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  • 13 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

significantly improve the performance and satisfaction of workers and boost the chances of hiring them permanently, according to the results of the study by Harvard Business School professors Iavor I.... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • Web

Team - Entrepreneurship

yearlong program supports 20-25 Rock Summer Fellow teams with up to $1,500 in seed capital, matched mentors, and facilitated workshops as they race to Demo Day where teams pitch their ventures to investors,... View Details
  • Web

Pathways to Inclusive Entrepreneurship - Race, Gender & Equity

Harvard Business School alumni. Drawing on the most recent Life & Leadership data , this report examines some of the roles race and gender play in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Initiatives focus on societal... View Details
  • January 2024
  • Case

Vibrant Health

By: Henry McGee and Sarah Mehta
This case is about nutritional supplements company Vibrant Health, among the 100 largest Black-owned businesses in the U.S. After acquiring the company from its white founder in 2007, co-owners Ted and Paige Parker significantly grew its sales. Set in September 2023,... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Race; Entrepreneurship; Nutrition; Ownership; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Leadership; Sales; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Eastern United States
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  • Web

Hiring International Students

Participation in on-campus recruiting events ( HBS campus presentations and/or interviews ) Posting with trade or professional organizations Having an established employee referral program with incentives Posting job announcements with campus career offices (HBS... View Details
  • 08 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

education, or economic development, finds Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Anke Becker in a recent working paper called “On the Economic Origins of Restricting Women’s Promiscuity.” Her research investigates the origin of customs View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • October 2002 (Revised March 2013)
  • Case

Intermountain Health Care

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson and Laura Feldman
Intermountain Health Care (IHC), an integrated delivery system based in Utah, has adopted a new strategy for managing health care delivery. The approach focuses management attention not only on the facilities where care takes place but also on physician decision making... View Details
Keywords: Ethnicity; Innovation Strategy; Cost Management; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Technology Adoption; Performance Improvement; Problems and Challenges; Adoption; Change Management; Cost vs Benefits; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Utah
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  • September 2021 (Revised November 2021)
  • Case

Kwame Owusu-Kesse at the Harlem Children's Zone

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz
Do you—as leader, an individual within an organization, or running your own business—know when to say yes and when to say no? How do you make decisions about your own career and life? How do you counsel others who ask you for career and life insights?... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decisions; Nonprofit Organizations; Personal Development and Career; Growth and Development Strategy; Race; Social Issues; New York (city, NY)
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  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

  Publications 2006 pub Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives By: Bandiera, Oriana, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Digital Discrimination: The Case of Airbnb.com

By: Benjamin Edelman and Michael Luca
Online marketplaces often contain information not only about products, but also about the people selling the products. In an effort to facilitate trust, many platforms encourage sellers to provide personal profiles and even to post pictures of themselves. However,... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Internet and the Web; Race; Trust; Renting or Rental; Accommodations Industry; Real Estate Industry
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  • Web

Life at Harvard - Doctoral

Living in Boston Boston offers opportunities to collaborate with leading scholars across all fields and disciplines. Start your journey in Harvard Square, one of the world's great crossroads, and make your... View Details
  • 31 May 2023
  • HBS Case

Why Business Leaders Need to Hear Larry Miller's Story

for business leaders to rethink their hiring practices and start giving the formerly incarcerated more opportunities to prove themselves, say Hise Gibson and coauthors of a Harvard Business School case study... View Details
Keywords: by Jamal Meneide; Entertainment & Recreation; Consumer Products
  • Web

Leadership - Faculty & Research

United States Supreme Court outlawing the use of race as a factor in college admissions, it became clear that efforts aimed at greater diversity and inclusion in business were under intense attack. Business... View Details
  • September–October 2021
  • Article

Frontiers: Can an AI Algorithm Mitigate Racial Economic Inequality? An Analysis in the Context of Airbnb

By: Shunyuan Zhang, Nitin Mehta, Param Singh and Kannan Srinivasan
We study the effect of Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm on the racial disparity in the daily revenue earned by Airbnb hosts. Our empirical strategy exploits Airbnb’s introduction of the algorithm and its voluntary adoption by hosts as a quasi-natural experiment. Among... View Details
Keywords: Smart Pricing; Pricing Algorithm; Machine Bias; Discrimination; Racial Disparity; Social Inequality; Airbnb Revenue; Revenue; Race; Equality and Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Price; Mathematical Methods; Accommodations Industry
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  • 30 May 2024
  • News

How to Have Effective Conversations

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of the bestselling books The Power of... View Details
  • Web

Projects - Race, Gender & Equity

Legal Profession at Harvard Law School brings leading law firms together with scholars to develop and test interventions to address race and gender inequality in the legal... View Details
  • Web

Health Care - Faculty & Research

leveraging relationships, team building, and scaling a mission-driven business. Keywords: Customers ; Diversity ; Ethnicity ; Race ; Health ; Recruitment ; Leadership Style ;... View Details
  • 10 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces

struggle was connected to an uncomfortable awareness of race and class differences. “It emerged that race and class mattered, but tutors felt... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 11 Jul 2016
  • HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

There’s a new frontier in diversity programs focused not on race or gender but on cognitive ability. The growing interest in neurodiversity—hiring people with cognitive disabilities like Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)—is motivated by... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology