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  • 24 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors

identity out there, it appears to activate different things psychologically in people’s minds than when people infer your identity from your name.” "They're thinking ... 'If I care about not being prejudiced, I should maybe take a little... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 08 Sep 2008
  • HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 04 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

review employees when promotions are up for grabs. Plus, it’s more difficult for an employee to schmooze with three supervisors than one, they point out. Also, when planning events where employees and managers mingle, companies should make a more conscious effort to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

higher communication rate, and thus better performance. If set to no, LSF does not bind the job core on the CPU socket to the GPU, but does ensure that the job is pinned to one or more cores (it does not bounce around == less performance) and that CGROUPs are View Details
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

"result." But failure need not always be considered from a "defensive" viewpoint. Our third section describes an "offensive" approach to learning from failure—deliberate experimentation. The three activities... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
  • Web

Agents of Change: The Founding of the African-American Student Union

Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core Demands & Proposals Early Years & View Details
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

The Internet's Next Frontier

technology has survived and grown even in the midst of an economic downturn and the high-energy activity that was happening in 2021 and 2022, I think just reinforces my confidence that this is a big part of the future of business.”... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 12 Oct 2017
  • News

Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

as the School’s first Goldman Sachs Fellow, and was elected copresident of the African American Student Union (AASU). “I had never taken an accounting or finance class before I went to HBS,” he notes. “The AASU study groups and community View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 18 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

will better guide them as they think through which school-improvement programs and initiatives to support. We are already seeing a relatively big outpouring of activity from businesses, investors, and entrepreneurs behind computer-based... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • June 2020
  • Supplement

RBC: Transforming Transformation (B)

By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Aldo Sesia
In 2017, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), a Canadian financial icon, mandated a swat team of “enablers of collaboration” (their job description) to support the personal and commercial bank in the enterprise-wide RBC Cultural Transformation initiative. Historically,... View Details
Keywords: Service Delivery; Information Technology; Transformation; Change Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Decision Making; Human Resources; Management Systems; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Management Teams; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Canada
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  • March 2019
  • Case

HOPI: Turkey's Shopping Companion

By: Sunil Gupta, Donald Ngwe and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in 2017 as Onur Erbay, CEO of HOPI, a multi-vendor loyalty platform, is contemplating a critical decision. The case chronicles the origins of Boyner Group, the parent company of HOPI and a major retailer in Turkey, and development of retail and customer... View Details
Keywords: Loyalty Programs; Multi-vendor Platform; Retail; Big Data; Customer Relationship Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Business Model; Analytics and Data Science; Competitive Strategy; Decision Making; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Turkey
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  • 11 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

experience per se—but for those interests, ambitions, and activities he was most passionate about. Looking back, Kloeblen spoke passionately about a social networking group he had led at IBM. “It was a network of innovators, mostly inside... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

Exploring Career Passions through Short Intensive Programs – Moving Beyond Direct to Consumer

the activities of businesses to expand their DTC business into a true omnichannel relationship. In part because of COVID-19, there was more change to DTC businesses in 2020 than there was for the prior 10 years. Our 2021 version increases... View Details
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

changing accruals, for example—the adverse impact on company value is probably small. But rarely is the activity so benign. Usually, the shuffling of dollars results from decisions that change the operating characteristics of a company,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • 04 Nov 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

included those that “women have greater analytical skills and coordinate activities with much (greater) ease than men while upholding company values and strategy” (Mathews Daniel Kapito); “Having senior female leaders should lead to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 08 Feb 2021
  • Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

toward racial equity more recently, he began to feel uncomfortable helping only people who were bold enough to ask for this favor. After all, while social science research shows most people do not actively harm members of other racial,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Dec 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How The 2016 Presidential Candidates Misled Us With Truthful Statements

"Paltering" is the active use of truthful statements to influence a target’s beliefs by giving a false or distorted impression. It can pervade all kinds of personal interactions, from romantic relationships to foreign affairs, whenever... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Nov 2022
  • Blog Post

Building Community: Meet the HBS Latino Student Organization Leadership

active member of this community on and off campus if I were to be admitted to HBS. Upon receiving my admissions letter, the first joyous phone calls were from the LASO community, offering both congratulations and support. As I arrived on... View Details
  • Web

Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Reengineering Record high employment Service sector outpaces manufacturing in new job creation Influence: Low 1900 s 19 U.S. begins construction of Panama Canal Influence: High 10 1910 s 19 War Industries Board coordinates activities... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

America, who were identified with specific companies, railways, banks, and small-business history workshops, met regularly to discuss methodological problems and archival sources. The unifying theme in this new era of intense academic View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne