Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

But we got returns on our investment as well: Our employees were proud of the company and eager to participate; the disaster areas provided some of the best training on how to solve complex dilemmas; and of course the reputation of the company improved tremendously. There is no doubt we benefited from this.

Social Capital 12

Social Capital Report Finance Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Of course more often than not you would find out that such extreme customization is not profitable. The forces of lawmaking, jurisprudence and, yes, ethics bring about sufficient transparency, market efficiency and fair business behavior for the conglomerate not to be worth its salt. Take a tobacco company in the U.S.

Social Capital 8

Social Capital Chemicals Industry Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” Performing market assessments. Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Of course, there are likely to be many things that differ across people working in these diverse fields that could potentially be driving these happiness differentials. Family and friends of the unemployed are typically affected, of course, but the spillover effects go even further.

Report 14

Report Transportation Stress Quality 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The free-flowing exchange, in which employees, partners, and collaborators gain social capital through their creative input, has helped propel growth. Marketers have always understood how great messaging contributes to the success of new products, services, and brands. Some eventually cross over to become full-time employees.

Creativity 8

Creativity Storytelling Social Capital Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The term "social media" was popularized by Chris Shipley in 2004 , as she described the impact of influencers and bloggers in shaping product adoption, more so than traditional media outlets. Because it includes the word media , and the genesis is marketing, most people think of this as the stuff the CMO and their team worry about.

Media 9

Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Employees provide human capital, customers provide revenue and social capital, governments provide critical infrastructure (not just "pipes and schools" but most fundamentally the rule of law) and legitimacy, and shareholders provide financial capital.

CEO 11

CEO Short-term Long-term Objective 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Here are some guidelines to help keep you on the right side of the social business street. Beware of Inserting Market Norms into Social Situations. That would, of course, have been highly offensive: it would have introduced a market norm into a decidedly social situation. Social Rewards Are More Powerful.

Guidelines 8

Guidelines Banking Discount Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Now of course, I pretend Twitter struck me as an irresistibly good idea the first time I heard it and that I was an early champion. Markets change. It turns out there are lots of people who don''t get the new technology and now social life is a little like a competition to show that we''re not "falling for it." Consumers change.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Early Adopters Innovation Social Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

This architecture reflects three key ingredients of today’s social marketplaces: Empowerment. We see this in marketing with product development and advertising, mostly. Integrate the idea of social capital in the monetization approach. Importantly, this score evolves over the course of multiple transactions.

Price 10

Price Content Reputation Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

And of course, customers are the basis on which firm value rests. That's because customers are your most credible and persuasive marketing and sales resources — much more knowledgeable about buyers' needs, and much less expensive than the resources you're probably currently using to grow your business.

Goal 8

Goal Webinar Social Capital Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

“Of course,” he added, “I think the applause would be even louder if I’d talked about the holacracy initiative.” But it would take a lot of social capital. ” Rogier handed the microphone over to Henning Haas, the CEO of Contect’s Germany group, and came backstage where Derek was waiting.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

It's becoming ever clearer that entrepreneurship is the answer to the vexing economic questions facing Africa today: job creation, capital formation, skills acquisition, taxation-based self-sufficiency, quality of governance-demand, and of course social inclusion. But how has it actually evolved in Africa?

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

I call this the FRIENDS approach — it is not comprehensive, of course, but serves as a reminder that we have options other than surrendering to isolationism. Of course, there are many other ways of making a more convincing case for the gains from globalization. Perhaps U.S. Distributional Issues.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8