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What Managers Need to Know About Social Tools: Avoid the Common Pitfalls So That Your Organization Can Collaborate, Learn, and Innovate
By: Paul Leonardi and Tsedal Neeley
Workplaces have adopted internal social tools—think stand-alone technologies such as Slack, Yammer, and Chatter, or embedded applications such as Microsoft Teams and JIRA—at a staggering rate. In an ambitious study of 4,200 companies, conducted by the McKinsey Global... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Social Tools; Social and Collaborative Networks; Knowledge Sharing; Performance Improvement; Management
Leonardi, Paul, and Tsedal Neeley. "What Managers Need to Know About Social Tools: Avoid the Common Pitfalls So That Your Organization Can Collaborate, Learn, and Innovate." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 6 (November–December 2017): 118–126.
- 24 Oct 2017
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What Managers Need to Know About Social Tools
- March–April 2021
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Network-biased Technical Change: How Information Management Tools Overcome Some Biases but Exacerbate Others.
By: Gerald C. Kane and Lynn Wu
Organizations have long sought to improve employee performance by managing knowledge more effectively. In this paper, we test whether the adoption of digital tools for expertise search and access within an organization, often referred to as a support to an... View Details
Keywords: Digital Tools; Social Media; Social Networks; Transactive Memory Systems; Augmented Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Technology Adoption; Knowledge Management; Performance Improvement; Power and Influence; Organizational Change and Adaptation
Kane, Gerald C., and Lynn Wu. "Network-biased Technical Change: How Information Management Tools Overcome Some Biases but Exacerbate Others." Organization Science 32, no. 2 (March–April 2021): 273–292.
- 13 Jul 2020
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Use Your Social Network as a Tool for Social Justice
- 24 Apr 2014
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Supporting social entrepreneurs with tools and services to grow
Rob Panoff (AB 1969, MBA 1973) talks about his work with the Social Enterprise Greenhouse to support social entrepreneurs with tools and services they need to grow. (Published... View Details
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Social Innovation Field Projects
The class will serve as the central clearing house for all independent projects relating to enterprises that are creating social value, with projects ranging from nonprofits to purpose driven for-profit businesses. This course provides students an opportunity to use... View Details
- Fast Answer
Research Tools
Which research tools do I have access to as an HBS affiliate? Qualtrics (HBS Faculty and Staff only)... View Details
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Tools of the Trade | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Tools of the Trade As executive director of Boston Collegiate Charter School (BCCS), Shannah Varón (MBA 2009) uses her MBA skillset “all day, every day,” whether the task at hand involves structuring a management team to ensure optimal... View Details
- May 2008
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Stakeholder Analysis Tool
This exercise enables users to: identify stakeholders and analyze their interests and expectations; categorize interests and expectations based on importance; and develop an action plan. View Details
Applegate, Lynda M. "Stakeholder Analysis Tool." Harvard Business School Exercise 808-161, May 2008.
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Tools
What GIS resources are available to Harvard affiliates? Harvard provides access to several tools that allow you to map data: SimplyAnalytics: web-based mapping tool that incorporates market research data from Experian... View Details
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Tools | New Venture Competition
Tools Social Enterprise Track Across Harvard Business School and beyond, resources are available for you as you consider and bring to life an idea for the New Venture Competition (NVC). 2024 Winners Play... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
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Make Tools Like Slack Work for Your Company
- June 2016
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Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation for Corporate Social Responsibility
By: Bryan Hong, Zhichuan (Frank) Li and Dylan B. Minor
We link the corporate governance literature in financial economics to the agency cost perspective of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to derive theoretical predictions about the relationship between corporate governance and the existence of executive compensation... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Incentives For CSR; Non-financial Performance Measures; Agency Costs; Board Independence; Institutional Holdings; Managerial Power; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Executive Compensation; Corporate Governance
Hong, Bryan, Zhichuan (Frank) Li, and Dylan B. Minor. "Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation for Corporate Social Responsibility." Journal of Business Ethics 136, no. 1 (June 2016): 199–213.
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Career Tools & Resources | MBA
Career Tools & Resources Students gain the tools they need for their internship and full-time search, as well as an in-depth library of resources surrounding ones professional development. Harvard Business... View Details
- November 2023
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Psychological Factors Underlying Attitudes toward AI Tools
By: Julian De Freitas, Stuti Agarwal, B. Schmitt and N. Haslam
What are the psychological factors driving attitudes toward AI tools, and how can resistance to AI systems be overcome when they are beneficial? In this perspective, we first organize the main sources of resistance into five main categories: opacity, emotionlessness,... View Details
De Freitas, Julian, Stuti Agarwal, B. Schmitt, and N. Haslam. "Psychological Factors Underlying Attitudes toward AI Tools." Nature Human Behaviour 7, no. 11 (November 2023): 1845–1854.
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Social Innovation
My intellectual agenda addresses this question: How to innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Out of the earth’s population, about 2 billion can afford good products whereas the remaining 5 billion are poor and therefore are nonconsumers.... View Details
- May 2022
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Embracing Field Studies as a Tool for Learning
Field studies in social psychology tend to focus on validating existing insights. In addition to learning from the laboratory and bringing those insights to the field—which researchers currently favour—we should also conduct field studies that aim to learn in the field... View Details
Jachimowicz, Jon M. "Embracing Field Studies as a Tool for Learning." Nature Reviews Psychology 1, no. 5 (May 2022): 249–250.
- 2007
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Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
"Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector provides an excellent overview of the many tools available to... View Details
Wei-Skillern, Jane, James Austin, Herman Leonard, and Howard Stevenson. Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector. SAGE Publications, 2007.
Using Business Tools to Combat the World's Big Problems
Radio host Kara Miller interviews Julie Battilana as an expert on the rising tide of social entrepreneurship. View Details
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Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Combining the tools of philanthropy, business and advocacy (or mission, margin and mandate), social entrepreneurs have tackled long-standing societal issues like teacher training, college access, global public health, renewable energy and sanitation. Social... View Details