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Partners - Managing the Future of Work
works and lives. For more information, please visit their website . Grads of Life Grads of Life is a national initiative that catalyzes market demand for Opportunity Youth by transforming employer perceptions and hiring practices. Their... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
Since its founding in 1908, HBS has viewed business as a powerful means for improving society. More than a century later, says Dean Srikant Datar, “the role we can play in tackling systemic challenges has become more important, whether in shaping a more View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
billion worldwide; that number, though still small compared to the approximately $85 billion that went to all male teams, is 15 times the amount invested in women-led companies in 2010. The latest research from Gompers and Calder-Wang showed that 18 percent of the new... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
the new hires in US venture capital firms in the first quarter of 2019 were women. The disparate impacts of the pandemic and the protests following the killing of George Floyd have focused national attention on the need for increased... View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
terminating an employee for a seemingly innocuous act of expression. Danielle Brown, Google’s new vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer, hired just a few weeks before the memo was leaked... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
around private sector involvement in alleviating poverty. However, he found over his five years with the organization that aligning future generations of business leaders with the goal of creating prosperity that is shared and inclusive... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
making up 40 percent of the Class of 2014. But a new case study shows that there's still a ways to go. “We want them to grapple with what it takes to build an organization, to leverage diversity and create an inclusive culture."... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
plan. A key component of the REP is the hiring of a chief diversity and inclusion officer (CDIO) to advance many aspects of the plan. How is the search proceeding? We’ve narrowed the field to several... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
bottom-line performance limits the conversation. The more helpful conversation to have—the more impactful one—is about the conditions under which we can leverage the benefits of having a diverse set of employees. BG: Diversity is about counting the numbers. View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
inclusion in businesses and organizations in western Michigan. It sprang up in the late 1990s when the area—once largely white—began to undergo a significant demographic change. “A lot of Latino immigrants moved to areas like Holland,... View Details
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Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity
Safety So it’s not enough for an employer to say, “I want a more diverse workplace” or “I am going to use automated hiring and therefore eliminate human bias.” The employer actually should do audits of the results coming out of this... View Details
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Women on Boards: How Lara Druyan and Ann Lucena Are Shaping the Future of Corporate Leadership - Blog: RGE Report
$2 billion fund and its many different stakeholders. Identify the scope of the problem, Druyan says, and then start generating solutions. Channeling this approach, she ultimately found and hired a new CEO who was well-suited to guide the... View Details
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Launching leaders: HBS's new initiative fuels first-generation and low-income student success - Recruiting
equip all students with what they need to thrive by fostering a deeper understanding of socioeconomic inclusion throughout the two-year program. Through this work, our students are not only prepared to excel but also to lead with empathy,... View Details
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Special Assistant to the CEO | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
home to Detroit.” The Kresge Foundation offered both, and it had a history of hiring Leadership Fellows in the past. “Their scope of work, especially in Detroit, was aligned with my interests. I knew it would be quite strategic for me,... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Memoirs of an International First Year Student
mixers I’ve attended. I still do not understand why the Super Bowl is such a huge event and I have yet to come to terms with American football having much less foot involvement than real football - oops, soccer. Yet, I have found the environment here to be View Details
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
organizations are, at once, on many right tracks and wrong tracks. “The right question is therefore not the amount of ‘rebel talent’ but how to focus it on the right causes.” David Wittenberg concurred. As he put it, “organizations should View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
hiring and socialization policies. Institutional Demand Pressure and the Cost of Corporate Loans Authors:Victoria Ivashina and Zheng Sun Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Between 2001 and 2007, annual... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
Real In the summers of 2008 and 2009, when he was a doctoral candidate at HBS, Bernstein hired a team of five Chinese-born Harvard undergraduates to be "embeds" at the plant. They lived in factory dorms and worked alongside... View Details
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
dominant name once again. Thornton had no industry experience whatsoever but seemed convinced that his ideas could be applicable to Ford's company. Perhaps the Ford Motor Company could use an injection of new ideas. Hiring Thornton and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details