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01 Dec 2017
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Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis

The flow of refugees from Syria following years of civil war has been called the worst humanitarian crisis in modern times. Working in collaboration with HBS’s global research centers, two HBS professors have brought a better understanding of the crisis into the MBA... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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A Case for Coffee

Another highlight of the trip was a stimulating case discussion on coffee production led by two local alumni, Thomas Dixon (MBA ’88) and Tim Piper (MBA ’88). Dixon and Piper both work for the Tanzania arm of TechnoServe, a global nonprofit dedicated to providing... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Jan 2021
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Addressing Challenges and Accelerating Development for Women of Color

February 2024
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Pricing Power in Advertising Markets: Theory and Evidence

By: Matthew Gentzkow, Jesse M. Shapiro, Frank Yang and Ali Yurukoglu

Existing theories of media competition imply that advertisers will pay a lower price in equilibrium to reach consumers who multi-home across competing outlets. We generalize, extend, and test this prediction. We find that television outlets whose viewers watch more... View Details

Keywords: Television Entertainment; Advertising; Residency; Social Media; Price; Media; Age

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March 8, 2022
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Women Can’t Go Back to the Pre-Pandemic Status Quo

By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

Survey data collected in 2018 and 2019 from Harvard Business School graduates revealed that for women—and especially women of color—well-being at work was suffering long before the pandemic. While 17% of all respondents said that they often or very often experienced... View Details

Keywords: Women; Burnout; Gender; Race; Resignation and Termination; Well-being; Employees

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October 2021
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And the Children Shall Lead: Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital

By: Paul A. Gompers and Sophie Calder-Wang

With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we ask the natural next question: Does increased diversity lead to better firm performances? In this paper, we attempt to answer this question using a... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Diversity; Gender; Performance Improvement; Capital Markets

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November 2016 (Revised March 2018)
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Note on the Impact of Millennials on the Food System

By: José B. Alvarez, James Weber and Natalie Kindred

In 2016, the millennial generation (those age 19 to 35 in 2016), the largest generation by population in the U.S., was entering its prime home buying, family forming, earning and spending years. This generation was showing different beliefs and behaviors than previous... View Details

Keywords: Millennials; Consumer Packaged Goods; Food; Age; Consumer Behavior; Agribusiness; Demographics; Values and Beliefs; Consumer Products Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

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13 Mar 2023
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How Anti-Asian Racism Has Manifested at Work in the Pandemic

21 Oct 2020
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Managing Diversity: A Conversation with Professor Emeritus James Cash and Dean Nitin Nohria

13 Oct 2020
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Managing Diversity: A Conversation with Dean Nitin Nohria and Professor Emeritus James Cash

17 Aug 2022
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Doubles Partner

Image by Greg Betza Image by Greg Betza When Serena Williams announced her retirement earlier this month, there was plenty of talk of the tennis superstar’s 23 Grand Slam titles. But a number of news outlets also noted her involvement in early-stage investing and the... View Details

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

more oriented to determining the right risk exposures of long-term investors. Once they have decided upon them, they can then look for skill elsewhere. There is no evidence that demographic changes have influence on stock returns and on... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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Business ownership: by gender, race and ethnicity

Where can I find data on U.S. businesses by gender, race, and ethnicity? U.S. Census Bureau: The Survey of Business Owners (SBO) provides the only comprehensive, regularly collected source of information on selected economic and View Details

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Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia

By: Nava Ashraf, Erica Field and Jean Lee

We posit that household decision-making over fertility is characterized by moral hazard due to the fact that most contraception can only be perfectly observed by the woman. Using an experiment in Zambia that varied whether women were given access to contraceptives... View Details

Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Health; Household; Gender; Zambia

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Field Course: Investing for Impact

power, and demographics. See also, Where can I find U.S. demographic information broken out by ethnic group? Industry and Market Research Databases: BCC Research - Reports on major economic, scientific, and technological developments in... View Details

November 2021
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The Dynamics of Gender and Alternatives in Negotiation

By: Jennifer E. Dannals, Julian J. Zlatev, Nir Halevy and Margaret A. Neale

A substantial body of prior research documents a gender gap in negotiation performance. Competing accounts suggest that the gap is due either to women’s stereotype-congruent behavior in negotiations or to backlash enacted toward women for stereotype-incongruent... View Details

Keywords: Alternatives; Gender Gap; Negotiation; Gender; Performance

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