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- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
Expense is a convenient boogeyman. Secondly, the old denial case is still around. Even today, I hear people say, “I don’t see color.” That’s fine. Race is not real, but the effects of racism are. Our research on schools, for instance, finds that even if View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
opening up the shareholding of the parent trading company, but by floating separate 'free-standing' firms on the British capital markets, which the merchant houses continued to control through management contracts and other means in the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
down.” [break] Kim moved to the United States in 1974, at age 11, and lived with his uncle in West Orange, New Jersey, until his parents and sister joined him a year later. South Korean president Park Chung Hee, elected in 1963, brought... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
from which his and Cathy’s three children graduated. There is, however, a second religion in the family: sports. Brennan, a marathon runner, coached his kids’ teams to the point that some neighborhood parents thought he worked for the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Profile
Phillip Jones
Phillip Jones was in a sixth-grade classroom when the Twin Towers fell on 9/11. His parents, like other parents that day, sat him down for a talk. But they were also both Air Force pilots who were obligated to explain that they would not... View Details
- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
data scientist at Amazon; and Nils Wernerfelt, an economist at Meta, Facebook’s parent company. In one of the largest studies of its kind, Luca and his coauthors analyzed more than 800 public health advertising campaigns that reached 2.1... View Details
- Portrait Project
Haley Brown
“For you, a thousand times over.” It is a quote from The Kite Runner, a book my parents and I read when I was in high school. A quote that they engraved on a bracelet when I graduated. These six words hold a promise of loyalty,... View Details
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
goes on. We have started to acknowledge these truths, and we’re toying with interventions, at both the individual level and the policy level to overcome time poverty. Some places are trying four-day workweeks (the United States, as with paid View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
a high-stakes job, and as success boosts her confidence, her husband becomes more abusive. After they return to America, she escapes with their two toddlers. Three years later, a single parent with a serious health emergency, she earns an... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
The Importance of Mentorship: A Conversation With Professor Ting Zhang
especially true as the first in my family to go to grad school. The biggest influence in my life has been my parents. Throughout my childhood, my parents worked multiple jobs to give me the educational opportunities I had—that’s a big... View Details
- 14 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Jewish Student Association
my personal Judaism. Victor Kamenker, CFO I joined JSA to meet Jewish classmates and to have a strong sense of community on campus—something I felt that I had been lacking after undergrad. My Judaism is very cultural in nature; my parents... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Gender Changes the Negotiation
The last few months have been trying for Maureen Park, the managing director of a small portfolio management firm. The firm's parent company, a large financial services concern, was performing below forecasts, and morale among Park's... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Susan Young READ MORE Julia Hanna: Gwill York’s (MBA 1984) parents were determined that their daughter would be practical and self-sufficient. As it turns out, they didn’t have to push too hard. At the age of nine, York started driving... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
adoptive parents was short: at the age of eight his mother died, and his father sent him to live with family friends in Salt Lake City. Elizabeth Ellison was born in Layton, Utah, in 1916. Her grandfather, Ephraim Peter ("E.P.") Ellison,... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987
of wisdom, helping inspire others to be the best version of themselves. Harris grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, the only child of an educator and a commercial fishing boat captain. “My parents brought me up in a ‘no excuses’ household,”... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf
All told, Coty Inc. competes in 80 markets in 29 countries. Harf began working for Coty's German parent company, Joh. A. Benckiser GmbH, in 1981. Ten years later, he became CEO of what is now Coty Inc., a company that he helped to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Portrait Project
Karen Sein
I used to see the world in black and white, circumscribed by the steadfast principles my parents taught me: work hard, do good, live humbly. As I grew up, the edges of my monochromatic world peeled away, revealing ashen fog and sallow... View Details
- 10 May 2019
- Blog Post
Advice for Mothers Pursuing an MBA
may be different from others. Talk to people who can provide helpful advice and don’t compare yourself to anyone. Engage with your section. Volunteer to be the parents representative for your session. My role was to make sure there were... View Details
- 30 Jun 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
trained as a parent peer coach for families, is using his years of business experience to build the tools he wished had been available when his family was confronting addiction and is sharing his own experience of the recovery path. He... View Details
- 24 Jan 2011
- HBS Case
Terror at the Taj
secured.) Nothing in the employees' training could have prepared them for such an unprecedented situation, Deshpandé says. Yet further interviews and text documents from the case provide background on the unique culture of Tata Sons, the Taj's View Details