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- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
focuses on a new adaptation of an older sport: auto racing. In December, the partners invested $21 million toward Formula E Holdings, the management team behind an all-electric racecar circuit that will launch its inaugural championship series in September. Ten teams... View Details
- December 2004 (Revised April 2006)
- Case
Managing Diversity at Cityside Financial Services
By: Robin J. Ely and Ingrid Vargas
Cityside Financial Services, a disguised consumer bank, serves both a largely African-American urban community and a more affluent, predominantly white clientele. To match the gender and racial makeup of its staff to that of its customers, Cityside's sales division... View Details
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Situation or Environment; Race; Employees; Gender; Customer Satisfaction; Diversity; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
Ely, Robin J., and Ingrid Vargas. "Managing Diversity at Cityside Financial Services." Harvard Business School Case 405-047, December 2004. (Revised April 2006.)
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
delayed his journey home while he raced through the Ph.D. program in agricultural economics at the University of Minnesota in just two years. His dissertation on the soybean industry reflected the global perspective that became a constant... View Details
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
Kominers worked with Jesse Shapiro, the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Harvard Business School, to study how content moderation works best. The debate over moderating content comes as the US presidential View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- What Do You Think?
Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?
Microsystems, is a futurist who had it right: ‘Privacy? Get over it!” Did Scott McNeely have a point? Has the issue been rendered moot by the very nature of information technology itself and the possibility that developers of security devices are losing the View Details
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
participants raced against the clock to create as many four-letter words as possible from a scramble of letters. For the math task, they were given a set of two-digit numbers and asked to identify as many pairs that equaled 100 as... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
race because they are so efficient and, as a result, generate enormous prosperity. Moreover, real competition is a powerful driver of innovation. It’s not surprising that nearly every developing country is trying hard to get the free... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
professor who takes on unsolved murders and issues of race with equal aplomb. Thomas-Graham admits that progress on her third Ivy League mystery (set at Princeton) has been slow. "My husband and I are parents of a three-year-old son, so... View Details
- September 2020
- Teaching Note
Miami's Tech Future (C): Reaching Another Miami
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
The effects of Miami’s startup scene have not reached many “left-behind” lower-income Black communities, which are disproportionately affected by problems such as segregation and racial discrimination, lack of transportation access, crime, education quality, government... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Change; Transformation; Progress; Community; Scaling; Income Inequality; Racism; Community Impact; Community Relations; Change Management; Business Startups; Information Technology; Diversity; Race; Equality and Inequality; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Miami; Florida
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
On the Outside at HBS
of my race, gender, age, professional background, or some combination thereof. And it probably doesn’t matter: Assumptions about race and gender exist across all contexts, and those stereotypes are likely no worse at HBS than anywhere... View Details
- February 2023
- Teaching Note
Colette Phillips and GetKonnected: Creating Inclusive Ecosystems
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 323-035. View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Ecosystem; Inclusion; People Of Color; Network; Racial Bias; Gender Bias; Entrepreneur; Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Change; Change Barriers; Change Leadership; Community; Innovation; Pandemic; Impact; Systemic Racism; Minority-owned Businesses; Social and Collaborative Networks; Equity; Race; Small Business; Prejudice and Bias; Boston
- 07 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President
shifts are apparent in the race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump, a Republican, has recently been trying to soften his anti-abortion position amid signs he may be losing support from women.... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- Web
Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
Just Digital Future Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier Automating Inequality By: Virginia Eubanks 2018 Algorithms of Oppression By: Safiya Umoja Noble 2018 Race After Technology By: Ruha Benjamin 2019 In our Just Digital Future interview... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Diversifying HBS's Case Collection
last year, faculty members have completed more than 70 cases with Black or African American protagonists or cases focused on matters of race in America, with an additional 50 underway. Faculty members also have completed more than 90... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
with the burden of integrating their new systems. Then, in the early 1990s, the rise of desktop computing saw IBM lose the PC race to a raft of new competitors. By 1992, IBM was feeling the effect of its sluggish reaction to these... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
until the Supreme Court's decision in Batson v. Kentucky (1986). Batson's prohibition against race-based peremptories was based on two assumptions: 1) a prospective juror's race can bias jury selection judgments; 2) requiring attorneys to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
HBS Students and Alumni Fostering a Supportive Community
students to examine and address socioeconomic inclusion at the School. “Throughout my first year, I was pleased to see an increasing focus on race and gender, but it felt like the socioeconomic background piece was missing—an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
city council for funding to meet their community’s needs. Over time, all these experiences have helped quiet the voices in my head and convince me I am “good enough” the way I am. Gregory K. Tanaka is the author and editor of Systemic Collapse and Renewal: How View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
from a cross-section of society. The group issued a plan that became the foundation for Delaware's winning entry for the Race to the Top program. Strategy implementation. Local business executives are lending their expertise to help... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference
of 1997, we are racing ahead,” says Teo. As a leader of HBSA-HK, Teo runs one of the most popular events on the club's calendar: the Distinguished Speakers' Forum (DSF). The DSF hosts prominent leaders who are so sought-after that Teo and... View Details