Filter Results
:
(13,511)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(13,511)
- People (36)
- News (5,383)
- Research (5,149)
- Events (20)
- Multimedia (549)
- Faculty Publications (3,949)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(13,511)
- People (36)
- News (5,383)
- Research (5,149)
- Events (20)
- Multimedia (549)
- Faculty Publications (3,949)
- March 2016 (Revised August 2022)
- Case
Fair & Lovely vs. Dark is Beautiful
By: Rohit Deshpande and Saloni Chaturvedi
Women of Worth (WOW) is an organization that seeks to empower women through training and workshops. The organization has also fought against discrimination based on the color of a person's skin through its “Dark is Beautiful” campaign—endorsed by well-known...
View Details
Deshpande, Rohit, and Saloni Chaturvedi. "Fair & Lovely vs. Dark is Beautiful." Harvard Business School Case 516-079, March 2016. (Revised August 2022.)
- September 2019 (Revised October 2019)
- Case
Bill Connors and The Farm, a Comcast NBCUniversal Innovation Hub (Powered by Boomtown)
By: Linda A. Hill and Eric Mankin
In 2017, Bill Connors, the President of Comcast’s Central Division, launched a startup accelerator in Comcast’s new Atlanta Regional headquarters. Comcast was America's largest cable and internet service provider, having built a profitable business bundling television...
View Details
Keywords:
Innovation;
Entrepreneur;
Startup;
Accelerator;
Outsourcing;
Hiring;
Talent;
Culture;
Ecosystem;
Digital;
Leadership;
Innovation and Invention;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Diversity;
Selection and Staffing;
Organizational Culture;
Media;
Entertainment;
Transformation;
Atlanta
Hill, Linda A., and Eric Mankin. "Bill Connors and The Farm, a Comcast NBCUniversal Innovation Hub (Powered by Boomtown)." Harvard Business School Case 420-056, September 2019. (Revised October 2019.)
- March 2016 (Revised May 2021)
- Supplement
IBM and the Reinvention of High School (C): Toward P-TECH's Rapid National Expansion
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Kelsi Stine-Rowe
In early 2016, Stanley Litow, IBM's Vice President of Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs and President of the IBM International Foundation, made his travel arrangements for still another flight from New York to discuss possibilities for application of a new...
View Details
Keywords:
IBM;
P-TECH;
Stanley Litow: Robin Willner;
Cuomo;
Scaling;
Innovation;
New York State;
New York City;
Business Model;
Innovation Strategy;
Innovation Leadership;
Education;
Business and Community Relations;
Change;
Growth and Development;
Technology Industry;
New York (state, US);
New York (city, NY)
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Kelsi Stine-Rowe. "IBM and the Reinvention of High School (C): Toward P-TECH's Rapid National Expansion." Harvard Business School Supplement 316-130, March 2016. (Revised May 2021.)
- March 2007
- Class Lecture
Strategy, Leadership, and Performance Management in the Social Enterprise Sector (FSS)
Leonard, Herman B. "Strategy, Leadership, and Performance Management in the Social Enterprise Sector (FSS)." Harvard Business School Class Lecture 307-105, March 2007.
- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
cater to tall women and make them the center of the shopping experience. Impressed, the team then gave Girard a choice - she could come work with them directly or they would support her in launching The...
View Details
- March 1999
- Teaching Note
Conceptual Overview: "Business and the Environment," An Elective for MBA Students TN
Intended to assist faculty who teach courses on environmental management at business schools. Other people interested in the relationships between business and the environment may also find it useful.
View Details
- 01 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Josh Latson and his Fellowship: “It’s like a pie eating contest.”
platform for a Leadership Fellow opportunity at Boston Medical Center. Alastair Bell, MD (HBS MBA 2006), Executive VP of Strategy and COO for BMC Health System, notes, “From our standpoint, View Details
Keywords:
Health Care
- 29 Mar 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Do CEO Activists Make a Difference? Evidence from a Field Experiment
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
Hood needed to correct missteps made on Ballmer’s watch. First up: the $9.5 billion Nokia deal. Less than a year after closing, it was foundering and had missed Hood’s initial forecast for sales and savings....
View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
cater to tall women and make them the center of the shopping experience. Impressed, the team then gave Girard a choice - she could come work with them directly or they would support her in launching The...
View Details
- June 2013
- Article
Dysfunction in the Boardroom: Understanding the Persistent Gender Gap at the Highest Levels
By: Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell
The article examines the gender gap that is present in boardrooms in U.S. corporations and internationally in 2013 as more women attempt to reach executive-level positions. Countries in the European Union are attempting to institute laws regarding the minimum...
View Details
Keywords:
Equality and Inequality;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Gender;
United States;
European Union
Groysberg, Boris, and Deborah Bell. "Dysfunction in the Boardroom: Understanding the Persistent Gender Gap at the Highest Levels." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 6 (June 2013): 88–97.
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
focuses on improving health care access, investing nearly 500,000 skill-based volunteer hours since 2004. It works with non-profit community health centers that provide primary care to underserved communities to build health worker skills View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Path-Breakers: How Does Women’s Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?
- Web
I Found My Future at HBS and You Can Too - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to...
View Details
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
His talk focused on its implications for women in leadership roles, and examined why there aren't more black women leaders, since research has...
View Details
Keywords:
by Maggie Starvish
- Other Article
Accepting Risk and Rejecting the Status Quo: Fostering an Innovative Higher Ed Culture
By: David J. Collis
Corporations across the globe have been focused on the question of innovation for decades and longer. The desire to become leaner, better, and more efficient has driven innovative leaders for years. In higher education, however, this innovative mindset is a relatively...
View Details
Collis, David J. "Accepting Risk and Rejecting the Status Quo: Fostering an Innovative Higher Ed Culture." The EvoLLLution (August 3, 2016).
- 01 May 2024
- What Do You Think?
Have You Had Enough?
organization performance, then on to China trade policies (2012), the importance of immigration (beginning in 2003), women in leadership (2013), the need for an AI czar (2019), View Details
Keywords:
by James Heskett