Social Institutions - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman

your emotional life and your commitments to others and your relationships and your commitments to an institution and [pursuing] excitement and opportunity and possibility." Each woman she described had reconciled her own multiple... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

of Courage" Rae Johnson, Pacifica Graduate Institute Rae is Chair of the Somatic Studies Specialization of the M.A./Ph.D. Dept Psychology Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute Rae is Chair of the Somatic... View Details

27 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

another 30 years," says Lurtz, the Harvard-Newcomen Fellow at Harvard Business School. "How do you build these institutions that you need for market agriculture in a place where maybe there are laws on the books, but there's not much... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

entrepreneurship, and patterns of minority entrepreneurship. Emerging from his pioneering research, the New Jersey Social Innovation Institute and the CUEED Pipeline to Inclusive Innovation are national and... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Laura Scher of Working Assets

Laura S. Scher (MBA '85) is something of a modern-day Robin Hood, an entrepreneurial activist who redistributes the wealth of the marketplace to those in need. Through her company, San Francisco based Working Assets Funding Service, this CEO and crusader for View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

17 Mar 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York

offered insights into work that is underway on the role of business in society, digital innovation, and reimagining learning. "I don't think there is another institution other than business and free enterprise that has done more good for... View Details

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member in the new MS/MBA joint degree program. He is an expert in the management of innovation and new product development, with a focus on the design and deployment of... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

The Harvard Clubs of Australia: Networking with a Cause

In establishing new events and traditions, Stern is in frequent contact with his Melbourne counterpart, Patrick G. O'Brien (MBA '94), president of the Harvard Club of Australia- Victoria (HCAV). O'Brien and Stern agree on the clubs' dual objectives: provide View Details

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

14 Mar 2023
Blog Post

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

Unless men embrace their role in eliminating gender bias and barriers, organizations and institutions will never leverage the value that women bring to the workplace. “Most positions of power are still held by men,” says Colleen Ammerman,... View Details

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Lessons from the 2025 Race, Gender & Equity at Work Symposium - Blog: RGE Report

many institutions and structures, often the very same ones we use our own hope to challenge. Our panelists showed us how hope alone is insufficient for radical change. When hope is expected or demanded of someone struggling against... View Details

17 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 17

how, all the way through the 1970s, the U.S. not only failed to resist pressure to defend American investments, but also remained unsuccessful at altering internal institutions of other countries in order to make property rights secure in... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Apr 2017
Blog Post

2+2er Pursues HBS/HKS Joint Degree

to take yourself out of consideration - HBS is committed to making the school affordable and accessible for the students it admits. Unsurprisingly, the support does not stop there. For those seeking summer opportunities in the entrepreneurial or View Details

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Real estate: emerging markets

Workspace Introduction. Urban Land Institute
Search the Urban Land Institute collection of research reports for access to their regional Emerging Trends in Real Estate series. The site also allows you to limit your search by... View Details

28 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

2018 Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries By: Khanna, Tarun Abstract— Entrepreneurs in developing countries who assume they will have the same legal, governmental, and View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Site Credits - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details

July 2021
Teaching Plan

Aligning Mission and Margin at Southern Bancorp

By: Rebecca Henderson, Brian Trelstad and Eren Kuzucu

Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 321-099. In October 2020, after spending almost a decade to turnaround Southern Bancorp, an Arkansan bank founded with the mission to provide financial services to rural, underserved communities, CEO Darrin Williams is wondering how... View Details

Keywords: Racial Wealth Gap; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Going Public; Investment Return; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Arkansas

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

22 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism

managers. We haven't always understood these changes." Leviathan In Business In a new working paper, Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and Their Implications for Economic Performance, Musacchio and colleague Sergio G. Lazzarini of the Insper View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details

April 2025
Article

The Impact of Minority Representation at Mortgage Lenders

By: W. Scott Frame, Ruidi Huang, Erica Jiang, Yeonjoon Lee, Will Liu, Erik J. Mayer and Adi Sunderam

We study links between the labor market for loan officers and access to mortgage credit. Using novel data matching the (near) universe of mortgage applications to loan officers, we find that minorities are significantly underrepresented among loan officers. Minority... View Details

Keywords: Household Finance; Demographic Economics; Financial Institutions; Diversity; Prejudice and Bias; Mortgages; Personal Finance