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About - Race, Gender & Equity
About The Race, Gender & Equity Initiative brings together a global, multidisciplinary community of Harvard Business School faculty, alumni, and students to champion projects and programs that advance understanding, generate tools and solutions, and grow a View Details
- Web
Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
About Rock Advisory Board The Rock Center’s Advisory Board is responsible for providing strategic direction for the Rock Center and its staff. The Advisory Board includes HBS entrepreneurial alumni, HBS faculty, and HBS staff. Paul Baier... View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
race was no longer relevant or that we had somehow collectively moved beyond race in the workplace,” Roberts says. The picture that emerges from the essays in Race, Work, and Leadership echo the same message: Race not only still matters... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Apr 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders
decisions to build great global companies. If businesses are managed without courageous leadership, then R&D programs, product pipelines, investments in emerging markets, and employees’ commitment to the company’s mission all wither.... View Details
- 2009
- Working Paper
Walking Through Jelly: Language Proficiency, Emotions, and Disrupted Collaboration in Global Work
By: Tsedal Beyene, Pamela J. Hinds and Catherine Durnell Cramton
In an ethnographic study comprised of interviews and concurrent observations of 145 globally distributed members of nine project teams of an organization, we found that uneven proficiency in English, the lingua franca, disrupted collaboration for both native and... View Details
Keywords: Spoken Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Globalized Firms and Management; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Emotions; Social and Collaborative Networks
Beyene, Tsedal, Pamela J. Hinds, and Catherine Durnell Cramton. "Walking Through Jelly: Language Proficiency, Emotions, and Disrupted Collaboration in Global Work." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-138, June 2009.
- January–February 2018
- Article
The New CEO Activists
By: Aaron K Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
Though corporations have been lobbying the government and making campaign donations for a long time now, in recent years a dramatic new trend has emerged in U.S. politics: CEOs are taking very public stands on thorny political issues that have nothing to do with their... View Details
Keywords: Government Policy; Rights; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Sustainability; Leadership; Corporate Accountability; Policy; Social Issues; Communication Intention and Meaning; United States
Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel. "The New CEO Activists." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 1 (January–February 2018): 78–89. (Winner of the 2019 HBR Warren Bennis Prize as best 2018 HBR article on leadership. Featured in the HBR Ideacast podcast and an HBR Webinar.)
- April 2021
- Case
Coca-Cola: Preparing for the Next 100 Years
By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and James Weber
In early 2020, James Quincey, the 14th chair of the 133-year old The Coca-Cola Company, was in the midst of a years-long transformation of Coca-Cola from being the leading carbonated soft drink (CSD) beverage company into a total beverage company. The company’s... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Diversification; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Environmental Sustainability; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
Montgomery, Cynthia A., and James Weber. "Coca-Cola: Preparing for the Next 100 Years." Harvard Business School Case 721-359, April 2021.
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53646 January–February 2018 Harvard Business Review The New CEO Activists By: Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Though corporations have been lobbying the government and making campaign donations for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Becoming a Board Member - Alumni
Careers Becoming a Board Member Careers Becoming a Board Member Interested in joining a board? Similar to a job search, you’ll need to make connections with the right people to find a board that fits your interests. Start Networking Start... View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
Faculty Research Jahez made its mark in Saudi Arabia’s food delivery market by serving customers willing to pay more for reliable, high-quality service—a segment largely overlooked by other platforms. As the company grew, it expanded into the mass market and developed... View Details
- 2017
- Other Book
Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices
By: Matthew Taylor, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent
I was not the only person appointed to the Review. My fellow Review team members, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent have not only been an important source of ideas and wisdom throughout the process but have led in engaging with key groups of... View Details
Keywords: Future Of Work; Labor Relations; Marketplaces; Employment; Labor and Management Relations; Labor; Markets
Taylor, Matthew, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol, and Paul Broadbent. Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices. London: Great Britain, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, 2017. Electronic.
- 01 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows
nonprofit and public sector organizations and demonstrate a strong commitment to continued career paths in these areas. New recipients are invited to participate in events with current and former recipients as well as local social enterprise leaders in an effort to... View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions
The mirroring hypothesis predicts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g. communication links, geographic collocation, team and firm co-membership) will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under development. Scholars... View Details
Keywords: Infrastructure; Product Design; Organizational Design; Practice; Groups and Teams; Social and Collaborative Networks; Information Technology
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-058, January 2010. (Revised June 2010.)
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Events - Business History
(1950s-1970s)" 12 pm to 1:30 pm Apr 18 18 Apr 2025 Virtual Seminar Julia Yongue (Hosei University), "Siam Then, Thailand Now: Contextualizing the Emergence of Thai Capitalism through Three Phases of Globalization" 10 am to 11:30 am Apr 14... View Details
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Thomaz Galvao
responsible for their social mobility. Through education, I’ve been able to reach a status usually denied to Black people. I want to push the boundaries even further, to continue the path of achieving new highs where people like me are... View Details
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16254 Does Ethnicity Pay Authors:Yasheng Huang, Li Jin, and Yi Qian Abstract One of the most important and one of the most heavily studied ethnic networks in the world is overseas Chinese. However, almost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels
from a stereotypically Black name, and 36 percent from a stereotypically Asian name. “We found discrimination in response rates on the basis of race,” says Feldberg. “But what is particularly striking is that it wasn't just whether people... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
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Faculty & Research - Business History
Business History in Emerging Markets By: Geoffrey Jones This article describes the motivation, structure and use of the Creating Emerging Markets (CEM) oral history-based project at the Harvard Business... View Details
- 02 Apr 2020
- What Do You Think?
What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?
years The greatest COVID-19 failure was clearly the failure to adapt in time to an emerging threat.” Bill Wallace said, “I’m calling the COVID-19 pandemic a White Swan: inevitable through global mobility and the absence of safeguards,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- TeachingInterests
Managing the Future of Work (MBA Education—Elective Curriculum)
The nature and scope of work is changing rapidly, creating massive business challenges in the shadow of broader political and social shifts. HBS launched a major initiative in 2017 on Managing the Future of Work to define these workplace issues and... View Details