Black - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Mar 2017
Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

jacket—a simple design with white and yellow lettering over a black background—emerged from more than 60 entries in a design challenge Lakhani ran on the website TopCoder. We asked Lakhani to discuss the book and the concept of user... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

detractors said was an indication of his slacking off, playing on the stereotype that blacks are lazy. The mentor directly challenged the detractors by pointing out that his protégé was the leading salesperson in the division. View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

mobs rose up against migrants from other parts of Africa in March 2023, a few weeks after President Kais Saied delivered an inflammatory speech blaming the Black foreign-born population for bringing crime to the country and changing its... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

03 Apr 2006
What Do You Think?

Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

performing outsourced tasks sending much of their work abroad, enabling them to "further outsource non-strategic work so as to concentrate on strategic issues that their audiences (the U.S. firms) would be more interested in." Gregory View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Jun 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Why Leaders Need Great Books

"I sold funeral insurance to North Carolina black people. I myself am not black. Like everybody else who was alive fifty-nine years ago, I was so young then, you know? I still feel bad about what went on. My wife says: telling... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

partners to build her fashion business and legendary luxury brand based on understated elegance. Chanel’s famous “little black dress” was accompanied by many other innovations including the use of jersey as material for daytime clothing... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

31 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 31

Electric's African American Forum (AAF), an employee affinity group, and its efforts to increase the company's involvement in Africa. The AAF formed in 1991 to help advance GE's recruitment, retention, and development of black employees.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

less than 1 percent of U.S. GDP. Some U.S. multinationals might be exposed to a fall in their overseas earnings. GE stock was down 20 percent for a time on Black Monday, though Apple, for example, recently said that business in China... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

of faculty who are already involved in cross-Harvard collaboration: Daniel Schrag, the Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard, and the Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment; Forest Reinhardt, the John D. View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

30 Jan 2018
First Look

January 30, 2018

capital, is one of the few African Americans in the asset management industry. As one of the high profile leaders in the black business community, John has decided to encourage Fortune 500 companies and major foundations to increase the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

have had very distinct voting patterns over the decades. Black Americans, for instance, have traditionally voted overwhelmingly for Democrats, while rural and working-class white Americans have increasingly thrown their support to... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

high-skilled migration. We highlight some key recent findings and outline major gaps that we hope will be tackled in the near future. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51997 Henry Kissinger: Negotiating View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

25 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

Confectionery, including Wrigley's chewing gum and Brach's candies, provided another 11 percent. Household products, including Ecko hardware, Woolite (a cold-water wash), Black Flag insecticides, and Old English furniture polish, added 14... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical

08 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?

of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Evan M.S. Hecht is an independent research analyst. Abhijit Naik is is a managing director of Rydberg Roche Pte. Ltd. [Image: jpbcpa] Related Reading CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?' NFL... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

08 Jan 2014
What Do You Think?

Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

natural state which a country must get to, to move to the next level " Ken Black commented: "Of course productivity contributes to social inequality, but there are a lot of non-productive people in various positions doing very... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It

trying to go around all of the rules is not a particularly good idea.” The resignation last week of Uber co-founder and CEO Travis Kalanick is the latest black eye for the company, which has stepped on many toes during its rise from... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

22 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism

enterprises” Never mind whether this was ever truly so black and white—Western countries certainly had their share of state-owned businesses back in the 1970s—but what is clear is that times have changed. Liberalization of markets in many... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

For those who like to view things in black and white, it's tempting to divide the working world into two camps. There is the for-profit sector, primarily driven by the prospect of financial success. And then there's the not-for-profit... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

goods? If so, why? I study these questions in the context of the first wave of the Great Migration (1915–1930), when more than 1.5 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States. Black inflows and the... View Details