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- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
supremacists brought these once-hidden issues back to the forefront of social consciousness. Stereotyping contributes directly to unconscious bias, a subject about which Mahzarin Banaji, chair of Harvard’s... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
managers would probably admit to being better at some aspects of their jobs than others, but to be clear, our research is aimed at the organizational level. And in that context, the idea of tradeoffs is nothing new. Peter Drucker and others have said it, and people... View Details
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Willa Zhou
As an undergraduate at Harvard College, Willa Zhou consistently participated in the Social Enterprise Conference across the Charles, at HBS. "I thought, it would be so cool to go to school there!" says Willa. She applied for and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
One Student’s HBS Journey
acceptance letter, her excitement was tempered by the realization that she might not be able to afford to attend. “Imagine my surprise when I discovered that HBS was not only the best school but also offered the best financial aid,” said... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
me, scribbling this information down in her wire-bound notebook. Remarkably, in this Internet age, without the assistance of a hand courier or FedEx, the hospital would be unable to access my dad’s prior scans. After getting to know his doctors, I asked them View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
refuse to accept the trivialization of black life and justification of social controls like the persistent shadow of police brutality and lethality. They seek to challenge a legal system that has failed to... View Details
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
benefits of learning) from that attempt. Finally, external innovation appears to be fast—solutions arrive quite quickly and can often exceed the capacity of the seeker. Q: And potential downsides? A: The main concerns View Details
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Research Resources | Baker Library
attitudes about the expanding role of women in business. Bowman, Garda W., N. Beatrice Worthy, and Stephen Greyser. "Are Women Executives People?" Harvard Business Review , vol. 43, no. 4, July-August, 1965. Full text available. (Harvard... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Climate Change as Must-See TV
concern and to take action. For HBS alumni, we intend to address any doubts or questions about climate change through an online platform and events at HBS clubs. We also plan to organize a meeting of... View Details
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
CEO Corie Barry, who says that making money is the company’s business imperative, not its purpose. Barry explains how the company manages to balance pursuing its mission of enriching people’s lives through technology while also focusing on its View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
open-minded about what I could do," says Fung. "He was a visionary." So William took on the challenge and went to work. Six months later, he presented a plan to professionalize Li & Fung's management by severing ties between the... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Strike Up the Broad(band)
Mercer Management Consulting, shed some light on the allure and promise of broadband technology in an October 1999 article in Scientific American. In "The Light at the End of the Pipe," Bane and Bradley talk about broadband's potential to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
positions in youth soccer, as well as a land trust and a historic preservation commission in her western New Jersey community. "I gather there had been some internal controversy about accepting women, from... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
(NBS) institutional framework (Whitley 1997, 1999), we theorize about and empirically investigate the impact of nation-level institutions on firms' corporate social performance (CSP). Using a sample of firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
of Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna, the Henry B. Arthur Fellow of business ethics at Harvard Business School. In a nutshell, the case goes like this: "Jim" accepts a summer internship as a loan officer from a US-based View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
cofounders have any experience in managing logistics. In addition, any move they might make to in-source fulfillment would likely destabilize the existing 3PL relationship, on which the viability of the fast-growing business depends. Cohen’s board members are View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
India Conference 2015
Indianness before an India was there. In many ways, it was a fitting closing to two days of discussions about India since it spoke about some of the concerns related to the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
20th century at best, if not the first half of the 20th century,” Eykher says. To address the issue of trust, the Open Mineral team verifies the identity of every member and only accepts companies with a good history; they require... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 02 Sep 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Transparent Should Boards Be?
Summing Up The dilemma posed by the HP-inspired vignette of a CEO allegedly failing to adhere to company values divided respondents to the September column. Two schools of thought evolved. One was that the CEO should be fired for cause with only secondary View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
challenge widely accepted generalizations made about entrepreneurship. The selected articles cover the best historical research on the role of entrepreneurship in creating global capitalism; the cultural and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace