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- 16 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
others’ abilities, likely from a very young age,” Coffman says. “Until we can change these stereotypes, it’s essential to think about how we can better inoculate individuals from biases induced by stereotypes, helping people to pursue View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
managers' social initiatives are akin to using a dishwasher to wash clothes. Corporations can contribute best to society if they do what they do best: employ a workforce to provide goods and services to the marketplace and, in so doing, View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
tradition is that there is no American business tradition. If you are talented and driven—if you allow nothing to stand between you and the fulfillment of your destiny—you have a chance to become larger than life. If, that is, you are... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
for innovation to fulfill that promise. Charter schools, in other words, might just need a better business plan. School Ties A loosely knit HBS charter network links alumni nationwide. Greg Thompson (MBA 2005) leads the Tennessee Charter... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
have increased tremendously through the use of information technology," Harad notes. He points out that in the office products distribution business, order fulfillment (30,000 40,000 individual orders per day at peak ordering time),... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
Stream insisted that their projects were aimed at fulfilling goals of the EU's energy policy (reducing the use of fossil fuels to combat climate change and guaranteed physical availability and affordability of imported fossil fuels). But,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
they were stepping stones to a larger goal. Before reaching middle management, he had had a total of twelve different assignments (nearly all lateral moves) in seven different functional areas, including those in facilities management and affirmative action.... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
this way can it begin to fulfill its most important responsibility: ensuring the company chooses the right leader for its future. Bill George is executive fellow at Harvard Business School, where he has taught leadership since 2004.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 06 May 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup
close, I think one of the best pieces of advice I’ve gotten while at HBS is to “play the student card” as much as I can. This meant I spent a lot of free time reaching out to prominent people in climate tech and learning about their paths and what’s brought them joy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
given this increases a project's cost and introduces additional technical risk. It is better for a program manager to coordinate the development and validation of these core infrastructural technologies, making sure that they fulfill the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
as it expands from China into the United States. To meet a very aggressive cost target, management is faced with the alternatives of fulfilling the contract from its new Ohio factory, which can only produce above the target cost because... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
efforts by the city’s government to address them became 14% more trusting and 12% more supportive of government. Moreover, residents who additionally received transparency into the growing backlog of service requests that government was failing to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
achieving financial success. They aspire to build organizations that succeed in the marketplace by earning the respect, trust, and, commitment of their people, customers, communities, and investors. Higher-ambition leaders commit to simultaneously meeting financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
consider the life of a guy who was twenty years old and living in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Such a young man was facing a very different reality. Factory jobs had mostly disappeared and now he was looking at a life stocking shelves in franchise stores for $9 an hour, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
explore career options, and pursue their passions after graduation. What is the significance of the term “MBAid Journey” as it applies to the assistance provided to many HBS students while they are at the School and beyond? Chad Losee: In View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
find that entrepreneurial leadership is key. To attract people to work with you, it is important to demonstrate that you are taking steps to address the crisis. At the same time, they must inspire people to find innovative ways to solve compelling problems that enable... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
investigates the press's role as a monitor or "watchdog" for accounting fraud. I find that the press fulfills this role by rebroadcasting information from other information intermediaries (analysts, auditors, and lawsuits) and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
position. In all this focus on work, however, we sometimes overlook the importance of gender equity at home. My wife Monica and I have managed two full-time fulfilling careers because we have also strived for equity at home. Monica works... View Details