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  • January 2022
  • Article

Who Creates New Firms When Local Opportunities Arise?

By: Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, Davide Malacrino and Timothy McQuade
We examine the characteristics of the individuals who become entrepreneurs when local opportunities arise. We identify local demand shocks by linking fluctuations in global commodity prices to municipality level agricultural endowments in Brazil. We find that the firm... View Details
Keywords: Firms; Entrepreneurs; Demand Shocks; Entrepreneurship; Personal Characteristics; Demographics; Opportunities; Brazil
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Bernstein, Shai Benjamin, Emanuele Colonnelli, Davide Malacrino, and Timothy McQuade. "Who Creates New Firms When Local Opportunities Arise?" Journal of Financial Economics 143, no. 1 (January 2022): 107–130.
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Automation and the Plight of Young Workers: Evidence from the Automation of Telephone Operation in the Early 20th Century

By: Daniel P. Gross and James J. Feigenbaum
Telephone operation was one of the most common jobs for young American women in the early 1900s. Between 1920 and 1940, AT&T adopted dial service in over half of U.S. telephone exchanges, automating away a legion of operators. We show that upon a city's adoption of... View Details
Keywords: Employment; Labor; Gender; Technology Adoption; History; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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Gross, Daniel P., and James J. Feigenbaum. "Automation and the Plight of Young Workers: Evidence from the Automation of Telephone Operation in the Early 20th Century." Working Paper, February 2020.
  • 2014
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In Search of the Self at Work: Young Adults' Experiences of a Dual Identity Organization

By: Michel Anteby and Amy Wrzesniewski
Purpose: Multiple forces that shape the identities of adolescents and young adults also influence their subsequent career choices. Early work experiences are key among these forces. Recognizing this, youth service programs have emerged worldwide with the hope of... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Identity; Socialization; Youth; Youth Service Programs; Identity; Mission and Purpose; Age; Personal Development and Career; Service Industry; Europe
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Anteby, Michel, and Amy Wrzesniewski. "In Search of the Self at Work: Young Adults' Experiences of a Dual Identity Organization." Research in the Sociology of Work 25 (2014): 13–50.
  • January 2013
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Not Just for Stereotyping Anymore: Racial Essentialism Reduces Domain-General Creativity

By: Carmit Tadmor, Melody Chao, Ying-yi Hong and Jeff Polzer
Individuals who believe that racial groups have fixed underlying essences use stereotypes more than do individuals who believe that racial categories are arbitrary and malleable social-political constructions. Would this essentialist mind-set also lead to less... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Creativity; Race
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Tadmor, Carmit, Melody Chao, Ying-yi Hong, and Jeff Polzer. "Not Just for Stereotyping Anymore: Racial Essentialism Reduces Domain-General Creativity." Psychological Science 24, no. 1 (January 2013).
  • August 2006 (Revised June 2015)
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Female Entrepreneurship in Developed and Developing Countries

By: Geoffrey Jones and Alexis Lefort
Examines the extent of and challenges facing female entrepreneurs in developing countries. There are higher rates of female entrepreneurship in developing countries than developed countries, but necessity is often the main driver in lower income countries. Explores the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Gender; Developing Countries and Economies
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Jones, Geoffrey, and Alexis Lefort. "Female Entrepreneurship in Developed and Developing Countries." Harvard Business School Background Note 807-018, August 2006. (Revised June 2015.)
  • October 2000 (Revised August 2001)
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Avon Products (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Greg Rogers
Presents the results of the decision taken in the (A) case. Describes the subsequent challenges faced by Avon Products in promulgating its globalization worldwide. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Gender; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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Paine, Lynn S., and Greg Rogers. "Avon Products (B)." Harvard Business School Case 301-060, October 2000. (Revised August 2001.)
  • 1985
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Gender Roles in Development Projects: A Case Book

By: Catherine Overholt, Mary B. Anderson, Kathleen Cloud and James E. Austin
Keywords: Gender; Growth and Development; Projects; Books
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  • 1985
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Gender Roles in Development Projects: A Case Book

By: C. Overholt, Mary B. Anderson, Kathleen Cloud and James E. Austin
Keywords: Gender; Growth and Development; Projects; Books
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Overholt, C., Mary B. Anderson, Kathleen Cloud and James E. Austin, eds. Gender Roles in Development Projects: A Case Book. West Hartford, CT.
  • 01 Mar 2023
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3-Minute Briefing: Qiao Ma (MBA 2010)

My dad was an engineering professor, but his true passion was the stock market. When I was six or seven years old, he brought me to a local brokerage office in Guangzhou. It was the early 1990s and the room was packed with men, all smoking. People cheered when the live... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; stock market; investment; finance; Australia; China; Asia; strategy; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 14 Feb 2022
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How to Make Venture Capital Accessible for Black Founders: An Entrepreneur’s Dilemma

  • 13 Aug 2020
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Why Do Boards Have So Few Black Directors?

