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- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
mobile phone penetration, universal availability of unique ID systems, and evolving privacy and data protection laws. It builds on global best practices and promotes the adoption of human-centered design principles, data minimization, and open standard APIs. The View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
increasing inclusion in the workplace and gender diversity and reducing environmental damage and progress towards tackling climate change. The early results from his efforts were promising, but was there more he could do? Purchase this...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
frequently non-governmental organizations (NGOs), in locations such as Ghana, Tanzania, Romania, Philippines, and Vietnam. The case provides data for students to assess the first year of operation and recommend what changes IBM should...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
from abroad is substantially more challenging than the economics alone would predict. This paper looks at some of the issues firms moving large assembly operations back to the U.S. have faced, along with recommendations for more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
higher stakes. How can they prepare? Neeley recommends that leaders ask themselves: Do our ethics watchdogs and controls have authority and autonomy? One of Google’s biggest mistakes was not giving Gebru the authority and independence to...
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- 07 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success
participants say that employees will likely reject data instead of incorporating it into the daily practices in their organizations. It’s also imperative to have team members represent diversity of thought, and some participants argued...
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- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
diverse methodology to understand the relationships between firm boundaries, firm activities, and geographic borders. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52688 2017 Geography, Location, and Strategy....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
in diverse markets proved a significant challenge. Still, supreme overconfidence and perverse financial incentives led to a gladiator culture in which executives proposed—and risk managers and the board of directors approved—a growing...
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- 17 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells
balks at marketing vitamins for women and vitamins for men because, ostensibly, that makes sense; there’s a justifiable difference between the vitamins recommended for men and women,” Barasz says. But the research team says, in general,...
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- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
up a task force to determine the extent of the problem and evaluate proposed fixes, some of which Luca had recommended and described in a Harvard Business Review article coauthored with Ray Fisman. The company has since made a series of...
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- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
call,” says Ammerman, “that's perceived very differently than when your male colleague’s child runs in during his Zoom call. I think it just produces an enormous amount of stress.” Steps toward gender equality In Glass Half-Broken, Ammerman and Groysberg View Details
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by Kristen Senz
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
publications on "the business case" for sustainability, seeking to map out the returns on investment and to differentiate recommended actions from cases of corporate philanthropy. Reports by business organizations and others...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
the difficult environment of late 2008. One of his first assignments is to review three companies in a partner's portfolio and recommend strategies for managing them. In addition, the partner also has an opportunity to invest in a...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
percent. "One thing we can say: The algorithm is race-blind." By relying on intuition and other methods to set rates, many hosts of all backgrounds were overpricing their properties. The research team found that the algorithm’s price View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
develop new ways of working together. To bolster out-of-the-box thinking at their companies, boards should promote diversity among members. They should foster "creative abrasion" to keep ideas flowing and rethink traditional methods of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
and possibly took African American patients to different hospitals than their white neighbors. Primary care physicians recommended these hospitals. Patients’ families had long histories of receiving care at these institutions, a holdover...
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- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
meeting to ensure that the actions decided upon are carried out. The chief-of-staff leverages the general's time by making sure that all the information, people, and follow-up are in place for the general's strategy and tactics to be effectively executed. We View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2015
- Op-Ed
Authentic Leadership Rediscovered
of one’s leadership, being rude and insensitive, refusing to change, or not adapting to one’s style to the situation. These arguments appear to demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of what constitutes an authentic leader. View Details
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by Bill George
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
mentorship on steroids. While a mentor may provide valuable career advice and an empathetic ear, a sponsor will actively advocate for a protégé’s career—formally and publicly recommending her for high-profile projects or job promotions....
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by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
come from diverse sources Chief among the recommendations from Grushka-Cockayne and her colleagues is aggregating several probability forecasts, typically from between five and 10 experts. Ideally, those...
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