Computational Social Science - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2001
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Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future

Raised in Seoul, Yu came to the United States when he was 13. After majoring in computer science in college and following a stint as an engineer, he returned home and reclaimed his Korean nationality.... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Telecommunications; Information

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Rawiah Abdallah

members administered health services, microfinance loans, and vocational training. They taught English and computer skills. "I became very passionate about development," says Rawiah. "But I saw a lot of inefficiencies in... View Details

01 Mar 2015
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Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow

2014 Management Science article, he examined the effect of a corporate culture of sustainability on corporate behavior and performance outcomes. Serafeim, a member of the Accounting and Management Unit, teaches across the School’s... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Sep 2016
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Making Progress on Strategic Priorities

school districts, and social enterprise) to explore how they can improve their regions’ competitiveness. The School’s nine Global Research Centers and four Research Offices deepen the faculty’s understanding of and contributions to global... View Details

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

work/organizations. Organizational Culture as Masculinity Contest: Developing and Validating a Climate Measure Peter Glick, Lawrence University Peter Glick, Henry Merritt Wriston Professor of the Social View Details

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Academic Experience | MBA

Programs MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Harvard School of Engineering & Applied View Details

July 2009 (Revised January 2014)
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Sustainability at Millipore

By: Michael W. Toffel and Katharine Lee

This case describes Millipore Corporation's approach to becoming a more environmentally sustainable company. As he prepared for his quarterly meeting with the CEO, the Director of Sustainability needed to develop positions on several issues. Tactically, he needed to... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Corporate Disclosure; Operations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Structure; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants

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Kavya Kopparapu | MBA

Kavya Kopparapu Computer Science/Neuroscience Lowell 2022 Cohort 3 All my life, I've been an inventor working on projects to solve significant problems that I care about. In just the past five years, I've tackled problems such as access... View Details

26 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy

publishers and retailers to social networks and gaming sites. Job growth on the Internet stands in sharp contrast to the US economy as a whole, which has suffered from high unemployment for years. The report found that the gross domestic... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Publishing

11 Sep 2018
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Bringing Government Up to Code

the foundations of our social safety net—making it easier, for example, for people to apply for food assistance or for probation officers to communicate with their parolees. On today's episode of Skydeck, Ingersoll talks with contributor... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us

They changed their tune and soon dominated the market. Turns out, it’s much more about understanding the workflow in a small business, and computers do only what you tell them to do. And, many times, it’s really the business that has... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Arab Art and Social Thought which bridges the social sciences and arts at the al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art at NYUAD. Al-Dabbagh holds a BA from Harvard University... View Details

01 Jun 2003
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South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs

Partners Program in Northern California, as an essential source of expertise to get their groups up and running. Ana Maria Camargo (MBA ’93) of Boston’s Community Action Partners, Judy Benardete (MBA ’95) of the HBS Social Enterprise... View Details

Keywords: Alumni groups; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

For-profit businesses have a common goal: create value for owners or shareholders by creating value for customers. It's a focus that must seem enviably straightforward from the perspective of nonprofit organizations and social enterprises... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

06 Sep 2024
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Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

award have served in leadership roles in nonprofit and public sector organizations and demonstrate a strong commitment to continued career paths in these areas. New recipients are invited to participate in events with current and former recipients as well as local... View Details

04 May 2021
Working Paper Summaries

Accounting for Product Impact in the Telecommunications Industry

Keywords: by George Serafeim and Katie Trinh; Telecommunications

06 Sep 2018
Cold Call Podcast

Should US Companies Still Care About the Paris Climate Change Agreement?

Keywords: Re: Vincent Pons; Manufacturing; Mining

08 Dec 2020
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Brooke Carter (MBA 2019)

What was your undergraduate university and major? I concentrated in Computer Science and got a secondary concentration in Astrophysics at Harvard University. Why did you decide to apply to HBS via the 2+2... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Making It Count

Image by Martin Leon Barreto In 2021, while the pandemic was amplifying social inequities and climate catastrophes, investors were busy pouring more money than ever into environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments: In the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

September 2019 (Revised August 2020)
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Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy

By: Tarun Khanna, Raffaella Sadun and Susie L. Ma

In 2019, entrepreneur Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio was developing a project he hoped could generate and share wealth from the natural resources of the Amazon without destroying those resources. His idea, called Earth Bank of Codes (EBC), would create a library of the... View Details