Diversity Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 May 2020
Blog Post

5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

finding unique positions. Clubs also provide interview support; Management Consulting Club (MCC) offers members case preparation support so students can land a role at their dream firms. Ryan Flamerich (MBA 2021): One of my MBA goals was... View Details

18 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

convinced him that he needed more management skills. By his own recollection, he was virtually "clueless" about the very special place to which he was heading. His application to the MBA Program caught the attention of... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women, published in the journal Management Science. The study was co-authored by Coffman and Nancy R. Baldiga, an economics and accounting professor at the College of the Holy Cross,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

goals of balancing budgetary stability with the preservation of the endowment’s purchasing power. Each year the Harvard Corporation approves the final distribution amount. Funds within the HBS endowment, along with those of the other Harvard schools, are View Details

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

of the company from Harvard Business School professors Marco Iansiti and Alan MacCormack. Their take: Microsoft wins through effective management of its intellectual property and an ability to spot and react to important trends before... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity

that change, including cultural change, is beginning to take hold. Faculty and doctoral students A diverse faculty is critical to scholarship, teaching, and connections with practice. Diversity enhances... View Details

29 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

macro shocks occurred. I discovered a pathway to economic development in management consulting after learning about the huge impact that strategy advisory firms in Africa had helped create. I transitioned to McKinsey after successful... View Details

23 Oct 2019
Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

navigating conflict and disagreement, listening, and conducting group conversations—across diverse contexts such as work meetings, giving and receiving feedback, dating and relationship health, hiring and firing. I co-taught the earliest... View Details

11 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

To improve any business, managers need to understand how much it costs to produce a profitable product. It seems a simple task, but the process of securing and analyzing the data can be incredibly complex and organizationally taxing. In... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

seashells washing up on the shore—all of which would also require time and attention, be they challenges or opportunities. You can’t ignore them; but you also can’t let them consume you, because you still have to manage the rest of the... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Multimedia/Video Case 421-704). Lakshmi Ramarajan : Junior Faculty Runner-up for the 2020 Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring. Lumumba B. Seegars : Awarded Best Paper Based on a Dissertation by the Gender and Diversity in... View Details

04 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 4

not be taken into account or even noticed-as a strategy for managing diversity and intergroup relations. Despite research demonstrating that race is perceived automatically (and thus, the seeming... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

September 2016
Case

Hewlett Packard Enterprise: The Dandelion Program

By: Gary P. Pisano and Robert D. Austin

This case describes Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s “Dandelion Program," which has developed a new service offering for the company’s clients by drawing on the special talents of people with autism. The company has deployed “pods” organized around 8 or 9 employees with... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Talent and Talent Management; Service Operations; Training; Diversity; Innovation and Invention; Technology Industry

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21 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

Operations Management Unit. “We are now able to work on all these rich new sources of visual data.” In a forthcoming paper in the Strategic Management Journal, Machine Learning Approaches to Facial and Text... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Jun 2015
News

Yat-Pang (MBA 2000) and Helina Au

information networking. “I was a linear thinker,” he says. “After being exposed to the case method and a diverse group of peers, I began to think more broadly and understand the importance of relationships in business.” A native of the... View Details

12 Apr 2022
Blog Post

The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery

Diversity Innovation Hub, a Mount Sinai venture addressing social and structural determinants of health in NYC. Recently, Ted was named an HBS Kaplan Fellow and RISE Fellow. While on my pediatrics rotation at a hospital in New York City,... View Details

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Brandon Lovell

youth in corporate internships. In 2009, Brandon earned a position at a New York investment bank; after six months of training, he obtained his formal internship where he "learned about investment banking and management consulting: I... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Financial Services

24 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

Working PapersManaging Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply Chain Planning Authors:Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson Abstract To date, little research has been done on managing the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Online Learning Model | HBS Online

Harvard Business School’s signature case method. Business leaders will share challenges they’ve faced. As the story unfolds, you’ll leverage course concepts, vital tools and frameworks, and the diversity of your peers’ perspectives to... View Details

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