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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
customized nature of the process is essential to its success. You can't just pull it off the shelf." Underscoring the findings of Breaking Through, Thomas notes that changes in the racial makeup of American business executives will... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 06 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales
perceived as more similar. Karmarkar says online retailers are likely to be just as surprised as she was about how strongly the category makeup of online displays affects sales. “I’ve already gotten some good feedback from people in the... View Details
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 4/5
experiences did you have with friends or adults who were different from you? Did any adults influence your early thinking about racial differences? Enlist your parents, siblings, or extended family to help string these stories together for you. Ask them about the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
studied reflect the makeup of 80 percent of US and 90 percent of worldwide companies. The most important “implication is that the precautionary motive to preserve the buffer was inhibiting sales before,” says Kim. “Policymakers can take... View Details
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Diversity & Entrepreneurship: Race & Gender Gaps Persist - Race, Gender & Equity
Non-Tech Founders 21% 79% Tech Founders 18% 82% Founders 21% 79% Working Alumni 31% 69% Meanwhile, the racial makeup of tech founders generally mirrors that of the overall alumni population, meaning that no group is significantly over- or... View Details
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
its intake of meat. Nor can universities be made by legislative fiat to perform functions for which they are not expressly designed. For example, requiring universities to admit underprepared students is unlikely to produce a proportional number of new college... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
racial makeup of loan officers—a job that’s become more nuanced in a largely automated mortgage origination process, Sunderam says. Loan officers are critical to the process Loan officers play an important role for would-be borrowers,... View Details
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
account 20 percent of the makeup of parliaments worldwide, a figure that holds steady in the U.S. Senate as well. They hold just 26 percent of full professorships across the country—and fewer at HBS, where 22 percent of the faculty are... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
elements in any organization’s makeup and success—along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn’t just one aspect of the game--it is the game.” He set about personally... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 23 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?
often has as much to do with their relationships with one another as their concern for the company. "Boards are populated by living, breathing people who have their own interests, and understanding the makeup of the board is very... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
leave, the smaller the next fund is. That’s because limited partners often take the time to look at the partnership makeup at private equity firms when deciding which ones to invest in. Limited partners “have a lot of private... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
driving us around in golf carts to the woman making our faces camera-ready in the makeup trailer, you could tell that everyone was so excited to be there. The other entrepreneurs were incredibly fun as well, and not the typical... View Details
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
be second-order to these other traits." Specifically, Kerr and his research colleagues found that increased employment of young skilled immigrants impacts the employee makeup of firms in three main ways: 1. Hiring young skilled immigrants... View Details
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Instant Photography Is Launched | Baker Library
off the sandwich. The genius in Land’s invention stemmed from the immediacy of the process. Among the challenges the film team faced was determining the optimal chemical makeup and amount of viscous solution to be released from the... View Details
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
any real changes in the way they operate. My favorite characterization of this stage comes from a Fortune 100-level CIO. He says they're just "putting lipstick on a bulldog." The bulldog doesn't suddenly become beautiful because it was forced to wear... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
clinical trials will increase the efficiency of the FDA approval process.—Mara Aspinall Privacy is an issue for those who worry that complete knowledge of an individual's genetic makeup could have negative effects. If employers know an... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-016.pdf Channels of Influence Authors:Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract We demonstrate that simply by using the ethnic makeup surrounding a firm's location, we can predict,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
requiring hundreds of millions of dollars just to get to a certain point, whereas normally you would get it from the public markets. And why there are not more women involved in the later stages: I think it’s largely a function of the View Details