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  • 31 May 2023
  • HBS Case

From Prison Cell to Nike’s C-Suite: The Journey of Larry Miller

View Video Editor's note: Watch the video in "full screen" mode for the best viewing experience. Before shaping one of the world’s largest sports brands, Nike executive Larry Miller spent years of his youth and early adulthood behind bars... View Details
Keywords: by Jamal Meneide; Entertainment & Recreation; Consumer Products
  • Research Summary

Managing Networked Businesses

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
Platform-based businesses that leverage network effects face a distinctive set of management challenges. A platform encompasses components and rules that facilitate interactions between the platform's users. A platform-based product or service exhibits a network... View Details
  • 23 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Face Value: Do Certain Physical Features Help People Get Ahead?

standards. “We found that, for white people, a dark skin color has a positive correlation with celebrity visual potential. For Black people, the inverse is true,” says Feng. The team is planning follow-up research on race View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 03 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'

During his recent standing-room-only seminar about artificial intelligence (AI) and race at Harvard Business School recently, marketing professor Broderick Turner displayed a slide showing several white... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis

    Yuval Spiegler

    Yuval is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior and Sociology at HBS. He studies why are similar organizations dissimilarly diverse, especially focusing on extra-organizational dimensions that shape labor market racial and gender segregation. Yuval uses... View Details
    • 04 Mar 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

    the race and gender of a new appointment to the demographics of the departing member of a group. “People are otherwise likely to choose replacements who demographically resemble their predecessors.” This... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 27 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)

    increases brand attitude, and the company is seen as having more commitment to diversifying the workforce.” US law requires companies with more than 100 employees to report their workforce’s gender, race, View Details
    Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
    • 16 Oct 2023
    • HBS Case

    Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

    At the end of 2020—seven months after COVID-19 had sent the airline industry into a tailspin and five months after George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police provoked nationwide protests for racial justice—Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation
    • 20 Aug 2020
    • Book

    From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

    For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 10 Oct 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?

    about the upcoming elections, of course, it will be interesting to see how the rhetoric surrounding race relations, not thinking just about the Black versus white divide, but more broadly, native born versus immigrant born,” Tabellini... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 12 Jan 2018
    • News

    The Only 3 Career Steps that Matter

    • January 2000 (Revised April 2000)
    • Case

    StarMedia: Launching a Latin American Revolution

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust
    By the fall of 1999, StarMedia had sprinted to a sizable lead in the race to acquire Latin American Internet users. Its pan-regional, horizontal portal was the first to target Spanish- and Portuguese-language speakers on the Internet, registering 1.2 billion page views... View Details
    Keywords: Private Ownership; History; Risk Management; Business Cycles; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Infrastructure; Media; Emerging Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Web; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
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    • 24 Oct 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy

    widespread discrimination on Airbnb, leading Airbnb to take steps to mitigate bias and prompting broader discussion across other companies. “Many businesses were unaware of the implications of their decisions,” says Luca, whose research... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Food & Beverage
    • September 2020
    • Case

    The Black New Venture Competition

    By: Karen Mills, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Martin Sinozich and Gabriella Elanbeck
    Black entrepreneurs encounter many unique obstacles when raising capital to start and grow a business. During their second year at Harvard Business School (HBS), MBA students Kimberly Foster and Tyler Simpson decided to do something to make a difference for... View Details
    Keywords: Startup; Start-up; Startup Financing; Startups; Start-ups; African-American Protagonist; African-american Entrepreneurs; African-american Investors; African-Americans; African-American Women; Black Leadership; Black Inventors; Black Entrepreneurs; Harvard Business School; Harvard; Business And Society; Early Stage Funding; Early Stage Finance; Technology Entrepreneurship; Discrimination; Technology Ventures; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurial Financing; Business Plan; Business Startups; Business Ventures; Financing and Loans; Business Growth and Maturation; Diversity; Gender; Race; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Small Business; Leadership; Information Technology; Competition; Technology Industry
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    • 18 Mar 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    When It Comes to Climate Regulation, Energy Companies Take a More Nuanced View

    Common wisdom holds that oil and gas companies, electric utilities, and other industries known for their large carbon emissions generally oppose clean energy policies. Now, a study of corporate advocacy spanning 30 years reveals that many companies are more flexible... View Details
    Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Utilities
    • 07 Mar 2023
    • HBS Case

    ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

    year detailing Gebru’s efforts within Google to urge caution with AI, saying tech companies shouldn’t race to launch systems without considering the potential risks and harms they could cause. She warned... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology
    • Web

    Managing the Future of Work

    The Index also reveals that more than half of firms promoted less and 4 in 10 hired fewer individuals without a college degree. The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society By: William R. Kerr MAY 2020 The... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

    for each county in the 48 mainland states. The index considered the pervasiveness of Jim Crow laws, Ku Klux Klan activity between 1915 and 1940, and the number of recorded lynchings before 1939, among other... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • Article

    Whites See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game That They Are Now Losing

    By: Michael I. Norton and Samuel R. Sommers
    Although some have heralded recent political and cultural developments as signaling the arrival of a post-racial era in America, several legal and social controversies regarding "reverse racism" highlight Whites' increasing concern about anti-White bias. We show that... View Details
    Keywords: Racism; Zero-sum Game; Bias; Affirmative Action; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Social Issues; United States
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    • 22 Nov 2016
    • First Look

    November 22, 2016

    Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50794 September 2016 Administrative Science Quarterly Whitened Résumés: Race and Self-Presentation in the Labor Market By: Kang, Sonia K.,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne