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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

01 Feb 2018
Cold Call Podcast

Black Business Leaders Series: Oprah’s Path to Authentic Leadership

Keywords: Entertainment & Recreation

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Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

sustained focus on race. By centering discussions on the Black experience, “Race, Work and Leadership” aimed to advance the conversation about race in organizations and... View Details

February 2009
Article

Just Because I'm Nice, Don't Assume I'm Dumb

By: Amy Cuddy

We often judge colleagues on the basis of their perceived warmth and competence, finding clues to these qualities in stereotypes rooted in race, gender, or nationality. Many of our decisions about fellow workers are thus premised on faulty data—harming judged and... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Perception; Nationality; Race; Judgments; Competency and Skills; Gender

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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

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
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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

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Barbara Larson. Our Work-From-Anywhere Future , Harvard Business Review, 2020. Is It Time to Let Employees Work From Anywhere? , Harvard Business Review, 2019. With Barbara Z. Larson and Cirrus Foroughi. The View Details

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Mark McNeill

wrestler in Japan, to a swimming race in a 25-meter pool. I started off with quite a lead, but before I knew it, I could feel the waves generated by his massive strokes and we were neck View Details

12 Oct 2022
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When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

consequence of the “scapegoating” that can happen whenever a crisis gets blamed on a particular group. The most troubling aspect of the phenomenon, Luca says, is that the discrimination could have to some extent been avoided if the platform didn’t prominently showcase... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Technology; Travel

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The Gift of Global Talent

Research Research The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society By: William R. Kerr By: William R. Kerr The global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing... View Details

19 Apr 2010
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The History of Beauty

and diversity, representing a new pride and interest in ethnic and local beauty ideals. The tremendous growth of skin lighteners in India View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

democracy being a substitute for economic IGOs, but a complement for social and cultural IGOs. July 2013 Article Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity By: C.... View Details

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Resources - Advancing Racial Equity

to deeper learning and authentic self-reflection. In this spirit we are sharing a selection of resources and reading recommendations to expand your learning on both the Black American experience View Details

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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

02 Apr 2001
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Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

acquired 62 companies, as it races to dominate the Internet server and communication equipment fields. From the target company's point of view, an acquisition is often desirable, since it takes a massive... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

06 Sep 2004
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The Innovator’s Battle Plan

When companies have the same capabilities and motivation, they care about the battle and have the necessary skills to fight it. Skills in execution make the difference here—and because other scholars have... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

04 Oct 2018
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Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

began gathering demographic information on individual VCs to better understand if their gender or race influenced a firm’s performance. “It was a real guerilla research effort,” he says. Starting with commercial data on 14,000 VC... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services

01 Mar 2024
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Case Study: Testing the Waters

Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

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Rachel H Chung

stretch my ambitions. Being part of the HBS community is like Playing on a giant sports team, where your teammates are also your cheerleaders and coaches. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A View Details

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