Society - Publications - Faculty & Research

Aug 2005 - 2005
Conference Presentation

Agency and Institutions: The Enabling Role of Individuals' Social Position

By: Julie Battilana

Keywords: Civil Society or Community

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01 Aug 1967
Conference Presentation

Commitment Mechanisms in Utopian Communities

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Civil Society or Community

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25 Oct 2020

External Partner Event: Harvard Business School Club of Japan Seminar

COVID-19 triggered the new-normal society with deep impact to a broad range of industries and daily living. The HBS MBA experience is well-known for close knit relationships emphasizing the importance of live debate with fellow... View Details

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Our Paralyzing Individualism

By: George C. Lodge

Keywords: Personal Characteristics; Attitudes; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues

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November 2012
Case

Building a Community at Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation

By: Christopher Marquis, Zucheng Zhou, Mo Chen and Heng Fan

Over the past decade, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) had developed a unique set of benefits and cultural amenities for its employees, including a beautiful residential campus, known as the Living Quarters (LQ), and an award winning... View Details

Keywords: Culture And Community; Cost vs Benefits; Civil Society or Community; Organizational Culture; Profit; Culture; Compensation and Benefits; Semiconductor Industry

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15 Oct 2024
News

Ratan Tata, Visionary Business Leader, Dies at 86

went far beyond the boardroom. He endeared himself to several people thanks to his humility, kindness and an unwavering commitment to making our society better.” The New York Times detailed Tata’s far-reaching philanthropies in India,... View Details

23 Jan 2008
Op-Ed

A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?

Dictionaries are not static. Some words go unused for so long that lexicographers dub them archaic. Definitions also gravitate to that catch-bin. The plummeting housing market has forced a reevaluation, not just of the financial value of a home, but of its meaning.... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Banking; Construction; Real Estate

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which was created by the passage of the 1906 Federal Food and Drugs Act, regulates companies and industries accounting for one-quarter of all consumer spending, roughly $1.5 trillion worth of consumer goods and medicines. It... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

06 Sep 2007
Working Paper Summaries

The Excess Burden of Government Indecision

Keywords: by Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff & Luis M. Viceira

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

In the family of investment products, a U.S. savings bond might be cast as boring old Uncle Ned, snoozing away in the corner after dinner. There's nothing wrong with that—but HBS professor Peter Tufano envisions a more meaningful role for savings bonds in the financial... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

November 19, 2020
Article

How to Build a Life: Sedentary Pandemic Life Is Bad for Our Happiness

By: Arthur C. Brooks

The times when we most want comfort and rest may paradoxically be the times we most need to move, for the sake of our well-being. View Details

Keywords: Health Pandemics; Welfare

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1 May 2010
Conference Presentation

Values Investing: How Companies Create Innovation, Profits, & Social Good

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Keywords: Value; Innovation and Invention; Society

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2010
Other Unpublished Work

Split Decisions: How Social and Economic Choices Affect the Stability of Founding Teams

By: Matt Marx and Noam Wasserman

Keywords: Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Economics; Society

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September 1989
Case

Funding the United States Social Security System

By: Arthur Schleifer Jr.

Keywords: Welfare; Sovereign Finance; United States

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January 2007 (Revised May 2009)
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Kibera and the Kenya Slum Upgrading Project (B)

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Arthur I Segel, Marc Diaz and John Dean Shepherd

Keywords: Projects; Wealth and Poverty; Kenya

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February 2005
Article

Portrait of a Failed Rebellion: An Account of Rational, Sub-optimal Violence in Western Uganda

By: Lucy Hovil and Eric D. Werker

While newspaper reports typically describe anti-civilian violence in civil war as resulting from hatred or anarchy, there is an emerging literature that interprets these processes as calculated, strategic actions of war makers. We argue that this literature... View Details

Keywords: Civilian Violence; Civil War; Insurgency; War Financing; Uganda; Failure; Society; Uganda

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January 2000
Article

Utility Functions for Wealth

By: David E. Bell and Peter C Fishburn

Keywords: Wealth

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2021
Working Paper

Caccia Selvaggia: Myth, Rites, and the Right in Carlo Ginzburg's Storia notturna

By: Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert

Carlo Ginzburg (b. 1939) is widely considered one of Europe’s leading historians. His masterpiece Storia notturna (Turin: Einaudi, 1989), widely praised for its extraordinary erudition and creativity, is now over three decades old but it continues to inspire... View Details

Keywords: Mythology; Culture; Political Doctrine; History; Government and Politics; Society

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