  • 04 Sep 2019
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Action Plan: A New ’Cue

Kevin Corsello (far right) with partners Jeff Mauro (left) and Bo Jackson (center) (photo courtesy of Pork & Mindy’s) Kevin Corsello (OPM 45, 2014) was just looking for a hobby when he started Pork & Mindy’s—a competition barbecue team—in 2005. During the workweek,... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 19 Jun 2018
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Ellen Pao: The Perverse Incentives that Help Incels Thrive in Tech

  • 06 Apr 2016
  • News

Rich People Now Have a Safe Way to Dump Their Jewelry

Keywords: Gilt Groupe; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

W50 in The Windy City

Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community Robin Ely (second from left), with Devi Vallabhaneni (MBA 1997), Molly Baskin (MBA 1977), and Bruce Mumford Jr. (MBA 1980), discussed the W50 and how the School is setting an agenda for accelerating the advancement of... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • February 2024 (Revised May 2024)
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Johnson Security Bureau: Building Multigenerational Success

By: Henry McGee, Annelena Lobb and David Muoser
Jessica Johnson-Cope, CEO of Johnson Security Bureau (JSB), pondered options for scaling the firm. JSB was the oldest Black-owned security firm in New York, and among the oldest Black-owned security firms in the United States. It provided mostly unarmed security guards... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Gender; Race; Cybersecurity; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; New York (state, US)
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McGee, Henry, Annelena Lobb, and David Muoser. "Johnson Security Bureau: Building Multigenerational Success." Harvard Business School Case 824-040, February 2024. (Revised May 2024.)
  • September 2020 (Revised July 2022)
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Spreadsheet Supplement to "Artea: Designing Targeting Strategies"

By: Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
Spreadsheet Supplement to "Artea: Designing Targeting Strategies" (521-021). View Details
Keywords: Race; Gender; Marketing; Diversity; Customer Relationship Management; Retail Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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Ascarza, Eva, and Ayelet Israeli. Spreadsheet Supplement to "Artea: Designing Targeting Strategies". Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 521-703, September 2020. (Revised July 2022.)
  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

development of a case series on Great Business Leadership, and is the basis of another book being shepherded by Professor Nitin Nohria, Research Associate Laura Singleton, and me. This book looks specifically at the demographic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • May, 2019
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Who Would You Like to Work With?: Use of Individual Characteristics and Social Networks in Team Formation Systems

By: Diego Gomez-Zara, Matthew Paras, Marlon Twyman, Jacqueline N. Lane, Leslie A. DeChurch and Noshir Contractor
People and organizations are increasingly using online platforms to assemble teams. In response, HCI researchers have theorized frameworks and created systems to support team assembly. However, little is known about how users search for and choose teammates on these... View Details
Keywords: Team Formation; Groups and Teams; Recruitment; Networks; Diversity
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Gomez-Zara, Diego, Matthew Paras, Marlon Twyman, Jacqueline N. Lane, Leslie A. DeChurch, and Noshir Contractor. "Who Would You Like to Work With? Use of Individual Characteristics and Social Networks in Team Formation Systems." Art. 659. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (May, 2019).
  • February 2021 (Revised October 2021)
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Collab Capital

By: Natalia Rigol, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Mitchell Weiss
Founded in 2020 by Jewel Burks Solomon and her partners, Barry Givens and Justin Dawkins, Collab Capital was a new investment firm built on two pillars: first, it would identify and support ventures founded by Black entrepreneurs, a group underrepresented in... View Details
Keywords: Black Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Race; Business Startups; Financial Services Industry; Atlanta
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Rigol, Natalia, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and Mitchell Weiss. "Collab Capital." Harvard Business School Case 821-067, February 2021. (Revised October 2021.)
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