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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Male Consumers as Man-of-Action Heroes
be like the man–of–action heroes they find everywhere in the mass media. For the white working– and middle–class men in the study, these are the most potent role models — heroic figures who defy institutions but, in the end, actually outdo the “organization men” in...
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- 27 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the PRIDE Club
elected to maintain the widely recognized rainbow motif as our visual representation for the club. To us, the rainbow symbolizes our community's spectrum of identities in much the same way that a physical rainbow is the full spectrum of View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
B. Donham offered Doriot a position as assistant dean. 3 Doriot's career as an educator started when he began teaching Factory Problems and the Taylor System course. 4 In 1926, the Dean appointed Doriot Associate Professor of Industrial...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
LA and completed a film program at USC, so I wasn’t even sure business school was a good choice at that point. But in the long term, I envisioned a career that had a foot in both business and creative. MB: How did you get started? ED: It was a long exploration process....
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
expectations with promises of same-day delivery, the logistics industry is looking to completely new models, like crowdsourcing, autonomous technology, and on-demand delivery. Robert Reisner (MBA 1971), who led the Postal Service’s...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
likelihood of meeting or beating analyst expectations. Collectively the results shed light on the effect of increased ownership concentration on tax avoidance. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51123 June...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
HBS Flunks Finance 101 As regards your December Editor’s Note wherein you refer to Dean Jay Light’s remarks to the hastily organized financial crisis panels during the week of September 22: Light attributes the financial crisis to the...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Erica Diamond demo the "modlet" View a list of alumni working in green industry What does it mean to be green? It’s a trendy color these days, but over the years HBS alumni have demonstrated a long-standing commitment to environmental...
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- 25 May 2023
- Blog Post
6 Best Practices for Creating an Inclusive and Equitable Interview Process
HBS Professor Youngme Moon noted in an HBS After Hours Podcast, “There are so many industries that have a history of relying on the soft stuff, and the soft stuff has worked in the favor of a particular kind of individual. The truth is...
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- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
the vendor of outsourced services can improve the efficiency and perhaps the quality of services delivered—particularly in health care, where outsourcing is on the rise. In research recently published in the journal Organization Science, Huckman and colleagues shine a...
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- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
well-established firms such as Walgreen's and Rite Aid. We also look at Amazon.com, another upstart that can claim to be "the biggest book store in the world." By looking closely at these companies' use of the Internet— which I believe is the analog to the...
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- 24 Oct 2018
- News
Exploring the Future of Work for Women
and presentations by HBS faculty, industry leaders and scholars. “We wanted to explore the idea at the highest levels,” Viswanathan said. “The whole idea of what changes in work mean for women is still unexplored. We invited business...
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Margie Kelley
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate Their Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
diversity and equity institutional champions. “There is an opportunity though, to shed light on the individuals within the organization who have been leading the work towards more diversity and inclusion before there were formal...
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- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
respect to black leaders’ economic influence over the past century. Most remarkably, the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, was placed at the helm of the US economy in the midst of the Great Recession and executed multi-billion-dollar stimulus...
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- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
firms are temporarily closed and 40 percent of the workforce, on average, has been laid off or furloughed since late January. Retail, entertainment, food services, hospitality, and personal services industries have been hit hardest as...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
Interest.” Declaring that nothing could be more important in the 21st century than the forum’s theme, Dean Jay Light recalled in his opening remarks that the School’s founders conceived of HBS as “a school of public service and business”...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
state-owned land that will be released for development, and the light rail will come in on the other side of those trees.” He turns and points in the heat of an April afternoon, taking in the city as it is now, orienting his vision from...
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- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
cautious, the ensuing months and years proved most welcoming. From the perspective of many craftsmen in this plant (such as blacksmiths and welders), these artifacts embody their professional identity. Within limits, homers can be seen as pride symbols. If a blacksmith...
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- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
government involvement was an issue. Regardless of the vehicle for achieving it, there was little optimism that we would be seeing a significant incremental effort soon. As I read your responses, a question crossed my mind: In light of...
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Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent - Course Catalog
live cases, simulations, and Ted-style talks; as such, preparation is light relative to case-study preparation and includes some background reading as well as optional readings for students who wish to pursue deeper interests in the...
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