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- November 2024
- Case
Demond Martin and WellWithAll
By: Hise Gibson, Archie L. Jones and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
This case study chronicles the transformative entrepreneurial path of Demond Martin, co-founder and CEO of WellWithAll, a health and wellness startup. Motivated by a pivotal life experience and deep concern for racial health inequities, Martin transitions from a... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Diversity; Ethnicity; Race; Health; Recruitment; Leadership Style; Management Style; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Relationships; Trust; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Investment; Business Startups; Transition; Entrepreneurship; Equality and Inequality; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; Health Industry; United States; Chicago; Boston; Atlanta; North Carolina; District of Columbia
Gibson, Hise, Archie L. Jones, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Demond Martin and WellWithAll." Harvard Business School Case 625-041, November 2024.
- 08 Sep 2022
- Book
Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?
But, frustrated Gen Xers and Millennials need not give up—their time will come, and they need to prepare now. “We desperately need this generation to learn how to manage diverse people, and manage through our crises.” In the new book True... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 15 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others
at how much they communicated. When they crunched the numbers, the team found that weak ties yielded more jobs than strong ties, but with diminishing returns as the ties got weaker. The sweet spot in networking seemed to be “moderately... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?
Exeter Business School. You Might Also Like: More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress) The Pursuit of Passion Propagates Privilege Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of Globalization Feedback or ideas to... View Details
- 26 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener
resources. That’s because today’s senior executives face a more complex, technology-driven work world in which they must coordinate diverse teams across the globe to achieve goals and solve problems, the... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
"The most effective learning strategy depends on the situation," writes David A. Garvin. "There is no stock answer, nor is there a single best approach." In Learning in Action, he illustrated the diversity of learning organization... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
business leaders of mainstream companies? Turner: Over the years, I’ve heard plenty. They fall in three categories: expense, denial, and blame. First, the expense myth comes up most often with people claiming that “diversity is expensive” and that “addressing View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
from them. Discourage exclusionary social activities, and make sure that teams don’t treat women as outliers or extraneous. Development. Assess how managers assign training and development opportunities, and ensure they use objective... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
level of accountability for that performance. Furthermore, the influence of senior minority managers on hiring practices may differ substantially, depending on where a manager sits in the firm's hierarchy. Examining hiring practices on coaching staffs of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
capital firm Polaris Partners, and former executive at Pfizer, Schulman has worked in some 90 countries around the world. "The key to creating collaborative teams within diverse environments, is to find... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women
Women are more likely to invent medical treatments for endometriosis, cervical cancer, and other female conditions, but the dearth of women scientists limits the potential for such life-saving innovations. Female research teams are 35... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
simply could not be done. Through innovative design and technology, Negroponte and his team proved them wrong but struggled to sell the concept and the machines to the world's education ministries, who would be purchasing the laptops for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
desirable part of an employee’s day, our theory and results point to the benefits of viewing it as a useful time period to engage in goal-directed prospection. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50419 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem
defining what is a fair distribution of attention in a ranking, and then developing an algorithm that achieves this distribution,” says Sühr. The research team found that fair-ranking algorithms are effective, but only to a point: While... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
confidence and departure. Minguela must repair the damage to Blink's management team, restore investor confidence, and continue Blink's rapid growth to deliver on the venture's initial promise. The case explores management team roles,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
women from diverse social class backgrounds as they describe how they ascended to elite organizational roles despite severe gender underrepresentation. We illuminate the varied ways that high-achieving women understand and retell their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Gender Changes the Negotiation
The last few months have been trying for Maureen Park, the managing director of a small portfolio management firm. The firm's parent company, a large financial services concern, was performing below forecasts, and morale among Park's understaffed, overworked View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down. Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/RobertCrum View Details
- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
wants nothing more than to please you, but as the “you” changes, TikTok changes. To people accustomed to tools that are good for specific purposes, the way it bends to be what each user wants it to be can be confusing. Here is our sense of some of the View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
information regarding diagnosis and prognosis, predict treatment efficacy or toxicity, serve as markers of disease progression, and serve as auxiliary endpoints for clinical trials. Some have multiple uses, while others have a specialized role, resulting in View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne