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Research - Race, Gender & Equity
technology firm, ShopCo (a pseudonym), considered 13 different recruitment platforms to attract racial minority engineering candidates. I find that when choosing whether to adopt recruitment platforms focused on racial... August 2023 Case... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
build relationships that allow them to sell their more lucrative consulting services. Thus, from the executive team down to individual accountants, an auditing firm's motivation to provide favorable audits runs deep. As the collision case also showed, once people... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
and a minor equity injection in 2009. Now, in 2010 ,the new maturity is approaching, and refinancing is again unlikely. This time, all the firm's debt is coming due. What went wrong in the first restructuring and what should PCP do to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
observed. In addition, a number of my colleagues are imagining inviting faculty who are interested in teaching our materials to observe classes virtually. We see opportunities to reach many more leaders than ever before so they too can... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
fact that most customers who defected from a particular bank gave "interest rates" as the reason for switching banks seemed to suggest that their original bank's interest rates were not competitive. However, his additional... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
Goodyear introduced its first belted-bias tire in 1967, Firestone's Research and Development group responded with a matching product in a matter of months and provided a second generation belted bias tire within a year.8 Belted bias tires could be manufactured with... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
want to dictate it because, ultimately, these are their community resources. What have you learned about scaling or replicating this model in other communities? We’ve been learning in two directions. We’ve seen a wave of interest from... View Details
- 06 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs
experience thus far? One of the highlights of my HBS experience so far has been the Moving Beyond Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Short Intensive Program (SIP). I love marketing and am interested in pursuing entrepreneurship post business... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
it to target its efforts toward specific communities and around specific visitor interests based on their clicks. Tate has also experimented with monetizing digital content directly, by either charging for apps or linking content to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
happened” across the city along racial and ethnic lines. In the early 20th century, Baltimore pioneered the use of racially discriminatory housing ordinances and deed covenants that prevented Blacks, Jews, and other minorities from buying... View Details
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
subjective, and all too often women or minorities have been excluded because others have not found them to "fit." One way individuals have coped with this reality is to hide who they really are or how they really think until... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
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What Black Executives Really Want
WHY DID YOU START RESEARCHING BLACK EXECUTIVES? I am not an expert in diversity and inclusion, but I had thought about marginalization, both as a child growing up in India, where I saw the marginalization of some minority groups, and as a... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
After a year at an investment bank, Dunn began his venture capital career at J.H. Whitney. Having earned his education the hard way, Dunn is particularly interested in improving educational opportunities for new generations of students... View Details
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
Harvard Business School offers to incoming students. I majored in engineering and minored in economics as an undergraduate, but the content of Business Analytics and Economics for Managers showed me new ways for using the theoretical... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
have no interest in your special capabilities. Avoid those customers. You must also avoid prospects who cannot perceive your superior value. Simply put, schizophrenia is terminal in business. Your company must stand for a unique value... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
love, and people genuinely were interested in spending time with my family. I did not expect to find out I was pregnant with baby 2 during START, but I am really thankful that I was able to spend the precious two years with my family.... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
and management than I did since we began researching and writing this book. Datar: I am looking at how implementation and execution strategies vary across countries. I'm also continuing my research in microfinance. I am particularly View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
In a three-year research project, I studied the career trajectories of minority and white professionals at three major U.S. corporations. The story of one of the participants—Stephen Williams—sheds light on many of the differences in... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
year—Musacchio and Lazzarini make the distinction between companies that are majority-owned by government, and those in which the government has a minority position, a situation that has become increasingly more common over the past few... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding