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12 Apr 2022
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Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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Ways to Give Today - Alumni

automatically. Alumni couples must indicate—on the online giving form or gift reply slip—if they would like their gift to be credited jointly. In that case, the amount will be split 50/50 for tax purposes but each person will receive class credit and View Details

29 Nov 2010
HBS Case

United Breaks Guitars

in class is whether social media are better at destroying value than creating it. In social media an entity's size and brand recognition make it more vulnerable to parody and attack, not safer. As we accumulate experience with these... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

for his contribution to economic development, and has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and other honorary societies. In 2000, he was named a University Professor by Harvard University, the highest View Details

11 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One

you're being cautious, drilling down and reflecting, but you're not really doing anything, you've got to move to plan B and do something. Q: Do leaders need recognition to be leaders? Should they need recognition? Is a leader a leader if... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

September 2021
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Posse Foundation: Developing Strong Leaders from Diverse Backgrounds

By: John J-H Kim, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley

Founded in 1989, Posse Foundation was a nonprofit organization with a mission of developing future leaders who reflected the U.S.’s rich diversity. The organization ran a selective, localized admissions process in 10 U.S. cities to identify outstanding students with... View Details

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01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

18 Mar 2013
HBS Case

HBS Cases: LEGO

Out of work for a year following a serious illness in 1993, Kjeld appointed a five-person management team to help him run the company when he returned. The group focused mainly on driving growth. When a benchmarking study revealed LEGO's global name View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

How to Demotivate Your Best Employees

also changes the psychological mindset people have." Instead, Larkin says that companies may fare better just by giving people a nice plaque, sending an email to staff, or calling a meeting to recognize certain workers publicly in front of the whole crew. "You can't... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Service

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

public, investor, and policymaker perceptions with actual ESG performance, which can prompt timely recognition of firms' ESG improvements and motivate better long-term commitments. Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact ;... View Details

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Rock 100: The Network - Entrepreneurship

entrepreneurs Recognition on the Rock Center website Invitations to select Rock 100 events Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details

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Indoor Spaces | About

Room The Donaldson Room, located within the Emeriti Faculty Center of Cumnock Hall, was named to honor the service of Professor Gordon Donaldson. Frist Faculty Commons The Frist Faculty Commons, located in Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, was named in View Details

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A Campus Built on Philanthropy | About

recognition of the remarkable generosity of George Fisher Baker, Sr. (1840-1931) whose extraordinary 1924 gift funded the construction of the original campus. A prominent financier, philanthropist, and president of the First National Bank... View Details

07 Mar 2023
HBS Case

ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

Her Gender Shades project with Joy Buolamwini found that facial recognition services offered by IBM, Microsoft, and other companies misidentified Black women as much as 35 percent of the time while performing nearly perfectly with white... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology

24 Oct 2023
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When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy

Project Implicit, a research nonprofit that collects data about bias. The authors used facial recognition technology to assign a likely race to restaurant reviewers based on their profile pictures. Researchers found that after Yelp... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Food & Beverage

10 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing

report possible fraud? What kinds of internal control levers, employee training programs, or perhaps even internal (nonfinancial) rewards and recognitions lead to a greater number of internal whistleblower reports? Subject to data... View Details

Keywords: by April White

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IDEAS GIVE TO HBS INVEST IN LEADERS & IDEAS Give to HBS Learn about Planned Giving Recognition for Your HBS Giving According to our records, you have not made a new gift or pledge in recent years (pledge payments not reflected here).... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

The Burden Legacy

by the School in recognition of the generosity of the Burden family. The tree-lined greenspace of Burden Park is punctuated with seating for conversations, study, and relaxing. (photo by Susan Young) Burden Park, a broad, tree-lined... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

14 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

five hours of removal. The t-shirts were frozen to preserve the scent and thawed two hours before the stress test experiment began. (Pro tip: Freezing an item of clothing will preserve the wearer’s scent for up to two years, according to the researchers.) “The smell... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Dec 2022
Op-Ed

Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation

accountable to senior management for employing the process regularly, and second, rewarding those who do with recognition and promotion. That is exactly what Southwest Airlines and Johnson & Johnson have done for decades. Of course,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer

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