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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity
family member. Only a small minority brought the harassment to their employer’s attention: 15% talked with their supervisor or manager and just 7% lodged a formal complaint. Harassment left many women (37%) feeling isolated or... View Details
- 05 Jul 2021
- What Do You Think?
Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?
is opportunity The past few years, companies have complained of a dearth of women and minority applicants. It would be a real silver lining if the pandemic creates the wave of “new” candidates you describe. What will be even better is if... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
school degrees over the same period. Ethnic minority representation was even lower, with Hispanics and African Americans representing around 2 percent and at 1 percent respectively over the same period. “We really saw how powerful the... View Details
- Web
Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Axiom Business Book Award Gold Medal in the Women and Minorities in Business category for Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019) with Laura Morgan Roberts and David A.... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
Insurance built a wonderful business by selecting relatively low-risk customers from among generally high-risk motorcyclists. Step 4: Keep it simple. Don't shoot yourself in the foot by mismanaging your own product or service line. Many companies offer so many... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
quieter.” We heard about managers who made sure to bring in the voices of women or other staff who were in the minority, “call[ing] for the opinions of women or underrepresented minorities if their voices were more quiet.” Indeed, recent... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
Industry: Manufacturing / PepsiCo - Frito Lay Proudest Accomplishment: Birthing Yasmina & pushing for diversity & inclusion at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, increasing the number of incoming minority students exponentially... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
such as investment banking. Consequently, many companies are actively discouraging their best young people from leaving lower-level positions for business school, arguing that their odds of success are actually better if they stay at the firm. This theme can be heard,... View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
Executive Compensation and Environmental Harm
By: Dylan Minor
We explore the relationship between managerial incentives and environmental harm. We find that high-powered executive compensation packages can increase the odds of environmental law breaking by 40%–60% and the magnitude of environmental harm by over 100%. We document... View Details
Keywords: Misconduct; Environmental Performance; Accounting Scandal; Sustainable Finance; Crime and Corruption; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Executive Compensation; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance
Minor, Dylan. "Executive Compensation and Environmental Harm." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-076, January 2016. (Revised April 2016.)
- 2015
- Working Paper
Risk Preferences and Misconduct: Evidence from Politicians
By: Dylan Minor
When seeking new leaders, business and government organizations alike often need individuals that are less risk averse, or even risk-seeking, in order to improve performance. However, individuals amenable to increased risk-taking may be more likely to engage in... View Details
Minor, Dylan. "Risk Preferences and Misconduct: Evidence from Politicians." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-073, January 2016.
- 2015
- Working Paper
The Value of Corporate Citizenship: Protection
By: Dylan Minor
We explore the notion that corporate citizenship, as obtained through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), is used by managers to protect firm value, helping their firm better withstand negative business shocks. We formally explore two parallel mechanisms for such... View Details
Minor, Dylan. "The Value of Corporate Citizenship: Protection." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-021, August 2015.
- 2016
- Chapter
The Organization of Non-market Strategy
By: Dylan B. Minor
The purpose of this paper is to explore how firms organize to engage in non-market strategy. To achieve this end, we explore the organization of non-market strategy via a formal model of the firm. The model is motivated by a qualitative study of the organization of... View Details
Keywords: Non-market Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility; Strategy; Organizational Design; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Minor, Dylan B. "The Organization of Non-market Strategy." In Strategy Beyond Markets. Vol. 34, edited by John de Figueiredo, Michael Lenox, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Rick Vanden Bergh, 413–436. Advances in Strategic Management. Emerald Group Publishing, 2016.
- Article
From Netscape to eHarmony: The High Risks and Big Rewards of Platform Markets
By: Dylan B. Minor
Minor, Dylan B. "From Netscape to eHarmony: The High Risks and Big Rewards of Platform Markets." Strategy & Business, no. 73 (Winter 2013).
- 2015
- Working Paper
Misconduct in Financial Services: Differences across Organizations
By: Jennifer Brown and Dylan Minor
We examine misconduct in financial services. We propose a theory in which experts extract surplus based on the value of their firm's brand and their own skills. Using sales complaint data for insurance agents, we find that agents working exclusively for large branded... View Details
Brown, Jennifer, and Dylan Minor. "Misconduct in Financial Services: Differences across Organizations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-022, August 2015.
- July 2017 (Revised July 2018)
- Case
Upwork: Creating the Human Cloud
By: Dylan Minor and David Yoffie
Stephane Kasriel, the new CEO of Upwork, the leading platform for freelance labor, needs to decide on how to redesign its business model. While the firm has been growing rapidly since the merger of Odesk and eLance, the newly combined firm continues to face problems of... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Platform; Platform Businesses; Technology; Business Model; Digital Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy; Internet and the Web; Labor
Minor, Dylan, and David Yoffie. "Upwork: Creating the Human Cloud." Harvard Business School Case 718-402, July 2017. (Revised July 2018.)
- February 2017
- Supplement
Truly Human Leadership at Barry-Wehmiller: Video Supplement
By: Jan Rivkin and Dylan Minor
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Values and Beliefs; Organizational Culture; Employees; Business Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
Rivkin, Jan, and Dylan Minor. "Truly Human Leadership at Barry-Wehmiller: Video Supplement." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 717-803, February 2017.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Workplace Design: The Good, the Bad, and the Productive
By: Michael Housman and Dylan Minor
We study the effects of performance spillover in the workplace-both positive and negative-on several dimensions, and find that it is pervasive and decreasing in the physical distance between workers. We also find that workers have different strengths, and that while... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Human Resource Management; Peer Effects; Productivity; Spillovers; Toxic Worker; Strategy; Working Conditions; Performance Productivity; Human Resources
Housman, Michael, and Dylan Minor. "Workplace Design: The Good, the Bad, and the Productive." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-147, June 2016.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Political Identity and Trust
By: Pablo Hernandez and Dylan Minor
We explore how political identity affects trust. Using an incentivized experimental survey conducted on a representative sample of the U.S. population, we vary information about partners' partisan identity to elicit trust behavior, beliefs about trustworthiness, and... View Details
Keywords: Trust
Hernandez, Pablo, and Dylan Minor. "Political Identity and Trust." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-012, July 2015.