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- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
promoting these individuals when looking to fill executive jobs. Managing diversity is also one of the core competencies used to assess managers' performance, and it's included in the mandatory training and orientation of new managers... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
professionals. New roles and responsibilities must be clearly defined in advance, and teamwork models that include factors common in successful redesigns such as leadership, shared objectives, and training should be promoted. The focus... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
& Sciences and the Harvard Medical School. It initiated new faculty research initiatives on issues like US Competitiveness and the Future of Work. It marked the 50th year anniversaries of women being admitted to the MBA program and the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
UK-based program wasn’t keen to send its auditors to a war zone. Mercy Corps staff, positioned there since 1986, bridged the gap by providing pages of documentation attesting to the farmers’ ability to meet the Fairtrade requirements.... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
employee, and as a result leaders hire for attitude and train for skills; (5) effective operating strategies have to create value for employees, customers and investors, so leaders ensure the achievement of the leverage and edge that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
diverse hospitals across the United States. A trained interviewer scored the managers' interview responses based on management practices that ranged from most reactive (lowest scores) to most proactive (highest scores). We established... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Nair, who received his medical training in India and a master's degree from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Gita's case demonstrates not only the importance of getting good primary care but also that patients are willing to... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
outreach; a program of employee training that helps first-rung employees move from part-time work in high school to senior management. That’s what Taco Bell does. But any manager can identify a way of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
countries generally lack a solid technology base of trained scientists and world-class research universities. 2. Companies in developing countries must manage to eke out a profit while serving customers with low disposable income; per... View Details
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
that clearly there’s still a lot to be done in social enterprise. Despite what’s happening in our current political or economic environment, there are still ways to make impact.” Prior to the panel discussion, Cole and SEI Director Amelia Angella (MBA 2001), along with... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
the boardroom environment is more challenging than ever, the learning needs of directors have grown. There currently exists a hodgepodge of optional director training programs at universities, associations,... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
evidence on whether and how these programs affect the real economy. Using rich borrower-linked mortgage-market data, we document that there is a “flypaper effect” of LSAPs, where the transmission of unconventional monetary policy to... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
a direct test proves otherwise. Women appear to positively select into negotiations and to know when to ask. By contrast, we find no significant evidence of such a positive selection for men. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50917... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
how business school used to take you straight out of college. Now, with programs like Two Plus Two, and the national trend that shows students are better prepared when they’ve had experience working in the world, in order to form the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
of Children's Television Workshop in New York, which produces educational TV programs for children such as Sesame Street, is finding that using business strategy has been critical to the success of his nonprofit organization. "In an... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
is considering launching a COVID relief van program to help carry oxygen and basic medicines to those in need. MAY 20 Students Fight COVID was started by 250+ MBA/MS 2023 admits from across the world, including HBS, with the aim to fight... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
Editor's note: Building and landscape design can do much more for an organization than provide an inspirational headquarters or appealing work spaces. At Harvard Business School, the leafy, orderly, community setting helps reinforce a set of beliefs and values that... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
specialty training programs well over a year in advance. Athletes are often recruited into coaching contracts while still very young. This can interfere with making good matches, if the qualities that will... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
American Management Systems on accounts with corporations, big NGOs, and several government agencies, including the Department of Defense. In 1999, AMS nominated him to attend HBS’s General Management Program. “It was a great honor,” Crespin says of his View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
several mechanisms: by conferring employer recognition, by enhancing social visibility, and by facilitating social comparison. In a nationwide health worker training program in Zambia, we design a field... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne