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Partners - Case Method Project

Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming IL 1 of 34 Rose An ORR Academy Chicago, IL Subjects: Diverse Learners Specialist for Civics and U.S. History IL 2 of 34... View Details

08 Feb 2023
Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, business leaders vowed to change organizational culture to increase diversity and inclusion. Some companies established more robust employee affinity groups, others diversified the voices on... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore

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Managing the Advantages and Tradeoffs of Collaborative Structures

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

To solve complex problems, organizations must both collect facts and use them to solve problems. In one study, my coauthors and I show that increased connectivity—measured as network... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Human Behavior; Performance; Virtual Work; Hybrid Work; Office Space; Workplace Design; Communication; Social and Collaborative Networks; Behavior; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Leadership; Management

03 Feb 2012
HBS Seminar

Dr. Regina Dugan, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

15 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others

at how much they communicated. When they crunched the numbers, the team found that weak ties yielded more jobs than strong ties, but with diminishing returns as the ties got weaker. The sweet spot in networking seemed to be “moderately weak ties,” providing people with... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Sep 2023
News

Preparing Global Leaders

to offer need-based scholarships that encourage a diversity of thought in the classroom. The support that alumni and friends provide plays an essential role in HBS’s efforts to deepen the worldview of all members of its community. Global... View Details

21 Apr 2022
News

HBS Announces Inaugural Cohort of Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society Visiting Fellows

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

U.S. population. Our core findings, based on large-scale online surveys, are that (i) self-reported nonpecuniary concerns are large both for stock market investors and non-investors; (ii) concerns about the treatment of workers and CEO pay rank highest—higher than... View Details

29 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

women from diverse social class backgrounds as they describe how they ascended to elite organizational roles despite severe gender underrepresentation. We illuminate the varied ways that high-achieving women understand and retell their... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

As the daughter of newly freed slaves on a Louisiana plantation, Sarah Breedlove's prospects at birth in 1867 foretold grinding poverty and toil. Over time, she graduated from the cotton fields to the washtub, marrying at the age of 14 and giving birth 3 years later to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

09 Aug 2022
Cold Call Podcast

A Lesson from Google: Can AI Bias be Monitored Internally?

Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley

Profile

Paul Feghali

down the business. What is the best thing about your hometown? Growing up inside the Washington, D.C. beltway, I was constantly surround by diverse communities, cultures, thoughts, and delicious food--especially the Lebanese dishes! What... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Curb Appeal

with the aftermath. And the most visible signs of New York’s garbage problems—rats dragging slices of pizza along subway platforms and bags of trash left curbside for hours on end—are just the tip of the rubbish pile. Although New York aims to send zero waste to... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

21 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree

final year, which I’m excited about. Going back and forth between the two schools has also helped push me outside the HLS and HBS bubbles to engage with the rest of the University. You get to be part of a very close-knit group. Viroopa: My favorite part of the program... View Details

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Events - Business & Environment

schools, industries, and disciplines to build connections. In addition to fostering meaningful connections among alumni from diverse backgrounds and fields, attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about the Salata Institute’s... View Details

26 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener

resources. That’s because today’s senior executives face a more complex, technology-driven work world in which they must coordinate diverse teams across the globe to achieve goals and solve problems, the researchers note in their recent... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Team - Case Method Project

on improving the accessibility of the Case Method Project’s case materials and helping teachers adapt case method teaching to diverse high schools settings. He is an avid consumer of hard science fiction and a restless explorer of the... View Details

26 Aug 2024
Blog Post

HBS Lingo 101

brings business leaders and executives from around the world together through a number of diverse programs and educational offerings. FIELD: FIELD is a required part of the first-year curriculum and stands for Field Immersion Experience... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

A More Accommodating Approach

Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

17 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

immigrants. “Us vs. them” rhetoric framed diversity as an impediment to American greatness, and—consistent with historical racial and socioeconomic fractures—global trade and immigration, the increasing presence of white women and people... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely

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