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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
as being the objective but rather the consequence or the result of working well. Carla Harris (MBA 1987) Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley My parents brought me up in a no-excuses household: ‘What are you doing, and how are you responsible for this outcome?’ It was... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
the popularity of JALC's events, however, the U.S. audience for jazz is small and aging relative to other music genres. This case asks students to apply marketing principles to the challenge that JALC faces in seeking to expand the reach... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
some continue to pay a substantial portion of Medicare premiums for their retirees. Moreover, other cities finance better benefits for their retirees than those provided by Medicare. Cities could require public retirees before age 65 to... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
enough is enough. And that pride was combined with, I'll call it a cautious hope at new entrants into the fight that included an incredible diversity of protestors, both great diversity of age and great racial diversity, ethnic diversity.... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
Asian and African American students between the ages of 18 and 25 who were seeking jobs and internships. More than a third, 36 percent, said they whiten their resumes, and two-thirds knew friends or family members who had done so, all... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
behalf of their own interests and their shareholders' interests, but to use that influence on behalf of their employees, their communities, and society as a whole.” AUGUST 10 MBA Student Association Co-Presidents Annie Plachta (MBA 2021)... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
and Keep Customers in the Age of Disruption By Steve Dennis (MBA 1984) LifeTree Physical retail isn’t dead—but boring retail is. Remarkable Retail equips the savvy retailer with eight strategies to bounce back from the COVID-19 downturn... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and the founder of the Tang dynasty, Taizong’s chief accomplishments were on the battlefield. He defeated the descendants of Attila the Hun, opened up the Silk Road trading route, created a golden age of prosperity and cosmopolitan... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
all ages were convincingly behind Gates, albeit sometimes grudgingly ("I pick Bill Gates, not necessarily from a moral character or leadership standpoint, but from an 'influential' product penetration standpoint"). More typical were... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
Photography by Susan Young “If you’re a brain geek, this is the best time in history to be alive,” says Jordan Amadio (MD/MBA 2010), founder and managing partner of NeuroLaunch, the world’s first neuroscience startup accelerator. “We’re on the brink of a golden View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
who have been orphaned, abandoned, and left destitute have been given a second chance to grow into well-adjusted, productive adults, thanks to the efforts of SOS-Kinderdorf International. Founded by Austrian-born Hermann Gmiener, who himself lost his mother at an early... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
studied. "I said, ‘Corn? What are you talking about, Deward?' And in typical fashion, he got a bit short with me and said, ‘Your tribal corn.'" Walker told Keen that big ag was displacing indigenous seeds in India with GMO crops, a story... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
thoughtful and entertaining talk on "Prospects for Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa." Slabbert, one of the architects of the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994, is a former leader of the opposition in the old South African Parliament who now chairs the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
For decades, Shabana Azmi has been a leading actress in Indian cinema. She has starred in many of that country’s most popular and acclaimed films, including the groundbreaking Fire in 1996, about a lesbian relationship between two sisters-in-law. At View Details
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
Many of us learned at an early age the expression caveat emptor, or let the buyer beware. The phrase conjured up an image of a roiling, rollicking market that consumers best entered equipped for battle and prepared for disappointment—or... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
signal being weaker. The crowd-out in response to public incentives is also less likely among such individuals, consistent with the strength of the greedy signal being weaker. Signaling without Certification: The Critical Role of Civil View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
make up for lost years, he was surprised to find himself at Harvard at age 23. Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures through the Science of Total Motivation by Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor (MBA 2013)... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
that his generation is leaving them and what they will need to do about it. Japan and the Shackles of the Past (What Everyone Needs to Know) by R. Taggart Murphy (MBA 1981) (Oxford University Press) Japan is seen today as a has-been with a sluggish economy, an View Details
- August 2021
- Case
Zoom Video Communications: Building a Culture of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion During COVID-19
By: Karen G. Mills, Scott Duke Kominers, Christopher Stanton, Andy Wu, George Gonzalez and Gabriella Elanbeck
Keywords: Diversity Management; Diversity Training; Cultural Change; Cultural Diversity; Inclusion; Inclusive Growth; Inclusive Hiring; Hiring; Hiring Of Employees; Recruiting; Performance Management; Change Leadership; Race And Ethnicity; Racial Bias; Racial Disparity; Racial Injustice; Racial Tensions; Racism; Organization; Organization Process; Organization Structure; Structural/institutional Racism; Leadership And Change Management; Leadership And Managing People; Leading; Gender Bias; Discrimination; Inequalities; Inequality; Social Change; Employee Attitude Development And Empowerment; Employee Bonding; Employee Empowerment; Employee Engagement; Employee Fairness; Employee Morale; Employee Performance Management; Employee Relations; Company Culture; Company Values; Values; COVID-19 Pandemic; Demographics; Diversity; Age; Ethnicity; Gender; Business Processes; Change Management; Change; Race; Human Capital; Human Resources; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Jobs and Positions; Job Interviews; Leadership; Leading Change; Management; Management Teams; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Style; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Culture; Happiness; Prejudice and Bias; Satisfaction; Equity; Identity; Leadership Style; Values and Beliefs; Technology Industry; United States
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
and finds a diabolical parenting manual, his world turns upside down. The Ultimate Guide to Hacking Your Kids was written by an organization called Families Against Rotten Teens (F.A.R.T.), a secret society of grizzled parents whose... View Details