Ethnicity - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Nov 2019
News

Seismic Shift

links between gender and ethnic diversity and profit, finding that “companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on their executive teams were 21 percent more likely to experience above-average profitability than companies in the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

21 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

income was $6 a month, only about 15% of the population was literate, there were deep religious and ethnic differences, and more than a dozen national languages were spoken. But after a half a century, India had proved to be the first... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2006
News

Street Singer

but I didn’t have an appreciation of all the ethnicities that exist in the world — Italian, Russian, Polish, the differences between various Hispanic cultures. That was fascinating.” Harris says she came to Harvard with the intention of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

that prides itself on diversity - more than a third of MBA students are women, a third are international, and roughly a quarter are ethnic minorities - HBS can also be a difficult place for these groups to do their best work, said Nohria.... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

November 2008 (Revised January 2017)
Case

Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of St. Luke

By: Anthony Mayo and Shandi Onise Smith

As America struggled to regain its balance in the aftermath of the American Civil War, Maggie Lena Walker did her best to actively effect change by finding solutions to the social and economic problems facing blacks and especially black women. Taking charge of the... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Ethnicity; Race; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Welfare; Business and Community Relations; Gender; Banks and Banking

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24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

products once on the market. Longer term, the United States will clearly only become more diverse, with highly differentiated expectations for products and dissimilar risk-tolerances among different ethnic groups or at different income... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Sep 2024
Cold Call Podcast

Fawn Weaver’s Entrepreneurial Journey as an Outsider in the Spirits Industry

Keywords: Re: Hise O. Gibson; Food & Beverage; Tourism

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

million. Voted company of the year by Exame, Brazil's leading business magazine, Natura has from its inception focused on serving the distinctive needs of Brazil's ethnically diverse population. Recognizing that the company could never... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari

06 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

Harvard Business School Case 318-093 Amanda and Kristen: Mented Cosmetics Black women, per capita, spend more money annually on beauty products than any other ethnic group. Despite the spend of over $7 billion per year, more than half of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2010
News

Innovation Takes Center Stage

said. Already a global thought leader, the School should strive to enhance that position in the years ahead, he added. 4. Inclusion For a school that prides itself on diversity — more than a third of MBA students are women, a third are international, and roughly a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

05 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

alongside global brands. Retailing and distribution remain largely local. And American consumers show a desire for increasing cultural variety in their life experiences, eating more often at ethnic restaurants and vacationing more often... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising

15 Apr 2017
News

Bringing Markets to Myanmar

ahead. But they had virtually no experience in the roles of government and private sector in creating a dynamic economy. Putting Myanmar in perspective, it's the size of Texas, and it has a population of 54 million-- same as California and New York combined. There were... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

allegories play to. In large cities and urban and ethnic areas, Mountain Dew barely shows up on the radar. However, in the mostly working-class, non-urban metro areas in the Eastern half of the country, Mountain Dew "blew through the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

October 2014
Case

Teckentrup: A Door to Managing Difference

By: Clayton Rose, Jerome Lenhardt and Daniela Beyersdorfer

For Kai Teckentrup, the owner and co-CEO of the German "Mittelstand" door manufacturer Teckentrup, balancing competitive pressures, demographic realities and values were at the heart of the diversity program that he had started and championed at the company. Beyond... View Details

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14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

immigrants’ location decision by interacting pre-existing ethnic settlements with aggregate migration flows, we find that immigration raised marriage rates, the probability of having children, and the propensity to leave the parental... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

outline other factors such as local ethnic and religious heterogeneity, the institutional legacies of colonialism and serfdom, and, especially, the characteristics of the political and economic elite that help explain the low achievement... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2010
News

Sole Mates

truly multinational countries in Europe, where all religions and ethnicities can feel they belong. Macedonians can now travel visa free to all of Europe except for the UK and Ireland. People study English starting in primary school, so it... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

04 Aug 2020
News

How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

enough is enough. And that pride was combined with, I'll call it a cautious hope at new entrants into the fight that included an incredible diversity of protestors, both great diversity of age and great racial diversity, ethnic diversity.... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

of the questions that Gayle explores in this provocative examination of racial and ethnic identity. By delving into the history and interviewing Black Creeks who are fighting to have their citizenship reinstated, he lays bare the racism... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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