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08 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

diversity affected business education? A: The student body today, from a gender and ethnic perspective, is much more diverse. Moreover, business schools have taken more of a global character in their education than any other professional... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

01 Sep 2010
News

Fair Trade

traditional prejudices concerning skin color, as well as gender roles, into warped aspirational values. From a local perspective, different interpretations were possible. In India, the use of fairness creams was seen as providing one... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

15 Dec 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

later, on a vacation with her husband, Enan sat on the beach in Zanzibar and wrote the plan for what would become Lotus, a fund focused on gender lens investing and sustainability. Not long after, she left Global Ventures, citing a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

05 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

enterprises and their capacity to pursue joint social and financial goals over time. I start by discussing how exposure to diverse organizational contexts and gender affect the founding of social enterprises before presenting the distinct... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 Jan 2018
First Look

January 30, 2018

social messages focused on the fate of the common man in a world of social injustice. The case discusses how women were depicted in Kapoor’s films and enables a discussion of the role of cinema in propagating gender stereotypes and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

Business School Case 417-002 Womenomics in Japan This case profiles Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's vigorous attempts to revive Japan's economy, specifically by advocating for a larger role for women in the economy—not as a matter of social policy or View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

job description required her to arrive at the office 30 minutes ahead of her male colleagues to prepare tea and wipe down their desks, in uniform. She found more space to roam in the product development department, where both her early tenure and her View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

reversed decades of progress, particularly in places that lack access to vaccines, worsening hunger, poverty, gender inequality, and conflict—the impacts of which could be more deadly than COVID-19 itself. The global picture is... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

may be the most important environmental objective, and in others it may be reducing the amount of water used. Racial and gender diversity can be a priority, but so too is ensuring some minimal amount of training for all employees every... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

along gender lines. That said, the female leaders with whom I've interacted have often been better able to leverage creativity and out-of-the-box thinking—vital characteristics, given business's need for innovation and continual... View Details

June 2024
Teaching Note

Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

By: Boris Groysberg, David Lane, Susan Pinckney and Alexis Lefort

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 424-004. Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management... View Details

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focusing on the intersection of investing/finance and key global challenges, guided for example by the UN Sustainable Development Goals, including climate, gender equality, and poverty reduction. Emphasis will be placed on the analytical... View Details

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