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22 Feb 2022
News

A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs

affected Avance as well. Happily, Perez notes, the private equity firm is now thriving as Latinx businesses are recovering. Perez cofounded Avance with his HBS classmate Luis A. Zaldivar (MBA 1996), with whom he had worked at Palladium... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

10 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

How Numbers Talk to People

The problem with big data is that there is, well, so much of it. Analyzing it is like trying to sip from a firehose. Just in time, a new book on the art and science of quantitative analysis arrives this week. In Keeping Up with the... View Details

07 Jan 2015
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?

perspective to interpret/appreciate the information can (produce) negative energy that is avoidable ." Peter Lee echoed the thought this way: Management must "work to improve trust before emphasizing transparency; transparency without concurrent View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2013
News

Leveraging Female Talent

also been collecting quantitative data from companies to determine the effects of diversity and a more inclusive culture on performance. There are many question marks. For example, under what conditions would you expect diversity to have... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Dec 2017
News

Global Perspectives

data storage components. They also examined the gemstone and jewelry trade in Thailand, which produces 80 percent of the world’s jewelry, from high-end to mass-market, and met with villagers in Sumatra to discuss efforts to effect change... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

School of Hard Knocks

Role-playing, between a baby boomer and a millennial, for example, on how often one should be recognized for a job well done, also helps increase employee awareness of other perspectives around an issue common to all. According to a 1995 Wharton School study, companies... View Details

Keywords: discrimination; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

09 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage describes organizations that, Beer says, "are diametrically opposite to the firms we saw fail on Wall Street. The book's perspective also... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

life, and low cost Prussian Blue Sodium Ion battery solutions for critical power and industrial applications, including data center UPS systems and electrically-powered materials handling equipment. Aditya's role prior to HBS was a... View Details

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

approximately 3,200 executives who took biotech firms public between 1979 and 1996; these data show that almost one quarter of these firms had someone on their IPO team who... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

interior. But no more. Since China was admitted to the WTO, many favorable trade policies have been extended to the interior of the country, Oberholzer-Gee explained. Moreover, the data analysis “does not allow you to predict a company’s... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2022
News

Eyes in the Skies

climate change, with its attendant rise in extreme (and extremely disruptive) weather—has whetted the commercial sector’s appetite for worldwide data and analytics. “That combination of things means that the world really does need... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

02 Aug 2021
What Do You Think?

Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?

below. References: Prithwiraj Choudbury and Emma Salomon, GitLab and the Future of All-Remote Work (A), Harvard Business School Publishing, April 2, 2020. Chip Cutter, The Back-to-Work Puzzle, The Wall Street Journal, July 24-25, 2021. Steve Glavesky, The Five View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

that’s essential for creativity and efficiency. Chopped-up schedules interrupt deep thinking, so people come to work early, stay late, or use weekends for quiet time to concentrate. And dysfunctional meeting behaviors are associated with lower View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2021
News

Truth Be Told

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 availability, we would... View Details

Keywords: April White; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data will transform financial services and small-business lending long before they impact driverless cars, predicts Harvard Business School Senior Fellow Karen G. Mills. “As we speak,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

winning streaks. As a pattern of success continues, many people at many levels take on leadership roles. Some of them are appointed to positions with leadership titles, some of them are self-appointed; and roles are passed around as the... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

12 Dec 2017
News

Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley

embarked on a path that would lead him to become a pioneer in database marketing and customer engagement. While working as a research assistant at HBS after graduation, Brierley agreed to help the headquarters of his undergraduate fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, find... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

HBS Launches Alumni Survey

career services, curriculum development, executive education, alumni relations, and publishing,” says David Lampe, the School’s executive director of Marketing and Communications. The survey, developed and administered with the help of the independent View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

and make decisions based on assumptions about the future. The problem: Most of these prophecies about what is to come are basically straight-line extrapolations of a few weeks of data or sermons about what that prophet believes should... View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

30 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 30

find that U.S. listed foreign companies experience securities class action lawsuits at about half the rate as do U.S. firms with similar levels of ex ante litigation risk. The lower rate appears to be driven... View Details