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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Academy of Management. Summer R. Jackson : Winner of the 2020 INFORMS Best Dissertation Proposal Competition for “Understanding Organizational Inequality at ‘Well Intentioned’ Companies: The Case of ShopCo’s Diversity, Equity, and... View Details

December 2016 (Revised December 2018)
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From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem

By: Elie Ofek and Margot Eiran

In June 2016, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel’s strong innovation track record and the country’s reputation as the “startup nation.” Despite the economic miracle the country had wrought since its founding, he... View Details

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September 2020 (Revised September 2021)
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Student Success at Georgia State University (A)

By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley

Georgia State University had developed a reputation for driving student success by nearly doubling its graduation rate for students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. It did so while growing its student body and the proportion of Black/African... View Details

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

Entrenched Power Explain how power hierarchies develop and perpetuate themselves and understand and apply organizational and cultural strategies for overcoming the impact of stereotypes. Highlights What Are Power Hierarchies? Institutional Interventions to Overcome... View Details

13 Apr 2021
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How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

also attempting to raise awareness about gender inequality for early- and mid-career professionals as well as women at the senior executive level. Although significant progress has been made over the past 50 years, women still hold only a... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

July 2021 (Revised October 2021)
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Trouble at Basecamp: Managing Politics, Polarization, and Conflict in the Workplace (A)

By: Nour Kteily, Deepak Malhotra and David Lane

As founders of the software company Basecamp, Jason Fried and David H. Hansson were used to being the subjects of social media attention. Both maintained active and dedicated Twitter followings for their unique perspectives on management and life. But on April 26,... View Details

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Capitalism as a System of Governance

My research interest is in further exploration of the analytic utility of an original conception of capitalism as an indirect, three level system of governance for the economic relationships within political entities, and mostly within nation states. This three level... View Details

02 Dec 2015
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What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

Are Investors the Ultimate Antidote to Gender Inequality in Leadership? Once respondents came to terms with my use of “gender equality” in the title of this month’s column they described several ways in which it might be achieved in our... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Oct 2020
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JPMorgan Chase Commits $30 Billion to Advance Racial Equity

America’s history,” Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon (MBA 1982) said in a release. “We can do more and do better to break down systems that have propagated racism and widespread economic inequality, especially for Black and Latinx people. It’s long past time that society... View Details

28 Feb 2022
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Equal Partner

Aditya was acutely aware of the inequalities that plague the venture capital world, including the less than 3 percent of VC money that goes to all-women founding teams (a number that is even smaller for women of color) and the dearth of... View Details

23 Sep 2020
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HBS Action Plan for Racial Equity

that creates unacceptable, even dire inequities for our Black community members,” writes Nohria. “This moment has made urgently clear that the School must redouble its commitment to combat racism—and anti-Black racism in particular—to... View Details

29 Apr 2021
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Equal Partner

daughter of Indian immigrants, Aditya was acutely aware of the inequalities that plague the venture capital world, including the less than 3 percent of VC money that goes to all-women founding teams (a number that is even smaller for... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Inclusion

01 Mar 2012
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Capitalism’s New Agenda

of the World Bank’s scenario for global economic progress out to 2030. While cheered by the prospect of continued economic growth that is expected to triple the middle class from 400 million to 1.2 billion people, the business leaders were disturbed by the growing... View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine; social activism; Occupy Wallstreet; Corporate Services; Finance

28 Sep 2016
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Tackling Inequality: An HBS Independent Project

community organizations. Over our first semester, Vatsala Deora, Sara Gentile, Cait Haught, Shannon Nelson, Shireen Soheili, and I worked with Professors Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Nien-hê Hsieh to sketch a course that would fill that curriculum gap. Recognizing that... View Details

10 Sep 2018
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Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

inequality in the workplace. In particular, the book makes clear how organizational roles and structures shape unequal access to opportunities, resources, and advancement. In a wide-ranging conversation, Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson... View Details

Keywords: by Robin J. Ely

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Introducing Racial Equity Fellow Victor Ray - Blog: RGE Report

ideas are deferred to). This has major implications for how organizations think about dealing with racial inequality. Lots of policies try to deal with inequality through changing hearts and minds. But the implication of my work is that... View Details

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Does Equal Opportunity Mean Equal Results - HBS Technical Note

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Equality and Inequality

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Just Digital Future - Race, Gender & Equity

Just Digital Future Technology has the potential to build a better world but its applications and uses are often biased and can reinforce systems of inequality. We teamed up with our friends at The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard to unpack the... View Details