Social Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2004
News

Retirement's Changing Face

and have the benefit of significant life experience. They have a lot more to offer than someone off the street who gets the bug and decides to run.” A Change of Pace Beth Terrana (MBA ’83) Age: 47 Home: Wellesley, Massachusetts As a... View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

15 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

changes in that time frame. The new cadre of donors, the new family foundations, the folks who are involved in venture philanthropy, the new generation of entrepreneurs, and business leaders engaged in corporate View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

05 Dec 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing

Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl

01 Sep 2010
News

RX for Change

process is the product,” Bohmer confirms. “It’s much more than a piece of paper.” Next, Kaplan and his team introduce the Toyota Production System (TPS), which transforms the hospital’s health-care delivery model. How those enormous View Details

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

08 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Colloquium: The Future of Social Enterprise

changing the way that funders, practitioners, scholars, and organizations measure performance. Our paper traces a growing pool of potential funding sources to solve social problems, much of it stemming from... View Details

Keywords: Re: V. Kasturi Rangan & Dutch Leonard

24 Mar 2022
News

Social Impact Authors: How & Why Harvard Business School’s JS Nelson Is Helping To Change Our World

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Track (for ventures that drive social change using nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid models). ( deadlines in December and February ) President’s Innovation Challenge : The President’s Innovation Challenge... View Details

04 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

while substantially improving overall organizational performance. Social entrepreneurs stay relentlessly focused on their missions and seek to continually innovate. This challenge cannot be overcome through incremental View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

services such as health care, immunization, education, and employment programs. “Highly intelligent, thoughtful people end up developing some very different approaches to measuring social performance.” In an environment where the theory... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

Book Review

Review of From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change by Carol Chetkovich and Frances Kunreuther

By: Wesley Sine and Shon R. Hiatt

Keywords: Information; Organizations; Society; Change

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13 Jun 2021
News

Leading Systemic Change

October 2007 (Revised October 2009)
Case

Global Climate Change and BP

By: Forest L. Reinhardt and Mikell Hyman

Following the sudden resignation of Sir John Browne, Tony Hayward, BP CEO, must decide how global climate change management will figure into BP's corporate strategy. Climate change management was a major part of BP's strategy under Browne: In 1997 Browne broke from his... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Climate Change; Corporate Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Management Teams; Environmental Sustainability; Government and Politics; Energy Sources; Global Strategy; Operations; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom

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03 Feb 2018
Op-Ed

How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility

Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by insisting on the importance of... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Battilana

21 Aug 2014
Blog Post

HBS Social Enterprise Initiative Visits NYC

A lot can be achieved through emails, phone calls, and meetings, but being in the field helps broaden perspectives. The HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) did just that – when Matt Segneri, Director, and Margot Dushin, Director of... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It

to help readers question their assumptions about what limitations they really face and to encourage them to take the steps necessary to change not only their behavior but also their circumstances. In the face of long-standing precedent,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2009
News

Social Innovation Goes Mainstream

Two years later at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Microsoft’s Bill Gates announced his own commitment to social change through “creative capitalism.” “With these three events, the movement... View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance; Social Assistance

22 Jul 2014
News

Hungry for Change

Editor's note: Rob Zeaske was appointed director of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative in July 2020. Read more. As CEO of Second Harvest Heartland, a hunger-relief organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rob Zeaske (MBA 2002) has a... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

August 2002 (Revised February 2005)
Case

Gillette Company (D): Implementing Change

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

How a strategic change agenda is implemented depends on leaders below the top in every function and geographic region translating the agenda into actions. But those actions do not always unfold as planned. This case examines the first 16 months of a turnaround from the... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Competitive Strategy; Strategic Planning; Change Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Behavior; Leading Change; Retail Industry

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June 2023 (Revised November 2024)
Case

Albert Einstein: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun

This case traces the rise of Albert Einstein from a small town in Germany to a towering intellectual leader who revolutionized the field of physics. The case describes his early education and his penchant for individual thinking and non-conformity. A committed... View Details

Keywords: Science; Research; Personal Characteristics; Mission and Purpose; Success; Work-Life Balance; Higher Education; Power and Influence

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