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- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
“culture fit.” Resumes may be selected because of a shared alma mater, or because of an unconscious bias to one name over another. Or, a candidate may be selected over others because “I could see myself hanging out with them after work.” As View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Then jobs are lost, and the unions blame someone else. Ron DiLiddo (PMD 50, 1985) Rochester, MI Document HBS’s Role in Crisis I was happy to read in the March issue that the financial crisis has motivated HBS to write cases on the topic... View Details
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Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report
Race, Gender and Equity at Work Race, Gender and Equity at Work Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author HBS Staff Topics Topics Board Diversity RGE Blog Filters Read posts from Author HBS... View Details
- 14 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions
detailed in Cohen’s new working paper, The Impact of Forced Migration on Modern Cities: Evidence from 1930s Crop Failures, co-written by HBS finance professor Christopher J. Malloy and Quoc Nguyen, an assistant finance professor at the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life
to answer” choices, and work spaces with gender neutral bathroom facilities. Robust and Resourced Employee Resource Groups Another common theme shared by HBS students and alumni is the importance of Employee Resource Groups or Affinity... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
Storie-Johnson “Today, we tend to view color as an ingredient,” says Ai Hisano, the Harvard-Newcomen Fellow in Business History at Harvard Business School. Hisano is author of the HBS working paper,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About
today, in person, to celebrate your academic achievements, and to unite as a community to mark what is truly a joyous time. So, before we begin let's enjoy a collective “whoop” and round of applause. HBS Class of 2022, you will always be... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
conference, Carroll had introduced the audience to the term “Ad Tech Duopoly,” which refers to the current dominant twins of the online advertising environment: Facebook and Google. Both have linked user profiles to search histories in... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
a factory in a low-cost location in Asia? Such a move over the next five to seven years would be full of risk, especially considering LEGO has had a checkered history of expansion—one such effort almost led to bankruptcy. So Harvard... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
David Upton's Alumni Conference report on the state of information technology for business-to-business began with a lesson in technology history because, said the HBS professor, "understanding doesn't... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
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Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity
stewards of our labor, our lives, and one another. This article features the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative’s video playlist . Organizational self-awareness Maureen Scully on Mobilizing Privileged Allies to Address Inequalities... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
surprise to industry observers, but the SEC's reaction did. On October 4, the SEC unexpectedly announced that it was indefinitely postponing the implementation of shareholder proxy access, pending the outcome of the lawsuit. A Natural Experiment The delay was just what... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
Chairman, The Carlyle Group Former Chairman & CEO, IBM Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Dartmouth College, 1963 B.S., Engineering LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "HBS was superb at reminding us that asking the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Gita's medical history and her symptoms suggest a heart problem, MeraDoctor ultimately recommends that she get an echocardiogram (for which she has to pay at a private facility because the government one is too crowded). The test reveals... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
movement. “When we feel powerless or subordinate, we constrict our posture, tightening, wrapping, and making ourselves smaller,” she writes. Cuddy is among a growing number of HBS faculty using scientific methods and behavioral science to... View Details
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
Tedlow, a noted business historian on the HBS faculty and the MBA class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration. His latest book (Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American) is a biography of Andy Grove, a founding father of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
spite of difficult labor relations based on a history of division and confrontation, I love the entrepreneurial spirit and opportunity found on this small island. We need to make some improvements, however. We must revamp a model of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
beard, his vast knowledge of finance, and particularly his caution about business getting too big for effective management. If he were alive today, he would find many supersized mergers to be concerned about. S. Francis Nicholson (MBA '23) Milestones in View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
and inadequate care. In short, health care in the United States appears to be broken. Enter Harvard Business School's Life Sciences & Health Care Initiative, which brings together faculty from diverse parts of HBS to both conduct... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
2017 New York: Oxford University Press Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming By: Hauter, Niels Viggo, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Abstract—This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne