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27 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?

effective on its own. Focus on situations and processes. Rather than train people to be less racist, companies should look for ways to remove bias from decision-making, he says. A recent study by Chang found that managers hire people with more varied backgrounds when... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

particular job.10 Those early in their careers can glean important self-insight through careful and systematic introspection. People should seek out diverse experiences to facilitate and balance their development in multiple areas. This... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

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Kristin W. Mugford | About

opportunities for businesses and their stakeholders. She has also taught Venture Capital and Private Equity, and the FIELD Global Immersion. Kristin received the HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award multiple times, the Charles... View Details

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

inventory management), production, and logistics. Many of these [academic] papers pursue an optimizing approach given the assumption of a completely rational decision maker. In a supply chain, however, these activities are usually spread over View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

2009
Other Unpublished Work

Singapore Competitiveness Report

By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Ashish Lall and Boon Siong Neo

The 2009 Singapore Competitiveness Report, the first in this new series of regular assessments by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, provides data and analysis to inform the discussions on the impact of the crisis... View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Policy; Competitive Strategy; Singapore

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06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

inherent to conventional restos by dealing strictly in virtual brands that rely on “ghost” or “cloud” kitchens, that is, standalone cooking facilities that lack physical dining spaces and serve customers exclusively through delivery apps. A single cloud kitchen can... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Innovation Outside the Boundaries

multiple dimensions.” O’Leary and her husband, DaVita Kidney Care chairman and CEO Kent Thiry (MBA 1983), are alumni leaders whose longtime support of the School includes a recent gift to establish an MBA Program innovation fund. They... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Leading at State

a siloed department structure, and they serve multiple constituencies, including Congress and the president. “These dynamics have implications for how you make decisions and how you think about leading through change,” Ager observes.... View Details

Keywords: leadership; international relations; politics; Executive Education

Portrait Project

Tory Voight

elementary school to hide our circumstances. My modest childhood was encapsulated by multiple service jobs and the hope I could achieve “more” than what I was born into. Yet gaining upward mobility as a first-gen student was not as simple... View Details

19 Apr 2024
News

Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception

Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni Host Annual Energy CEO Summit The HBS Club of Houston presented its fourth annual Energy CEO Summit on April 3, which featured four of the industry’s top CEOs discussing trends and challenges around the theme of “Energy Security and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

02 Jun 2010
What Do You Think?

How Do You Weigh Strategy, Execution, and Culture in an Organization’s Success?

much is the level of my execution diminishing my level of profits ." Eddie Jiang provided an alternative way of thinking about the relationship of these three factors by suggesting that they are multiplicative rather than additive.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

13 May 2019
Blog Post

The Many Facets of Becoming a Mother at HBS

experiences. What do you wish you knew before coming to HBS? The multiple ways HBS supports student moms; I went in with the mentality that I would have to solve most of the “logistical” issues myself. From classes, exam planning,... View Details

21 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

together. “We were able to take these multiple dimensions and construct these styles that were not possible before,” Choudhury says. The researchers then looked for correlations between communications style and other aspects of the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

external circumstances, without altering strategic course. This is not a time for continuing the financial engineering so prevalent in the past decade. Rather, leaders need multiple contingency plans while preserving strong balance sheets... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

resources, and incentives to bring multiple perspectives and multiple minds together to carefully analyze what went wrong and how to prevent the occurrence of similar failures in the future are lacking in... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

14 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

of the inaugural India Climate IFC, students visited a semi-urban public healthcare facility which was outfitted with a full rooftop solar installation and multiple solar powered technologies provided by SELCO. SELCO (“Solar Electric... View Details

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

receive money conveniently. In order to use the service, the customer hands his money to the agent, plus a transfer fee (about 40 cents). Through a computerized process secured by multiple passwords and PINs, the agent transfers the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

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Market Research Reports in General Databases

Research’. Type the name of the publisher in the 'Contributors' field. You can add multiple publishers to the search if desired. Add in keywords or fill in other fields of interest and click 'Search' to see relevant... View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

multiple dimensions, including gender, home country, and socio-economic background. McArthur focused as well on further strengthening the MBA curriculum. An initial review of the first year of the program in 1982 led to changes in student... View Details

07 Aug 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones

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