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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity
Faculty Faculty Lynda M. Applegate Baker Foundation Professor Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emerita Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of View Details
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
Courses & Case Studies Case Studies Middlebury College: Energy2028 (320029) by Brian Trelstad , Michael Norris and John McKinley APRIL 2020 (REVISED MAY 2021) Not all social change happens with new organizations. Middlebury College is one of the oldest View Details
- 20 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms
and Florida) or “blue” and liberal (California, New York, and Massachusetts), and boardrooms in various states reflect the same geographic pattern. The researchers observed more clustering of Democrats on executive teams in blue states... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
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Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity
and the first of its kind, revealing a history of oppression behind the institutions usually considered the cradle of liberal politics. Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy By: Jason Arday... View Details
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
startling how liberating it is to talk about what is actually going on and we can only do that when we risk discussing the undiscussable with grace and care," says Schulman. Students were taught to learn their subject matter so... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Finding Pride
was part of the radical gay liberation movement. He had nothing to do with it, except to coordinate with me to publish it. He took a lot of heat for me back then. Thanks, David! In my second year, when I was looking for a job as a... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Championing the HBS Fund
solutions. “Growing up in Greece in the 1980s, there were not many career opportunities,” says Stavropoulos, who appreciated the liberal arts education that Harvard offered. Although he enjoyed literature and writing, he pursued computer... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
yourself requires keeping promises you make to yourself. And you realize self-love is not a switch - it’s a forever, terrifyingly liberating practice. Philip Kalisman, Class of 2020 Since meeting, Hilary and I continue to grow closer... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?
ideas, more willing to help, and more trusting than would typically be the case. A similarly positive environment can be created if you work with someone who has an attractive personality—someone who is empathetic, for example, or generous. You know that you'll have... View Details
Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Century category for "Financing the African Colonial State: Fiscal Capacity Building and Forced Labor." 2017 Rawi E. Abdelal : Received the 2017 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the School of Economics at Ivan Allen College of Liberal... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
debt. Enan, then 24 years old, leapt at the chance to work for Youssef Boutros-Ghali, an MIT-educated economist and advocate for trade liberalization who worked to reform Egypt’s social security and pension systems, among other... View Details
- 06 Feb 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?
organizations practice it, as evidenced by macroeconomic trends? Is the basic premise even correct, given evidence from Europe, where less inequality prevails alongside slow growth? What do you think? To Read More : Don Delves, The Pay Problem, The Conference Board... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education
business education. Washington served as principal of Tuskegee University, which provided vocational training in agriculture and industry, from its founding in 1881. 2 Du Bois believed a liberal arts education played a critical role in... View Details
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Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920
Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details
Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
his work. A paper he’d written, using game theory to explore the liberalization of telecoms, was the ticket to his first job at Metropolitan Fiber Systems; an early project involved analyzing the best stock exchange for the company to go... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
information on where each person went to school from LinkedIn. Birds of a feather invest together The information showed that the venture capital world is incredibly homogenous, consisting mostly of white men from liberal arts colleges... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
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You Only Thought You Were Republican
centrist Republican Party has shifted to the right edge of the scale, ten clicks to your right. You think of yourself as fairly liberal socially — so you can understand why your daughter doesn’t want the government to step into her most... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
example, the success of Gilt Groupe and other high-fashion flash sale sites has proven that younger shoppers are willing to buy these categories online. They are also comfortable purchasing high-fashion designer shoes on the web, given the View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness
A second survey of nearly 7,000 HBS alumni and just over 1,000 members of the general public found ongoing concern regarding America's ability to compete in the global economy but wide agreement between liberals and conservatives on the... View Details
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
do no more than palliate public outrage. What we need is a much more comprehensive look at the recent scandals so that we can begin to figure out what the real issues are. As a start, let's consider one of corporate America's biggest villains: Enron. Certainly the... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman