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26 Sep 2023
Research & Ideas

Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates

Monster.com or Indeed, and others designed specifically to recruit high-quality candidates from racial minority groups. Jackson observed that ShopCo leaders reacted with distaste to recruitment platforms in the second category that took a... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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MBA Experience | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

designed to accelerate the impact of social entrepreneurs moving their organizations from start-up to growth phase, with a focus on organizations serving communities of color from... Fighting Poverty in New York City: SE Summer Fellow... View Details

11 Feb 2015
HBS Seminar

EVENT POSTPONED - Ohad Barzilay, Tel Aviv University

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Europe - Global

investor relations, consumer marketing, to policy-making issues and the impact of new technologies on business. Privacy Statement (English) Privacy Statement (French) Location Europe Research Center Paris, France News & Highlights May 2025 Climate Rising Podcast View Details

08 Aug 2022
HBS Case

Building an 'ARMY' of Fans: Marketing Lessons from K-Pop Sensation BTS

since. Some analysts predicted that the band would do more to grow South Korea’s gross domestic product over 10 years than the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Underdogs with a strategy The band’s explosion was the result of a carefully View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta; Media & Broadcasting; Music

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Research Services - Faculty & Research

benchmarking are available for emerging technology and the latest productivity hardware. Cultural expertise Our regional research centers in Latin America , Asia-Pacific , Japan , India , Europe , Shanghai , Istanbul, and California enable faculty to View Details

09 Dec 2002
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Unilever—A Case Study

perhaps not to a sufficient degree. Convinced that Lever's management was too old and inbred, he dismissed about 15 percent of the work force soon after taking office, and he completed the transformation by moving the head office from... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail

October 2001 (Revised January 2002)
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Philipp Justus at eBay Germany (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Maria Farkas

A week after becoming country manager of eBay's recently acquired German auction site, Philipp Justus must steer the company through a massive technical integration with eBay's Web site. Throughout the seven-month project, Justus and his team must master the challenge... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Leadership; Internet and the Web; Globalized Firms and Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Managerial Roles; Management Teams; Management Practices and Processes; Auctions; Retail Industry; Information Technology Industry; Germany

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17 Aug 2021
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Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)

are working around the world to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. What are you working on this summer? I am working at... View Details

27 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

including Rivkin, who had spent their academic careers studying organizational design and organizational identity. A comprehensive study of the FBI’s transformation resulted in the paper "Does 'What We Do' Make Us 'Who We Are'?... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

is the defining issue of our times, and it is one that can only be addressed with the active participation of the private sector. However, persuading well-established organizations to act in new ways is never easy. This book is designed... View Details

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

help shape it. Q: What are you working on next? A: I'm making a matching market for live donor kidneys for transplant, a kidney exchange. This is a market that gives market designers an opportunity to help... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

22 May 2024
HBS Case

Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore

car is the design and the lines of it,” Ghosh says. “As opposed to ‘I'm a car buff who likes to look at racing.’ And you might like the Ferrari, but you also might like it because you have a sensibility for Italy, or brands that are... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology

03 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 3

diaries, the authors found that nothing contributed more to a positive inner work life (the mix of emotions, motivations, and perceptions that is critical to performance) than making progress in meaningful work. If a person is motivated... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Feb 2016
First Look

February 2, 2016

quality of accounting information. Overall, a tractable accounting-based valuation model provides a unifying framework for obtaining reliable proxies of expected returns worldwide. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jan 2024
Book

More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World

soon, the way NFTs work is similar to the way that the text on a deed to a house turns a dime-a-dozen sheet of paper into a record of ownership for a potentially quite valuable asset—which of course makes the deed itself valuable, too.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology; Financial Services

21 Jan 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Learning from Customers in Outsourcing: Individual and Organizational Effects

Keywords: by Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman & Bradley R. Staats

01 Sep 2023
News

Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

FamilySearch, is the repository for more than 5 billion pages of freely available digitized genealogical records from some 100 countries—the cornerstone of nearly all American and European family research. Though it was originally View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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available to attend enrichment activities and events during non-research work hours. May I live off-campus? No. All participants will live together in the designated Harvard College House. Instead of the... View Details

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Re-Producing Exclusivity: A History of the Transatlantic Fashion Industry, 1929-1960

The history of fashion has been increasingly explored over the last decade, but two important and intertwined features of the topic are still underdeveloped: business and its international aspect. These dimensions are crucial. Fashion is first and foremost an industry... View Details

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