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30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

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What Black Executives Really Want

EXECUTIVES FEEL SEEN? If I am a Black executive, I want to know that others see me as a person, as a valued contributor, and as someone who is progressing over time. I want to look around and see people with intersecting identities close... View Details

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

information that instructs people about the crisis, how to protect themselves during it, and the progress being made to fight against it. For example, Unilever’s Dove brand released a video on social media that illustrated proper... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Accidental Innovator

describe processes of discovery and invention, of the progress of science, is nothing less than fraud. Actually, though, I would not really label this "accidental innovation." The innovation itself can't really be said to be... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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Harvard Business School

later, HBR asked Jones to assess the progress of Black managers at corporations in the United States. In 1986, he wrote the HBR article, “Black Managers, The Dream Deferred.” From New York Telephone he moved to AT&T, where he oversaw... View Details

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Privacy Policy & Legal Info | HBS Online

your progress and participation in a Service if your participation in the Service is sponsored by your employer, and if you have so consented or we are otherwise permitted to do so. To enable HBS Online, either directly or through third... View Details

08 Mar 2021
Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

harassment – why should I be ‘independently’ appraised by the person who harassed me? Discrimination and gender inequity is damaging to everyone, not just women. I choose to challenge. Over the course of my life, I commit to progressing... View Details

13 Apr 2021
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How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

also attempting to raise awareness about gender inequality for early- and mid-career professionals as well as women at the senior executive level. Although significant progress has been made over the past 50 years, women still hold only a... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

is the way in which they create value. They create value more cheaply, such as Wal-Mart, or provide better service such as The Four Seasons hotels. Still other successful companies choose to appeal to a different set of customers or set of purchase situations than... View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

model could have implications well beyond the corner of West Baltimore and South Calhoun. “What Nadine is doing is essential for the future of Baltimore—and for the future of all of our cities,” Abdelal says. The stop-work order that has temporarily halted View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

easy to see yourself making progress in baking, and it feels so good to see everyone loving my food! I remember Getting my HBS offer and telling Mia that we were going to come to HBS together was a big moment in my life. That made me feel... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

company motto, it fueled the belief that we can either make progress or take care of people, one or the other. Throughout this dynamic, interactive lecture, Frei makes the case that the best change leaders solve hard problems with fierce... View Details

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Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices

By: Matthew Taylor, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent

I was not the only person appointed to the Review. My fellow Review team members, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent have not only been an important source of ideas and wisdom throughout the process but have led in engaging with key groups of... View Details

Keywords: Future Of Work; Labor Relations; Marketplaces; Employment; Labor and Management Relations; Labor; Markets

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Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920

Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details

Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America

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The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

profit by investing the pre-paid premiums. So they lose money on insurance but make up for it by investing premiums." By contrast, she said, Progressive Casualty Insurance Company makes money on insurance and spends more on service... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book

where this trust has been badly damaged. We've reached a place that feels like a vicious cycle, where nothing progressive is going to happen. Somehow, we have to turn this cycle in the other direction, and restore business to a place... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria; Accounting

19 Apr 2016
News

LuminOva Makes Great Strides Tackling Infertility

Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) LuminOva, a biotech startup in Boston that won the 2015 Bertarelli Prize, is making progress on its quest to develop a new technology that could increase in vitro fertilization... View Details

Keywords: Blavatnik; Scientific Research and Development Services

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Why You Might Want to Say Goodbye to the Annual Performance Review | Working Knowledge

years, as competitors regularly woo employees with higher salaries and better roles, the researchers say. “When people feel stuck in an organization and don’t know how to get to where they want to go, that’s a recipe for losing people,” Coffman says. In the cases... View Details

06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job

9 Steps for Making Progress in Your Career, coauthors Michael Horn, Ethan Bernstein, and Bob Moesta—all former students, collaborators, or colleagues of Christensen’s—apply this theory to our careers: How should people hire their next... View Details

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