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- 17 May 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.
Get More Interviews African American and Asian job applicants who mask their race on resumes seem to have better success getting job interviews. The Case Against Racial Colorblindness Attempting to overcome... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
unsure whether America was ready to elect its first African American President. It also explores how President Obama was able to gain support from the American people despite... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
Resilience TrainingDepressed employees are up to five times more likely to experience work-related problems than employees with chronic physical illnesses. So why aren't employers helping them? What Hospitals Must Learn to CompeteWhy is it so difficult for View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
California State University at San Bernardino recently released a report stating that hate crimes have spiked in the United States for the fourth year in a row. African Americans are the most frequent... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
Systems Americas: Leadership Through Change (B) Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/917016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-043 Ebony Magazine For nearly 75 years, the Johnson Publishing Company has been the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
search processes that shape networks, cognition, and capabilities. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-106.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBanca Regional Andino: Facing the Globalization of Microfinance Harvard Business School Case 307-060 Three... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
other minorities on corporate boards? A: It's no revelation that US companies are not doing very well in this regard. Even if a company has a woman and an African American on its board, what about an... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
Why is it that the U.S. federal government allows local communities to give tax dollars to wealthy sports team owners rather than to create better benefits for citizens? Why are organ-donor programs constrained to the point where thousands of View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
Small, Devin G. Pope, and Michael I. Norton Publication:Social Psychological and Personality Science (forthcoming) Abstract We document an age penalty in racial discrimination: charitable behavior toward African View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
It's no coincidence that the new book America the Principled is coming out just as the U.S. presidential election gets into full swing, says its author, Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. She wants us all to rethink the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
positions ranged from lawyer, judge, preacher, entrepreneur to the first African American commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and to the head of the National Association for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
an issue. In the case of Frazier, another of his board members, Leslie Brun, suggested that his race had something to do with how strongly he felt about acting. As Brun put it, “As you can imagine, as the only African View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718030 Harvard Business School Case 317-082 Corey Thomas and the IPO Corey Thomas, the African American CEO of the company Rapid7, must decide if it is the right time... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
that all the giants in this book are white men. It is inconceivable that an African American or a woman could have done what Andrew Carnegie did when he did it. When Carnegie immigrated in 1848, there was... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
"The central African thunderstorms are amazing," Virts said. "They're so bright that the modules of the space station light up." He repeated the point for emphasis. "The thunderstorms are so bright that they light... View Details
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
chefs. The restaurant was also leading the new Nordic food movement, a movement focused on rediscovering Nordic cuisine and ingredients, which had helped increase the popularity of Danish cuisine. Since 2013 Noma had a new investor, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
product." A Class of 1973 alumna recalls professors "who, in the middle of a class, would look at the women and the African Americans and say, 'Is this too difficult for you?' " By 1985 women... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
been collaborating for three years to increase the number of African American biologists and chemists. In 1995, they launched the UNCF Merck Science Internships. The undergraduates, doctoral students, and... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
Leone, which was also founded by repatriated North American freed slaves. Both countries have a small population and have suffered overlapping conflicts. "They're siblings as far as nations go, and their paths to recovery are likely... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
those traditions. This book will be essential reading for academics, researchers, students, and anyone looking for a comprehensive reassessment of political economy. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54712 July 2018 View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman