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Black History Month | Baker Library
Entrepreneurship Dive into Mintel for Black-focused consumer research reports: Black Americans and Symbols of Identity - US - 2024 Marketing to Black Millennials and Gen Zs - US - 2024 Look at EMARKETER's reports related to Black consumer's media consumption: Black... View Details
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
Business School professors Kyle R. Myers, Karim R. Lakhani, and eight colleagues from institutions including Yale and Northwestern, published in the journal Nature Human Behavior in July. There’s already a “well-documented, persistent gender View Details
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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
Just Digital Future Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier Automating Inequality By: Virginia Eubanks 2018 Algorithms of Oppression By: Safiya Umoja Noble 2018 Race After Technology By: Ruha Benjamin 2019 In our Just View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
the concept of sustainability itself. It appears that overcoming these roadblocks will require systematic interventions and alternative normative concepts. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55541 The Impact of Penalties for Wrong... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
into a digital platform that not only offers video lessons, but educational tools and tests for teachers, students, and parents through its Khan Academy Districts program, which at last count was in use by more than 280 districts across... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
problems." Nevertheless, there was enthusiasm for disclosure, perhaps using a system of disclosing "pay bands" within which holders of specific jobs are compensated. Pete described a specific example this way. "Back in the 90's View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Strategy for Entrepreneurs - Course Catalog
use AI tools to develop, test, and scale an idea makes it excellent complement to Product Management and Digital Marketing Workshop. The cases and exercises focus on early and growth-stage startups. The cases feature startups from across... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
equity industry in light of its recent history. Compared to the U.S., Europe is a relative newcomer on the private equity stage. Europe saw a few private equity efforts in the 1940s but only really began in the early 1980s. During the last twenty-five years, Lerner... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
healing remains underdeveloped. Athletes, from the casual joggers to elite ultramarathon runners and everyone in between, often rely on untested hypotheses and folk wisdom to develop training and recovery regimens, Wu Tsai explains. “There’s really a View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
Sawyer is one of two bots that Rethink Robotics has developed for the small-business market. (courtesy of Rethink Robotics) You can tell Rethink Robotics’ products by their faces: A small, white digital screen with two expressive eyes.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 16 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)
preventive interventions in Burkina Faso Efforts to better understand and address out-of-pocket costs in Benin Development of a costing tool to estimate resource needs for digitizing campaigns in Africa Why did you choose this internship... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
altitude. Imperfect Foods sold 40,000 of them. The company was founded with the goal of narrowing the yawning gap between supply and demand in the American food industry. The space is defined by two data points that, taken together, make... View Details
- 03 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Introducing the Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series
Markets project? As the largest online database of academic interviews with renowned and longstanding business leaders from emerging markets in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, the Creating Emerging Markets project represents a unique View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future? Austin Brown comments: Cryptocurrencies also have no inherent value in and of themselves, so the big question here is whether or not they are actually a good mechanism by which to exchange... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities
and well-lit interiors. HUL cracked the challenge of sustainability by adopting a cross-subsidy model. Families pay 150 per month for unlimited toilet and bathroom use, while the laundromat, priced at 75 per 8 kg load, helps cover costs. A View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
labs and venture capital-backed firms, you see that there are both very real strengths and some serious limitations," Lerner says. "Much of the motivation for writing this book was to bridge the gap between the two models."... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
retailers’ annual sales, so it is a critical time to get retail execution right. Dynamic pricing strategies must be carefully executed to maximize margins while driving volume. Inventory turns must be carefully monitored so that physical and View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
difficult tasks. Second, overestimation of ability by both men and women varies across categories. To understand these patterns, we develop a model that separates gender stereotypes from misestimation of ability related to the difficulty of the task. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
carbon-neutral product. Sharing-OAurora Rotes, MBA 2009Sharing-O, the sharing platform for those things that are still too good to go, filling the gap between new and pre-owned. Let’s be sustainable today, not in 10 years. The most... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
needs are increasingly ignored by these firms, which now require large margins to support their burgeoning overhead. The low-end gap thus created offers fertile ground for startups to enter the market with innovative approaches... View Details