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- 17 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
“Lei”—and they also “Americanized” their interests by adding outdoorsy activities like hiking, snowboarding, and kayaking that are common in white western culture. One Asian applicant said she put her “very Chinese-sounding” name on her... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
decision-making is successful. Using plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to state-mandated personal finance and mathematics high school courses, affecting millions of students, this paper answers the question "Can good... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions
rankings for these environmental factors with the racial makeup of various firms. When he did, Zhang found that Asian employees scored highest on work environment, followed by White and Hispanic employees, who ranked about the same,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Hydration Curio Digital Therapeutics Inc. Custom Truck One Source Cyprium Partners D D. E. Shaw Group, The Danone Databricks Datadog David Protein DaVita DC Advisory De Soi Decarbonization Partners DECKED Deloitte Delta Air Lines Diageo Diamond Hill Dick's Sporting... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53857 First Quarter 2018 Dialogue Beyond Engagement By: Hallowell, Roger, Hervé Coyco, and Randall White Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
to deliver high-quality goods or services in a cost-effective manner. This concept has become increasingly relevant to cardiac catheterization laboratories, as insurers move away from fee-for-service reimbursement and toward payment... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3
over a specified time period. The bundled payment should be contingent on achieving good outcomes for the patient, with the provider bearing financial responsibility for poor outcomes, such as avoidable complications. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America
was the American Dream in its earliest form, and for the people living the dream, it had an aura of double-edged incredulity. There was disbelief not only at their own good fortune, but also at the backbreaking work required to capitalize... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 26 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates
When companies try to hire employees from specific ethnic or racial backgrounds to meet their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, an uncomfortable feeling often creeps into the process. Particularly among well-intentioned white... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
are so biased it’s hard to trust the results. Further, entrepreneurs may have a good hunch there’s a job to be done that needs improving or replacing, but they can’t describe where in the customer journey they can truly make an impact.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 02 May 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?
assist, and score against an opponent with the help of AI and relentless 24-hour practice. Or when machines compose better memos, white papers, and poems than you could have written—by means of generative AI that recognizes patterns in... View Details
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Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
and Robert S. Kaplan “The fundamental goal of economic policy is to enhance competitiveness, which is reflected in the productivity with which a nation or region utilizes its people, capital, and natural endowments to produce valuable View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Unilever—A Case Study
The issue of control is examined, as is the related question of the "stickiness" of knowledge within large international firms. The discussion draws on a case study of the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods manufacturer Unilever, which... View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
are only three black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and not one of them is a woman. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/nLYZsznG22TM52YETsw8][/div] What doesn’t help, the authors say, are recent incidents in the news, including the 2017 View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers
overhaul of how policymakers, educators, and employers devise, construct, and manage career pathways, which are the routes aspiring workers take as they graduate from education and training to gainful employment. A white paper from the... View Details
- 04 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees
named interim White House chief of staff, replacing the extraverted Rahm Emanuel. Barely known outside of Washington circles, Rouse is a quiet politician who seems to eschew the public eye, preferring instead to hunker down and deal with... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
that can make a doctor-backed product like Systole a reassuring option, says Lee: “The patients I see are worried that the commercial options are too intense to be safe, or that they’ll be out of place if they aren’t a 20-something wearing Lululemon. There’s a big... View Details
- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?
infrastructure staff, as well as advertisers, were not. Musk’s stated desire to make Twitter a haven for any speech “within the bounds of the law” has led to a sharp uptick in posts advocating white nationalism, anti-Semitism, homophobia,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
high-rise surface. On a Sunday afternoon in late November, Kim, 60, climbs the pathways crisscrossing Namsan, the 269-acre park rising high above Seoul. Soft yellow ginkgo leaves carpet the ground. A man, decked out in a white tracksuit... View Details