Diverse - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jun 2023
HBS Case

This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions

centralization can improve complex problem-solving in a shifting environment because it helps preserve diversity of ideas and enables a core to elevate the best ones, as long as two-way communication exists. One way to preserve that... View Details

Keywords: by Annelena Lobb; Health

01 Nov 2022
Cold Call Podcast

Marie Curie: A Case Study in Breaking Barriers

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

14 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

life (QoL) for the patients' disease. In addition, the authors also asked them to rank and rate the aversiveness of a diverse set of adverse circumstances, allowing examination of both the numerical ratings and ordering among items. Main... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

About - Case Method Project

pilots yielded very strong results. In formal surveys, both students and teachers indicated that the case method was a highly effective teaching approach that increased student energy and engagement in a diverse array of history, civics,... View Details

31 May 2023
HBS Case

From Prison Cell to Nike’s C-Suite: The Journey of Larry Miller

View Video Editor's note: Watch the video in "full screen" mode for the best viewing experience. Before shaping one of the world’s largest sports brands, Nike executive Larry Miller spent years of his youth and early adulthood behind bars for several crimes, including... View Details

Keywords: by Jamal Meneide; Entertainment & Recreation; Consumer Products

14 Nov 2023
What Do You Think?

Do We Underestimate the Importance of Generosity in Leadership?

returns. They are at the center of the legends I’ve told and probably retold about organizations as diverse as Nucor Steel, 3M, Google, the US Marine Corps, Mayo Clinic, and, yes, Harvard Business School, just to mention several of many.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Nitin Nohria

Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.

As Dean, building on... View Details

2012
Chapter

Problem Solving and Search in Networks

By: David Lazer and Ethan Bernstein

This chapter examines the role that networks play in facilitating or inhibiting search for solutions to problems at both the individual and collective levels. At the individual level, search in networks enables individuals to transport themselves to a very different... View Details

Keywords: Network Organizations; Search; Problem Solving; Individual; Individuals And Teams; Collective; Cognitive Search; Network Search; Search Typology; Networks; Social and Collaborative Networks; Theory; Knowledge Sharing

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Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual

working with accomplished health care executives from various backgrounds, sectors, and countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care

Program

Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance

disclosure Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group... View Details

16 Oct 2023
HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

At the end of 2020—seven months after COVID-19 had sent the airline industry into a tailspin and five months after George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police provoked nationwide protests for racial justice—Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian was moved to take more action... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation

03 May 2024
Research & Ideas

How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact

moderately diverse environments (within 20 meters)—a composite measure based on variables like product market—that share what they know while also participating in coworking social events can help each other gain traction. The study... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

Program

Advancing Women of Color in Leadership

Summary Advancing Women of Color in Leadership reflects our belief in inclusion—supporting efforts to increase access to equal opportunity in organizations because it is the right thing to do. Demographic diversity also helps... View Details

16 May 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Marketplace or Reseller?

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Julian Wright; Retail

Jeffrey T. Polzer

Jeff Polzer is the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He studies how people collaborate in teams and across organizational networks to accomplish their individual and collective... View Details

Hubert Joly

Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Best Buy
Author of The Heart of Business– Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

Hubert Joly is a senior lecturer in the General Management unit and... View Details

23 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

New research from Harvard Business School reveals a stark gap in the professional ambitions of men and women. Having surveyed a diverse sample of more than 4,000 men and women, a team of social scientists reports a list of potentially... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

organizations might ease racial tensions among a diverse workforce by stressing multiculturalism over racial colorblindness. "Shutting our eyes to the complexities of race does not make them disappear, but it does make it harder to see... View Details