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- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
discussion about racial equality by having baristas write ‘Race Together’ on coffee cups.” And when chicken chain Chick-Fil-A President Dan Cathy spoke out against gay marriage in 2012, his statements... View Details
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits
not equally worth doing. By clarifying and defining intended impact and theory of change, organizations can gain the clarity they need to make the important decisions of how to... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
we dug deeper, however, we found that effective firms excelled by focusing on one of the strategies and using the other in a supporting role. They did not try to use both approaches to an equal degree. View Details
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
We heard question-dodging in the U.S. presidential debates not long ago. And everyone hears it in normal political discourse, in business meetings, and in typical daily life—but are people really listening?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leading With Curiosity: Mayowa Kuyoro (MBA 2015)
Mayowa Kuyoro (MBA 2015) grew up in Nigeria and currently lives and works there. Nigeria is her home. Yet, an important part of her story resides outside of the Continent, and... View Details
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
call centers, with their attendant voice response units (VRUs—also known as automated voice response systems), need not be so inefficient. When a company manages its call center well, effectively linking a triad of service, information technology View Details
- 14 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity
racial diversity. Black and Latinx employees are well-represented in non-leadership roles but are not equally represented on the executive team. “There’s always going to be another challenge,” Eberle Walker... View Details
- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
schools transitioned to online learning, “the pandemic highlighted digital inequities around devices and connectivity and created a greater sense of urgency,” says Pasricha.... View Details
- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
schools transitioned to online learning, “the pandemic highlighted digital inequities around devices and connectivity and created a greater sense of urgency,” says Pasricha.... View Details
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
have learned, but equally eager to discover what others have been up to as well. Unfortunately, unlike some of the more well-established academic disciplines, there are few institutional resources available to support this increasingly... View Details
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
company, judged by the amount and frequency of funding. The same way a teacher may lavish more attention on a favorite student, the researchers found that VC firms also tended to pick favorites, which did better overall; their competitors... View Details
- 26 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tap into Top Talent with the HBS Leadership Fellows Program
alumni who have been placed with 93 organizations around the country. Some organizations, like Mercy Corps, Lincoln Center, and the City of Boston have been mainstays of the program for years. Other organizations like the View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
CEO Compensation Troubles
increase in pay of senior executives and superstars in other fields has been a major source of the rising inequality of wages in the United States. Rising income inequality is... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
human resource functions. Pentagram's second principle was generosity. All partners were equal shareholders in the firm. Pentagram branched out to New York in the early 1980s, and in the late 1980s, Hinrichs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
The International Experience at HBS
culture to their classmates who demonstrate an equally insatiable curiosity. For example, on International Day, students present their countries and cultures to their section. It is the occasion to dress up... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
the world into a multidimensional crisis. We are not only facing a health crisis, but economic and social crises, too, characterized by rising inequalities on top of an environmental crisis. A common root of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
there were strong financial returns to technological development. Finally, we document an inverted-U shaped relationship between inequality and innovation but also show that innovative places tended to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
literature—including Frankel's work—is that since not all problems identified by frontline staff are of equal importance, it is worth time and money to perform extensive prioritization. Suggestions that will... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 08 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan
EtiAmmos The tax policy we choose as a society reveals our collective values. That is why battles over it are so fierce—and justified. When we debate tax policy, we are debating what kind of society we want and what role we want the... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
however, is equally useful. “Engineers can design a sensor for almost anything,” says Weiss. “The real question is, what will cities use a sensor for?” And the way that service is pitched is important as... View Details