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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Research Brief: The Power of Could
Say you’re in a bind, a tough one. You’ve got cancer and your only hope is chemo—the problem is, it’s wildly expensive and you’re flat broke. Do you follow your moral compass, even if it means dying? Or do you leverage your knack for chemistry and raise some quick cash... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
Mensah recently at Harvard Business School’s fourth annual Gender & Work Symposium. “Men talk to me all the time about wanting to be more effective (with women) in certain settings,” said Mensah, an adjunct faculty member at Baruch College in New York. “I tell most... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jan 2021
- News
Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning
serviced by Simon’s three full-time drivers, Heath writes. The rest of his business comes from walk-ins: wedding gowns and formal attire, or a homeowner looking for careful cleaning of an antique rug, for example. Over the years Parkway has tended to View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
South Africa Explorer
South Africa Explorer: January 2005 South Africa photos See our photo archive of past Alumni Travel programs Imagine spending New Year’s Eve in the bush of South Africa, tables decked out in white linen, dinner cooked over an open fire... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
Germany, despite having the highest labor costs in the world, also enjoys the world’s largest export surplus, at 7 percent of GDP. The United States, by contrast, ranks lowest among the world’s largest manufacturing nations in “export intensity,” the ratio of... View Details
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Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship | Baker Library
Americans, and Whites Nielsen reports on the African American Consumer Search using keywords African American or Black RKMA Consumer Behavior 2019-2020 report has a section on African-American consumers. Consumer & Business Demographics... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
backgrounds. While I kept up a good game face for two years, internally I registered great emotional dislocation. It was difficult to be the only Asian American in a classroom of 80 students. Some of the View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
and philanthropy and executive director of the Mattel Children's Foundation, based in El Segundo, California.) “Business can be the greatest force for good on this planet.” At ExecWB, Goodwin and his team recruit for-profit partners to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Nov 2016
- News
Paving the Way to College
Children’s Defense Fund; and helped to select the first secretary of education while a senior White House aide in the Carter Administration. Now semi-retired, Frankel is executive director of College Match, a nonprofit he founded in Los... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
binary black-white racial classification and facilitated the incorporation of—previously racially ambiguous—European immigrants into the white majority. We exploit variation induced by the interaction between 1900 settlements of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
has indeed increased at certain workplaces, particularly ones dominated by white workers, as more minorities have been hired at these firms over time. But as Koning and Ferguson zoomed out and looked at a large number of workplaces across... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Career Advancement Without Experience
work of high-tech contractors varies widely from job to job. People who are good at presenting their prior experience can narrow the gap between their past experience and future capabilities. "Film crew work is also intensely... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
markets, superior execution can be the source of astonishing success. The Koç group has a very successful white goods business. You look at it and ask, what is the source of the success? Are they doing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- News
A Taxing Question
White House's bipartisan Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction panel last year endorsed territorial taxation. “I'm a proponent of a territorial system," HBS professor Fritz Foley recently told Reuters News. He cited concern about other... View Details
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
adopters of new technology. Our younger Black and Brown respondents said their work contributes to the social good to a far greater degree than the white or Asian women said. And overall, these women are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
Products, Companies, and the World—with a Single Step by Mark Hurst and Phil Terry (MBA 1998) (Creative Good Inc.) This book provides a road map for executives and entrepreneurs who want to create better products and services. Using... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
localities and electric vehicle manufacturers as well as the ability to train a large enough workforce. There is a hunger for good green jobs. For her first 20 slots, she received 1600 applications. The technicians earn a minimum of... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
Project. Your ads from 2009 include things like a print ad that says, "No one thinks they'll try to tear off their own skin. Meth will change that." And it shows an image of a white saint with a razor blade in it and blood. There are also... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Matt…
great dad and husband, and an engaged member of my community. And I intend to heed the words of E.B. White and “get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time.” -... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
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Diversity on Boards - Alumni
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/research/publications/Pages/default.aspx Articles The Nasdaq Mandate Will Expand Diversity in Business—and That's Good for Business Boston Globe (November 23, 2021), A.8. By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Andrea... View Details