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- 15 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 15
assemble a team of scientists from outside the beauty industry to challenge the conventional wisdom. Their company, Living Proof, wanted to offer women "proof in a bottle" rather than "hope in a bottle." As the firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007
alike: (1) securing the future through innovation strategies suitable for an emerging "white coat economy" that is discovery-based; (2) pursuing happiness by addressing the connection between work and family life and reinventing work to help View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007
fundamentalist Taliban and the subsequent U.S.-led invasion of the country. Provides a historical overview of Afghanistan and the position of women in the country to explore the challenges facing female entrepreneurs in a post-conflict... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
social messages focused on the fate of the common man in a world of social injustice. The case discusses how women were depicted in Kapoor’s films and enables a discussion of the role of cinema in propagating gender stereotypes and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
ideas for how the distribution chain should be managed, and several men rose to defend her position. “She’s endlessly fascinating as an outspoken advocate for this campaign, and as an outspoken woman at a time when there were very few View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5
http://hbr.org/product/Valuing-Yahoo--in-2013/an/214048-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-053 Saudi Arabia: Finding Stability after the Arab Spring In 2014, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia was juggling several balls. At home, there were pressures for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5
Taliban and founded a consultancy in 2004. The case positions Sediqi's experiences against the background of Afghanistan's turbulent history, with a focus on the contested role of women in Afghani society. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
End (September 2004) and Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow. Other award-winning bestsellers include Men & Women of the Corporation, The Change Masters, When Giants Learn to Dance, and World Class: Thriving Locally... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
geared toward women over thirty—is one product that emerged from this approach. The cream drew on existing technologies but combined a number of them into an integrated product that specifically served the needs of Brazilian women. Pommez... View Details
- 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016
pounding). In two experiments, participants were eye-tracked while viewing photographs of men and women adopting either dominant, high-power (i.e., expansive and open) or submissive, low-power (i.e., contractive and closed) nonverbal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007
India Authors:A. Banerjee, Shawn A. Cole, E. Duflo, and L. Linden Periodical:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming). (August 2007) Abstract This paper presents the results of two randomized experiments conducted in schools in urban India. A remedial education... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
women who apply to them; they assume that all schools and all applicants are basically the same. In fact, business schools are quite different from each other, and Harvard probably is even more different than others. So at one level,... View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
between men and women—as opposed to hiring biases, gender discrimination, or a hostile workforce—were at least partially responsible for the low numbers of women in tech. At the time, 20% of Google’s tech workforce, and 31% of its overall... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
afford to spend your social capital," Keinan says. "You're saying, 'I'm so autonomous and successful that I can afford to dress in a nonconforming way.'" In one study, the researchers asked two groups of participants—luxury shop assistants in Milan, Italy, and View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 31, 2007
both men—Forbes christened Schumpeter, not Keynes, the best navigator through the turbulent seas of globalization. Time has proved that assessment accurate. Prophet of Innovation is also the private story of a man rescued repeatedly by View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
and children are sold via fertility clinics, sperm banks, women selling their eggs, surrogates, and adoption services. We don't couch these transactions in terms of profit-making businesses. Orphans aren't sold—they are... View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
and events through the eyes of the men and women watching them in real time: to follow the arc of time, if you will. And this represented an exciting intellectual opportunity for me, as a historian and scholar of entrepreneurial... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
century and today. It tells the story of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who defied convention and imagined that business could help save the planet rather than consume it. The social and religious beliefs that drove... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
funded initiatives by Land O' Lakes in some twenty-three poor countries. In Albania, for example, Land O' Lakes has organized 8,000 women into cooperatives for the production of dairy products, providing technical support, veterinary... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007
developing countries than developed countries, but necessity is often the main driver in lower income countries. Explores the challenges facing women arising from societal inequality, including lack of educational provision, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace