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  • 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
  • May 1994 (Revised August 1994)
  • Case

Motorola-Penang

By: Shoshana Zuboff and Janis Lee Gogan
S.K. Ko managed Motorola's Penang, Malaysia factory, producing telecommunications components and equipment. As a female manager of a multi-ethnic and labor-intensive plant in Asia, Ko faced a number of challenges. She had already promoted quality circles and quality... View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Transformation; Decision Making; Ethnicity; Gender; Training; Leading Change; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Problems and Challenges; Technology Industry; Malaysia
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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  • 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
  • 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
  • Web

Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

professionals between the ages of 40-55 across the United States (U.S.), including different racial and ethnic groups. The report showed that a lack of support from employers and health plans is negatively affecting women at the height of... View Details
  • 30 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

misconduct, or recidivism. We extend our analysis to explore the differential treatment of ethnic minorities and find similar patterns of "in-group" tolerance. Our evidence is inconsistent with a simple Bayesian model and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

proxied by administrative data on war casualties instead of being self-reported. We find that there are no significant differences in overall mental health across areas that are affected by ethnic conflict to a greater or lesser degree.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Psychological Association journals such as American Psychologist, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology , and Journal of Diversity in Higher Education . She has also contributed to The Harvard Business Review and popular media... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Putting Ghosts to Rest

genocide, in which Hutus, the largest ethnic group, systematically slaughtered a million Tutsis in 100 days under an extremist Hutu government. This led to the displacement of millions of Rwandans, both Hutu and Tutsi, before Tutsi rebels... View Details
Keywords: Chris Maloney; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 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
Keywords: Diversity Management; Corporate Values; Competitiveness; Demographics; Change Management; Transformation; Diversity; Ethnicity; Gender; Literacy; Nationality; Race; Residency; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Economic Growth; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Immigration; Employee Relationship Management; Civil Society or Community; Manufacturing Industry; Construction Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Europe; Germany; Russia; Turkey
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  • 19 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

effect when umpires were a different race or ethnicity than batters, perhaps because batters are in front of an umpire for only a few pitches a game--pitchers square off face-to-face with umpires for many innings in a row. The most... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Information; Publishing
  • 22 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 22

contribute to the intensity of violence once conflict has started. Finally, in contrast with some cross-country analyses, ethnic and caste polarization, land inequality, and political participation are not significantly associated with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Aug 2018
  • First Look

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
  • 28 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 28

initiative targeting a younger, ethnically diverse, and urban-based market. The program was called "The Fiesta Movement," and with it came the handing over of a large part of the marketing campaign to active young social media... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 20

built brands that shaped perceptions of beauty and the business organizations needed to market them. They democratized access to beauty products, once the privilege of elites, but they also defined the gender and ethnic borders of beauty,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 28, 2016

sector-specific skills. The resulting scale economies generate occupational stratification along ethnic lines, consistent with the reoccurring phenomenon of small, socially isolated groups achieving considerable economic success via... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne