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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon, Mike Gray tells the story of the people who built the Apollo mission. It’s very crisp, with tons of interesting details, and never boring. —Humberto Bento Ayres Pereira (MBA 2011) I’m... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Recovery and Reinvestment Act, with a Race to the Top competition that promised more than $4 billion in stimulus money for states that—among other reforms—heeded the call to establish what the President referred to as "laboratories of... View Details
- September 2022
- Article
Regulatory Spillover and Workplace Racial Inequality
By: Letian Zhang
This paper suggests that affirmative action bans in the U.S. public sector may influence racial inequality in the private sector. Since the 1990s, nine states have banned affirmative action practice in public universities and state governments. Though these bans have... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Regulation; Law; Organizational Norm; CEO; Affirmative Action; Organizations; Private Sector; Equality and Inequality; Diversity; Race; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Zhang, Letian. "Regulatory Spillover and Workplace Racial Inequality." Administrative Science Quarterly 67, no. 3 (September 2022): 595–629.
- September 2020 (Revised June 2023)
- Supplement
Spreadsheet Supplement to Artea Teaching Note
By: Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
Spreadsheet Supplement to Artea Teaching Note 521-041. This collection of exercises aims to teach students about 1)Targeting Policies; and 2)Algorithmic bias in marketing—implications, causes, and possible solutions. Part (A) focuses on A/B testing analysis and... View Details
- September 2020 (Revised July 2022)
- Exercise
Artea (D): Discrimination through Algorithmic Bias in Targeting
By: Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
This collection of exercises aims to teach students about 1)Targeting Policies; and 2)Algorithmic bias in marketing—implications, causes, and possible solutions. Part (A) focuses on A/B testing analysis and targeting. Parts (B),(C),(D) Introduce algorithmic bias. The... View Details
Keywords: Targeted Advertising; Discrimination; Algorithmic Data; Bias; Advertising; Race; Gender; Marketing; Diversity; Customer Relationship Management; Prejudice and Bias; Analytics and Data Science; Retail Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Ascarza, Eva, and Ayelet Israeli. "Artea (D): Discrimination through Algorithmic Bias in Targeting." Harvard Business School Exercise 521-043, September 2020. (Revised July 2022.)
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
campaign ads were found to be more effective among nonpartisan voters, who had not developed a strong affinity for either party. It was also learned that TV advertising may not be a deterministic factor when one party has a big advantage, but it was found to be... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
data (Miguelez and Fink, 2013), Figure 1 shows that America received more than half of migrating inventors from 2000-2010. Figure 1: Migration of inventors, 2000-2010 Immigrants can be found in times of success and times of crisis. Examples include: Among the American... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
renewables, biomass, carbon capture and sequestration, hydroelectric, and nuclear are all losing the race with fossil fuels and are expected to keep losing. Fossil fuel use is surging around the globe. With that surge, economic... View Details
- 04 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Blogs
1976D Jack Schultz, BoomtownUSA, http://boomtownusa.blogspot.com/ (on the trend to leave the urban rat race for small towns; archived since Oct. 2004) MBA 1976E Tom Frey, Frey vs. Frey. Conservative vs. Liberal, Religious vs. Secular,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
When Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the faculty chair of HBS’s Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, was studying questions of gender and race in organizations in the 1980s, research into... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
tens of thousands, potentially, were criminals. And that's just become part and parcel of everything else that happens subsequent to that. I mean, the race riots in Miami, the rise of crack on the east coast. I mean, I really am amazed... View Details
- 13 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
Launching Leaders: HBS's New Initiative Fuels First-Generation and Low-Income Student Success
to recognize what we’ve done and try to erase any barriers that we may still have. We are a more diverse community than people think, in the traditional ways of race and gender but also diverse in ideologies and backgrounds. This type of... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark
student essays that highlight their reflections. As the world races towards a sustainable future, renewable energy solutions are at the forefront of this crucial transition. Vestas, a global leader in wind turbine manufacturing since... View Details
- Web
IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog
students (due to the nature of IFCs, auditing is not permitted) Course Overview The global race to eliminate greenhouse gases from the atmosphere has started in full earnest. The stakes are high; emissions released by human activities are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Natural Fit
loved, not the winning.” Gamechanger: “After I stopped being solely focused on my results, I started to climb back up the ladder and won the last, biggest race of the year. That got me an invitation to the US team camp. From there, I was... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
sailboats to a former America’s Cup boat that we adapted—although no one said it could be accomplished.” A competitive sailor who has raced in the Paralympic Games in Sydney in 2000 and in London in 2012, Callahan takes a measured... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
casualties. I became secretary of his General Staff and was with him for D-Day, his next triumph, when the Third Army broke through on four fronts in France and raced across Europe. In my book General Patton’s Timeless Leadership... View Details
- June 2020 (Revised September 2020)
- Case
Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO (A)
By: Tsedal Neeley and John Masko
With the economy in a freefall, MetricStream is losing customers, hemorrhaging cash and struggling to make payroll. Several board members are threatening to quit. Others are pressing to sell the company even at dismally low valuations. It’s 2008 and lightning has... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Race; Gender; Leadership Style; Risk and Uncertainty; Change; Prejudice and Bias; Decision Making; Personal Development and Career; Technology Industry; California
Neeley, Tsedal, and John Masko. "Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO (A)." Harvard Business School Case 420-071, June 2020. (Revised September 2020.)
- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Syngenta Tomato Vision
student essays that highlight their reflections. “It’s a continuous race against the evolution of new pathogens. We as humans want to eat a lot, but so do insects, birds, viruses, etc. That’s where we come in.” - Syngenta Team, regarding... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
three things: the Central African Republic to replace Mali and Somalia as Africa's worst hot spot; the 2016 US presidential race will begin to hog the news and quickly annoy you; and I'll be lost somewhere in the sands of central Africa... View Details