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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
that being an entrepreneur was empowering. "While discrimination and sexism are still realities, if you own your company, you can have an impact," she says. After graduating from HBS, Lambert held a variety of positions, working as a... View Details
- 21 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Parable of the Bungled Baggage And the Unhappy Customer
program identifies our very best customers. And our very best customers often fly one or two times a week. Now, you're not in that category of frequent flyers, but because you're talking with the top management group, you're in that category for the day." Now,... View Details
Keywords: by W. Earl Sasser
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
wavebreakmedia Last month, the venerable organization Coca-Cola publicly announced that a project to hire more Black employees that stemmed from the settlement of a 2000 discrimination lawsuit had failed to achieve its objectives. Along... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
exposed to topics such as international marketing, managing organizational effectiveness, competition and strategy, leadership, and negotiations. "The content was very important and relevant," says Meyer, who found the discussions on racism, leadership theory,... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
protection than SOEs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51975 December 2016 Harvard Business Review Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces By: Fisman, Ray, and Michael Luca Abstract—Online marketplaces... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
embarrassing—it can hurt your career. Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart DiscriminationPoor design decisions contribute to racial discrimination on many online platforms. Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as... View Details
- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
PRIDE in the HBS Community
influential business leader. Annise Parker spoke to us about her transition from gay rights activist to being a Mayor of a major U.S. city and how she navigated the discrimination and bumps she hit along the way. Today, Annise is the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
On the Outside at HBS
role models for all students. Another positive step would be for HBS to facilitate more open classroom dialogue during case studies, not just in the context of LEAD or LCA but also in TOM and Finance, to create opportunities for minorities to openly share their... View Details
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
tremendous way for developers to learn quickly, and for both developers and technology companies to reap real benefits.” About the author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: gorodenkoff] Related Reading 6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting... View Details
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
says. "It requires a whole new way of designing things. It's all worth thinking about." Related Reading: How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests... View Details
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
continuing series on faculty research and teaching commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first women to enter Harvard Business School's two-year MBA program. "A lot of discrimination happens because of implicit biases where... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
How Employers Can Support LGBTQ+ Employees
largely tied to the discrimination many LGBTQ+ folks face), and providing sufficient parental leave for parents of all genders.” They also highlighted the importance of creating inclusive policies that do not use marriage as a gatekeeper... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
standardization of that information; evaluation of adjustments for the severity of illness of the patient; changes in the tax system to avoid discrimination against the uninsured; reform of state regulation, which one participant... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
also a lot to be optimistic about. Just 20 years ago, the economics literature was in a mode of documenting gender differences, whether it was about discrimination or the different outcomes for men and women. But more recently we’ve... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
overly narrow goals. Consider the experience of Airbnb, which ran experiments to evaluate booking strategies but ignored the potential for discrimination. After research by Luca and colleagues found evidence of widespread discrimination... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
project reveals that anxiety reduces self-confidence and tends to increase a reliance on others’ advice. Unfortunately, anxiety also reduces the ability to discriminate between good and bad counsel. So it’s best to take a deep breath,... View Details
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Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation - Recruiting
meeting. However, these events can also lend themselves to bias that excludes and discriminates against individuals and groups when not unchecked. An example of bias in a group setting comes from our classrooms at Harvard Business School... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
Lang Related Links “It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t”: New research by HBS associate professor Jordan Siegel finds that multinational companies can spin gender bias into gold by recruiting and hiring well-educated female managers in countries that... View Details