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  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship

Recent HBS graduates who are launching social enterprises — nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid organizations — may apply for a new $25,000 fellowship. The Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship will select one... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Research Summary

Market Triads: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Market Intermediation (Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, June 2002)

By: Rakesh Khurana
This paper examines the role of executive search firms in CEO search. The paper argues that the numerical shift from two party market transactions (e.g. buyers and sellers) to three party transactions (e.g. buyers, sellers, and third party) transforms market exchanges... View Details
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

An Outside-Inside Evolution in Gender and Professional Work

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Kathleen McGinn and Deborah Kolb
We study the process by which a professional service firm reshaped its activities and beliefs over nearly two decades as it adapted to shifts in the social discourse regarding gender and work. Analyzing archival data from the firm over eighteen years and... View Details
Keywords: Professional Service Firms; Social Institutions; Organizational Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employment; Gender; Society; Service Industry
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Reflections: Toward a Normative and Actionable Theory of Planned Organizational Change and Development

By: Michael Beer
A normative and actionable theory of planned organizational change and development is proposed based on fifty years of engagement by the author as a scholar-consultant. Five principles are central features of the theory and practice proposed: 1) Organizations are... View Details
Keywords: Consultant; Process; Systems; Silence; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Learning; Management Teams
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    "Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment"

    We consider a model of technological learning under which people "learn through noticing": they choose which input dimensions to attend to and subsequently learn about from available data. Using this model, we show how people with a great deal of experience may... View Details
    • 05 Jul 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently): How Great Organizations Put Failure to Work to Improve and Innovate

    Keywords: by Mark D. Cannon & Amy C. Edmondson
    • October 2018
    • Case

    Learning How to Honnold

    By: Eugene F. Soltes, Sara Hess and Dutch Leonard
    Alex Honnold is the world’s most accomplished free climber. To many, climbing sheer vertical faces of rock—like the famed El Capitan—without a rope is viewed as not simply risky but reckless. Honnold contrasts this sentiment by presenting his perspective on risk taking... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Goals and Objectives; Personal Development and Career; Perspective
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    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

    A certificate of appreciation was presented to Ellie Care representatives Francisco Garcia Zavaleta (COO) and Gervasio Videla Dorna (cofounder and CEO), at left, and to Patricio Alba (cofounder and CIO), far right, by HBS students Maxwell Nii Laryea, third from left,... View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
    • 16 Apr 2018

    Social Enterprise Webinar

    Learn more about the HBS resources available to students interested in Social Enterprise, including a presentation from Matt Segneri, Director of the HBS Social Enterprise... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2008
    • News

    Social Enterprise Pioneer

    HBS professor Kash Rangan talks about a new generation of business leaders and philanthropists who are experimenting with hybrid forms of social enterprises. And they are insisting that these enterprises operate with greater transparency... View Details
    • 1 Apr 1992
    • Conference Presentation

    Motivation, Creativity, and Learning

    By: R. Conti, Teresa M. Amabile and S. Pollack
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Creativity; Learning
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    • 15 Feb 2012
    • News

    Why Social Change is Good for Business

    • 2019
    • Article

    Creativity from Paradoxical Experience: A Theory of How Individuals Achieve Creativity while Adopting Paradoxical Frames

    By: Goran Calic, Sébastien Hélie, Nick Bontis and Elaine Mosakowski
    Purpose: Extant paradox theory suggests that adopting paradoxical frames, which are mental templates adopted by individuals in order to embrace contradictions, will result in superior firm performance. Superior performance is achieved through learning and creativity,... View Details
    Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Creativity; Learning
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    • November 2006
    • Background Note

    Technical Game Theory Note #1: Solving Bi-matrix Games

    By: Dennis A. Yao
    Explains how to solve bi-matrix games and introduces the Nash Equilibrium concept. View Details
    Keywords: Game Theory; Mathematical Methods; Learning; Balance and Stability; Planning; Strategic Planning; Performance Improvement; Strategy; Games, Gaming, and Gambling
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    • 14 Jun 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

    services such as health care, immunization, education, and employment programs. “Highly intelligent, thoughtful people end up developing some very different approaches to measuring social performance.” In an environment where the View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • July 2015
    • Article

    The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations: Analysts' Perceptions and Shifting Institutional Logics

    By: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
    We explore the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) ratings on sell-side analysts' assessments of firms' future financial performance. We suggest that when analysts perceive CSR as an agency cost, due to the prevalence of an agency logic, they produce... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Analysts; Investment Recommendations; Sustainability; Institutional Logics; Environment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Investment; Corporate Governance; United States
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    • 18 Sep 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

    TV, but was amplified by exposure on YouTube and other social media. Click to watch. As marketers have experimented, what have they learned about what works on social? We sat down with four marketing experts... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology
    • 08 Sep 2016
    • Blog Post

    4 Unexpected Things I Learned at HBS

    day-out with the extraordinary people who have surrounded me for the last two years. As I ready for my move to Chicago for my next adventure, I wanted to share a few things that I’ve learned during my time here. 1. I View Details
    • 15 Sep 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

    generation of social enterprise leaders? A: I don't think the business schools by themselves are going to solve this problem. Whether it's HBS or any other business school, ultimately I think students come to View Details
    Keywords: by Roger Thompson
    • 27 Jun 2007
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Learning to Make the Move to CEO

    customer, while you look after your other constituents on an as-needed basis." In the east quadrant, Simons focuses on performance variables and the theory of value creation. "We build strategy maps and figure out how to assess... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education