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Sexual Harassment, Free Speech or ...?

Presents two brief vignettes about female employees who object to gender discrimination in their work environment. In one case, the manager of a convenience store removes "adult" magazines from the store's shelves because she sees them as damaging to women. In the... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Working Conditions; Law; Behavior; Managerial Roles; Crime and Corruption; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Gender

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18 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'

Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details

Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis; Financial Services; Mining

19 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

choices, resulting in more efficient organizations. “It’s about how we think about talent and resource allocation,” Paik says. You Might Also Like: When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions Delivering a Personalized Shopping... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

24 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: What Mark Zuckerberg Can Learn About Crisis Leadership from Starbucks

take the lead. He understood the incident’s implications went well beyond the specifics, triggering widespread concerns about racial bias in the country and threatening to damage Starbucks’ image as a safe, friendly place to gather with friends or View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Technology; Food & Beverage

17 Jan 2020
In Practice

6 Traits That Set Top Business Leaders Apart

forthcoming book Step Back: How to Bring the Art of Reflection into Your Busy Life. 2. They embrace new thinking "They resist distilling their work into just one thing! Excellent leaders see nuances, contradictions, possibilities for... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

26 Aug 2024
Blog Post

HBS Lingo 101

change careers after HBS, and CPD works to help each student define their own unique career vision. The CPD team includes over 50 career coaches who specialize in different industries, geographies or life... View Details

22 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning

Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable Why People Crave Feedback—and Why We’re Afraid to Give It A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive Feedback or ideas to share? Email the View Details

Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette

16 Feb 2023
HBS Case

ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services

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Case Services - Faculty & Research

Research Services Case Services 3ms Case Services is part of the Division of Research and Faculty Development (DRFD). The team offers a full complement of support services to assist faculty in producing and disseminating high-quality HBS... View Details

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Research Staff Services - Faculty & Research

graduate degrees. The diversity in the School’s RA pool truly exemplifies the global nature of the research work that is being pursued at HBS. Overview of Team The diversely trained individuals that comprise... View Details

08 Sep 2022
Book

Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?

the Working Knowledge Archives How Will Millennials Manage? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/blackred View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

10 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology

Paxton Maeder-York is a proud member of the MBA class of 2019, Section G. He deferred between his RC and EC years to complete an additional master’s degree in Computational Science. Having studied Biomedical Engineering as an undergraduate and View Details

August 2011
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Mibanco: Meeting the Mainstreaming of Microfinance (MM)

By: Michael Chu, Gustavo Herrero and Jean Hazell

Facing an increasingly competitive microfinance market in Peru, Mibanco must continually optimize its product offerings, marketing operations, and human resource management to stay on top. This multimedia courseware provides visual orientation to enable viewers to more... View Details

Keywords: Microfinance; Markets; Change; Problems and Challenges; Management Teams; Employees; Marketing; Operations; Human Resources; Financial Services Industry; Peru

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HBR Classics - Alumni

Leadership Team - Complementary Strengths or Competing Agendas , Stephen A. Miles, Michael D. Watkins Picking the Right Transition Strategy , Michael D. Watkins Seven Transformations of Personal Leadership , David Rooke, William R. Torbet... View Details

28 Jun 2016
First Look

June 28, 2016

have preferences over relative outcomes, we derive predictions about the antecedents and consequences of dividing equity equally among all founders. Using proprietary survey data, we empirically test the predictions. Our central finding is that View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

what works in one location may not work somewhere else.” "The decision to expand is sometimes driven by the wrong reasons," says Associate Professor Juan Alcácer, who teaches in the Strategy Unit... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Aug 2020
Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice

thousands of people out of jail which has an enormous impact on people's lives and our wider society. After working with an awesome team at a fast-growing company that is helping some of the most vulnerable... View Details

21 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life

Is Happiness at Work Really Attainable? Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Recovering from the Need to Achieve Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working... View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta

23 Apr 2024
In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details