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- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
business model for small independents is often elusive. So when a crisis of the magnitude of the COVID-19 global pandemic forces restaurants to close, and their revenue drops to zero overnight, things get particularly dire. Unlike the... View Details
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Profiles - MBA
people's lives, fulfilling gaps that consumers don't even know they're missing. Find Sahar on LinkedIn . Statistics LOWELL 2026 Cohort 7 Isabella Mandis “I’m thrilled to develop my skills and learn from experienced faculty and entrepreneurs, engage with fellow... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
Kimberly Jung, pictured in a field of crocuses, returned to Afghanistan to understand how she and her cofounders could import saffron to the United States. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Jung During their first semester at HBS, former United States Army engineer officers... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 27 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’
lot about their personal lives around the office. Specifically, workers were more open to connecting with: Women: Participants reported being eight times more likely to connect with female bosses they... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
a more resource-intensive field experiment,” Coffman says. “Plus, students are a nice population for an experiment like this because many of them will go on to have important leadership roles and make important leadership decisions.” In one round of the experiment,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
diagnoses. Others advocated tax and non-tax solutions. The case against hasty change was made by Dave: "Market based capitalism is the greatest driving force of prosperity in the world today, but if we forget this and marginalize it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Research - Race, Gender & Equity
multiple ethnic groups from 2009 to 2021. Scaling the concept of racially salient events, we quantify the close co-movement of minority funding gaps in crowd-funding to inflamed political rhetoric surrounding migration. The... 2024 Working Paper A Gender Backlash: Does... View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
boardrooms, consistently ranking at the bottom of some two dozen possible priorities. Many years ago labor conditions in Asian contract factories prompted Nike board member Jill Ker Conway to lobby for a board-level corporate... View Details
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Peter Gumulia
reliant on its skilled labor force,” he explains. “But as it moves forward, the labor force is not prepared for this change. My goal is to upskill and empower young... View Details
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
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Course Development
By: Debora L. Spar
Managing International Trade and Investment
Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details
- 04 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
recruitment, hiring, and promotion processes and by conducting pay audits to evaluate salaries by gender. Yet Cullen’s research suggests that companies may need to consider more subtle underlying forces that are holding women back,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies, I explore how some leaders embrace “deep purpose” as a generative force that can be a catalyst to achieve both impressive economic results and positive social impact.... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
the School's Managing the Future of Work Project. Participants will gain an understanding of what lies beneath the headlines and of the various forces that will shape work in years to come. The Market for... View Details
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Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity
and other institutions participate in "racial outsourcing," relying heavily on black doctors, nurses, technicians, and physician assistants to do "equity work"-extra labor that makes organizations and their... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Macroeconomic Expectations By: Pedro Bordalo , Nicola Gennaioli , Yueran Ma & Andrei Shleifer SEP 2020 What does predictability of forecast errors teach us about how market participants form expectations? The authors study the rationality... View Details
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
Frederick Taylor's application of scientific methods to the study of physical labor had begun to be extended to the organization of industry as well as to spheres such as higher education and government. While Taylorism was quickly... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
for the 40 percent of American workers stuck in low-wage jobs? This session will feature recent research from the School's Managing the Future of Work Project. Participants will gain an understanding of what lies beneath the headlines and... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
As economies reopen after forced shutdowns caused by COVID-19, managers around the world are faced with a dual challenge: keep the workforce safe while preserving business viability in an evolving and volatile market. How should... View Details