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- Faculty Publications (140)
- 04 May 2018
- Video
Getting to Know Student Class Day Speaker Serrena Iyer
- January 1991 (Revised November 1994)
- Case
Black Caucus Groups at Xerox Corp. (A)
In 1970 Xerox had a very progressive affirmative action program yet, once hired, black employees faced serious problems, due both to overt discrimination and to their exclusion from the informal networks of support, information and mentoring that the other salespeople...
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Keywords:
Prejudice and Bias;
Alliances;
Race Characteristics;
Employees;
Consumer Products Industry;
Electronics Industry;
United States
Friedman, Raymond A. "Black Caucus Groups at Xerox Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 491-047, January 1991. (Revised November 1994.)
- August 2023
- Case
Stay or Go? Sarah Reynolds at Kensington Partners
By: David G. Fubini, Amr Seifeldin and Patrick Sanguineti
Sarah Reynolds, a Partner at the global Kensington Partners strategy consulting firm, has headed the firm's Telecommunications Group for a few years. Thanks to her stellar track record with clients, she has brought the group, and herself, a range of accolades and...
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Keywords:
Consulting;
Consulting Firms;
Client Service;
Career Management;
Success;
Time Management;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Personal Development and Career
Fubini, David G., Amr Seifeldin, and Patrick Sanguineti. "Stay or Go? Sarah Reynolds at Kensington Partners." Harvard Business School Case 424-020, August 2023.
- 03 Jul 2018
- News
Herzlinger: The Godmother of Consumer-Driven Health Care
- 04 Jan 2012
- News
Are You a Coach?
Tiona W. Zuzul
Tiona Zuzul is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit. She teaches Strategy in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Zuzul studies how leaders and organizations learn and adapt in response to environmental shifts and periods of discontinuous change. Her... View Details
- 12 Jan 2006
- News
What Do 'Hot Mamas' Want? Access to Capital, Markets
- 09 Apr 2021
- News
Why Most Startups Fail, and How to Avoid a Similar Fate
- October 1998 (Revised May 1999)
- Case
"Friendly Skies, The": Welfare-to-Work at United Airlines
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ellen Pruyne
In 1997 United CEO Gerald Greenwald was appointed chairman of the national Welfare-to-Work Partnership by President Clinton and committed United to hiring from the welfare rolls. A welfare-to-work recruitment program was rapidly established and soon followed by a...
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Keywords:
Programs;
Selection and Staffing;
Retention;
Employees;
Recruitment;
Welfare;
Air Transportation Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Ellen Pruyne. "Friendly Skies, The": Welfare-to-Work at United Airlines. Harvard Business School Case 399-013, October 1998. (Revised May 1999.)
- 14 Aug 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Are ‘Better’ Ideas More Likely to Succeed? An Empirical Analysis of Startup Evaluation
- 07 Mar 2022
- News
Risks to the Brain
- December 2022 (Revised December 2022)
- Teaching Note
Leonard Bernstein: Changing the World
By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 122-056. The case traces the rise of Leonard Bernstein from a middle-class family in Boston to the conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. The case describes how he studied music intensely as a young man and developed mentors to...
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- September 2013
- Article
Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers
By: Herminia Ibarra, Robin Ely and Deborah Kolb
Even when CEOs make gender diversity a priority—by setting aspirational goals for the proportion of women in leadership roles, insisting on diverse slates of candidates for senior positions, and developing mentoring and training programs—they are often frustrated by a...
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Keywords:
Prejudice and Bias;
Leadership Development;
Working Conditions;
Organizational Culture;
Gender;
Diversity
Ibarra, Herminia, Robin Ely, and Deborah Kolb. "Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers." R1309C. Harvard Business Review 91, no. 9 (September 2013): 60–66.
- 09 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025)
in public education across the United States, but also because of the community element of the Education Pioneers fellowship. The fellowship has connected me with a supportive and diverse group of individuals and mentors both in DC and...
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- April 2001 (Revised July 2001)
- Case
Verge Software (A)
By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Elizabeth Kind
Scott Rozic, CEO of start-up Verge Software, has just told his board that he is taking the company in a totally new direction, moving from enterprise knowledge management software to Internet direct marketing. This case covers the start-up of the business, and Rozic's...
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Keywords:
Venture Capital;
Investment;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Business or Company Management;
Business Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Applications and Software;
Management Teams;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Business Startups;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Product Development;
Information Technology Industry;
United States
Leonard, Dorothy A., and Elizabeth Kind. "Verge Software (A)." Harvard Business School Case 601-065, April 2001. (Revised July 2001.)
- 24 Apr 2015
- News
How to Identify a Bad Investor
- December 2004 (Revised August 2005)
- Case
Managing a Public Image: Sophie Chen
By: Robin J. Ely and Ingrid Vargas
Sophie Chen, an Asian-American MBA student at Harvard Business School, describes a professional situation in which she was unable to mentor a junior person effectively because she disapproved of the way her Asian-American mentee conformed to an ethnic stereotype....
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Ely, Robin J., and Ingrid Vargas. "Managing a Public Image: Sophie Chen." Harvard Business School Case 405-052, December 2004. (Revised August 2005.)