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28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

teams perform better. “You can’t be what you can’t see” is one of the most striking quotes I’ve heard here. With a dearth of strong role models in careers like Finance, Tech and Entrepreneurship, many young women, people of color, migrants, and View Details

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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

groundbreaking idea or new business model. Instead, it can include minor enhancements to customer service or existing products. Entrepreneurship is about recognizing the potential of innovative ideas, creating opportunities, and adding... View Details

18 Nov 2022
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What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

management worldwide in 2017, according to a survey from the Money Management Institute. “There are now many more firms founded by underrepresented minority leaders, but they still are a small proportion of this very big industry.” Just... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

business customers than at end consumers. There are some that consumers are increasingly seeing, like Fair Trade coffee or "sustainably harvested" labels for seafood. In handmade rugs you can find a number of labeling schemes like Rugmark, but it's still quite a small... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

the two countries have managed to alienate each other. It includes everything from blame about COVID-19 to suppression of minorities in China to the US policy toward Taiwan and “One China” to military action in waters adjacent to China to... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

13 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

States, Zhang found that purchased companies added nearly 15 percent more minority managers and 4 percent more female managers to their ranks than unacquired companies during the same period. "When the old ways are not working, we need to... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

01 Jul 2020
Blog Post

How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself

identity and interests provided me with a perspective that many don’t have. Our voices - especially as underrepresented minorities - are exactly that, underrepresented. By throwing your hat in the ring you are helping to push that... View Details

April 2023
Article

Performance on Patient Experience Measures of Former Chief Medical Residents as Physician Exemplars Chosen by the Profession

By: Lucy Chen and J. Michael McWilliams

OBJECTIVE To compare care for patients of primary care physicians (PCPs) who were former chiefs with care for patients of nonchief PCPs.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Using 2010 to 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service Consumer Assessment of Healthcare... View Details

Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competency and Skills; Surveys; Health Industry

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29 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

both employers and job candidates can build on it.” You Might Also Like: Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders Lack of Female... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

12 Oct 2022
Blog Post

11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

attached to my best friend but couldn’t articulate physical and romantic attraction towards him. I was scared of facing myself so I bottled all these thoughts deep down. In 2019, when he started dating his now wife, it felt wrong. I started losing hope, and was... View Details

17 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

percent voted for him—the lowest percentage of all groups--reflecting, perhaps, their concern about the treatment of blacks in the criminal justice system as well as their recognition of Clinton’s stronger support of minorities and her... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely

01 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

presented us with the problem of figuring out whether there was anything we could do to reduce turnover," Gino says. "We thought it was the perfect environment to test whether we could make a difference just by changing something minor in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications

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Help - Research Computing Services

HBSGrid Saving plots and images created by R on the HBSGrid requires minor modifications to the typical R code for saving these files. Connecting Remotely to WRDS on Windows Directions for how to connect remotely to WRDS on Windows using... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

cities. Nor do they measure success by how faithfully a city group implements its whiteboard project. (This year’s presentations included a pledge to increase participation in the 2020 census; an effort to close the skills gap for nursing professionals; and an... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

unnecessary phone calls, emails, and paperwork. Workers often stretch themselves thin by allowing a colleague’s sense of urgency about something minor interrupt their more important work. After all, responding to multiple emails the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

West and Southwest Influence: High 90 1990 s Immigration tops 9 million (largest number since first decade) Baby boomers age Hispanics become fastest-growing minority Population grows from 250 million to 281 million Influence: Medium-High... View Details

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

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

announced recently they would increase efforts to recruit persons of color, in part a response to the Black Lives Matter movement. Some of the same organizations made similar announcements in the past—yet the numbers of persons with View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 May 2018
News

Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987

struck a chord with Harris, who has spent much of her life exemplifying his advice. During her three decades at Morgan Stanley, for example, she has led numerous initiatives focused on women and minorities and mentored hundreds of... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

10 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

deeper relationship with your colleagues. And I have research that shows that if you are among a minority and you’re going through an experience where you are feeling excluded, authenticity actually can buffer against that experience.... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

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AASU50 - Alumni

display. Radcliffe Bailey, Astro Beeing , 1995 Radcliffe Bailey, Minor , 2002-03 Brett Cook-Dizney, Mahatma Gandhi , 2001 Rico Gatson, Untitled (Three Diamonds) , 2016 Rico Gatson, Panel Painting #6 , 2015 Whitfield Lovell, Strive , 2000... View Details

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