Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

So we propose a three-step solution to properly value the office tending work that lubricates its operations: identify it; understand its impact; and find ways to assign it value. Cash value is one possibility: include tending activities in key assessments like annual reviews, raises, promotions, and partnership shares.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Attrition Absenteeism Social Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

ITC decided to measure its own performance in terms of its contribution to creating economic, environmental, and social capital through innovations that would be embedded in its business strategy.

Long-term 12

Long-term Business Model Innovation Human Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

In one case, two operational leaders at Kelly Services, a workforce solutions firm, created a Business Resource Group to promote leadership development and increase employee engagement.

Energy 8

Energy Health Care Leadership Pipeline Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

This makes it all the more important that we know beforehand what the trade will be; asking someone to do something for you just-to-be-nice can deplete your social capital quickly. The give-and-take of networking with people with whom you have multiple ties is a bit more complicated because the relationships are more complex.

Christensen 15

Christensen Project Social Capital Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Apple is now looking for someone to head up its retail operations, but some candidates have expressed wariness, saying that the company''s top brass lack clear plans for the stores. They''re always interested to build their "social capital." And don''t worry about the cost of finding and engaging such folks.

Retail 8

Retail Video Audience Social Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

PMs have to have a deep understanding of how the organization operates and must build social capital to influence the success of their product – from obtaining budget and staffing to securing a top engineer to work on their product.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

That's why the MIX is eager to announce the third leg of the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Innovation — the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge. With this challenge, we hope to accelerate the shift toward a more principled, patient, and socially accountable capitalism — one that's truly fit for the long term.

Short-term 15

Short-term Long-term Ethics Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

Brand-building is a function that business leaders, owners, and general managers – the people responsible for the culture, core operations, and customer experiences of an organization – must drive. Ultimately, though, the best brand councils operate with the goal of making themselves unnecessary.

Brand 8

Brand Strategy Advertising Brand Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. But it would take a lot of social capital. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

This is simply because being in a job appears to trigger latent entrepreneurship, and also because there is a more intensive re-investment of social capital to generate financial capital than is customary in the West. In a sense, African entrepreneurs run profit ecosystems rather than business units.

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Hakim argues that while we have no problem exploiting our other advantages — money (economic capital), intelligence and education (human capital), and contacts (social capital), women especially still shirk from using erotic capital. Why should that be?

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Social Capital Education Career 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Both in terms of operations and organization, this is certainly responsive to a more protectionist environment. executives feel that they do not generally seem to have the kind of social capital that would cushion against a big sociopolitical backlash. Perhaps U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8