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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Venture: A Welcome Assist
that benefits the middle.” Consider the typewriter: Around 1808, a blind Italian countess needed a way to communicate with her friend (or lover, depending on your source) that didn’t require dictating a letter to a third party. Her... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Turning Point: Soul Cycle
practice—Beyond Blind Spots—to coach entrepreneurs and executives. I created exercises to help people gain clarity on what makes them, them, and then connect their personal mission to their expression in work. In 2020, applying the same... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
Mexican for-profit social enterprise that makes eye care, including much-needed cataract surgery, accessible to thousands of people annually. Blindness is the second leading cause of disability in Mexico, with more than 2 million people... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- Profile
Michael Son
changing it. I've learned to really ‘slug it out' in the classroom. In the end, I know something better will come out of it." "There's a real benefit to having such a large diversity of cultures and backgrounds," Mike says, of section life. "You... View Details
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
for its members. The station organized parties with the radio staffs of Radcliffe, Wellesley, and other nearby women’s colleges and sometimes rebroadcast their programs. During the 1952-53 academic year, the station had a “Wellesley Blind... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
LGBTSA Spotlight: Alterrell Mills
school. To be a successful general manager is to know your blind spots, and I wanted an opportunity to develop those areas with less career risk. As such, I was drawn to HBS’ learning environment because I thought it would be the best way... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
was a moving experience. I had one woman talk to me who was blind in one eye, someone with a profound learning disability, another with a pain issue," she says. "They all said, 'I didn't think anyone would understand.'" But Langer has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sea of Dreams
Then it got worse: He fell for an audacious Ponzi scheme that swallowed up much of his fortune. A mild-mannered man who began his career as an accountant, Von Allmen was an unlikely victim, but as he told me a couple of years later, "I was View Details
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
authors describe how organizational biases arise from the different incentives, agendas, and blind spots of the various functional areas of a business, and how they compromise forecast accuracy and disrupt the supply chain process. They... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Words and Pictures
about a blind student who photographed cracks in the sidewalk that impeded her progress, “became a pivotal metaphor that helped me define my calling in the world,” says Deifell. Since graduation, he has published a book and presented a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
4 Takeaways from HBS
share their stories with the class. From overcoming the challenges of blindness to participation in the Olympics, all of these varied and inspiring experiences were within the HBS community. I had my own myTake, where I shared how my... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the term describes any position with the... View Details
- Web
Disability Pride Month | Baker Library
Smith, Elder, & co. [Frontispiece and title page]. Henry Fawcett was a blind British economist and politician who played a key role in modernizing the British postal system. As Postmaster General, he expanded postal savings banks,... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991
began on a blind date at the Army–Navy game in 1967, endured the long deployments of his early career and yielded two sons, both of whom chose to follow in their father’s footsteps and attend the United States Naval Academy. “Deborah and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
space at the i-Lab, where classmates Wombi Rose and John Wise of LovePop and Michael Martin of RapidSOS were neighbors. To date, Camino’s loans have totaled about $70 million, with average amounts of $16,000 per member (Camino’s term for its clients). “We started with... View Details
- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
Track attrition and tenure by gender. Combat flexibility stigma by focusing on measurable aspects of performance, and don’t turn a blind eye to high performers who harass. Despite these efforts, the authors stress that success is unlikely... View Details
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
you think? Share your insights in the comments below. References:Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald, Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People (New York: Delacorte Press, 2013). Jennifer Maloney and Lauren Weber, "Coke’s Elusive... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by insisting on the importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
to enlarge The researchers recruited a separate panel of 60 seasoned angel investors to watch the videos and code them across several measures, including physical attractiveness—rating the entrepreneurs on a scale of 1 (very unattractive) to 7 (very attractive). The... View Details
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
blind spots regarding language to something as simple as managing individuals' airtime in meetings. Regardless of how it's done, it has to start with managers being trained and held accountable for their organizations' language and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley