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- 16 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem
diversifying their workforces, more firms are scrutinizing the results of conventional algorithms on recruiting websites. But do fair rankings actually weed out gender bias and allow more women to rise to the top of talent searches?... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
business schools. It was only later that the managerial diseconomies of widely diversified businesses became evident. Hartog and Woodroofe were organizational modernizers who addressed the consequences of diversification. They drove... View Details
- 14 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades
“Kinect” they were able to determine which researchers were quickest to use the new motion-capture knowledge embodied in the Kinect. Generalists created more impact When they compared the two sets, they found that the top 25 percent most View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
homogeneous Europe.” CJL stated the issue with correlation this way: “Maybe organizations with an edge in their markets are more profitable and therefore can afford to devote more effort to diversifying their workforce.” Another issue is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
choice,” Chang says. “People do seem to think there are strategic benefits to doing this, but there's also plenty of research showing the negative effects.” Chang, who joined HBS in July, has spent the past five years studying how companies View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
increased more easily or with more value being generated. More prosperous countries tend to be more diversified and present in different product categories that other countries (Hausmann/Hwang/Rodrik; 2005). Most of the new literature... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 08 Feb 2023
- Op-Ed
Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears
Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, business leaders vowed to change organizational culture to increase diversity and inclusion. Some companies established more robust employee affinity groups, others diversified the voices on... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
- 20 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce
over time as an industry matures and ultimately declines. To maintain high returns and keep your family company modern and competitive you need to make well-timed, significant bets in growth businesses. Some of these bets can regenerate your core business, but others... View Details
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
of Japan and its society as a whole. He envisaged an open system, quite unlike the family–owned zaibatsu or diversified conglomerates such as Mitsubishi and Mitsui, which also flourished during his lifetime. A forerunner to stakeholder... View Details
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
the power in his or her family business system. As family business systems approach or reach the cousin stage, with diversified businesses and big ownership groups, as RBS now has, you find more systems having two or three leaders who... View Details
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
product delays, etc. 5. Humans are not robots Hiring is hard, and even when you get really good at it, at the end of the day these hires are human beings that have their own unique needs, past-job baggage, and career aspirations. Their added productivity, how they... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
after they recover from the momentary chaos, many will start thinking about diversifying their risk and trying to develop alternatives in other countries. The biggest losers from the coronavirus [in business] are service industries that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
investment as it once was—to palm oil. Unilever, the largest private holder and buyer of palm oil (an ingredient used in its famous “Sunlight Soap” and other products), diversified its holdings from the crop’s native West Africa to the... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
future hiring and M&A activity. When the Great Recession hit in late 2008, Honeywell, like all diversified manufacturers, experienced a drop off in new orders. Yet after six years of improving operating efficiency, there was little... View Details
- Research Summary
Clinical Trials as a setting for Health Policy and Management Research
The clinical trial marketplace is in flux. A decade ago, pharmaceutical firms almost exclusively conducted the study of their novel drug compounds within major academic medical centers. But today, industry-sponsored clinical trials are increasingly using community... View Details
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
talent pipelines to help companies diversify their workforces. Even though a culture of “sameness” has become a competitive liability, many firms have struggled to hire and keep employees from ethnic minorities. “A lot of CEOs have come... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
managers about the gender biases that influence hiring decisions. Companies should also anonymize resumes, diversify interview panels, and evaluate candidates as a group against a set of defined criteria. Integration. Create opportunities... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
creating an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem can be seen through the stories of four women—two of them Black, one Latinx, and one white—who launched new enterprises in Miami with an eye to diversifying tech jobs in the future.... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
after Lehman Brothers’ collapse ushered in the Global Financial Crisis. Lyondell was the world’s third-largest diversified chemicals company, with $55 billion in annual revenues and operations in 25 countries. Hit by a one-two punch of... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
sense to be diversified than it used to in the past, since, at the end of the day, all markets are moving together,” says Luis Viceira, George E. Bates Professor and Senior Associate Dean for International Development at Harvard Business... View Details