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- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
York, he modeled drivers of economic disparities for low- and moderate-income communities across the U.S. As a grassroots community organizer, he advocated alongside such communities, creating Washington, D.C.’s first-ever $10 million...
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- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
not force the disparate CSR programs into their business strategies. Instead, the goal should be to "bring discipline and structure to the many fragmented components. [The] components will in some cases support the core strategy and in...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
made in modern manufacturing facilities,” Scharfman says. SMALL-TOWN PRIDE: Scharfman plans to centralize cheese-making operations for his growing company in rural Reeseville. The company’s growth has led to plans to consolidate Specialty Cheese’s View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
the test as he methodically refashioned the two old-line chemical companies with disparate corporate cultures into a single entity focused on health care and powered by an innovative approach to R&D. Today, Novartis is one of the world’s...
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- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB) recently presented a virtual panel discussion exploring the unique challenges that women entrepreneurs encounter when founding their companies. The conversation, titled “The Realities Facing Female Founders,”...
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Margie Kelley
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
John Rice (MBA 1992) that fights racial and economic disparities by empowering a new generation of diverse leaders. Engaging with MLT fellows broadened Ramirez’s exposure to corporate opportunities and planted the seed for attending...
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- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
the percentage of women entering the sector annually remained stubbornly stuck around 9 percent, according to findings by HBS professor Paul Gompers and Harvard University PhD candidate Sophie Calder-Wang. This disparity in representation...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
capital. For more than a quarter-century, the percentage of women entering the sector annually remained stubbornly stuck around 9 percent, according to findings by HBS professor Paul Gompers and Harvard University PhD candidate Sophie Calder-Wang. This View Details
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
hierarchy are associated with a decentralization of the decision-making process," Sadun says. "On the other hand, we have the communication technologies, which actually do exactly the opposite." It's Different Roles Companies, however, often fail to...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
system. In France and Germany, the university systems create a lot of inventions but not necessarily innovations. The third difference is the varying tolerance for income disparity across cultures. While that tolerance is very high in the...
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by Staff
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
that had the very explicit intention of enriching whites while at the same time it was very intentional about impoverishing Blacks. On a national level, we know that the average net worth of a white family is $170,000 versus $17,000 for a Black family. It is my...
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- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
Wildebeest added: “There is a good case to be made that deficits from loose monetary policy are the actual cause of the ever-widening income disparity in the US and nearly every major economy.” (JohnfrmClevelnd reminded Wildebeest that...
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by James Heskett
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
from one another's disparate experiences. "I think this carries over to venture-funded startups, in which having a diversity of venture capitalists around the table is actually critical to their success," Gompers says. "Take two people...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
market is still the most efficient in the world,” he says. “Over the longer term, one can buy and hold investments and be confident that price disparities will smooth out with time and be reflective of real value.” The author and coauthor...
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Garry Emmons
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
interests of shareholders. Since power derives from control over access to valued resources, this disparity in control over strategic decisions results in a great power imbalance among workers, top executives, and capital investors,...
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by Avery Forman
- Web
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017) - Recruiting
to help young professionals navigate their careers. At Wellington, Ramirez also met fellows from Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a national nonprofit organization founded by John Rice (MBA 1992) that fights racial and economic View Details
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
Second, pay disparity between managers located in different states decreases relative to that of co-located managers. Third, division productivity falls in dispersed firms, with the effect driven by managers at the low end of the wage...
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Anna Secino
- 02 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges
Governance Issues. Pointing out the need for unified oversight similar to the Department of Energy, she said, “If I had a magic wand, I would create a centralized U.S. entity to tackle water issues. There is no Department of Water. Instead, we have numerous View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
and women alike rated power as one of the main consequences of professional advancement. Our findings reveal that men and women have different perceptions of what the experience of holding a high-level position will be like, with meaningful implications for the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
strategy comes into question when students take the first standardized test aligned with the more rigorous Common Core State Standards. While the test results show that, on average, Uncommon’s students still perform well compared to their district peers, they also...
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Sean Silverthorne