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  • 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
  • 13 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

marginalized racial and ethnic groups were 54 percent less likely to be promoted than whites, and women were 36 percent less likely to be promoted than men, despite diversity... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 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
  • 28 Jan 2020
  • Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

innovative new products and services, new commercial ventures, or new approaches that create social impact. These are also the kinds of problems rising leaders care about: climate change, race View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 19 Aug 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution

Keywords: by N. Gregory Mankiw & Matthew Weinzierl
  • 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
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

soon becomes self-reinforcing. A spiraling arms race can be created with everyone seeking more and more of a good thing. There seems to never be enough of the good thing—until a crisis breaks up the cycle.... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • September 2020 (Revised September 2021)
  • Case

Student Success at Georgia State University (A)

By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
Georgia State University had developed a reputation for driving student success by nearly doubling its graduation rate for students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. It did so while growing its student body and the proportion of Black/African... View Details
Keywords: Education; Higher Education; Learning; Curriculum and Courses; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Income; Race; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Measurement and Metrics; Operations; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Outcome or Result; Performance; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation; Service Operations; Performance Improvement; Planning; Strategic Planning; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Education Industry; Atlanta
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  • Web

Leadership - Faculty & Research

or only in some markets, depending on regional legal and regulatory differences. Keywords: Climate Change ; Corporate Governance ; Diversity ; Leadership ; Business or Company Management ; Mission and... View Details
  • 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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  • 10 May 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

the partners worried the high turnover was damaging the firm’s competitive edge, according to research by Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who studies race View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 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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  • 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
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective

By: Sanaz Mobasseri, William Kahn and Robin Ely
This paper uses systems psychodynamic concepts to develop a theory about the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. companies, treating White men as the dominant group and Black people as an illustrative subordinate group. We theorize that this persistence is rooted... View Details
Keywords: Systems Psychodynamics; Organizational Inequality; Masculinity; Equality and Inequality; Race; Gender; Identity; Power and Influence
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 28 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)

headquarters maximize an organization's overall revenues by efficiently (and effectively) monitoring the desires of consumers representing a wide range of ethnicities and income levels, large families View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 06 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

Builders are few and far between, but there is an even rarer type of leader who transcends the Builder: the Transcendent. Level-six leaders transcend their political party, their ethnic or racial group,... View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
  • Web

Building From the Bottom Up - Managing the Future of Work

of continuous experience shows that there are many barriers and too few contributors to advancement. Workers want stability and growth, but instead stagnate in poverty-trap positions. The survey... View Details