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- December 2020
- Supplement
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government of Tulsa to pay reparations for the massacre. In...
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Keywords:
Cost Vs Benefits;
Decision Choices And Conditions;
Decisions;
Judgments;
Race;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Values And Beliefs;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Policy;
Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms;
Government Legislation;
Government And Politics;
Government Administration;
Lawsuits And Litigation;
Legal Liability;
Leading Change;
Mission And Purpose;
Corporate social Responsibility And Impact;
Conflict And Resolution;
Conflict Management;
Loss;
Motivation And Incentives;
Perspective;
Prejudice And Bias;
Civil Society Or Community;
social issues;
Welfare;
Tulsa;
Oklahoma;
United States
- December 2020
- Teaching Note
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government of Tulsa to pay reparations for the massacre. In...
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Keywords:
Cost Vs Benefits;
Decision Choices And Conditions;
Decisions;
Judgments;
Race;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Values And Beliefs;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Policy;
Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms;
Government Legislation;
Government And Politics;
Government Administration;
Lawsuits And Litigation;
Legal Liability;
Leading Change;
Mission And Purpose;
Corporate social Responsibility And Impact;
Conflict And Resolution;
Conflict Management;
Loss;
Motivation And Incentives;
Perspective;
Prejudice And Bias;
Civil Society Or Community;
social issues;
Welfare;
Tulsa;
Oklahoma;
United States
- November 2020
- Case
Wes Hall and the BlackNorth Initiative
By: Shikhar Ghosh, Marilyn Morgan Westner and Reza Satchu
Wes Hall founded Kingsdale Advisors and built it into one of Canada’s leading shareholder services and advisory firms. Influenced by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and a series of social injustices—specifically the death of George Floyd in police custody—Hall...
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- November 2020
- Case
BRAC in 2020
By: Tarun Khanna and Shreya Ramachandran
In 2020, the largest non-governmental organization in the world, BRAC, headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has some big problems to tackle. Its founder, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, has left behind a challenge: take the 1981-founded organization from Bangladesh to every...
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- November 2020
- Teaching Note
Social Salary Setting at Spiber
By: Ashley Whillans and John Beshears
This case tells the story of Spiber, a Japanese technology start-up company. To reflect the company’s values, the leadership team implemented a new and unique salary-setting process: each employee had the authority to choose their own salary. In the course of...
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- November 2020
- Teaching Note
Unrest in Chile
By: Vincent Pons, John Masko, Rafael Di Tella and William Mullins
In 2020, Chileans would head to the ballot box to decide their country’s future. Many international observers credited Chile’s decades of neoliberal governance with turning the country into Latin America’s “Tiger,” a prosperous, diversified economy on its way to...
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- November–December 2020
- Article
Our Work-from-Anywhere Future
The pandemic has hastened a rise in remote working for knowledge-based organizations. This has notable benefits: Companies can save on real estate costs, hire and utilize talent globally, mitigate immigration issues, and experience productivity gains, while workers can...
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- October 2020 (Revised December 2020)
- Case
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai, Suzanne Antoniou and Leanne Fan
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government of Tulsa to pay reparations for the massacre. In...
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Keywords:
Cost Vs Benefits;
Decision Choices And Conditions;
Decisions;
Judgments;
Race;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Values And Beliefs;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Policy;
Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms;
Government Legislation;
Government And Politics;
Government Administration;
Lawsuits And Litigation;
Legal Liability;
Leading Change;
Mission And Purpose;
Corporate social Responsibility And Impact;
Conflict And Resolution;
Conflict Management;
Loss;
Motivation And Incentives;
Perspective;
Prejudice And Bias;
Civil Society Or Community;
social issues;
Tulsa;
Oklahoma;
United States
- October 2020 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
Divesting Harvard's Endowment
By: Daniel Green, Luis M. Viceira and Holly Fetter
By early 2020 Harvard University was facing growing pressure from students, faculty, and alumni to divest its $40 billion endowment of financial stakes in fossil fuel producers. Its previous policy of avoiding the issue was quickly becoming outdated—$21 trillion of...
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- October 2020
- Case
When Institutions Fail: HIV/AIDS in the 1980s
By: Tom Nicholas and Christian Godwin
During the early 1980s, young gay men in urban centers such as San Francisco and New York City began contracting a mysterious illness that would come to be known as HIV/AIDS. A diagnosis meant almost certain death, with a less than 1% survival rate. Conflicting...
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Keywords:
Ethics;
Policy;
Government And Politics;
Health;
History;
Rights;
Media;
Organizations;
Business And Community Relations;
Religion;
social Psychology;
Identity;
Prejudice And Bias;
social issues;
Public Opinion;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Health Industry;
Journalism And News Industry;
Media And Broadcasting Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
United States
- October 2020
- Supplement
OpenIDEO (B)
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Anne-Laure Fayard, Manos Gkeredakis and Jin Hyun Paik
In the midst of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was unfolding, OpenIDEO—an online open innovation platform focused on design-driven solutions to social issues—rapidly launched a new challenge to improve access to health information, empower communities to stay safe...
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Keywords:
Innovation Competitions;
Ideo;
Contests;
Contest Design;
Platforms And Ecosystems;
Open Innovation;
Open And User Innovation Strategy;
Diversity;
Design;
social Entrepreneurship;
Global Range;
Collaborative Innovation And Invention;
Innovation Strategy;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
social And Collaborative Networks;
Health Pandemics;
Health;
Information;
Business And Community Relations
- October 2020
- Case
PraDigi Open Learning: Transforming Rural India
By: John J-H Kim and Malini Sen
Pratham is a non-governmental organization, focusing on high-quality, low-cost and replicable interventions to address gaps in the Indian education system. Co-founder Madhav Chavan is interested in using technology for education but differed in the way it is used in...
