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AASU50 - Alumni

Cunningham was one of 27 men who received the Master in Business Administration degree in 1915. Between 1915 and 1968, there were a total 42 black graduates of HBS with many class years having no black graduates at all. The representation... View Details

08 Nov 2022
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How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

question of when life begins.” You Might Also Like: How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

21 Sep 2021
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Readers Ask: How Can I Gain Power and Influence?

vacancies job applicants have more choice and more bargaining power. But with less than 11 percent of American workers being unionized and given that in the vast majority of companies, workers have no representation on the board of... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

31 Aug 2020
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Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

same. This is in the face of research findings that organizations with significant minority representation are stronger than their peers. A McKinsey & Company study in May of top executive teams in more than a thousand organizations... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Cotting House | About

either side of the portico. One bears a sculptured representation of the Cotting family coat of arms: the other, a similar acknowledgment of the Winslow family, Mrs. Cotting’s ancestors. Expressing gratitude for Cotting’s gift, Dean... View Details

19 May 2022
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HKS Policy Analysis Exercise Showcase

April 26, students presented projects focused on a range of topics—female representation in the start-up ecosystem, anticipating climate disasters in Yemen, a community-based approach to early childhood education in Brazil, analyzing... View Details

04 Feb 2014
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Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

book that points out the counter-intuitive relationship between success and listening to customers: The Innovator's Dilemma. Whether or not that is an accurate representation of Clay Christensen's book, it raises another interesting... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association

fair, which we held on October 11th. We had representation from 16 companies and more than 100 HBS veterans. We hold semi-annual admissions outreach events, and we sponsor the Harvard University Veterans Day ceremony. Additionally, we... View Details

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

Personalization with Multiple Customer Signals: Multi-Response State Representation in Reinforcement Learning By: Liangzong Ma, Ta-Wei Huang , Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli 05 FEB 2025 | Faculty & Research Sale of Private Equity–Owned... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Action Plan: To the Letter

brand identity, Chacko says, worldwide representation is essential. A brand’s visual identity—its logo, colors, and, of course, fonts—is more important than ever in the fast-paced digital world, Chacko explains. Together, these... View Details

Keywords: April White; design; typography; change management; leadership; Special Design Services; Professional Services

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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

from male colleagues and bosses. Now that I work in a more office-based environment with more representation of women, there are no overt gender issues.” AGE 31, WHITE, MARKETING, UNITED STATES By Sector, Last 3 Years Alumnae working in... View Details

21 Aug 2000
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From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

disputes ceasing very quickly." One of the biggest delusions in world business, he added, is that governments will entirely step out of the way. "You still need the government for dealing with other national governments, and for View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing

15 Dec 2003
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Women Leaders and Organizational Change

challenges that organizations face in their attempts to transform their working environments and structures to increase the representation of women in leadership positions in business, government, and the professions? A: The biggest... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

25 Apr 2007
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Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

and of the way we're going to fit into it—is no longer working. We all carry a representation of the world, our work, how we do our work, and how we fit in and where we're going; and that map is always inadequate in a number of ways. It... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Jul 2003
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Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

assist you when you need help later. DeLong urges executives to create support networks of "truth speakers." Within your organization, you should seek out two or three people "who will tell you the things you don't want to hear and who will give a fair... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Influence: Medium 70 1970 s 19 Wage controls OSHA created Service economy expands Women enter the workforce in large numbers Influence: Medium-Low 80 1980 s 19 Air traffic controllers' union dismantled Union representation drops... View Details

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

concept of elasticity. Highlights The Price is Right Price Setting and the Concept of Elasticity Elasticity as a General Concept Show Hide Details Concepts Willingness to Pay A Different Visual Representation of WTP Elasticity Featured... View Details

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Harvard Business School

Benaree Wiley served as president and CEO of the Partnership, increasing the representation of professionals of color and opportunities for their leadership in Boston area businesses and institutions. Wiley's management consultant and... View Details

04 Oct 2018
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Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

school degrees over the same period. Ethnic minority representation was even lower, with Hispanics and African Americans representing around 2 percent and at 1 percent respectively over the same period. “We really saw how powerful the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services

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