Black Lives Matter - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jan 2024
Blog Post

The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business

told me. “Impulsivity is the opposite of understanding facts.” As he would explain during our conversation, Joe lives according to the following principle: whether in your career or your personal life, understand the consequences – and... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Maintaining a Resilient Democracy

paying jobs, and access to water are key concerns, Harder says, “I regularly work with Republicans and Democrats on issues that matter to everyone. But in Washington, the most amplified voices are those wanting to tear things down, not... View Details

Keywords: Deb Blagg

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

Harvard Business School's Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) aim to shift the debate to a practical conversation about business assessment. "It's striking that anyone frames this question in terms of 'belief,' saying things like, 'I don't believe in climate... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Reflections From My First Month at HBS

Vietnam, and Nigeria. It feels like a UN meeting, and every detail from class schedule to the section is precisely planned. As much as I’m in awe of the environment, part of me was concerned if I would be able to feel comfortable living... View Details

23 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

of mercantilist system was, with a short time lag, a winner for all Japanese citizens, who were all able to raise their living standards; the income gap between the upper and lower quintiles was actually reduced to only 3.4 percent, the... View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

13 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 13

W. Dunn, Dana R. Carney, and Dan Ariely Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract We predicted that able-bodied individuals and white Americans would have a difficult time saying no to persuasive appeals offered by disabled... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2012
News

Taking Time to Make Time

POZEN: Getting people to think about how they are managing their careers in the evolving context of their own personal and professional lives. HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen is living proof of the adage "If you want to get something... View Details

Keywords: Time management

10 Feb 2014
HBS Case

Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

dark, it's dusty, and over your head is a mile of solid rock. Oh, and you are doing heavy physical labor for 12 hours. That's being in the mines." “You had white supervisors who grew up under apartheid overseeing black mine workers.”... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2023
News

Fostering a Supportive Community

our members to hear from alumni who’ve lived the first-gen experience and been successful—how they have navigated obstacles and what they have learned,” says Roundtree. READ MORE Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Mele

01 Oct 1999
News

Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business

"As different cultural traditions meet in the marketplace and inside organizations, managers face tough choices about the values that they and their organizations will live by," HBS professor Lynn Sharp Paine told participants at an HBS... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

Web

Impact on a Global Scale | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Impact on a Global Scale “We are living at an extraordinary point in the arc of history,” says Tom Tierney (MBA 1980). “Countless leaders, from social entrepreneurs to corporate executives to public servants, are aggressively committing... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

vision and mission statements should live in practice as well as print, and permeate through every aspect of your organization. You must close the gap between the messages you declare and the experiences you deliver. How to Lead a... View Details

27 Jan 2016
Blog Post

A Summer Internship in the Music Industry

Luckily, I had many industry contacts from my time at Apple, so it was just a matter of reaching out to these people to see who might be interested in my help. My music “specialty,” if you will, is electronic dance music (EDM). It’s... View Details

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

her own physician. Reflecting on his background, Shetty wrote on his Web site that he became a doctor because of the recurrent illnesses of his parents. As a child he lived in fear that he would lose his mother; his father, a diabetic,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2022
News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

celebrated and learned of their new rights as citizens. As Black Texans moved to other parts of the country, they brought their traditions along with them, and Juneteenth continued to grow and develop. Juneteenth’s powerful spirit has... View Details

13 Jul 2016
Blog Post

How To Hire A Millennial

Connecticut is nothing less than a capitulation to an emerging business reality. For GE, leafy Stamford was simply too hard a sell to make to increasingly urban millennials, who not only prefer to live in cities like Boston, San... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

10 Mar 2021
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

Alumni Books Intelligence Isn’t Enough: A Black Professional’s Guide to Thriving in the Workplace By Carice Anderson (MBA 2006) Jonathan Ball Publishers Professional development manager, coach, and consultant Carice Anderson shares her... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

20 Nov 2019
News

Lifting Fallen Families

through their lives, having children of their own, he continued to think of Gibbs’s daughter and couldn’t shake the feeling that he had to do something for children like her—the sons and daughters of moms and dads who lost their lives on... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

campus is closed to most motor vehicles, a rule that encourages face-to-face encounters along the walking paths. Taxis, and often black limousines, patiently wait for their clients on the campus' margins. As the campus master plan... View Details

Keywords: Education

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