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- September 2020
- Case
Algramo
By: Michael Chu, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal
Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores...
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Keywords:
Packaging-as-a-wallet;
Plastic Waste;
Business At The Base Of The Pyramid;
Reusable Packaging;
Alliances With Fmcgs To Meet Esg Goals;
social Entrepreneurship;
Environmental Sustainability;
Strategy;
Value Creation;
Goals And Objectives;
Business Model;
Consumer Products Industry;
Latin America;
South America;
Chile
- September 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Supplement
Student Success at Georgia State University (B)
By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
This is a supplement to the Student Success at Georgia State University (A) case. The (B) case includes the results of a randomized control trial that Georgia State conducted to test education technology start-up AdmitHub’s chatbot solution as a strategy for improving...
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Keywords:
Education;
Higher Education;
Learning;
Curriculum And Courses;
Demographics;
Diversity;
Ethnicity;
Income;
Race;
Values And Beliefs;
Leadership;
Goals And Objectives;
Measurement And Metrics;
Operations;
Organizations;
Mission And Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Outcome Or Result;
Performance;
Performance Effectiveness;
Performance Evaluation;
Performance Improvement;
Planning;
Strategic Planning;
social Enterprise;
Nonprofit Organizations;
social issues;
Wealth And Poverty;
Equality And Inequality;
Technology;
Technology Platform;
Education Industry;
Atlanta
- September 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
Student Success at Georgia State University (A)
By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
Georgia State University had developed a reputation for driving student success by nearly doubling its graduation rate for students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. It did so while growing its student body and the proportion of Black/African...
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Keywords:
Education;
Higher Education;
Learning;
Curriculum And Courses;
Demographics;
Diversity;
Ethnicity;
Income;
Race;
Leadership;
Goals And Objectives;
Measurement And Metrics;
Operations;
Organizations;
Mission And Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Outcome Or Result;
Performance;
Performance Effectiveness;
Performance Evaluation;
Service Operations;
Performance Improvement;
Planning;
Strategic Planning;
social Enterprise;
Nonprofit Organizations;
social issues;
Wealth And Poverty;
Equality And Inequality;
Technology;
Technology Platform;
Education Industry;
Atlanta
- 2020
- Article
COVID-19 and the Workplace: Implications, Issues, and Insights for Future Research and Action
By: Kevin M. Kniffin, Jayanth Narayanan, Frederik Anseel, John Antonakis, Susan Ashford, Arnold B. Bakker, Peter Bamberger, Hari Bapuji, Devasheesh P. Bhave, Virginia K. Choi, Stephanie Creary, Evangelia Demerouti, Francis J. Flynn, Michele J. Gelfand, Lindred Greer, Gary Johns, Selin Kesebir, Peter G. Klein, Sun Young Lee, Hakan Ozcelik, Jennifer Louise Petriglieri, Nancy Rothbard, Cort W. Rudolph, Jason D. Shaw, Nina Sirola, Connie R. Wanberg, Ashley V. Whillans, Michael P. Wilmot and Mark van Vugt
The impacts of COVID-19 on workers and workplaces across the globe have been dramatic. This broad review of prior research rooted in work and organizational psychology, and related fields, is intended to make sense of the implications for employees, teams, and work...
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- September–October 2020
- Article
Social-Impact Efforts That Create Real Value
By: George Serafeim
Until the mid-2010s few investors paid attention to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data—information about companies’ carbon footprints, labor policies, board makeup, and so forth. Today the data is widely used by investors. How can organizations create...
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Keywords:
Sustainability;
Sustainability Management;
Esg;
Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
Esg Disclosure;
Esg Disclosure Metrics;
Esg Ratings;
Esg Reporting;
Social Impact;
Impact Measurement;
Social Innovation;
Purpose;
Corporate Purpose;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Strategy;
social Enterprise;
Society;
Accounting;
Investment;
Environmental Sustainability;
Climate Change;
Corporate Strategy;
Mission And Purpose;
Corporate social Responsibility And Impact;
Financial Services Industry;
Chemical Industry;
Technology Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
North America;
Europe;
Japan;
Australia
- September 2020
- Teaching Note
Miami's Tech Future (C): Reaching Another Miami
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
The effects of Miami’s startup scene have not reached many “left-behind” lower-income Black communities, which are disproportionately affected by problems such as segregation and racial discrimination, lack of transportation access, crime, education quality, government...
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Keywords:
Technology;
Diversity;
Change;
Transformation;
Progress;
Community;
Scaling;
Income Inequality;
Racism;
Community Impact;
Community Relations;
Change Management;
Business Startups;
Technology;
Diversity;
Race;
Equality And Inequality;
social issues;
Business And Community Relations;
Miami;
Florida
- August 2020
- Teaching Note
Sesame Workshop (C): Mission Critical Responses to Global and National Crises
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
Teaching Note for Case No. 321-016. Beginning in March 2020, Sesame Workshop navigated a global pandemic, which caused unemployment, businesses shutdowns, school closures, and remote work environments along with a racial justice crisis, with a renewed mission that led...
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- August 2020
- Background Note
U.S. Private Equity Firms: ESG and Impact (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Holly Fetter
This is the second part of a two-part note. The first part (A) explores how US private equity firms are incorporating ESG (Environmental, Social, & Governance) factors and impact objectives into their investment strategies and firm practices. It is based on publicly...
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