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- 16 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
Roberts says. The picture that emerges from the essays in Race, Work, and Leadership echo the same message: Race not only still matters in the American workplace, but it remains a powerful barrier that prevents African Americans from... View Details
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Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog
advantage. We will consider how various organizations of labor markets, financial markets, and regulatory regimes, for example, create opportunities and barriers for multinational firms. Second, we will focus on the more informal domestic... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
although structure is undoubtedly an impediment to the process, an even bigger barrier is managers' outdated understanding of strategy. At the heart of the problem is a failure to recognize that although the past three decades have... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
advances in information technology, a revolution has been taking place in retailing during the past two decades, and nowhere more so than in the apparel and textile sectors. The first to chronicle these changes and their implications in... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB
investors are unaware of the biases that create barriers to actually investing in Black founders. It is no surprise that the rest of the investing world also severely lacks racial diversity. According to Kanyi Maqubela, managing partner... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
cultural, aesthetic, and social,” Koehn said at the opening session. When it came to issues that matter, she continued, “We organized the conference not just with respect to possibilities, but with respect to key questions,” a duality reflected in the forum’s title:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
high-end, traditional model toilets it introduced to the U.S. market in 1989, the Washlet, as the bidet-toilet is known, has been a much tougher sell. In “TOTO: The Bottom Line,” HBS associate professor Mary Tripsas considers barriers to... View Details
- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
and co-author of the book, Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work. “They have lots of opportunity to change the structures themselves.” The authors of Glass Half-Broken... View Details
- 28 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative
encounters countless barriers because organizational innovation implies changes in strategy, structure, systems, and attitudes. And if one continues to push on the edge of the envelope, as is our norm, then... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
separating audit from consulting, you may have two of the Big Four serving your business, and the other two ... serving your competitor." Edward Hare laments that "conditions have not materially changed ... further scandals are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
"This is an historic day," noted Argentina's President Fernando de la Rúa, the guest of honor at the inaugural dinner of the School's Latin America Research Center (LARC) in Buenos Aires. "We are opening up communication," de la Rúa stated. "Knowledge is the factor... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
fast second mover can upset the normally strong barriers to entry that a first-mover advantage in a network setting can create. In short, the big lesson learned is that a window of opportunity exists for a second mover to challenge a... View Details
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In the News - Entrepreneurship
Together, Communities Gain Re: Prithwiraj Choudhury 23 Jan 2025 AP News Newman’s Own Invites More Companies to Donate 100 Percent of Their Profits to Charities Re: Nien-he Hsieh 21 Jan 2025 HBS Working Knowledge How One Coffee Shop Is Brewing View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
into ALS research, and removed some critical barriers to the development of treatments. “Our focus, from the start, was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS,” says Kremer, who was diagnosed with the disease in 2004, just weeks... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
he said, “The very act of trying to attain gender equality portends to assume that is a positive goal. My concern is not equality but quality. Man or woman, we as individuals and organizations need to rip away all the barriers that lie... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
over and over. Additionally, because most women aren’t fashion design- ers, it reduces the overwhelming responsibility of designing some- thing from scratch. —Erica Keany Blob (MBA 2006) Change the business model, and morph into a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
guessing among them and probably an eventual change in policies and views. Losing Alibaba really stung.) Alibaba was founded in 1999 in the city of Hangzhou in Zhejiang province in eastern China. In those early days, it was a small,... View Details
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
help to break down cultural and structural barriers to leadership and organizational development, especially for non-white, non-male, and non-cisgender social change leaders.” Beyond the implications for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
extension, which historically has not been a matter of contention. The juxtaposition with a change in leadership at the Federal Reserve also adds to the concern. And finally, I think that businesspeople have long had an attitude that,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
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Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog
diverse and evolving industry structures. Understanding this structure is critical to finding and developing startup opportunities. Unlike mature economies with established sectors, emerging markets are marked by rapid changes and the... View Details