Publications

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December 1994 (Revised May 2008)
Case

Jensen Shoes: Lyndon Brooks' Story

Jane Kravitz (Caucasian female), strategic product manager, and Lyndon Brooks (African American male), a member of her staff at Jensen Shoes, a successful producer and marketer of casual, athletic, and children's footwear, are assigned to new positions and to each... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Ethnicity; Race Characteristics; Performance Evaluation; Gender Characteristics; Management Skills; Diversity; Apparel and Accessories Industry

Educators

1 Oct 2006
Keynote Speech

Shifting Paradigms in Diversity Research: From Difference to a Relational Framing

By: R. Ely

Keywords: Research; Diversity

November 1997 (Revised March 2004)
Case

Ft. Myers Eldercare

By: William J. Poorvu and Arthur I Segel

A developer attempts to get into the elderly housing business. The case reviews the various elderly housing options, how they differ from one another, and how the industry differs from other types of real estate. View Details

Keywords: Housing; Age; Real Estate Industry; Florida

Educators

01 Oct 1997
News

Benaree Wiley

"Early in life," says Bennie Wiley, "I learned an important guiding principle: look for ways to exercise your values." As president and CEO of The Partnership, an organization designed to open doors for minority professionals in the city of Boston, Wiley knows first... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

01 Apr 2000
News

The World at a Click

Like so many dot-com businesses these days, the Internet travel industry is, well, taking off. Among the e-travel elite are Travelocity.com, known for the depth of its travel content and bolstered by distribution relationships with AOL/Netscape, Lycos, Excite, and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelly

01 Apr 2000
News

A Place in the Sun

There is something in the human soul that yearns to get away from it all, to some unspoiled paradise by the sea, lulled by gentle breezes. And those dreams of golden days and starlit nights translate into a startling, cold-cash reality: Tourism generates up to 10... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons

2017
Article

New Venture Milestones and the First Female Board Member

By: Alicia DeSantola, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Julie Battilana

We explore the antecedents of the addition of the first woman to the boards of directors of entrepreneurial ventures. Building on research on resource dependency, we propose that new ventures are most likely to add the first woman to their boards at three developmental... View Details

Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Governing and Advisory Boards; Entrepreneurship; Gender; Diversity; Technology Industry; United States

2010
Book

The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century

By: Julia Rosenbaum and Sven Beckert

What precisely constitutes an American bourgeoisie? Scholars have grappled with the question for a long time. Economic positions—the ownership of capital, for instance—most obviously defines this group. Control of resources cannot explain, however, the emergence of... View Details

Keywords: Literacy; Income; Identity; Culture; Economics; United States

25 Feb 2020
News

The Past Informs the Future of Work

learn from past experiences.” “The AT&T and Vodafone cases are examples of how technology and demographics are changing the workplace, and how leading companies have responded to these challenges,” says Kerr, co-chair of HBS’s Managing... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Telecommunications; Information

September 2020
Teaching Plan

Harlem Capital: Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship

By: George Serafeim

Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques had spent the summer between their first and second years of their MBA program fund raising for their start-up venture capital (VC) firm, Harlem Capital Partners. Harlem Capital was founded upon the principle that addressing the... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital Firm Compensation; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurial Financing; Black Entrepreneurs; Black Leadership; Black Inventors; Inclusion; Minority-owned Businesses; Race And Ethnicity; Race Characteristics; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Diversity; Race; Gender; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Financial Services Industry; United States

2023
Working Paper

The Effect of Childhood Environment on Political Behavior: Evidence from Young U.S. Movers, 1992–2021

By: Jacob R. Brown, Enrico Cantoni, Sahil Chinoy, Martin Koenen and Vincent Pons

We ask how childhood environment shapes political behavior. We measure young voters’ participation and party affiliation in nationally comprehensive voter files and reconstruct their childhood location histories based on their parents’ addresses. We compare outcomes of... View Details

Keywords: Political Parties; Government and Politics; Age; Residency; Voting

2019
Working Paper

On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender Norms

By: Natalia Rigol, Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Simone Schaner and Charity Troyer-Moore

Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages from a public workfare program... View Details

Keywords: Gender Norms; Economics; Gender; Employment; Income; Societal Protocols; India

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01 Dec 2008
News

Attention, Oenophiles

THE CUFFES: A new career importing “fantastic” African wines from black-owned vineyards. In 2005, while on a trip in South Africa, Selena Cuffe (MBA ’03) saw an ad for the Soweto Wine Festival. “I was used to seeing negative African images,” Cuffe told the Pittsburgh... View Details

Keywords: Wholesale Trade

1 Aug 1997
Conference Presentation

Beyond Armchair Feminism II: The Challenges of Holding onto Gender in Organizational Intervention

By: R. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson

Keywords: Gender; Organizations; Organizational Culture

13 May 2004 - 15 May 2004
Conference Presentation

Women in the Venture Capital Industry

By: C. G. Brush, N. M. Carter, E. J. Gatewood, P. G. Greene and Myra M. Hart

Keywords: Venture Capital; Gender

2004
Report

Gatekeepers of Venture Growth: A Diana Project Report on the Role and Participation of Women in the Venture Capital Industry

By: C. G. Brush, N. M. Carter, E. Gatewood, P. G. Greene and M. M. Hart

Keywords: Venture Capital; Gender; Financial Services Industry

2001
Report

The Diana Project: Women Business Owners and Equity Capital: The Myths Dispelled

By: Candida Brush, Nancy Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia Green and Myra M. Hart

Keywords: Business Ventures; Gender; Capital