Equality Of Opportunity - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Sep 2020
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How To Make Diversity a Reality

their Competition and Strategy professor Michael Porter. The group thought it would be a good opportunity to take some of Porter’s ideas about what makes a nation competitive and apply those on a city level.... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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3-Minute Briefing: Bruce Levy (MBA 1977)

I had no idea what I wanted to do when I grew up—even when I left HBS—so the new small business consulting arm of Arthur Andersen seemed like a good place to find out. I was kind of miserable there. But... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Chris Sorensen

01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

compete, the personal branding of a company’s leadership can influence how well it performs. Similarly, how a new hire brands herself could alter the opportunities that open up for her, and so also her... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Oct 1999
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Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic

the customer like about the brand? We found that they associated the brand with quality, a sense of adventure, and a pleasant store experience. Then we did some opportunity analyses on what people wished was... View Details

04 Dec 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

investment opportunity that traditional VCs are simply overlooking. In this special episode of Skydeck, recorded live at Fall Reunions, Dodi speaks with Associate Editor Jen Flint about the challenges that... View Details

19 Jun 2017
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How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe

following, lucrative corporate sponsorships, and paid the players relatively high wages. Around this time, Bruce Levy (MBA 1977) became the first ever agent for women's professional basketball, negotiating player contracts around the world. But as he tells associate... View Details

27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup

exercises that have them realize this will be me. I can’t just shrug it off as a, “No, I’m not going to be susceptible to homophily.” There’s a magnetic pull towards equality, founding teams, the most common way that they’re going to split the equity is the View Details

19 Oct 2012
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Past and Present

situations that test both of these abilities every day. “I’ve always tried to take stock of what opportunities were present in my life, and that’s my style View Details

Keywords: genealogy; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

01 Feb 1998
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Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together

In the fall of 1996, HBS professor David A. Garvin was searching for teaching materials for his elective course General Management: Processes and Action. He wanted to help his students understand the pitfalls and View Details

Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine

04 May 2017
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How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook

co-workers acknowledging her struggle. After noting some of the other political and commercial opportunities potentially available to her—“ Walt Disney Co. CEO or California senator”—the magazine reports... View Details

05 May 2022
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Lesson Plans

but do you know the material? Do you have the skill or not—regardless of your age and there’s, there’s many opportunities for you and pathways for you to develop that? I think you’re seeing movement there.... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management

Does a new general manager who delegates decisions run the risk of appearing indecisive? Is an "open-door" policy a good way for a general manager to get information, or a terrible waste of time? What... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Dec 2018
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Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa

sector, finance, telecoms, and property development. For Belo-Osagie, the opportunity to work with a faculty member and engage with students was particularly meaningful. “At the end, I had this feeling of... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Jennifer L. Scott

design one of the most innovative student-driven initiatives to hit the HBS campus in years. The contest provided students with the opportunity to develop a business idea from concept through execution - an... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Oct 1998
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Going Against the Flow

and those of developed countries. When capital is flowing freely throughout the world, there is tremendous growth and opportunity in emerging markets. But when the tap is turned off, you have major crashes... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.

01 Mar 2016
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The People’s Pods

or six or seven years ago, I’d be at the mercy of my local public radio station, which really controlled the means of both production and distribution. Now it’s into the great wide open. It’s really the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Jun 1997
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Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference

uncertainty is due to the megamergers of the past fifteen years when, Frank Biondi noted, all the major networks and film studios were sold. As Harold Vogel put it: "There are hardly any more multimillion-dollar deals to be made - the big... View Details

Keywords: Paula Maute

01 Oct 2000
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New Global Initiative Director Takes Broad Outlook

showing his support for the new center by joining the inaugural dinner on the first night of the two-day conference held in Buenos Aires for the center's opening in August. "The conference was our View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Services

01 Dec 1997
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A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)

away. However, this new economy offers the best opportunities for high-wage jobs, upward mobility, and wealth creation. There's never been a better time than now to start a new venture. HBSB: Are there any clouds on the horizon? Doerr:... View Details

13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

experience with the Silicon Valley business model. Before she started BulkWhiz in 2017, she worked at Facebook as the head of brand advertising in the Middle East and North Africa. And it was in that role that she saw View Details

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