Society and business relations

Despite high-profile attempts at innovation, the industry has failed to reduce its environmental impact so far.

The capitalist system is under siege. Recently business has been criticized as a major cause of social, environmental, and economic problems. Companies...

Many companies blame outside factors for the trouble they've been having in finding and retaining frontline workers: the pandemic, the government's stimulus...

How businesses and governments can work together to build digital foundations that benefit everyone.

When it comes to philanthropy, executives increasingly see themselves as caught between critics demanding ever higher levels of "corporate social responsibility"...

Visualizing this complex - and increasingly common - executive role.

Social media companies couldn't exist in their current form without content moderation. But while these jobs are essential, they're often low-paid, emotionally...

In 2022, U.S. workers voted to form more unions than they have in nearly 20 years.

Large-scale planning isn't the answer.

Future Economy The Opportunity of Sustainability Paul Polman is the CEO of Unilever, home to brands including Dove and Lipton. Polman has set a goal of...

Covid-19 put the world's focus, briefly, on frontline workers. But they are still not being treated as essential by corporate leadership. The author suggests...

If you are the leader of a large organization (or only of yourself) who cares about improving the world, here’s a question you should consider: How will you participate in the global solution networks that are increasingly managing to address the world’s problems? A global solution network is a group of independent parties that have […]

A framework to help funders understand who they are and what kind of impact they aspire to have.

It’s the only challenge that gets harder as they scale.

Editors’ note: A few weeks ago, HBR asked members of the Poptech Social Innovation Fellows to tell us their management challenges in running socially minded businesses. Our goal in doing so was to expose these challenges to you — the HBR.org community — with the hopes that the community could assist these challenges via conversations […]

Academics, government, and civic groups can all benefit from greater access.

Before the dotcom boom, one never heard the question “what’s your business model?” Asking it would have marked you as dim. A few standard models had been around for a hundred years or so: extractive businesses and agriculture, manufacturing operations, service businesses, media companies, and financial intermediaries, each accommodating a few variations like franchising, piecework, […]

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Social media, social enterprise, social era… Do we even know what we’re saying anymore?

The new vice president of international contracts for Timothy & Thomas North America, Jonathan Stein, faces tough decisions regarding the company's Pakistani...