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- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work
Coffman says. “These personal relationships may be important for increasing inclusion and reducing discrimination.” How to create a more inclusive workplace Managers can take... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Research Summary
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In the light of multiple corporate debacles, financial crises and environmental disasters across the globe, the need for corporate goals to transition from simply maximizing shareholder wealth to optimizing stakeholder welfare is being echoed in various quarters. Dr.... View Details
- August 2016 (Revised July 2017)
- Background Note
Brand Portfolio Strategy and Brand Architecture
By: Jill Avery
While companies choose to brand their products and services in many different ways, there are some central tenets that help define an optimal brand portfolio and associated brand architecture. Brand portfolio strategy involves the design, deployment, and management of... View Details
Keywords: Brand Management; Brand Portfolio; Brand Extension; Brand Portfolio Strategy; Brand Architecture; Consumer Behavior; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy
Avery, Jill. "Brand Portfolio Strategy and Brand Architecture." Harvard Business School Background Note 517-021, August 2016. (Revised July 2017.)
- October 2003
- Case
Henry Tam and the MGI Team
By: Jeffrey T. Polzer, Ingrid Vargas and Hillary Anger Elfenbein
Within a short time frame, seven diverse team members assemble to write a business plan for a new company and struggle to define their roles, make decisions together, and resolve conflict. Henry Tam, a second-year Harvard MBA student, who joins an aspiring start-up... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Business Plan; Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Jobs and Positions; Leadership Style; Human Resources; Management Teams; Conflict and Resolution; Diversity
Polzer, Jeffrey T., Ingrid Vargas, and Hillary Anger Elfenbein. "Henry Tam and the MGI Team." Harvard Business School Case 404-068, October 2003.
- January 2012 (Revised March 2014)
- Module Note
Managers and Market Capitalism
By: Rebecca Henderson and Karthik Ramanna
The last thirty years have seen the widespread embrace of market capitalism as not only a highly efficient form of economic organization but also as one that best meets the diversity of human preferences. In large, complex societies, an increasing body of theoretical... View Details
Henderson, Rebecca, and Karthik Ramanna. "Managers and Market Capitalism." Harvard Business School Module Note 112-043, January 2012. (Revised March 2014.)
- 05 Dec 2013
- News
Find Your Inner Mandela: A Tribute and Call to Action
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
The daughter of teenage parents, Kim Lew (MBA 1992) grew up in public housing in Harlem and the Bronx. Her father, a Chinese immigrant, worked in the mailroom of AT&T, where the CEO was a graduate of Penn’s Wharton School of Business. Lew... View Details
- August 2020 (Revised October 2021)
- Case
India 2020 – Governance and Growth
In January 2012, the government of India faced significant challenges to achieving three key objectives of high growth, inclusive development, and improved governance. The economy was experiencing a growth slowdown, persistently high inflation, and infrastructure and... View Details
Vietor, Richard H. K. "India 2020 – Governance and Growth." Harvard Business School Case 721-002, August 2020. (Revised October 2021.)
- 25 Sep 2017 - 27 Sep 2017
- Lecture
Three-Day Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa
By: Euvin Naidoo
Africa and the 4th Industrial Revolution: Innovation, leapfrogging and the promise and challenges of the Demographic Dividend
Optional pre-seminar viewing: 2017 MasterClass on Digital Innovation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Monday, September 25, ... View Details
Naidoo, Euvin. "Three-Day Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa." Lecture at the M-RCBG Senior Fellow-Led Study Group, Harvard Kennedy School, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Cambridge, MA, September 25–27, 2017.
- Research Summary
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By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan introduced time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to provide the cost component in Michael Porter's Value Based Health Care framework of delivering superior patient outcomes at lower societal cost. TDABC is becoming the global standard for health care... View Details
- 2010
- Book
Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice
By: Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana
The study of leadership suffers intellectual neglect and has yet to be considered a serious academic discipline. And though the mission statements of most business schools profess to "develop leaders who make a difference in the world," these same schools produce... View Details
Nohria, Nitin, and Rakesh Khurana, eds. Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice. Harvard Business Press, 2010.
- July 1995
- Background Note
Managerial Effectiveness and Diversity: Individual Choices
Provides an introduction to the key concepts and questions individuals encounter in a diverse workplace. These concepts and questions are organized around three critical interactions and experiences in any individual's career: entry into an organization or work group;... View Details
Gentile, Mary C. "Managerial Effectiveness and Diversity: Individual Choices." Harvard Business School Background Note 396-003, July 1995.
- 19 Sep 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
Diversity and Firm Performance By: Zhang, Letian Abstract—How does a firm’s gender diversity affect its performance? Existing work has shown conflicting evidence—some finding a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jan 2014
- News
Why I Hired an Executive with Mental Illness
- Research Summary
Marketing and Privacy Concerns
When finer consumer information becomes available, competing firms sometimes target consumers too finely, disrupting scale economies prematurely. This leads to excessive product variety or to the wasteful exclusion of certain consumer types. This paper suggests that... View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
micromanage. Create an inclusive environment and express interest in team members’ success and personal well-being. Be productive and... View Details
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life
creating welcoming environments for LGBTQ+ employees host conferences for their industries. These events allow companies to share knowledge about the importance of a diverse and View Details
Keywords: All Industries