Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

Soon after, as a visiting scholar at the Center of Human Rights at Columbia University, I witnessed, in New York, the power of social capital used to improve human capital. In my neighborhood, Vila Madalena, we developed the learning-neighborhood project in cooperation with a group of communicators, psychologists and educators.

Social Capital 13

Social Capital Education Human Capital Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2018

It was the project I performed the best at. ” Because she performed so well on the project, she gained social capital with her supervisor. You need sponsors to get projects. You interview for every project. I wouldn’t be able to make that analogy on another team.

Hotels 15

Hotels Project Class Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2018

Perhaps your boss is trying to advocate for you but lacks the social capital and credibility to successfully advocate for anyone. By adding value to important strategic projects for the organization, you’ll build your skillset, add to your experiences, and interact with new people.

Mentor 15

Mentor Short-term PR Social Capital 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

We were building social capital, but we didn't have a way to tell our shareholders — or be held accountable to keep doing it. There is no doubt we benefited from this. But we weren't capturing any of it in our financial reports.

Social Capital 12

Social Capital Report Finance Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2016

As noted in research by Paul Adler and Seok-Woo Kwon at the University of Southern California, a well-designed employee network essentially makes up the “social capital” of a company, due to all the assets or resources that can be mobilized through the network. emails and Skype calls) and joint projects.

Analysis 8

Analysis Competitive Advantage Social Capital Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

You will fit more easily into the culture, retain part of your social capital, and have larger chances to recover if you fail. Short-term projects are a good way to stretch without committing to a permanent change. Consider starting small projects even without a mandate.

Positioning 12

Positioning Social Capital McKinsey Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

You can symbolically and substantively reward people who credit each other, for example by saying something as simple as "Thanks for sharing the spotlight on that project, Jan" or by including credit-sharing as a metric of good work behavior in formal reviews. But this diminishes your team's social capital.

Social Capital 13

Social Capital Metrics Long-term Team 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

You and I work on a six-month consulting project, for example. If we don't create additional ties during the project, when the project's done, the relationship wanes. After one of the sessions, I saw Gretchen Rubin , the author of the NY Times bestseller The Happiness Project. But here is another SXSW example.

Christensen 15

Christensen Project Social Capital Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Finally, when you are at the conglomerate stage, they relate to social capital, as you move talent across internal boundaries and leverage personal relations with politicians, government officials, investors and other external parties who can greatly facilitate or obstruct your plans–not necessarily with the greater good in mind.

Social Capital 8

Social Capital Chemicals Industry Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

The most capable synthetic biologists in the BioCurious community work not only on their own pet projects; they also help others learn to do so by offering classes in subjects like Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, and Bioprinting. Design the organization to support individual initiative, not control employees'' actions.

Mission Statement 9

Mission Statement Class Learning-by-Doing Pharmaceuticals 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

You question long-held assumptions, cross-pollinating your projects with outside ideas. You don't have to pander to the person who did you a favor all those years ago, and more generally, you don't have social capital within your organization to protect.

Social Capital 11

Social Capital Industry Retail Budgeting 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

A study by McKinsey projects that in a “full potential” scenario in which women participate in the economy identically to men, $28 trillion dollars (26%) would be added to the annual global GDP when compared to the current business-as-usual scenario. What’s at stake? The solution is more interaction and learning, not less.

Conference 15

Conference Self-aware Diversity Participative 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

You might say, ‘Which would you all prefer: that I don’t check email in the morning or that I take one day off of email each week to focus on projects?’” Or if you’re blocking out time on your calendar to concentrate on an important project, send an email to your colleagues explaining why you won’t be available.

Management 12

Management Case Study Team Social Capital 12

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. And initiatives such as our watershed projects and animal husbandry programs have enriched large tracts of land for rural communities.

Long-term 12

Long-term Business Model Innovation Human Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

You attract talent, and people are more likely to devote their discretionary time to your projects. As Dutton and Heaphy describe, the leaders focused on building high-quality connections and strengthening social capital as ways to improve the leadership pipeline. The more people you energize, the higher your work performance.

Energy 8

Energy Health Care Leadership Pipeline Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

She's also interested in speaking at her professional association meeting — and would be willing to talk about the success she's enjoyed on an important project — success that your product or service helped to make possible. They're helping customers build social capital. And she's respected.

Goal 8

Goal Webinar Social Capital Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

“Today, probably even more than ever before, networks are a key form of social capital for achieving goals in both your professional and personal lives.” For example, you might ask: “Which work project are you most excited about right now?” ” or “Which session are you most excited to attend?”

Conference 8

Conference How To Venture Capitalist Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

” Self-awareness: PMs must be self-aware so as to remain objective and avoid projecting their own preferences onto users of their products. Finally, social awareness ensures the best PMs service their customers with a product that addresses their jobs to be done which is ultimately what drives product market fit.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Although Contect had launched as a specialist in small but steady installation jobs with high margins and low risk, it was now a full-service construction company that did design, construction, lighting, ventilation, water, waste processing, and IT infrastructure for much bigger, more complex projects. Our projects aren’t isolated.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

On occasion, these senior executives may designate lieutenants to sit on the brand council as their representatives, but they ensure the designees have the social capital, as well as the authority, to participate fully. The brand council is charged with using the brand as the lens for strategic business decision-making.

Brand 8

Brand Strategy Advertising Brand Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

When it came to projecting the performance of the firms they were connected to, the male analysts’ forecasts were slightly more accurate, and their buy/sell recommendations were more likely to be followed. Consider that in Fang and Huang’s study, they did not find that the men were more likely to be promoted than the women.

Advice 8

Advice Sample Social Capital CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Scotland has the intrinsic qualities of successful small advanced economies: an educated population, social capital, and competitive firms. For the UK, regional integration is a vital part of its ability to project economic and political power. The UK’s future in the EU is uncertain.

Consensus 9

Consensus Globalization Politics Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

executives feel that they do not generally seem to have the kind of social capital that would cushion against a big sociopolitical backlash. A 2013 Pew Research survey found that business executives ranked ninth out of 10 professions in terms of social contribution, only placing ahead of lawyers. Perhaps U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8