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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

discuss how these findings advance understanding of how organizational structure and corporate leadership interact and of how organizations can more effectively realize the strategic value of corporate View Details
  • 04 Feb 2022
  • Book

Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries

Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • August 2010 (Revised July 2012)
  • Case

Cork'd: Building a Social Network for Wine Lovers

Lindsay Ronga and Gary Vaynerchuk are launching Cork'd, an online social network for wine lovers. Despite Gary's status as a celebrity wine connoisseur, the team faces a significant challenge: several other wine social networks are well established and already have... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Product Launch; Network Effects; Market Entry and Exit; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • March 2020
  • Article

Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-family Narrative as a Social Defense Against 24/7 Work Culture

By: Irene Padavic, Robin J. Ely and Erin M. Reid
It is widely accepted that the conflict between women’s family obligations and professional jobs’ long hours lies at the heart of their stalled advancement. Yet research suggests that this “work-family narrative” is incomplete: men also experience it and nevertheless... View Details
Keywords: 24/7 Work Culture; Hegemonic Narrative; Social Defense; Work-family Conflict; Systems-psychodynamic Theory; Work-Life Balance; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Organizational Culture
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Clean water that provides a trickle-down effect

good deeds that help the disadvantaged. "Corporate social responsibility has always been at the heart of Manila Water's business practices," says Zobel de Ayala. "There should never be a dissonance between genuine corporate View Details
  • 01 Apr 1976
  • Conference Presentation

Deadlines: Their Effect on Subsequent Intrinsic Motivation

By: W. DeJong, Teresa M. Amabile and M. R. Lepper
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives
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  • 2011
  • Other Unpublished Work

Networks as Covers: Evidence from On-Line Social Networks

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Sociologists have extensively documented that networks influence market exchange through improved matching and vouching. In this paper, I propose that networks can also blunt the signal of market participation, as actors who are on the market surrounded by their... View Details
Keywords: Job Search; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Social and Collaborative Networks; Online Technology
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The Mixed Effects of Online Diversity Training

By: Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman, Dena M. Gromet, Robert W. Rebele, Cade Massey, Angela L. Duckworth and Adam M. Grant
We present results from a large (n = 3,016) field experiment at a global organization testing whether a brief science-based online diversity training can change attitudes and behaviors toward women in the workplace. Our preregistered field experiment included an... View Details
Keywords: Diversity Training; Bias; Field Experiment; Training; Gender; Race; Prejudice and Bias
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  • 1998
  • Chapter

Effective Oversight: A Guide for Nonprofit Directors

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Management Skills; Management Practices and Processes
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  • 15 Jul 2020
  • News

Making Corporate Boards More Effective - Virtual

  • 03 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn

Kasturi "Kash" Rangan, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School, argues that corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives are more necessary than ever. Rangan says that when carefully planned... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency

Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda; Computer
  • Winter 2021
  • Article

Dealmaking Disrupted: The Unexplored Power of Social Media in Negotiation

By: James K. Sebenius, Ben Cook, David A. Lax, Isaac Silberberg and Paul Levy
While social media has had profound effects in many realms, the theory and practice of negotiation have remained relatively untouched by this potent phenomenon. In this article, we survey existing research in this area and develop a broader framework for understanding... View Details
Keywords: Bargaining; 3D Negotiation; Negotiation; Conflict and Resolution; Social Media
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  • Research Summary

Governance and Accountability in Social Sector Organizations

This research examines governance in two types of organizations: international NGOs and socioeconomic hybrids.

First, over the past decade, many of the world's most prominent international nongovernmental organizations and networks (INGOs) ... View Details

  • 19 Jun 2013
  • News

Your Guide to Social Enterprise

Georgia Levenson Keohane Photo courtesy of Georgia Levenson Keohane What is social entrepreneurship? Is it simply an approach to business in which profit comes hand in hand with some positive social change?... View Details
Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • February 1979
  • Article

Effects of External Evaluation on Artistic Creativity

By: T. M. Amabile
Examined the conditions under which the imposition of an extrinsic constraint upon performance of an activity can lead to decrements in creativity. 95 female undergraduates worked on an art activity either with or without the expectation of external evaluation. In... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Social Psychology; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Situation or Environment
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Money is No Object: Testing The Endowment Effect in Exchange Goods

By: Dan Svirsky
We present a new experimental design to test whether the endowment effect exists for exchange goods, like money. We compare three groups to a baseline: one endowed with money, one endowed with chocolate coins, and one endowed with chocolate coins described as "tokens."... View Details
Keywords: Perception; Valuation; Goods and Commodities; Attitudes
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  • 16 Nov 2017
  • News

The Business of Social Justice

A born adventurer with a passion for social justice, Heidi Brooks (MBA 2003) uses her business savvy to effect social change. Since 2014 Brooks has served as chief operating... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
  • 1 Apr 1978
  • Conference Presentation

Effects of Evaluation Expectation on Artistic Creativity

By: Teresa M. Amabile
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Creativity
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  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

Embracing Activism for Social Change

As she explains, “It’s an exciting time to work here and see how these funds can facilitate transformational projects and systems.” RALLYING STUDENTS TO AID SMALL BUSINESSES AND WORKERS Sarika Mendu (MBA 2020) has long been interested in View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg