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13 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

researchers conducted an experiment in which white participants engaged in a two-person guessing game designed—unbeknownst to them—to measure their tendencies toward attempted racial colorblindness. Each participant was given a stack of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

and Unleashing Capability Featured Exercises Explore the internal drivers of your motivations as a leader through the Personal Values Questionnaire self-assessment Video upload: Deepen your understanding of how others View Details

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Alumnae Circles - Alumni

their Alumni Profile . To provide a positive and cohesive experience for everyone, we are not currently placing new inquiries outside of the enrollment period. Apart from the three default matching factors (region, neighborhood, and... View Details

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Ethan Li

Group where he later became chief of staff to the group president. "I had just a few years of experience at the time," Ethan says. "My boss had almost forty. How would I build trust and add value? I had to evolve into the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Manufacturing/Energy

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership The COVID Two-Step for... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

Early COVID-19 lockdowns sparked a contentious debate that rages on in the workplace: Can businesses thrive if employees continue to work remotely? Skeptical CEOs, such as the leaders of Goldman Sachs and Starbucks, say they need workers... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

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Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar

By: Chet Huber

Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details

Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry

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30 Jun 2022
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Scaling Hope

trained as a parent peer coach for families, is using his years of business experience to build the tools he wished had been available when his family was confronting addiction and is sharing his own View Details

20 Oct 2023
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Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

students a wider range of topics to study. Kierstead also noted that HBS has been experimenting with programming and activities that are both educational and build community. HBS Online and Executive Education Updates Patrick Mullane (MBA... View Details

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

fail to meet their projected targets and 75 percent of new products fail.” McDonald and co-author Christopher Bingham explore eight central tensions in the new book, Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

worldwide, there is now also a concern that the forms in which such claims were delivered, whether in jars or creams, should be relevant to local consumers in each market. Moreover, as global firms experiment with taking new beauty ideals... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

01 Sep 2023
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Turning Point: Listen to the Music

year I had the opportunity to work with five classmates on a project to determine whether Columbia Records should get into the business of soul music. Our report indicated that Columbia could outpace Motown and Atlantic, the leaders in... View Details

Keywords: music; film; purpose; career

14 Aug 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

(Experiment 2), and non-suppression (Experiment 3). However, when firms honor these implicit promises, voting can mitigate the disappointment that arises from receiving an undesired outcome (Experiment 4). Finally, Experiment 5 identifies... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

an HBS alumnus in Vienna, Georg Kasperkovitz (HBS MBA 1999), and decided to highlight Slovakia's experience when we realized that the flat tax was one of the hot topics. Meanwhile, we were witnessing "reform fatigue" within the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

with Retail Work Breaking the Cycle The Good Jobs Strategy Show Hide Details Concepts Talent Linking Productivity and Customer Delight Competing on Flexibility Compensation Policy Featured Exercises Create an employee journey map to find ways to improve the employee... View Details

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undertake an effort to understand the experience of antisemitism at Harvard Business School—investigating more deeply the concern I have heard that noxious elements of antisemitism persist on our campus and in our classrooms. After this... View Details

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Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

more effectively engage the project of advancing structural equality in the workplace and beyond. 2018 Symposium 08–09 MAR 2018 Race, Work & Leadership: Learning about & from Black Experience In keeping with the School’s AASU50... View Details

09 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary

tells the life stories of leaders making a difference in the world. 30 Years and 40 Stories With 900 possible storylines to track, in 1992 Singer and Hackett sought out input from classmates to choose the 40 people they would plan to... View Details

08 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

should systematically work with community groups and local leaders so they feel intense personal and tangible stakes in the proposal. Detailed preliminary discussions with construction trades should make the huge amount of new work... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction

27 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 27

psychological discomfort of dissonance. Similarly, physically cleansing oneself eliminated the relationship between inauthenticity and prosocial compensation. Finally, we demonstrated additional evidence for discriminant validity: these effects were not driven by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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