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  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

Action Plan: Come as You Are

Ethnobotany 101, a large multimedia piece by Cree artist Jane Ash Poitras, which juxtaposes preconceived notions of Indigenous culture with the deep knowledge and connection of Indigenous peoples to the natural world. “If I’m wrestling... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; museums; art; cognition; diversity; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment
  • May 2021
  • Article

Ideology and Composition Among an Online Crowd: Evidence From Wikipedians

By: Shane Greenstein, Grace Gu and Feng Zhu
Online communities bring together participants from diverse backgrounds and often face challenges in aggregating their opinions. We infer lessons from the experience of individual contributors to Wikipedia articles about U.S. politics. We identify two factors that... View Details
Keywords: User Segregation; Online Community; Contested Knowledge; Collective Intelligence; Ideology; Bias; Wikipedia; Knowledge Sharing; Perspective; Government and Politics
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  • 27 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

Research that explores how children benefit from having a working mom blew away the field for most popular feature article on Harvard Business School Working Knowledge in 2015. With nearly 84,000 visits, twice the number of the second... View Details
  • 26 Aug 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Unpacking Team Diversity: An Integrative Multi-Level Model of Cross-Boundary Teaming

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
  • 16 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Insights and Inspiration: A Look Back at the Summer Venture in Management Program

Tony Nguyen is an Accounting and Management Information Systems student at the University of Houston, and a Summer Venture in Management (SVMP) 2022 alum. Why did you want to attend SVMP? I am a huge advocate for diversity and inclusion,... View Details
  • 2012
  • Book

Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right

By: Thomas H. Davenport and Brook Manville
This book includes twelve detailed stories of organizations that have successfully tapped their data assets, diverse perspectives, and deep knowledge to build an organizational decision-making capability. The book introduces a model that utilizes the collective... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Judgment; Decision-making; Decisions; Organizational Structure; Business Processes
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  • 03 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact

A new study of startups sharing a coworking space offers a new wrinkle in the debate over work-from-anywhere: Proximity matters, especially close proximity, to spread knowledge between disparate enterprises. “The more different the... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand

    CSML: Leading Change

    School leaders are key change agents for their schools and are tasked with improving practice while navigating an increasingly challenging school environment. Driving change requires a strong foundation of knowledge and skills to effectively manage improvement and... View Details

    • 31 Oct 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change

    Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions? Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working View Details
    Keywords: by Katherine Hutt Scott and Barbara DeLollis
    • November–December 2020
    • Article

    Getting Serious About Diversity: Enough Already with the Business Case

    By: Robin Ely and David A. Thomas
    Leaders may mean well when they tout the economic payoffs of hiring more women and people of color, but there is no research support for the notion that diversifying the workforce automatically improves a company’s performance. This article critiques the popular... View Details
    Keywords: Diversity; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Change; Trust
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    • 23 Oct 2014
    • News

    8 Strategies To Find The Perfect Business Partner

    • 30 Nov 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay

    particularly young people: the diverse, inclusive workplaces they’ve worked hard to develop. “Job seekers are more likely to click on job ads for firms with high diversity scores when presented with this information.” “Job seekers are... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 09 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing

    knowledge sharing outside one’s core department. That is one implication of a new study about how knowledge is shared that focuses on academia, but may offer lessons for technology, pharmaceutical... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • 11 Dec 2018
    • Blog Post

    Recap of the 4th Annual Women in Investing Summit

    having the opportunity to invest in people and ideas. From developing investment themes, underwriting deals, and partnering with management, no two days are ever the same. What led you to HBS? Earning an MBA appealed to me as an opportunity to expand my View Details
    • 18 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work

    beyond.” You Might Also Like: Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding

      Jacqueline Ng Lane

      Jackie Lane is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School and a co-Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) at the Digital Data Design Institute (D^3) at Harvard. She... View Details

      • 13 Dec 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

      Black venture capital and growth investors have a much harder time getting funding than white investors, because—despite efforts to bring more racial diversity to financial services—private equity’s gatekeepers remain mostly white,... View Details
      Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services
      • 2013
      • Working Paper

      What Do We Know About Corporate Headquarters? A Review, Integration, and Research Agenda

      By: Markus Menz, Sven Kunisch and David J. Collis
      During the past five decades, scholars have studied the corporate headquarters (CHQ)—the multidivisional firm's central organizational unit. The purpose of this article is to review the diverse and fragmented literature on the CHQ and to identify the variables of... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Headquarters; Corporate Parent; Corporate Center; Multidivisional Firm; Multibusiness Firm; Multinational Corporation; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Business Divisions; Business Headquarters
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      • 18 Nov 2022
      • HBS Case

      What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

      Last year, the pioneering Black-owned global asset management firm Brown Capital Management found itself at a crossroads. The secret to its success had been a deliberately diverse hiring strategy, but with the looming retirement of its... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
      • 29 Aug 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

      women from diverse social class backgrounds as they describe how they ascended to elite organizational roles despite severe gender underrepresentation. We illuminate the varied ways that high-achieving women understand and retell their... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne