Team Diversity - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Aug 2018
Blog Post

Following My Dream: Launching a Venture

Initially aiming to recruit 1-2 summer interns to support me in my endeavor, I ended up hiring an amazing and diverse team of six interns who are as excited about the idea as I am. Given my background in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

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The Section Experience | MBA

diversity of the class. Play Video duration: 0:27 Sectionmates take their first-year classes together, sharing cases, classroom facilities, and their own dedicated team of faculty. Section faculty teach and... View Details

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Field Course: Investing for Impact - Course Catalog

students who are enthusiastic about working with founders of small, local businesses that struggle to access capital, and to create teams with a diverse range of skills to match with our founders. Given that... View Details

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

epitomize this idea. Governments can rally around these figures to showcase the advantages of a multicultural and diverse society. Such information campaigns can be combined with policies aimed at fostering the integration of foreign-born... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

09 Sep 2024
HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

note: This article was updated to include additional advice related to CEO compensation policies. You Might Also Like: When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

01 Jun 2012
News

Plan B: The Brick Bank

the target household’s average savings capacity was $1 per month, that local annual inflation was nearly 20 percent, and that home repairs usually cost about $300.” While that environment was not conducive to the savings program, the team... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

13 Nov 2020
News

Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19

and beyond. Student teams have exclusive access to advising, technical resources, and other programming. “We’ve received support with everything—from assembling an international team with View Details

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Matthew Boys

him to stay in the tech industry, particularly in “fast-growing startups with small team dynamics that push you to come up with new things.” The right way to train your brain “A common theme for non-engineers in technology is to get an... View Details

09 Dec 2020
Blog Post

How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace

and welcoming organizations. It is widely recognized that diversity in teams has a positive impact on an organization’s output. Therefore, attracting and hiring employees from different backgrounds... View Details

19 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition

friendships with classmates from all walks of life, and through these relationships I have been inspired by the multitude of ways that my classmates are shaping the world. Shell’s M&A group has many similar characteristics to an HBS classroom. My View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology

01 Mar 2018
News

What I Do: Philippe Hellich (MBA 1996)

ever-present too, be it a customer tripping on a display or an entire country divorcing itself from established trading protocols. “The diversity of risks is what makes this job so exciting,” says the man whose task it is to prevent... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Peter and Maria Hoey

27 Jan 2023
News

Turning Up the Volume

When the executive director of Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) stepped down in June 2020, Ilana Goldman (MBA/MPA 2002) stepped up. As chair of the board and a political and nonprofit consultant, she saw it as her duty... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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Judging | New Venture Competition

relevant skills, contacts, industry knowledge, and experience, including capability to support and engage a diverse team and community of stakeholders. Proximity The team... View Details

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

benefits from racial diversity but that diversity is a liability when society's negative stereotypes about racial minorities' competence inhibit such interactions. We analyze two years of data from 496... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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HBS Online and Executive Education Leadership: Q+A with Patrick Mullane and Luis Viceira

responsibilities as well. (LV): The two products need autonomy. ExecEd doesn't have the experience that the HBS Online team has in producing purely online asynchronous programs, and that's an expertise we need to preserve—they've... View Details

21 Jan 2022
News

Real Talk

Henderson brought more than 30 years of experience in executive-leadership diversity training at places like Nike and Citigroup, and across business and organizations in Asia, Africa, and post-apartheid South Africa. And they brought... View Details

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PRIDE | MBA

create a supportive environment for emerging leaders to socialize with one another, connect with employers seeking diverse talent, and engage in thought leadership in key areas of business and management. In partnership with our allies... View Details

02 Jul 2024
News

The Beauty Guide

Courtesy Michelle Freyre When Michelle Freyre (MBA 1997) was a brand manager at Neutrogena, Michael McNamara, global president of the beauty brand at the time, asked what she wanted to do with her career. She answered, “I want to be you. I want to run Neutrogena.”... View Details

22 Aug 2016
News

The Future of GE

General Electric, now 124 years old, is looking to the future, CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) recently told Vanity Fair. When Immelt took the helm of GE in 2001, it was a diverse conglomerate. Now, Immelt said, “we’ve exited almost all of... View Details

Portrait Project

Alpha Mengistu

wide group of friends across continents, or facilitating a diverse team working toward the same goal, I will forge unexpected bonds and communities that provide relief from the strain of isolation and... View Details

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