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Gender & Race in Organizations Research Group - Race, Gender & Equity

Gender & Race in Organizations Research Group Gender & Race in Organizations Research Group Researchers Hannah Bowles Hannah Riley Bowles is the Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

drew on the support of fellow YALPers to launch a successful bid to prevent the city’s professional soccer team from moving to Austin, Texas. In Salt Lake City, YALP participants enlisted area companies to commit to Parity.org’s pledge to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

July 2015 (Revised September 2017)
Case

Ron Johnson: A Career in Retail

By: Das Narayandas, Joshua D. Margolis and Ryan Raffaelli

In April 2013, Ron Johnson (HBS '84) stepped down after just 18 months as CEO of J.C. Penney. In his brief tenure, Johnson, an acclaimed retailer respected for his innovation and success in shaping the retail image at Target and Apple, introduced dramatic departures... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Leadership Development; Legal Industry; Procurement; Professional Service Firms; Pricing; Organizational Behavior Modification; Change Management; Innovation Leadership; Situation or Environment; Failure; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Competition; Retail Industry; United States

01 Dec 2023
News

Engaging Students More Deeply

the smallest classroom details to enhance the student learning experience, professors Robin Greenwood, Richard Ruback, and Joshua Coval partnered with HBS’s Multimedia Development team to create media-enhanced cases for the course, Market... View Details

Keywords: April White

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

Sustainability Manager at HBS, and Leah Ricci, Associate Director of Sustainability and Energy Management at HBS–who were members of Harvard’s Environmental and Sustainability Professionals Network,... View Details

June 2021
Case

Acelero Learning

By: Mario Small, Kathleen L. McGinn, Amy Klopfenstein and Katherine Chen

In November 2020, Henry Wilde, co-founder and CEO of Acelero, Inc., must decide whether to change his company’s program model for delivering early childhood education to low-income children. One of the only for-profit Head Start providers in the United States, Acelero... View Details

Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development Strategy; Adoption; Customer Focus and Relationships; Operations; Education Industry; North and Central America; United States

17 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

a position within the nonprofit space and specifically for an organization that had mission and purpose in their DNA. I was fortunate to find a position in the marketing department for HBS’s Career Professional Development team. I spent more than a decade on the View Details

14 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

about the role of marketplace institutions and the timing of transactions. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W16556 Cases & Course MaterialsCDG: Managing in China's Economic Transformation Roy Y.J. Chua, Shaohui... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2009
Other Unpublished Work

Steering Monetary Policy Through Unprecedented Crises

By: David Moss and Cole Bolton

In early April 2008, economic conditions in Europe appeared to be deteriorating on almost all fronts: sales figures were falling, business and consumer confidence were slumping, forecasts for European growth were being revised downward, and inflation was rising. In... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Inflation and Deflation; Central Banking; Interest Rates; International Finance; Policy; Crisis Management; Europe

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

for tailgate redesigns—a response Honda executives and engineers hadn’t anticipated. 5. Keep it simple For McDonald and Bingham, simple practices are key to helping companies manage complexities. Chick-fil-A servers say “My pleasure!”... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Student ventures are placed into one of three tracks – Open, Health & Life Sciences, and Social Impact. Applications are due in December. Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project: Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project matches a team of 4 to 5... View Details

13 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion

our GP company. Finally, after some prep sessions in Boston, we were off to the field. The GPs are sourced by HBS and assigned to your team and each project is an exciting challenge the partner is trying to solve. For example, some of my... View Details

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

enthusiasm for the course may have been motivated in part by current events: The first year there were 30 students; a year later, after receiving a top student rating, Moss faced significant overenrollment. But Moss’s enthusiasm was for... View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

savings to drive growth. What actually results, however, is something of a surprise, according to a new study. Corporate tax cuts end up widening the income gap between those at the top of the pay scale and those at the bottom, and they... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

Portrait Project

Zoe Otedola

them to worry. Worry they are the only ones who look like them at the firms they’ve tirelessly worked to get into. Worry they have to code switch because their manager has no interest in their culture or what they’ve been through. I don’t... View Details

14 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades

Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs Making the Move to General Manager Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured Share your insights below. View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Research Summary

Overview

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

I have spent my career studying novel talent management practices and their effect on collaboration and performance. My core research focuses on two interrelated organizational trends that have become salient in the 21st century: workplace transparency (who gets to... View Details

November 2004 (Revised January 2006)
Case

Martha Stewart (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Christopher Bruner

Explores Martha Stewart's December 2001 sale of ImClone Systems common stock, the ensuing federal investigations into possible insider trading, and Stewart's criminal prosecution and sentencing. Discusses the impact of publicity on Stewart's company, Martha Stewart... View Details

Keywords: Capital Markets; Corporate Governance; Financial Markets; Management Teams; Law; Government and Politics