equality - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2010
News

Alumni Eager to Help Shape School’s Future

the research, and the facilities. Alumni are truly vested in the future of this great institution. Dean Jay Light has led the School under extremely difficult circumstances over the past five years. Our new Dean will face the equally... View Details

Keywords: Ann Kelly

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

forecasted GDP growth rates for Japan by 0.5% for the first quarter of this year, and by more than 1.5% for the second quarter. The financial consequences are equally alarming. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average plunged 6.2% at the market's... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

25 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation

management ranks. Koning and Ferguson took a broader approach. They reviewed data collected by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission between 1971 and 2014, determining the racial makeup of every large private-sector workplace in the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Nov 2024
News

Driving Change

Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details

October 2019
Supplement

Harlem Capital: Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship (B)

By: George Serafeim

The (B) case describes Tingle and Pierre-Jacques’ decision to commit fully to Harlem Capital as their post-graduation job. The case explores the results of their fundraising efforts, new strategic partnerships, and how they plan to “build the market” in order to... View Details

Keywords: Impact Investing; Gender Bias; Gender Inequality; Minority Representation; Entrepreneurial Finance; Investment Management; Investing; Inequality; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Diversity; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Equity; Mission and Purpose; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry

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Purchase

05 Dec 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing

marketing and other expenses to grow the business, and to develop a more accurate estimate of firm value. Using a model for valuing networked customers, Gupta found that in an auction scenario, buyers and sellers had almost equal value... View Details

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

While many characteristics that mark a successful entrepreneur are gender blind, being a woman does make a difference, and recognizing and utilizing those differences is an equally important quality to cultivate when building a new... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

29 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023): Solving Big Problems Through Entrepreneurship

entrepreneurship approachable. I came in with this dream, but when I started the program, I realized that it was not far-fetched. It gave me the tools to start. It surrounded me with women and men that were equal parts kind and smart, who... View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

Looking back; looking forward

with power in practice, a remarkable campus, and an alumni community more than 70,000 strong. Equally important, it’s a chance to help set the agenda for management education and research for the next century, and for tomorrow’s business... View Details

Keywords: Jay O. Light; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

23 Mar 2020
News

Signal Boost

impacts of diversity, LEDA plans to launch a new initiative, the Community Diversity Workshop series, which will focus on equality in specific sectors of the community. Lara is also well aware that her position requires her to lead by... View Details

04 Dec 2014
News

Hacking Health Care

and growth to build new organizations.” Equally life-changing were the guest lectures taught by the likes of Jeff Bezos, who, at the time, was merely the founder of an online used bookstore. “To have those encounters right there, in... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

18 Aug 2014
News

Closing the Education Gap

their names, and there were kids who actually couldn’t. One child, who was almost four, kept saying his name was Corky, which it wasn’t. These are children who have been paid so little attention that they don’t even know their names.” View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jan 2008
News

Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981

that a collaborative management style in the real world would be equally effective and essential.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS “There is no substitute for good, old-fashioned planning and analysis. You can’t rationalize excessive use of ‘gut feel’... View Details

2020
Article

Research on Corporate Sustainability: Review and Directions for Future Research

By: Jody Grewal and George Serafeim

We review the literature on corporate sustainability and provide directions for future research. Our review focuses on three actions: measuring, managing and communicating corporate sustainability performance. Measurement is the least developed of the three and... View Details

01 Dec 2020
What Do You Think?

How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?

economic equality fosters economic growth, primarily by encouraging consumption among people who spend a lot and invest modestly. For example, the study concludes that the US pays handsomely for the low growth that comes with income and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Jun 2012
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Leadership: What We Know

have learned, but equally eager to discover what others have been up to as well. Unfortunately, unlike some of the more well-established academic disciplines, there are few institutional resources available to support this increasingly... View Details

Keywords: by Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana & Nitin Nohria; Education

01 Jun 1997
News

Short Takes

the subtle manner in which participants revealed their self-interest. When participants could share in the cash bonus, they divided the entire bonus equally between themselves and their partner. However, nonbenefiting subjects viewing the... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 2003
News

Books

directors, and demonstrate a relationship of equals based on trust.” The First 90 Days by Michael Watkins (Harvard Business School Press) So you’re taking charge of a new organization. Congratulations. Now, get busy. You’ve got just... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

18 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

Marketing After the Recession

or dramatic is equally unknown. Marketers planning for 2009 and 2010 should bear in mind Peter Drucker's wise advice: "A strategy is a sense of direction around which to improvise." Know how you can source supplies and expand distribution... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail

13 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course

general? Bryan Stevenson (founder of the Equal Justice Initiative) spoke to my first year (RC) class at HBS and one of his key lessons for us was to “get proximate” to those in our communities and empathize with their lived experiences.... View Details

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