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1976
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The Romance of Community: Intentional Communities as Intensive Group Experience

Keywords: Civil Society or Community; Groups and Teams; Emotions

June 2017
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MIA: Profit at the Base of the Pyramid

By: Lynda M. Applegate, José Antonio Dávila Castilla, Sarah Mehta and Aldo Sesia

In January 2016, Guillermo Jaime had just returned home to Mexico City after attending a Harvard Business School executive education program. Jaime was the founder and CEO of Mejoramiento Integral Asistido (MIA), a company providing affordable housing to low-income... View Details

Keywords: Base Of The Pyramid; Social Capitalism; Housing; Emerging Markets; Social Enterprise; Society; Wealth and Poverty; Social Entrepreneurship; Construction Industry; Mexico

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2005
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Building Assets Building Credit: Creating Wealth in Low-Income Communities

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky

Keywords: Assets; Credit; Wealth; Poverty

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit Credit and... View Details

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Shimon Attie Night Watch (Victor with Freedom Tower), Hudson River 2018 | About

Shimon Attie © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn . “ Night Watch was a floating media installation that traveled in the waterways around New York City during the fall of 2018. Featuring a 20 foot-wide... View Details

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Lynda Benglis Cloak-Wave Pedmarks 1998 | About

Lynda Benglis Cloak-Wave Pedmarks , 1998 Lynda Benglis (American, born 1941), Cloak-Wave Pedmarks , 1998, bronze with black patina. Courtesy the artist and Cheim & Read . © 2020 Lynda Benglis/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York . Lynda... View Details

21 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

that organizations could motivate employees simply by showing them how their work helped others—in other words, by harnessing and increasing their altruistic capital. In December 2009, the Society for Family Health (SFH), an affiliate of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

2024
Working Paper

Social Movements and Public Opinion in the United States

By: Amory Gethin and Vincent Pons

Recent social movements stand out by their spontaneous nature and lack of stable leadership, raising doubts on their ability to generate political change. This article provides systematic evidence on the effects of protests on public opinion and political attitudes.... View Details

Keywords: Attitudes; Social Issues; Voting; Public Opinion; Social Media

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2008
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Public Action for Public Goods: Theory and Evidence

By: Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer and Rohini Somanathan

This chapter focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a simple model of collective action which is intended to capture the various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective... View Details

Keywords: Policy; Quality; Groups and Teams; Human Needs; Poverty; Welfare or Wellbeing; Public Administration Industry

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11 Oct 2024
News

Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting

mission and work of the Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS) from Debora Spar (PMD 62, 1991), Senior Associate Dean of BiGS and Unit Head of General Management, and Drew Keller (MBA 2022), Director of BiGS. Spar highlighted... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Reinventing the Annual Report

little to do with each other. This is a huge problem. A sustainable society requires that all companies be committed to sustainable strategies. Increasing social expectations regarding a company’s commitment to sustainability mean that... View Details

Keywords: Robert G. Eccles

25 Mar 2021
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Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy

equity and increase diversity and inclusion, Nohria strengthened core aspects of the HBS experience. The impact of these achievements on the School and on society at large will be felt for many years to come. To show appreciation for his... View Details

Fall 2012
Article

Climate Science as Culture War

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

Today, there is no doubt that a scientific consensus exists on the issue of climate change. Scientists have documented that anthropogenic sources of greenhouse gases are leading to a buildup in the atmosphere, which leads to a general warming of the global climate and... View Details

Keywords: Public Opinion; Culture; Climate Change; Values and Beliefs

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2011
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The Embeddedness of Social Entrepreneurship: Understanding Variation across Local Communities

By: Christian Seelos, Johanna Mair, Julie Battilana and M. Tina Dacin

Social enterprise organizations (SEOs) arise from entrepreneurial activities with the aim to achieve social goals. SEOs have been identified as alternative and/or complementary to the actions of governments and international organizations to address poverty and... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Civil Society or Community; Local Range

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November 2000 (Revised December 2000)
Case

Abuzz: Community Building Community

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Katherine Chen and Michelle Heskett

Keywords: Civil Society or Community; Urban Development

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15 Mar 2010
HBS Case

Developing Asia’s Largest Slum

Located in Mumbai, India, Dharavi is home to an estimated 700,000 people living on just 551 acres. Featured in the 2008 Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, Dharavi embodies the characteristics of a slum as defined by the United Nations: inadequate access to safe... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

01 Sep 2010
News

Finnegan Heads HBS Fund

Finnegan Paul Finnegan (MBA ’82) recently assumed the role of HBS Fund Chair, the School’s chief fundraising volunteer. “When you look at the major problems society faces — financial reform, global health, education in-equity, the... View Details