cost of various treatments that could facilitate patient-centered decision making?
Summary Answer: We developed a standardized value framework by using radar charts to visualize and... View Details
Summary Answer: We developed a standardized value framework by using radar charts to visualize and... View Details
Thaker, Nikhil G., Tariq N. Ali, Michael E. Porter, Thomas W. Feeley, Robert S. Kaplan, and Steven J. Frank. "Communicating Value in Healthcare Using Radar Charts: A Case Study of Prostate Cancer." Journal of Oncology Practice 12, no. 9 (September 2016): 813–820.