Social Skills - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 May 2019
Blog Post

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

divides, ethnic divides, religious divides, and social divides. Chloe Ho - MBA ‘19 Growing up in Hong Kong, being Asian meant weekly Saturday dinners at my grandmother’s house, but it also meant going out for gin & tonics with my... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

The Class of 1977

two years at Soldiers Field had prepared us to size up a competitor, motivate employees, and gain market share, but we could not have anticipated the many other ways in which our leadership skills would be put to the test. Much has been... View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

30 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

regulated industry, so anyone who's interested in business and government would be a player. It has a social and ethical component to it. So this is fertile ground to study a lot of other phenomena." The School has assembled a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

28 Oct 2021
News

Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

entrepreneurship skills in a “mini MBA-style” academy. “If we want to move the needle and transform lives, communities and our economy, we have to start younger,” says Openshaw. “The ROI is tremendous.” After presenting the data on gender... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2010
News

One Student’s HBS Journey

dreamed of,” said Wallace of her time at HBS, during which she cochaired this year’s Social Enterprise Conference and the Democrats Club, participated in the 2009 New Orleans service immersion, and acted and played cello in the HBS Show.... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

26 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

compatibility can thus increase asymmetry between the platform owners’ profit foci and, given a sufficiently large difference in the standalone utilities, yields greater profits for both platform owners. We further show that social... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Feb 1997
News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

Bhide's Entrepreneurial Management course gives his students a feel for the skills they will need as entrepreneurs. The course, first offered in 1983 and currently taught by Bhide and Assistant Professor Myra Maloney Hart, focuses on... View Details

12 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

Uncovering Bad Factories All three studies were made possible by a social auditing company providing Toffel with data on more than 40,000 inspections in 66 countries that its auditors had conducted over several years. The first study,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 20

but that some children fail to follow that norm in the actual game. The gap between norm and behavior was correlated with self-regulation skills on a parent-report individual differences measure. Specifically, we show that failure to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

services. In health care, nursing services, community social services, mental health services, and home health-care services are on the rise. One executive recently told me that his firm's business training services were up over 400... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

23 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

need to have skills to cope. And it’s when workplaces need to make sure employees are getting the help they need.” Stressed-out workers seek online tools Whillans decided to explore whether an internet-based platform called Happify, which... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

09 Feb 2017
News

Turning Disorder into Opportunity

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Australia (HPE), launched the Dandelion program in 2015, introducing people with autism spectrum disorders into the IT workforce. Dandelion—an innovative collaboration between HPE and the Department of Human Services and Specialisterne, a... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

diversity program that he had started and championed at the company. Beyond this, attracting skilled workers to Germany was a national imperative; as the native population aged and its numbers in the workforce shrank, it would be critical... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

observed in governmental and legal records. The contribution of this book is to explore the coevolution of business enterprises with the better researched institutional, economic, and social context. "Turkey’s future prospects are... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2020
News

Keeping the Beat

like for you as an artist in these socially distant corona-times? Madame Gandhi: I think in the producer community, the sort of ongoing joke is that we’ve been preparing for this moment our whole life. I think the solitude of being in... View Details

Keywords: Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

06 Dec 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: How do I identify opportunities in emerging markets? How important are... View Details

13 May 2021
Blog Post

Zhalisa Clarke’s Sabbatical Story: Tech leader turned healer

challenges they face in the workplace. Without the extended time away from work, Zhalisa wouldn’t have been able to learn the skills needed to bring such timely and important tools to the black and brown community in the United States.... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Business Answers the Call

students, some 80,000 teachers, and an annual budget of more than $12 billion. Bloomberg’s commitment to change helped convince Shannon D. Kete (MBA 2000) to make the leap from investment banking into the public sector last February. Kete, who had enrolled at HBS to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

27 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

the socially constructed nature of helping behavior. That is, the parties must establish and maintain a helping frame for their interaction, especially when help-givers are high-status external leaders. Second, the model specifies that... View Details