Publications

Robin Ely is the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on leadership, identity, and organizational culture change.... View Details

11 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

cultural background, to help families start new lives safely. AI significantly improves matches Algorithms seek to streamline that work. Paulson and Bansak analyzed patterns in two countries that accept... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

Summer R. Jackson

Summer Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum.

Professor Jackson is an organizational ethnographer... View Details

09 Jul 2021
News

Three Ways Employers Can Best Support Caregivers Returning To Work

08 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Long Distance Relationships: What if my partner can’t join me at HBS?

Making decisions together can be complicated. It's important to consider how your goals align with your partner’s, and sometimes they may not line up perfectly. That was the case for me when I got married just before moving to Boston... View Details

08 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

fast-growing Series C start-up, in New York that provided data intelligence software to large enterprises. She later returned to Europe to join her family investment firm, Atlas Invest, investing in energy companies.... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

Web

Site Credits - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Wallace, Executive Director, Knowledge and Library Services Laura Linard, Director, Baker Library Collections, Knowledge and Library Services Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien View Details

April 2000 (Revised April 2004)
Case

Infosys: Financing an Indian Software Start-Up

Describes the financing and growth of Infosys, an Indian software start-up. Infosys defies a number of stereotypes about barriers to entrepreneurship in India. The company was founded by a small group of entrepreneurs with little equity and without backing from a large... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Applications and Software; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology Industry; India

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 05 Feb 2019
Webinars: Career

Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life

Rebels can often change the world for the better with their unconventional outlooks. Professor Francesca Gino has spent more than a decade studying rebels at organizations around the world. In this webinar, she explores the qualities that make rebels masters of... View Details

11 Feb 2014
News

Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life

June 2008 (Revised October 2012)
Case

Big to Small: The Two Lives of Barry Nalls

By: Noam T. Wasserman and Rachel Galper

Barry Nalls describes lessons learned during his 25-year career—his rise at GTE and shorter-lived ventures—and how these prepared him to found MASERGY, a telecommunications start-up. Even as a young boy in a family of entrepreneurs, Nalls had a reputation as a hard... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Experience and Expertise; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career

30 Aug 2021
News

Kominers’s Conundrums: A Heist Leads to a Virtual Adventure

March 2024
Case

Katharine Graham: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun

This case traces the life of Katharine Graham from housewife to publisher of the Washington Post. Born into a family of wealth, Graham described herself as a “doormat wife” after she married Phil Graham and stayed at home to raise their children. His unexpected death... View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Values and Beliefs; Power and Influence; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Success; Work-Life Balance; News; Newspapers; Media; Gender; Publishing Industry

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Credits - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Credits Website Credits Supported by the de Gaspé de Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School Project manager: Karen Bailey, Historical Collections, Baker Library Production manager: Ben Dubrovsky, Baker Library Information... View Details

September 1985 (Revised July 2007)
Case

Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

Population Services International (PSI) was a not-for-profit agency founded to disseminate family planning information and to market birth control products, primarily in less developed countries seeking to curb their population explosions. In 1976, PSI concluded an... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Health; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Business and Government Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Bangladesh