Diversified - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

business schools. It was only later that the managerial diseconomies of widely diversified businesses became evident. Hartog and Woodroofe were organizational modernizers who addressed the consequences of diversification. They drove... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

16 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

diversifying their workforces, more firms are scrutinizing the results of conventional algorithms on recruiting websites. But do fair rankings actually weed out gender bias and allow more women to rise to the top of talent searches?... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

08 Feb 2023
Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, business leaders vowed to change organizational culture to increase diversity and inclusion. Some companies established more robust employee affinity groups, others diversified the voices on... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore

23 May 2018
News

Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988

the intellectual challenge, and I liked interacting with the fund managers.” Johnson joined the research department of the equity group and spent five years as an analyst before moving into diversified fund management. “Abby has a unique... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

14 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

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

“Kinect” they were able to determine which researchers were quickest to use the new motion-capture knowledge embodied in the Kinect. Generalists created more impact When they compared the two sets, they found that the top 25 percent most View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jan 2012
News

Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

translates to “optimism”—into one of Japan’s most successful businesses and a thriving global enterprise. Through savvy investments, strategic partnerships, and acquisitions, he has expanded the company rapidly and diversified its... View Details

06 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling

Snigdha Sur (MBA 2017) is the Founder and CEO of The Juggernaut, a digital media company for South Asian stories. She’s on a mission to diversify storytelling and newsrooms and help challenge existing storylines. Since writing this... View Details

20 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Black Visionary Leadership and Redefining What's Possible

entrepreneurship. The day is capped by Damien Hooper-Campbell (MBA 2009), eBay’s chief diversity officer, talking about their strategy as a major tech company to diversify their workspace and create a more inclusive environment. And the... View Details

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

homogeneous Europe.” CJL stated the issue with correlation this way: “Maybe organizations with an edge in their markets are more profitable and therefore can afford to devote more effort to diversifying their workforce.” Another issue is... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

after they recover from the momentary chaos, many will start thinking about diversifying their risk and trying to develop alternatives in other countries. The biggest losers from the coronavirus [in business] are service industries that... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?

choice,” Chang says. “People do seem to think there are strategic benefits to doing this, but there's also plenty of research showing the negative effects.” Chang, who joined HBS in July, has spent the past five years studying how companies View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

23 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?

Arla should have a robust strategy to diversify into or defend against this market. Overall, visiting Arla Foods and learning how they are working to produce more sustainable dairy was very informative. It further proves that creating and... View Details

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

increased more easily or with more value being generated. More prosperous countries tend to be more diversified and present in different product categories that other countries (Hausmann/Hwang/Rodrik; 2005). Most of the new literature... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

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Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems - Blog: Health Supplement

Care Systems Morgan Moncada & Hannah Truong Author MBA Students tag Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care at HBS Morgan Moncada (MS/MBA 2023) How has your time at HBS changed your views on health care? HBS has greatly diversified my... View Details

20 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce

over time as an industry matures and ultimately declines. To maintain high returns and keep your family company modern and competitive you need to make well-timed, significant bets in growth businesses. Some of these bets can regenerate your core business, but others... View Details

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

director of the New York Times Company. Robert F. McDermott (MBA '50) Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force (Retired) Chairman Emeritus, USAA In 1993, after a 25-year tenure at the United Services Automobile Association (USAA), General Robert McDermott stepped down from... View Details

26 Jun 2023
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

fantastic opportunity to diversify my perspectives and expand my network. There’s also a project component to the Fellowship, in which all fellows must propose and complete a self-directed project throughout the year. Unlike regular... View Details

15 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

the power in his or her family business system. As family business systems approach or reach the cousin stage, with diversified businesses and big ownership groups, as RBS now has, you find more systems having two or three leaders who... View Details

16 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault

monthly donation, there are additional ways to activate anti-racism allies and we want to diversify how we can help communities of color.” As ARF grows and evolves, there are three things the Chenault brothers and their team know will... View Details

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Kiran Gandhi

probing questions to advance our ideas forward. How do your HBS ambitions fit into the big picture of the world beyond? I am most passionate about eliminating gender inequality in the media. My goal is to use music as a medium to View Details

Keywords: Entertainment/Media

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