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- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
intermediary to divert consumers to its favored destinations. Applied to Internet search engines, we investigate a diversion mechanism based on Google's exclusive award of preferential placement to its own services. Using web traffic data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
structure, and as frontline employees become more pivotally involved in value-creating work, lateral and bottom-up communication comes to be no less important than top-down communication. Third, there is global change. As workforces become more View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
are exposed to cultures other than their own for a substantive period of time, they become more creative. I am interested in learning whether cultural diversity in one's social network also has the same effect and if so, why. View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
Diversity in the Workplace Harvard Business School Case 407-029 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407029 Information Technology and Innovation at Shinsei Bank Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
find that diversity in the knowledge base of the potential solvers is very important for problem solving success. Successful external problem solvers brought solutions from fields that were quite distant from the problem field. We discuss... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
simply "copy-paste" its existing operating model across the diversity of Asian markets. LEGO invested significantly in Asia throughout 2012-2013 in order to adapt its playbook to the anticipated challenges. The case also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
diverse and relatively unconcentrated size structure appears quite consistent with other research on the underlying economics of this industry. Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity Author:Eric Van den Steen... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
outlook. Since its inception in 2001, 89 MBAs have taken part in the program, working at 43 organizations as diverse as the City of Boston Mayor’s Office, Teach For America, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Mercy Corps. Fellows... View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- September 2020 (Revised September 2021)
- Supplement
Student Success at Georgia State University (B)
By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
This is a supplement to the Student Success at Georgia State University (A) case. The (B) case includes the results of a randomized control trial that Georgia State conducted to test education technology start-up AdmitHub’s chatbot solution as a strategy for improving... View Details
Keywords: Education; Higher Education; Learning; Curriculum and Courses; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Income; Race; Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Measurement and Metrics; Operations; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Outcome or Result; Performance; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Planning; Strategic Planning; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Education Industry; Atlanta
Toffel, Michael W., Robin Mendelson, and Julia Kelley. "Student Success at Georgia State University (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 621-039, September 2020. (Revised September 2021.)
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
divisiveness and elevate their stature, which will soften the opposition block. Biden and Harris have a secret weapon in the quest for unity: the idealism of young people. Let the young lead. National service programs can be used to bring together View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
develop new ways of working together. To bolster out-of-the-box thinking at their companies, boards should promote diversity among members. They should foster "creative abrasion" to keep ideas flowing and rethink traditional methods of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
choice models might be improved to better capture the diversity of processes that are postulated to explain how consumers make choices. Some specific challenges include how to capture and parsimoniously describe heterogeneous mixes of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
Relationships Authors:Robin Ely and Laura Morgan Roberts Publication:In Diversity at Work, edited by Arthur P. Brief. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming Abstract No abstract available. Exploring Black Greek Letter Organizations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
having a more diverse and balanced life." In London, Debbie Sandford says that her view of success has changed since she graduated in 1990. "It is much more closely linked in my mind to happiness and balance and less to achievement than... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
Alexander Westkamp Abstract—Various forms of substitutability are essential for establishing the existence of equilibria and other useful properties in diverse settings such as matching, auctions, and exchange economies with indivisible... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
labor market. For firms, we document an economically and statistically significant cumulative abnormal return of -0.97% around announcement of dissent. Although the literature has suggested that dissent might be reflective of diverse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
conventional optimal tax theory because it eases the classic tradeoff between efficiency and equality. But tagging is used in only limited ways in tax policy. I propose one explanation: conventional optimal tax theory has yet to capture the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Harvard Business School
now call diversity . . . certainly African American issues were just a small part of the agenda, if any part of the agenda." 14 Of that era, Lewis said, "We felt particularly emboldened—that we had nothing to lose." 15 Lewis worked in a... View Details