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04 Nov 2015
What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

the United States in both parties. Whatever the reason, research is shedding interesting insights on the issue. Findings of a recent McKinsey Global Institute study include: (1) lack View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

concerns—who might be interested in collaborating to make change. Then together, explore how existing work practices may compromise both equity and effectiveness; design small, local experiments to change these practices; monitor the... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

30 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

always seemed too quick to drill. “He was overtreating my mouth, and it didn’t make sense,” he says. "It’s only in the midst of the negotiation itself that ethical blind spots appear" In service professions, he explains, people... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

24 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors

professor at Harvard Business School, who co-authored the study published in Nature Human Behaviour with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania colleagues Erika Kirgios, Aneesh Rai, and... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

November 2023 (Revised March 2024)
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Infarm: Betting the (Indoor) Farm on Food Security

By: Elie Ofek

In the summer of 2023, the co-founders of Infarm, a controlled environment agriculture (CEA) company, were contemplating a major pivot going forward. While Infarm had successfully shown it could grow over 75 products—mainly herbs, leafy greens and mushrooms—in modular... View Details

Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Model; Market Entry and Exit; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Transition; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; North America; Toronto; Northeastern United States

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

challenge through a project of their design. Second Year Fall Student clubs: Connect with students who share your interest in social enterprise and entrepreneurship through clubs such as the Entrepreneurship... View Details

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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

New Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy Build the skill set and strategic acumen to compete in the digital world through a combination of forward-looking coursework, unique team activities with a... View Details

28 Sep 2023
News

Screen Time

chaplain. “I’m cut from a different cloth from most HBS grads, so it was good to share that. It’s been interesting to see classmates from a different perspective. I wouldn’t be a regular if it was just about business.” Indeed, many View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

08 Nov 2023

Life at HBS Chat with the European Club

Virtual Life at HBS Chats are a unique opportunity to hear directly from current HBS students regarding their MBA experience. Join a panel of students from the European Club who will share their backgrounds and how they have cultivated... View Details

11 Apr 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Managers and Market Capitalism

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson & Karthik Ramanna

Blog

What Black Executives Really Want

networked and got things done. But no one ever asked him to lunch. Many of the Black executives found their peers standoffish, perhaps because they were not used to being around black people. They concluded that their colleagues were just... View Details

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Which HBS Executive Education Program is Right For Me?

thing that an applicant can bring to the call is an understanding of the type of problem they are trying to solve. Is there a specific challenge you are trying to overcome at work? Do you have a particular... View Details

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

wide variation in the missions and activities that nonprofits focus on. Additionally, I had an interest in conservation organizations and the social goal of environmental conservation is conducive to the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?

(iStockphoto/Krle) Advocates for stakeholders—including employees, customers, suppliers, the “community,” and investors—have dominated the discussion of leadership and management over the past two decades. They believe that enlightened... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

others will, and they don't have your best interests at heart. Contrary to conventional wisdom, moreover, value-pricing approaches are more available in many categories, as the examples in my book show. The issue is understanding the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

08 Feb 2017
Blog Post

How I Chose My HBS Recommenders

graduating, I worked briefly for a Cambridge-based education startup named NuVu, before switching into management consulting and joining McKinsey. I spent time at McKinsey’s Dubai and New York offices, where I worked in a variety of... View Details

09 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

Editor’s note: Concerns about data falsification and fabrication in a study conducted by Francesca Gino as part of this article have been shared by Harvard Business School with the publishing journal’s editor, along with a request that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

31 Aug 2021
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Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

Withdrawal—decreasing your interest in others’ resources. Sometimes this means simply walking away from a resource of value. Expansion—increasing the number of alternatives... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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