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01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

number of readers put forward well-tempered comments questioning research on whether diversity and inclusion enhance organization performance. The implication is that this may account in some part for the slow pace of progress on this... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate Their Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging - Recruiting

employers committed to diversity and inclusion assess their progress to date. What does the staff compositional data look like when broken out by race, ethnicity, gender, and other personal and cultural identifiers? “Think about the... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

since the Middle Ages by the rise and ongoing progress of modern science. The development of the germ theory of disease in the nineteenth century, for example, and of the science of genetics in the twentieth, have gone into the formation... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

imperfect—it is a "stretch" (in terms of talent, not values). These assignments are riskier, since the manager is more likely to make mistakes that might set back his or her career progress or have a negative impact on... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

30 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay

Pacelli’s research shows how disclosing genuine progress in inclusion can give companies a competitive edge in attracting talent and, ultimately, fostering innovation. Pacelli coauthored the August working paper with Jung Ho Choi of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Affiliated Organizations & Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network Affiliated Organizations &... View Details

08 Nov 2013
HBS Seminar

Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School

01 Sep 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details

14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

reevaluate. Maintaining culture change requires measurement. Leaders should constantly reassess their progress by collecting feedback from a random representative sample at random intervals. The culture of continuous improvement is a... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

tackle different sorts of markets or different sorts of problems.” How to boost patents by women In recent years, progress has been made toward gender parity in science, as more women enter STEM fields and enroll in technical degree... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Harvard Kennedy School’s Social Innovation + Change Initiative is a rigorous co-curricular program for change-makers committed to addressing pressing social problems in new and creative ways. The Fellowship selects and supports students – known as Cheng Fellows –... View Details

08 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

with protagonists’ consent, data on race and ethnicity. So far, we know that just under 30 percent of cases used in first-year MBA instruction feature a protagonist of color. There is more work to do, but by investing in data collection, analysis, and reporting, we can... View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Capstone The CLIMB Activities and Capstone Project takes place throughout the CLIMB Program. You’ll work on tasks that allow you to collaborate with your peers and apply what you are learning in your courses as you progress through the... View Details

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

recognize that risk management is only part of the story and that the benefits of positive values go well beyond problem avoidance. I have seen this progression in some companies that initially turn to values as a damage control measure... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

01 Aug 2001
News

Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

progressed against the background of a changing financial landscape, Fisher and his colleagues persuaded Morgan Stanley's senior partners that the wholesale culture of the major "bulge bracket" investment banks needed to make way for a... View Details

Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

still be eligible to complete the course successfully. Please contact the HBS Online Support Team for more information. What materials will I have access to after completing Organizational Leadership? + – You will have access to the materials in every prior module as... View Details

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Negotiating - Alumni

than money! Evaluate all aspects of an offer and prioritize those that are most important to you. These include: Organizational culture and values Paid vacation time Maternity/paternity leave Growth opportunities Career progression... View Details

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Certificates, Credentials, & Credits | HBS Online

are deadlines to ensure you’re progressing through the course in step with your peers and taking full advantage of all networking and social learning opportunities. To earn a Certificate of Completion, you must complete all coursework in... View Details

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Running Jobs - Research Computing Services

of the compute cluster. Using the Program Application Center to start an application with a run script is an example of running a batch job. Monitoring Jobs & Troubleshoting Monitoring the progress of your jobs and understanding how to... View Details

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