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- 01 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security
expect an equal contribution from your citizens, all citizens must be treated equally,” says Tabellini. “It reveals the costs for society as a whole if you don’t.” Despite the national reckoning in the United States after the killing of...
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by Rachel Layne
- Web
The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
oral contraceptive pill Influence: High 70 1970 s 19 National Organization for Women mobilizes for Equal Rights Amendment Roe v. Wade legalizes abortion Social discord continues over Vietnam War and civil...
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- 18 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior
actions gradually become less clear than other memories—a phenomenon the authors of the paper call “unethical amnesia.” Moreover, forgetting wrongdoings of the past makes us more likely to misbehave in the future. “We are social beings,...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
explains. Having determined that executives and admissions officers are equally likely to commit these logical fallacies, the researchers turned their attention towards ruling out alternative explanations, and verifying these results...
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- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
problems (and the ways they reinforce each other), this paper offers a new approach to community transformation which calls for leaders to use technology to inform and connect people. We need to convert the social safety net into a View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
learn if a standardized and institutionalized organizational learning process like SFP can enhance dynamic capabilities. The SFP model is illustrated with an application to Hewlett-Packard's Santa Rosa Systems Division. 2006 Journal of Experimental View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
Kimberly Jung, pictured in a field of crocuses, returned to Afghanistan to understand how she and her cofounders could import saffron to the United States. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Jung During their first semester at HBS, former United States Army engineer officers...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women Leaders and Organizational Change
and Stanford University's Debra E. Meyerson propose a new approach to viewing and solving the women-in-leadership shortfall. Traditionally, three goals for fixing the problem have been considered: fix the women; create equal opportunity;...
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by Mallory Stark
- Web
Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA? - MBA
Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering...
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- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant....
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- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
1977) MORE A century after the introduction of the first case to Harvard Business School, the case method remains the cornerstone of the educational experience. But it is also clear, from the scores of stories submitted here, that certain cases have played an View Details
- 02 Mar 2021
- HBS Case
The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?
area. When residents tried to flee burning buildings, they were shot and killed in the street. An estimated 300 people died, 1,000 families lost their homes, and $1.8 million in property was destroyed, equal to $26.1 million today. The...
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by Michael Blanding
- 2013
- Working Paper
Inequality and Decision Making: Imagining a New Line of Inquiry
By: David Moss, Anant Thaker and Howard Rudnick
The substantial increase in inequality in the United States over the past three decades has provoked considerable debate, with some analysts characterizing rising inequality as among the greatest threats facing the nation and others dismissing it as little more than a...
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Equality and Inequality;
Income;
Decision Making;
Government and Politics;
Economics;
United States
Moss, David, Anant Thaker, and Howard Rudnick. "Inequality and Decision Making: Imagining a New Line of Inquiry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-099, June 2013.
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Conversational Leadership
technology." The book provides a quick overview of the social technology that helps global corporate communication mimic personal conversation: internal blogs (in which leaders share their thoughts and employees have a chance to comment),...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?
give candidates equal access to voters, and monitoring the accuracy of handouts and social media posts that campaigns share. “It’s important to make sure that all campaigns are able to get their message out...
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by Danielle Kost
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
women say they have been targeted at work, according to a 2016 report by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which also estimates that three out of four of those women will never mention that fact to a supervisor. “It’s really...
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- 01 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People
others', even in difficult economic times." Chua, whose research draws on human psychology to better understand important social processes in business organizations, explained more about the findings in an e-mail Q&A. Sarah Jane...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
but achievements are equally driven by envy, greed, and fear, so emotions surrounding achievement can pull you in very different ways. How your values play in is another component to achievement. What are the kinds of things that drive...
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
American Civil War, Maggie Lena Walker did her best to actively effect change by finding solutions to the social and economic problems facing blacks and especially black women. Taking charge of the flailing Independent Order of St. Luke...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research Associates View Details