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- March 2015
- Module Note
Power and Influence in Society
By: Julie Battilana
This module aims to help students understand how power and influence are employed, both to reproduce the status quo and to effect change in society. It first helps them to understand why, more often than not, power is used to reproduce the existing way individuals and...
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Battilana, Julie. "Power and Influence in Society." Harvard Business School Module Note 415-055, March 2015.
- December 2011
- Background Note
An Aging Society
By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim, Mayuka Yamazaki and Akiko Kanno
Business and Society
encouraged us to think about the role and responsibility that business leaders have in shaping society and civilization for the better. Business has a wider responsibility than just making profits, and there are consequences for our...
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- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
Olivier Dumon by Robert S. Benchley "I believe in an evidence-based, data-driven, iterative product-development process." How many of us can reduce the central truths we've learned in business to a single sentence? Olivier Dumon (MBA 1998) can, and does. "Every word...
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- Web
Business in Global Society - Alumni
Giving Business in Global Society Giving Business in Global Society Solve Problems Strengthen business’s role in addressing complex societal challenges The belief that business can and should be a force for...
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- January 2021
- Article
Institutional-Political Scenarios for Anthropocene Society
By: Andrew J. Hoffman and P. Devereaux Jennings
Natural scientists have proposed that humankind has entered a new geologic epoch. Termed the “Anthropocene,” this new reality revolves around the central role of human activity in multiple Earth ecosystems. That challenge requires a rethinking of social science...
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Keywords:
Institutional Change;
Institutional Theory;
Natural Environment;
Society;
Environmental Sustainability
Hoffman, Andrew J., and P. Devereaux Jennings. "Institutional-Political Scenarios for Anthropocene Society." Business & Society 60, no. 1 (January 2021): 57–94.
- 14 Apr 2019
- Video
Instagram Takeover - Arts Society Trek in NYC
- 2010
- Chapter
Advance Recovery and the Development of Resilient Organizations and Societies
By: Dutch Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt
Societies face a wide array of significant hazards-ranging from the possibility of natural disasters to industrial accidents to large-scale terrorist incidents.
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Keywords:
Natural Disasters;
Society;
Organizations;
Growth and Development;
National Security;
Safety
Leonard, Dutch, and Arnold M. Howitt. "Advance Recovery and the Development of Resilient Organizations and Societies." In Integrative Risk Management: Advanced Disaster Recovery, edited by Simon Woodward. Zurich, Switzerland: Swiss Re, Centre for Global Dialogue, 2010.
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New 1908 Society Embraces Senior Alumni
6f3368a93fbb4dc44496be5e9cf733e6 For the School’s most senior graduates, the new 1908 Society is a wish come true. In focus groups, they voiced a clear desire for more opportunities to get together. The 1908 Society’s chief function is to...
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- 30 May 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Sound Society
wanted to do something about it. After thinking about ways they could bring more music to HBS, they decided that setting up an official student club was the best option. They collaborated closely with Student Academic Services to get The Sound View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society
Keywords:
by Alnoor S. Ebrahim & Steve Herz
- 19 Jun 2018
- News
When Technology Gets Ahead of Society
- 17 Oct 2019
- HBS Conference
Macro Organizational Behavior Society (MOBS)
- Web
Online Business in Society Courses | HBS Online
Nien-he Hsieh Develop a toolkit for making tough leadership decisions. 6 weeks, 7-9 hrs/weekApply by May 28$1,750Certificate Complete any three courses within this subject area to earn a Certificate of Specialization in business in View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Changing Role of Business in Society
Business interaction with the U.S. government, historically based on securing industry or company special interests at the expense of the public good, has enabled and furthered government dysfunction. Gridlock within the American political system has precluded the...
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Keywords:
Politics;
Shared Value;
Social Progress Index;
Competitiveness;
Walmart;
BlackRock;
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
ESG;
Transparency;
Campaign Contributions;
Campaign Finance;
Lobbying;
Revolving Door;
Political Ideology;
Political Parties;
Political Partisanship;
Government And Business;
Government Innovation;
Elections;
Democracy;
Capitalism;
Stakeholder Capitalism;
Shareholder Engagement;
Competition;
Strategy;
Government and Politics;
Society;
Social Issues;
Human Needs;
Wealth and Poverty;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Government Relations;
Corporate Accountability;
Financial Services Industry;
Banking Industry;
United States
Porter, Michael E. "The Changing Role of Business in Society." Working Paper, July 2021.
- 2021
- Book
Management as a Calling: Leading Business, Serving Society
Business leaders have tremendous power to influence our society, how it operates, whether it is fair, and the extent to which it impacts the environment. And yet, we do not recognize or call out the responsibility that comes with that power. This book is meant to...
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Keywords:
Business Education;
Power and Influence;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Social Issues;
Leadership
Hoffman, Andrew J. Management as a Calling: Leading Business, Serving Society. Stanford University Press, 2021. (Winner of the 2022 PROSE Book Award, Association of American Publishers;
Winner of the 2022 Best Book Award, Social Issues in Management Division, Academy of Management;
Finalist for the 2022 George R. Terry Book Award, Academy of Management.
Chinese Edition: 使命管理, China Science and Technology Press, 2022.)
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
A New Ecosystem for Business and Society
decidedly mixed reviews. In those days, he said, people were warned of "the immense dangers of prolonged silent reading. Most of all, it was feared that excessive reading would make people socially disfunctional
and could well lead to a View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 2006
- Chapter
Economics Wins, Psychology Loses, and Society Pays
By: Max H. Bazerman and Deepak Malhotra