the Women's Initiative - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jul 2004
What Do You Think?

Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?

initiatives address real employee needs, how much they cost, and how much quantifiable long-term benefit they create for the firm. An irony in all of this is that many organizations have made View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Apr 2007
HBS Case

How Magazine Luiza Courts the Poor

Luiza Helena initiated a reorganization that replaced family members with professional management and launched a campaign to reinforce the company's mission to serve customers and employees. Despite View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

proactive effort to be as effective and clear as possible in their communication to both internal and external stakeholders. Importantly, a vast majority of the initiatives that companies in our sample are... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

01 Mar 2018
News

Excellence At The Intersection Of Disciplines

generosity of the School’s alumni and friends. “We have been fortunate that our donors appreciate our efforts to develop the next generation of leaders,” says Datar. Endowment gifts and annual contributions... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results

interact with different people and maintaining a strong knowledge of who you are.” Last year, in conjunction with the School's Nonprofit and Public Management Summer Fellowship Program, Dasgupta worked with View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; development; leadership; social issues; management; technology; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

would, therefore, help to increase economic efficiency simply by improving the flow of economic information. This view, in which government agencies could promote economic stability by providing forecasts, was a far cry from View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation

Development (now known as the World Business Council for Sustainable Development). Their initial work culminated in the publication of the book... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

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In the News - Entrepreneurship

Family Offices Re: Lauren Cohen 06 Mar 2025 Axial TV The Shifting EtA Landscape: The Rise of Self-Funded Search with Royce Yudkoff & Richard Ruback Re: Richard Ruback & Royce Yudkoff Load More View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

The One That Got Away

on to become a household name. Consider David Cowan’s (MBA 1992) initial response to eBay: “Stamps? Coins? Comic books? You’ve GOT to be kidding. No-brainer pass.” Chad Waite (MBA 1983) had this to say about a certain Seattle... View Details

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The Essential Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative View Details

2021
Book

Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work

By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

Why does the gender gap persist and how can we close it? For years women have made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States. In 2019, the gap between the percentage of women and the percentage of men in the workforce was the smallest on record.... View Details

Keywords: Women; Career; Gender Gap; Glass Ceiling; Gender; Employment; Personal Development and Career; Equality and Inequality; Organizational Culture; Diversity; Management; Strategy

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03 Jun 2019
Blog Post

9 Lessons from the Class of 2019

the Women's Student Association. Through her tenure as WSA Co-president, Erica worked closely on Diversity and Inclusion initiatives across HBS and focused on creating more... View Details

2024
Working Paper

Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility: Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and Kendall Smith

We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the... View Details

Keywords: Vietnam; Vietnam War; Assimilation; Immigration; Refugees; Age; Outcome or Result; Personal Development and Career; Viet Nam

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11 Jul 2016
HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

Professor of Information Systems, Ivey Business School, delve into the growing neurodiversity initiative at software behemoth SAP in their case study SAP SE: Autism at Work. Software testing is exacting and... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

09 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Building Community: Meet the HBS Latino Student Organization Leadership

The Latino Student Organization (LASO) proudly promotes and supports Harvard Business School’s Latino students and works alongside the Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA). Representing a wide range of... View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

No Time Like the Present

Reunion. Now the subject of an HBS case study himself, Delle still regularly reviews his collection of cases from his days as an MBA in order to glean new insights. He was initially interested in earmarking... View Details

18 Mar 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM

Keywords: by Timothy Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein & Rebecca Henderson

06 Dec 2021
News

Leadership in the Digital Age

six HBS Global Research Centers, Hill and her Leadership Initiative team hosted a series of virtual roundtable discussions on the pressing issues that accompany digital transformation. View Details

Keywords: April White

28 May 2019
News

Ask the Expert: In Security

there: ransomware, the security of our electric grid, and international espionage, for example. Young has worked in the field from his early-career startup days through posts at AOL, Cisco, and Intel, where... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; cybersecurity

November 2008
Case

Adnexus Therapeutics, Inc.: Considering the Exit

By: Vicki L. Sato and Rachel Gordon

Dr. John Mendlein, CEO of Adnexus Therapeutics Inc. (Adnexus), a private biotechnology company, must decide whether to pursue acquisition talks with Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) after a successful six-month collaboration or continue with Adnexus' planned IPO. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Initial Public Offering; Corporate Strategy; Biotechnology Industry

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