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Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

student comments, engage students in tough role plays, pose difficult questions to all students, irrespective of gender, race, or ESL status, to provide them with equal opportunity for development. Using US-centric (or sports) references.... View Details

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How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

diagnoses. Others advocated tax and non-tax solutions. The case against hasty change was made by Dave: "Market based capitalism is the greatest driving force of prosperity in the world today, but if we forget this and marginalize it through income redistribution,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

US and Canadian stores, it also announced it had “committed to pay all Starbucks US and Canada retail partners for the next 30 days whether or not their store is closed, or they are otherwise unable, or even uncomfortable, coming to work.... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

Furthermore, we found that the resulting products were rated as equal to or higher in quality than competitive offerings. These results often surprise people, given the perceived wisdom that incumbents have difficulty responding to major... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2019
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Remix

women say they have been targeted at work, according to a 2016 report by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which also estimates that three out of four of those women will never mention that fact to a supervisor. “It’s really... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society

issues over his career. He led Open For Business, where he worked with business leaders and activists to collectively advocate for LGBT+ equality in challenging regions. He has also worked on developing new approaches for companies to... View Details

05 Oct 2020
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Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

tense, it will pay off,” Whillans says. Many people also waste too much time trying to find the cheapest prices, whether by driving out of the way for the least-expensive gas or schlepping to multiple stores for slightly lower prices. In... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni

and various roads to success. Assessing Your Fit Due to the risk involved in choosing the wrong CEO, companies are placing increased emphasis on assessment as part of the search, and this process is equally important for candidates.... View Details

20 Apr 2021
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A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

It’s simple: They create the most value, says Harvard Business School Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee. In almost every segment of the economy, the very best companies lead their peers by wide margins. They take share by building on proven ideas and expanding in markets... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

08 Aug 2005
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A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

not lower, profits. BSC customer profitability metrics are also highly actionable. If a company finds that an important customer is unprofitable, it should first look internally to see how it can improve its internal processes to lower the cost-to-serve. After all, we... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

31 Mar 2023
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Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

more protection or benefits could purchase. For example, basic insurance pays for shared hospital rooms in Singapore, but only people who pay out of pocket or have private insurance can get private rooms. In... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health

26 May 2016
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Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993

equally at home running morning markets meetings with thousands of people—which she does every week—as she is mentoring staff one-on-one. “If I could be a mentor to all 22,000 employees, I would,” she says. “I love helping others discover... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

30 Jul 2007
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Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

no opposition. But if instead of an exchange, we asked a potential donor ‘How about we pay you $25,000?' that would be against the law. "That's what caught my interest in repugnance: Here are two things that look similar. One is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

We know surprisingly little about mergers and acquisitions, despite the buckets of ink spilled on the topic. In fact, our collective wisdom could be summed up in a few short sentences: Acquirers usually pay too much. Friendly deals done... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

12 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

Business Administration and co-head of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Consider that between the 1950s and 1980s, Uncle Sam’s spending on research and development (R&D) rose fivefold from less than $20 billion to more than $100 billion a year, about... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Mar 2021
HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

area. When residents tried to flee burning buildings, they were shot and killed in the street. An estimated 300 people died, 1,000 families lost their homes, and $1.8 million in property was destroyed, equal to $26.1 million today. The... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit

week, coupled with the very real risk (in Sityodtong’s mind, at least) that he would fail to successfully complete his MBA. But his mother convinced him to take out loans, and was equally determined that her younger son should continue... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

31 Jul 2017
HBS Case

It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

finds equally beneficial lessons in a much different setting: a small family-owned Vietnamese restaurant in Boston’s inner-city neighborhood of Dorchester. Challenges lie in navigating complex family relationships, transitioning from... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

15 Jul 2019
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Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

The second, related problem is that, even if the synergies are legitimate, people will often incorporate all those synergies into the price they pay for a company. That too can lead to overpayment since the rewards from the value creation... View Details