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- 23 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs
which is dominated by white, urban, professional men. To truly recognize the potential of products appealing to women and other groups, Koning says, companies must continue the hard work of diversifying their personnel. “At the end of the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
include whether high-performance Asian companies can provide a business model for success in the region, the role of accounting infrastructure in transitional economies, restructuring diversified businesses in emerging markets, and... View Details
- 19 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Black History: Elevating the Voices of Our Student and Alumni Communities
(MBA 2019) Co-founders of the Black Tech Master Series & New Venture Competition Inspired by the need to diversify entrepreneurial spaces and the lack of access to resources and funding for black entrepreneurs, Kim and Tyler... View Details
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
through Vermont, because they have diversified their own risk across the possibility of hurricanes in Vermont, floods in England, and earthquakes in California. "One relies on the insurance sector to promote risk sharing," says... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
Bulletin, I have difficulty understanding Debbie Rosenbaum’s “feelings of inadequacy or exclusion” given her obvious history of personal achievement and the clearly diversified class mix. Perhaps her discomfort is generated by the choices... View Details
- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
value: Attraction and recruitment. Actively seek candidates outside managers’ networks, and assess the language used to describe jobs and the company. Hiring. Educate managers about the gender biases that influence hiring decisions. Companies should also anonymize... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
meaningful, they are by definition hard.” Weeks has led Corning through some of the brightest and darkest times in the company’s 163-year history. After investing heavily in fiber optics, Corning’s stock plummeted when the telecommunications bubble burst. Weeks’s... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
is a diversified financial services holding company with more than 2,500 offices around the world, 14,000 associates, and a market capitalization of $5.1 billion. James has always had an independent spirit. In college he and Mary... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
your own business. You have to diversify and be flexible, especially in this economy.” During the 2007–2008 writers’ strike, Dick was the strike captain for the staff of House. “I may be the only member of my class to walk a picket line,”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 May 2017
- Blog Post
Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone at HBS
speaking during START, ASW, Class Day) and allowed me to work behind-the-scenes on initiatives that matter most to me (mainly student advocacy work – diversifying curriculum, making the student experience more affordable, giving students... View Details
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Research Links - The Art of American Advertising
has a remarkably rich and diversified collection of trade catalogs covering a wide array of subject areas, including agriculture, textile manufacturing, hardware and machine tools, railroads, automobiles, aviation, consumer products,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
or their parents. If 10 percent of the people they spoke to tell more people, it can become a true change factor,” she says. “Awareness is the first step.” MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: Advancing Racial Equity HBS Addresses Racial Equity Alumni Work to Reverse Bias... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
developed an Executive Education program, Creating Corporate Advantage, and an elective MBA course based on this framework. Also in corporate strategy, Assistant Professor Tarun Khanna is studying the corporate strategy of diversified... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
companies that would eventually become big successes in the 1960s, including ACNielsen, Dun & Bradstreet, and Xerox. During those years, as DLJ began to diversify by managing corporate pension funds in its Alliance Capital Management unit... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
interwar years, and its subsequent diversification into many industries, including automobiles, household goods, and services, is analyzed. The case serves as a vehicle to explain why diversified business groups are so important in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction
Enlisting support from local communities, she developed a process to turn the weeds into a material that can be used to weave diversified products. Today, MitiMeth trains artisans in this process, providing income earning opportunities... View Details
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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog
manage a multi-business corporation?" to engender entrepreneurship and adaptability while maintaining control and realizing economies. All companies, whether large, diversified multinationals or small entrepreneurial startups, wrestle... View Details
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
of roughly 1,400 applicants, LEDA accepts 100 of the most promising students, with a broader goal of improving and diversifying the national pipeline for the next generation of leaders. “LEDA is very intentional about its selection... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 03 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Introducing the Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series
leadership experience in their respective industries. Most are founders or the current leaders of family businesses, and their enterprises, whether for-profit or non-profit, are pre-eminent companies in their country, region and in some cases globally. The project... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
sight of it, you'll fail. In contrast to Sony's approach, RCA, having achieved world dominance in its industry in the 1960s, fell off the "virtuous" path by diversifying into areas in which its managers had no learning base - businesses... View Details