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  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

plane, not socialism nor communism, not government operation nor the exercise of the police power, but rather the development from within the business group of effective social control of those mechanisms which have been placed in the hands of the View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • Web

Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity

Leadership Council. Our review of efforts to attract more Black students and participants revealed that data on race and other dimensions of identity are gathered inconsistently across our educational programs. Going forward, each and... View Details
  • 06 May 2021
  • HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

other American cities as well. Too many people were left out and left behind, despite their grit and determination,” says Kanter, who cowrote the case with HBS Research Associate Joyce Kim. Miami’s gender and race roadblocks Miami, once... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
  • November 2020 (Revised February 2021)
  • Case

Wes Hall and the BlackNorth Initiative

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Marilyn Morgan Westner and Reza Satchu
Wes Hall founded Kingsdale Advisors and built it into one of Canada’s leading shareholder services and advisory firms. Influenced by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and a series of social injustices—specifically the death of George Floyd in police custody—Hall... View Details
Keywords: Racism; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Diversity; Race; Social Issues; Ethics; Canada; North America
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  • 06 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

firm calls an industry "unprofitable" while another firm calls that market "important," asymmetries are at work. For example, in the 1990s, Cisco raced to capture more of the networking equipment market while IBM... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth
  • 02 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

It’s a sticky but common dilemma for managers: A valued employee finds out that a coworker earns more, gets upset, and demands a raise. If gender or race figure into the wage gap, tensions can escalate fast. Companies, including Whole... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 27 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

high-throughput genome engineering capabilities that enable dramatically faster genetic innovation. Coupled with the discovery of extremely fast-growing photosynthetic microalgae and racing against a worsening climate outlook, we’re full... View Details
  • Web

Charts & Statistics - Leadership

work safety movement Influence: Low 10 1910 s 19 Sedition Act Prohibition begins Red Scare Race riots Influence: Medium-High 20 1920 s 19 Social divisions arise between rural and urban areas Women's suffrage Harlem Renaissance Rampant... View Details
  • 04 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

began gathering demographic information on individual VCs to better understand if their gender or race influenced a firm’s performance. “It was a real guerilla research effort,” he says. Starting with commercial data on 14,000 VC... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services
  • 12 Nov 2021
  • News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

innovative solutions, especially Black female knowledge workers. We found that 42 percent of Gen Z Black women are “the first to know when something new or cutting-edge is released.” The gap with the other races was almost two-to-one. Jim... View Details
  • Web

Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

“Sanctioned Radicals: Comparing Collective Organizing Around Race and Gender Inside Organizations” in 2020. Michael L. Tushman : The Academy of Management Annals (AMA) recognizes particularly impactful papers with the "Decade Award' which... View Details
  • 30 Jun 2021
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
  • September 2020 (Revised September 2021)
  • Case

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
Keywords: Education; Higher Education; Learning; Curriculum and Courses; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Income; Race; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Measurement and Metrics; Operations; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Outcome or Result; Performance; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation; Service Operations; Performance Improvement; Planning; Strategic Planning; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Education Industry; Atlanta
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  • 13 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

©iStock/maislam To find out, McDonald fixed his sights on the emerging market of online investing, studying five unnamed competitors at the beginning of their race to the top and following their actions and success as the market developed... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Every Trick in the Book

’80s—moving it from the city streets to the suburban shopping center, standardizing the book-buying experience, and starting the familiar race to big, bigger, and biggest, and cheap, cheaper, and cheapest. By 1980, analysts were... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • October 2018 (Revised October 2019)
  • Case

Arlan Hamilton and Backstage Capital

By: Laura Huang and Sarah Mehta
Frustrated by an inability to convince existing venture capital firms to invest in companies led by women, people of color, and LGBT founders, Arlan Hamilton started her own firm, Backstage Capital, in 2015. Hamilton understood the untapped potential of companies run... View Details
Keywords: Black Leadership; LGBTQ; Women; People Of Color; Entrepreneurship; Mission and Purpose; Venture Capital; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Identity; Personal Characteristics; Prejudice and Bias; Social Issues; Diversity; Gender; Race
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  • 08 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

the official site. For more on the Women's Student Association, visit wsahbsclub.com. Taylor Clarkson Harvard MBA Student, Class of 2022 Being mixed is a experience shared by many, but discussed by few. My mother is Ukrainian, my father is Grenadian. As a mixed View Details
  • Web

Harvard Business School

corporate philanthropy, and social marketing. His books include: Developing the Afro-American Economy ; Moving Ahead: Black Managers in American Business ; The Wealth of Races (Editor); and Soul in Management: How African-American... View Details
  • 19 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

pitcher throws the ball. How much would you expect the race of the umpire and the pitcher to determine the outcome of the call? That's the question Christopher A. Parsons, Harvard Business School visiting associate professor in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Information; Publishing
  • 25 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation

mostly one race are tipping the balance of integration among all firms, creating a less segregated workforce overall. “The turnover of organizations appears to have washed away progress on racial employment integration faster than such... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman