Minority - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal

return rather than the perhaps easier task of increasing dollars under management. Judging by how fast the typical private equity firm has grown over the past several years, Yudkoff and his firm may well be in the minority in how they... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

30 Oct 2015
Blog Post

4 Takeaways from HBS

conducted actual interviews with HBS students to create a single character for each identity group and monologue for a stage play, to be shared with the HBS community. These viewpoints, as shared through a play, deeply touched me as I heard View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Wanted: Leaders for the New Millennium

and applying to business school. HBS Outreach While it's too soon to measure these specific initiatives, the overall philosophy behind outreach to young leaders is clearly working. For years, MBA Admissions has held an on-campus Summer Venture in Management Program... View Details

Keywords: Cindy Olnick

Web

Harvard Business School

against the Vietnam War, and the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. In 1968, AASU was launched as the Afro–American Student Union. Its founders were committed to addressing challenges they experienced as a racial View Details

14 May 2020
Blog Post

A PRIDE Farewell

like the Back to School 80s Party, National Coming Out Day MyTakes, World AIDS Day movie screening, and February’s Love at HBS Portrait Project. And continued our partnership with other under-represented minority (URM) clubs through the... View Details

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

competencies of each partner and create two-way value is evidenced by, among others, the collaboration between The College Fund (UNCF) and Merck. UNCF, the largest and oldest minority educational assistance organization in the United... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

13 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

06 May 2015
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

individuals. All forecasting is a case in point. When the application becomes personal, it raises many questions that will have to be addressed. In this case, should we be careful what we wish for? What do you think? Original Article In 2002, the film View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)

strongly rewarded for a positive result," says John, now an assistant professor of marketing at Harvard Business School. This system can drive researchers to bend the rules to get a desirable outcome. Sometimes researchers commit View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston; Education

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

"Investing in Latin America, or in emerging markets, has simply not paid off," he said. Investors are also jittery over a lack of monitoring and transparency of public companies and the fact that in many countries, the rights of View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

01 Mar 2009
News

A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

is almost 100 percent effective in protecting children’s teeth against decay, only about one-third of kids get it. By contrast, in the minority of dental plans that provide comprehensive care for a yearly fixed fee, nearly all children... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

generous welfare state. It emerged instead from evolving coalitions between fledgling consumer lenders seeking to make their business socially acceptable and a range of nongovernmental groups working to promote public welfare, labor, and View Details

Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research

26 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806201 Vignette: Bombay Tyre Manufacturing Ltd Harvard Business School Case 806-207 Presents a U.S.-based investor who had taken a minority position in a publicly owned... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 1999
News

Four Promoted to Full Professor

Minority Executives in Corporate America. From 1993 to 1998, he taught and developed materials for the widely subscribed second-year elective, Self-Assessment and Career Development. The course uses cases, experiential exercises, and... View Details

11 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

profitability over time," says Siegel. Not surprisingly, the researchers also found that multinational firms with Korean subsidiaries were far more likely to hire women into management roles than local Korean firms, which were unlikely to hire woman managers at... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 1998
News

Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

develop tolerance for minor annoyances - at home as well as in the office. Many organizations are still unprepared to meet the Y2K deadline. Why? The further you are from something, the less dangerous it appears. And, as already... View Details

27 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

private sector organizations and on how such partnerships can be most effective. Exploring Obstacles to and Opportunities for Professional Success among Ethnic Minority Medical Students Authors:K. Odom, L. Morgan Roberts, R. Johnson, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

commissions, albeit lower, still exist, but they represent a relatively minor source of revenue for the big brokerages compared to investment banking fees. Either way, the cost of sell-side research, estimated at over $8 billion in total,... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

03 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 3

structures that exist in teaching hospitals, this annual cohort turnover results in increased resource utilization (i.e., longer length of hospital stay) for both minor and major teaching hospitals and decreased quality (i.e., higher... View Details