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- June 2014
- Article
Acquirer-Target Social Ties and Merger Outcomes
By: Joy Ishii and Yuhai Xuan
This paper investigates the effect of social ties between acquirers and targets on merger performance. Using data on educational background and past employment, we construct a measure of the extent of cross-firm social connection between directors and senior executives...
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Keywords:
Mergers;
Acquisitions;
Social Ties;
Social Connections;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Relationships;
Outcome or Result
Ishii, Joy, and Yuhai Xuan. "Acquirer-Target Social Ties and Merger Outcomes." Journal of Financial Economics 112, no. 3 (June 2014): 344–363.
- 06 May 2014
- HBS Conference
Business for Social Impact Forum
- 2011
- Module Note
Social and Environmental Responsibility: Case Study of Hindustan Unilever Ltd.
By: Shashank Shah and Shashank Shah
Keywords:
Social Responsibility Of Business;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Environmental And Social Sustainability;
Consumer Products Industry;
India;
United Kingdom
Shah, Shashank. "Social and Environmental Responsibility: Case Study of Hindustan Unilever Ltd." India: Sage Publications Module Note, 2011.
- 05 Aug 2010
- News
Harvard Business School Names 2010 Social Entrepreneurship Fellows
- 29 Apr 2011
- News
Harvard Business School Names 2011 Social Entrepreneurship Fellow
- Web
Driving Social Change | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
the students at have changed—they’re asking themselves more questions. I see more and more students at HBS who are interested in Social Enterprise. Julie Battilana Job Title Associate Professor, Harvard View Details
- 30 Jul 2014
- News
Five Bad Reasons to Start a For-Profit Social Enterprise
- Web
Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Competition provides a unique opportunity for students to put entrepreneurship principles into practice with an integrative learning experience. Students may participate in either the Business Track (for ventures whose economic returns...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Balancing business goals and social benefits
Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992), former chairman of Microsoft India, talks about the social and business benefits of teaching more than 3 million children to use computers. (Published April 2014)
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Advancing Social Enterprise | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Advancing Social Enterprise Background I graduated from Harvard College in 1990. I was the first college recruiter at Teach for America with Wendy Kopp and I got to know the people who were starting up the View Details
- October 2018
- Teaching Note
Social Business at Novartis: Arogya Parivar
By: Mark R. Kramer and Michael E. Porter
- Mar 15 2015
- Interview
Sunil Gupta: Business in the Time of Social Media
- 18 Jul 2021
- News
Harvard Business School Summer Reader List Highlights Social Justice
- December 2015 (Revised May 2016)
- Case
Jibo: A Social Robot for the Home
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Christine Snively
In January 2015, Jibo Inc. had completed a raise of $25.3 million in Series A financing after a successful 2014 crowdfunding campaign for preorders of Jibo, the first social robot for the home. Over 4,800 Jibo units were preordered, generating $2.6 million in sales. On...
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Keywords:
Business Development;
Entrepreneurship;
Applications and Software;
Information Infrastructure;
Business Startups;
Technology Industry
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., and Christine Snively. "Jibo: A Social Robot for the Home." Harvard Business School Case 816-003, December 2015. (Revised May 2016.)
- 2007
- Book
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
By: Rakesh Khurana
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform....
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Keywords:
Social History;
Business Education;
Moral Sensibility;
Profit;
Leadership;
Managerial Roles;
United States
Khurana, Rakesh. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. (Winner of Association of American Publishers Best Professional/Scholarly Publishing Book in Business, Finance and Management. Winner of Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship for the book which makes an outstanding contribution to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and/or work presented by American Sociological Association.)
- 17 Apr 2016
- News
Big Business Speaks Up on Social Issues
- Web
Rising Leaders for Social Impact Forum | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
really helped the social enterprise experience come alive in a meaningful way here at HBS.” “I found a community of like-minded peers, and felt that I am not alone navigating the transition to business...
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