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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
approach to investment has a huge question mark over it now. And I’m not the only person who thinks that. Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book The Black Swan has been a bestseller and deservedly so. From a very different disci-plinary background... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas just to kind of jolt people awake. And you might even start off with a joke to bring some levity to the meeting, especially because people are probably used to hearing bad news all day. My favorite joke... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
Holmes said. Data compiled by Google, Yahoo, Twitter, and Pinterest in 2014 showed that the number of female workers at those companies was typically 30 percent or less of the staff and that the number of black and Hispanic employees was... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
proposal appeared as white letters on a black background. 44 Olsen, Digital Corporate History , 11. 45 Digital Equipment Corporation, "A Proposal to American Research and Development Corporation 27 May 1957," 4. GCA. 46 Olsen quoted in... View Details
- 07 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands
all-female founding teams received less than 2% of venture capital dollars, and Black founders received less than 1%) and shares her advice for entrepreneurs seeking funding. “We can’t ignore that the precious resource of high-growth... View Details
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Ziegler is the founder of Trans*H4CK, an award-winning tech organization that provides support and visibility for trans technologists and founders. He is also the director of the award-winning documentary STILL BLACK: a portrait of black... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
this moment as a time in which people are reconsidering where they choose to buy from and what it means. The Black Lives Matter movement is another great example of forcing us to think about where do we spend our dollars and who does it... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
Yeah. My fifth grade teacher, Gwendolyn Davis, was about the most terrifying educator I had ever had up to that point and probably since. I mean, sort of imagine the terror of a first year at HBS cold call, and amplify it by about a million, and that's her. And so,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
a.m. with the Mayor. You should wear: Black blazer (Banana Republic).” Different screens in the prototype show a photo of the suggested outfit for the day; shopping suggestions with prices and store information; a photo inventory of all... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
increased workplace opportunities for blacks and women, and heightened job security and compensation for workers generally, things began to unravel in the 1970s. As the manufacturing sector declined and the country transitioned to a... View Details
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
magazine publisher. Its flagship Ebony magazine was an iconic coffee table fixture for decades in black households of all classes, making founder John H. Johnson the first African American to make the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
CEOs need to roll up their sleeves and learn more about the customer-facing sides of their businesses, like sales. Source: AlexBrylov Let’s face it: To most C-suite executives, sales processes are often an afterthought or a somewhat mysterious View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
jacket—a simple design with white and yellow lettering over a black background—emerged from more than 60 entries in a design challenge Lakhani ran on the website TopCoder. We asked Lakhani to discuss the book and the concept of user... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
detractors said was an indication of his slacking off, playing on the stereotype that blacks are lazy. The mentor directly challenged the detractors by pointing out that his protégé was the leading salesperson in the division. View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
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Commencement 2018 Address | About
them. Whatever we thought about the region’s long-term economic prospects, all of us grew to empathize more deeply with the perspective of those who called it their home. I have experienced other moments of profound empathy here on our campus. At a View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
gender, and class. Over the past five years, the energy of social movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo has made power sharing across race, gender, and class—and their intersections—an imperative. Here, again, corporations have a... View Details
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- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
in the diabetic space, became MannKind’s marketing partner and helped launch Afrezza in February, 2015. Although the drug had a black box warning and required doctors to perform a lung test on patients, expectations were high, with some... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
involvement is rooted in the values of Black Psychology, which uplifts the interconnectedness and resilience of people and rejects an individual and deficit approach. Currently, Banks is an Associate Professor in the Department of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
discourse based on an underlying set of facts. We’re actively thinking about it but we have not yet built it. SS: South Asian journalists often joke, “Don’t get the Brown community started on Twitter or Instagram.” An article we did on interracial View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
partners to build her fashion business and legendary luxury brand based on understated elegance. Chanel’s famous “little black dress” was accompanied by many other innovations including the use of jersey as material for daytime clothing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman