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- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
workplaces provide a window on how processes associated with masculinity construction unfold in mainstream organizations. We identified three organizational conditions as enabling men to make this shift. The first is what we call a... View Details
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Globalization and Emerging Markets - Course Catalog
Brazil, Russia, India, and China, in today’s “frontier” markets that are only beginning to attract the attention of mainstream investors, and some are purposefully historical in order to give insight into the evolution of the world... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
club, he met monthly to discuss the work of Nobel Prize winners, including Herta Müller and Kenzaburō Ōe, as well as more mainstream authors such as Michael Chabon and James Michener. In a novel, that would be the perfect setup for what... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
impact in the United States. Real middle-class wage growth requires collective bargaining. “In an era where I think an awful lot of people see wage stagnation as a major problem in the American economy,” he says, the negotiations continue to be the “most significant... View Details
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
evolution of "action pricing"—setting an audacious price goal and endeavoring to meet it. The laptop typifies technological breakthroughs that influence the mainstream in ways that could have large potential impact. The... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
decades academic historians devoted almost no attention to businesses as such, as they focused on the role of culture, race, gender, and religion in historical developments. Mainstream historians, Beckert recently observed, "largely... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
“This was an idea that probably wasn’t going to be well received by the mainstream philanthropy world but had really big potential,” he recalls. A Princeton University study of GiveDirectly’s efforts is an early measure of that potential.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
motivated and characterized successful firms for decades, in the environmental arena and elsewhere. Thus, he concludes, "The way to situate business in the context of the natural environment is to integrate the natural environment into the View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
The Businesslike Gourmet: Karen Page on America's Foodservice Industry
feelings, and self-image. Food is like clothing or shelter: you can get by with the basics, or you can aspire to some aesthetics. The new insistence on food quality may be an outgrowth of a larger need to put more meaning and satisfaction in our lives. Is View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
You’ve Been YouTubed
tweeted by Carroll’s friends, posted on social news sites, shared with Facebook friends, and picked up by bloggers. From there it was a quick hop to the mainstream media; by the end of July, the video had been viewed 4.6 million times,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
they need. “It’s all about who gives the other person access to what is essentially their ‘page,’ ” says O’Grady. These days, though, O’Grady rarely needs to shorthand blockchain. Its most famous application, bitcoin, has become an increasingly View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- Web
Harvard Business School
American Business . New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. Davis, George, and Glegg Watson. Black Life in Corporate America: Swimming in the Mainstream . Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1982. Delton, Jennifer A. Racial Integration in... View Details
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?
overseas backlash against U.S. goods? A: Long before the Iraq conflict, the triumphal tone of America's global march set off a backlash. Brands such as McDonald's, Starbucks, and The Gap have become targets for protesters in many parts of the world. But so far View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Learning Curve
advocate for their own educational needs, in preparation for a return to mainstream schooling. About 10 percent of the students—those, like Katie, with greater challenges—stay on at the Joy School for longer. Those early years were a... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
are operating on the periphery of mainstream culture. So being recognized with such a prestigious accolade alongside many leaders of the mainstream music industry today made all of the hard work of the past... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
skills for our students. We’re fully convinced this is going to be fundamental mainstream investing in 20 years. Vikram Gandhi: One key driver is investor demand.If you look at the big pools of capital—family offices, pension plans,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Finding Success in the Middle of the Market
services. Very careful cost and service tradeoffs are required of companies that continue to dominate the middle ground. Nowhere is controlling midfield more important than politics. With just two mainstream political parties evenly... View Details
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
to understand and advocate for their own educational needs, in preparation for a return to mainstream schooling. About 10 percent of the students—those, like Katie, with greater challenges—stay on at the Joy School for longer. Those early... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition
great privilege and pleasure.” Gandhi: “I think when you’re doing things as an entrepreneur and activist, you can often feel solo in your journey or that you are operating on the periphery of mainstream culture. So being recognized with... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
doing things as an entrepreneur and activist, you can often feel solo in your journey or that you are operating on the periphery of mainstream culture. So being recognized with such a prestigious accolade alongside many leaders of the... View Details