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- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
goals without providing the structures to educate senior executives in the specific challenges faced by various constituencies. In addition, these strategies often don't provide models that teach or encourage new behaviors. IBM has taken...
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by David A. Thomas
- 02 Jul 2024
- Book
Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead
defensive back, and maybe he saw some innate coaching potential (my superpower) in the way I interacted with the other kids. Whatever the case may be, that capability, especially that coaching and encouraging potential, was the groundwork...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Students Reflect on COP28
enough to make an intervention comment at a UN policy action session on EV charging, a subject I’m passionate about. For students attending COP in the future, I would encourage you to clearly define what you want to achieve through COP28...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
Dean Nitin Nohria. “He cared deeply about every member of the HBS community and believed in the School’s ability to transform lives. By encouraging us all to dream big dreams—in effect, spurring our intellectual ambition—he set the School...
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- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
Susanna Gallani, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—We analyze the effects of a field experiment introducing a values-based 360-degree assessment system at an Indian retailer. The director intended to encourage store managers, rewarded based on...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
of escalation. Furthermore, acknowledging possible unintentionality may encourage settlement due to the typically inadvertent nature of these incidences. The resulting higher settlement rate prevents additional legal action and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
foreign capital may encourage entrepreneurship. We find that entrepreneurial activity is higher in industries that have a large share of foreign firms in vertically linked industries. Second, we find that entrepreneurial activity in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
largest shareholder, Khazanah Nacional, the sovereign wealth fund, is tasked with helping to grow the Malaysian economy. Should Khazanah encourage job and route cuts at MAS, and how would the government react to them? Moreover, should...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
significant gaps elsewhere. The business history group currently has a major initiative to encourage business history research in Argentina and Chile led by Research Fellow Andrea Lluch, who is currently based at our Latin American...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Blog
Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
numbers, but the work within equity and inclusion can be less structured, and makes us all a little uncomfortable. Often, people just want to be given direction, but DEI doesn’t tend to be that easy. Getting to where we are today has been progress and we should feel...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
belief in the power of imagination, and by his relationships with people who had provided encouragement when he most needed it. When he left Dell Computer Corporation to teach, Walker discovered that the stories he took with him—of his...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
over the years. The importance of women as consumers, in particular, has led to a long-standing critique of the industry as an instrument for the oppression of women by men (and their corporations). Feminist writers have regularly blamed its advertising campaigns for...
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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
ranks. To support these efforts at effecting institutional change, Abe also has overseen rapid growth in daycare facilities for the children of working mothers and has worked intensively to encourage Japan's business associations to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
counterweights, encouraging the preservation of some valued elements of the old institutional order alongside new elements that allow for change and survival. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49377...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United States. We discuss rationales for the agglomeration of these activities and the economic consequences of clusters. We identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
After college, Ramirez planned to attend law school and took a proactive approach to crafting her career trajectory. Goal-oriented by nature and encouraged by her parents, she joined an enrichment program with Boston Lawyers Group, an...
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- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
started in her early years. The influence of her mother, an artist, and her father, a mathematician-turned-businessman, inspired Leahy to explore both passions throughout her life. Her parents also encouraged her ambitions and were strong...
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- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
preferred me to be more academic—which was a long shot.” Continental drift: “After college I taught physical education at a school in Oxford, and some Rhodes Scholars who lived in my building encouraged me to go to the United States. I...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
mom turns off the parts she doesn’t like. These days, it doesn’t matter if you’re famous for a good or bad reason. Even Paris Hilton can one day become an ambassador. Thanks to reality TV, everybody is encouraged to puke up the their most...
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