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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Milestone for HBS Alumna
Alvarez-Bjelland For the first time, the president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) is a woman MBA from Harvard Business School. Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland (AB ’76, MBA ’79), who took office last summer, will focus her one-year term on Harvard’s role in global... View Details
- Blog
Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
the Advancing Racial Equity action plan, our demographic progress, and other initiatives. And there have been a number of public articles that focus on other activities relating to the plan. We are continually trying to figure out how... View Details
- Forthcoming
- Article
Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act
By: Andrea Bernini, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini and Cecilia Testa
How did southern whites respond to the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA)? Leveraging
newly digitized data on county-level voter registration by race between 1956 and
1980, and exploiting pre-determined variation in exposure to the federal intervention,
we document that... View Details
Bernini, Andrea, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini, and Cecilia Testa. "Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act." Journal of Political Economy (forthcoming). (Also available on Vox EU and VoxDev. Featured on HBS Working Knowledge.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
Centralization and Organization Reproduction: Ethnic Innovation in R&D Centers and Satellite Locations
By: William R. Kerr
We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in satellite locations mostly resemble their host cities, with little link to the inventor... View Details
Keywords: Ethnicity; Business Offices; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Design
Kerr, William R. "Centralization and Organization Reproduction: Ethnic Innovation in R&D Centers and Satellite Locations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-015, September 2023.
- May 2018
- Supplement
Abe on Womenomics, part 3: International Efforts & Conclusions: Excerpt from Opening Address to the World Assembly of Women, Tokyo, August 28, 2015
By: Boris Groysberg
This video supplement is a lightly edited excerpt of a 2015 speech by Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in which he describes Womenomics--policies and aspirations to promote greater economic participation by Japan's women, thereby promoting economic growth, greater... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Gender; Business and Government Relations; Employment; Growth and Development; Working Conditions; Japan
Groysberg, Boris. "Abe on Womenomics, part 3: International Efforts & Conclusions: Excerpt from Opening Address to the World Assembly of Women, Tokyo, August 28, 2015." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 418-721, May 2018.
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
O’Kelly: A stay-at-home mom sees an entrepreneurial opportunity and builds a business. Other Newsmakers Bob Gannon (OPM 16, 1990) Diana ("Dido") Harding (MBA ’92) David Miller (MBA ’03) Amos Schocken (MBA ’70) Mike Stone (MBA ’88) Tom Tiller (MBA ’91) Bill Wyman (MBA... View Details
- 02 Mar 2022
- News
How Bias Against Women Persists in Female-Dominated Workplaces
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
Illustration by Gisela Goppel Illustration by Gisela Goppel By Connie Baher (MBA 1980) I was standing in New York’s Asia Society Museum when I saw it. A high school kid from Connecticut, I’d taken the train to the big city and was nosing around an exhibition of... View Details
- 31 Dec 2020
- News
Gender Equity Is Not Zero Sum
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
To Reduce Gender Bias, Anonymize Job Applications
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
From the Ground Up
Paul Phillips (MBA 2003) is cofounder of Kai-Viti Water, which bottles and sells artesian water from the Fiji Islands. In this interview he talks about the company’s policy of dedicating profits from the company to support basic education needs of children in the... View Details
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) is a journalist and author of two New York Times best selling books. She was a political reporter and a TV producer in DC before coming to HBS, and started writing about... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
W50 Next Steps
A NEW CASE SERIES, "Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American," written by Assistant Professor Gautam Mukunda, was used for the first time in November in the first-year LEAD course. Part of a larger effort to focus on the experiences of female executives, the cases delve into... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- News
Beautiful Deliveries
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Bold Ascent
Baka: Hiking in Marin County with daughter, Isabella Sunshine. Photo courtesy Tim Baka Tim Baka (MBA ’93) is a self-confessed “numbers guy” who doesn’t wear a tie. As cofounder and president of SlingFin, a Berkeley, California-based startup that provides... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
FIELD Updates Greet Class of 2014
TATA IN TIP-TOP SHAPE: Members of the HBS community gathered on September 24 for a "topping off" ceremony to celebrate placement of the final steel beam in Tata Hall's ongoing construction. In his remarks, Dean Nitin Nohria recognized the efforts of the many... View Details
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
2014. The program involves linking a 12-digit randomly assigned number to a person's biometric data-a photograph, all 10 fingerprints, and iris scans of both eyes--as well as to demographic information, including name, address, date of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs
to stars when they change jobs. Equity analysts are an ideal population to study: Their performance is objectively measured every year, there is a lot of demographic and organizational data on them and their employers, and many things are... View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
item popularity curve. Jim Heskett asks: Does the Long Tail represent a paradigm shift for business and consumer behavior? What are its implications for management going forward? Is MySpace.com Your Space? Social networking sites such as MySpace.com have View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
entrepreneurial innovation, savvy management, or transformational leadership. For Paths to Power, we dug deeper into the wealth of demographic information in the database to determine how factors such as social class, education, religion,... View Details