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- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
preached about it.” In addition to questions about the data, there is the moral issue of whether diversity and inclusion should be promoted with or without supporting data regarding performance. David Wittenberg posed the issue this way:... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 04 Oct 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?
organization become “less attentive and more insensitive to others’ emotions,” quoting the authors. If their participation in the selection and promotion process also increases, what can we expect from their choices? Will they place the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?
potential new generation of fans? "I won’t make any predictions, except that ... baseball is working hard to try to restore the revenue side and the attendance side." Greyser: They’re doing quite a bit, but remember, baseball is primarily a local game. A lot of that... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
of similar backgrounds. Perhaps they were also responding to perceived “implicit quotas,” an organization’s informal goal to promote people from certain groups. However, neither of those reasons proved as powerful as the simple notion... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 20 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
The Importance of Mentorship: A Conversation With Professor Ting Zhang
to become better mentors, sponsors, and coaches. If organizations are serious about retaining and promoting new diverse talent, they have to think more deliberately about how to equip their leaders with the skills to develop others, and... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
at some of the social media missteps brands have taken over the past decade–and the lessons we’ve learned from them. Prioritizing technology over substance Maybe it’s because the medium seems so ephemeral, but digital brand managers are too often intent on creating... View Details
- 05 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Exploring the Beauty Industry through an Independent Project
experiences. Successful influencers are authentic, have a consistent voice and specific point of view, converse with followers directly, and promote products that work. They build relationships with brands and followers over time and tell... View Details
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
leaders grappling with improving racial equity in the workplace, important changes need to go beyond actively recruiting, hiring, and promoting more minority employees—and toward implementing workplace policies that challenge the... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 09 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture
part in offering remote work. While one company may offer work-from-home options, a competitor may not, the authors found. Take the automotive industry. In 2019, almost no jobs from Honda, GM, Ford, or Tesla promoted the possibility of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 13 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion
and funny material posted on social media, to promote health, beauty, and snack food products. Our job was to develop a new snack food designed for the Korean millennial consumer. The FIELD course began in second semester. First, we... View Details
- 08 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees
Lead. In this role, I partnered with government agencies, nonprofits, and corporations to promote authoritative voter information across Google’s products. At what point did you decide to pursue an MBA/MPP program, and why? During my... View Details
- September 2011
- Article
Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality
By: Mark J. Roe and Jordan I. Siegel
We here bring forward strong evidence that political instability impedes financial development, with its variation a primary determinant of differences in financial development around the world. As such, it needs to be added to the short list of major determinants of... View Details
Keywords: Financial Development; Political Instability; Government and Politics; Finance; Growth and Development; Economics; Equality and Inequality
Roe, Mark J., and Jordan I. Siegel. "Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality." Journal of Comparative Economics 39, no. 3 (September 2011): 279–309. (We here bring forward strong evidence that political instability impedes financial development, with its variation a primary determinant of differences in financial development around the world. As such, it needs to be added to the short list of major determinants of financial development. First, structural conditions first postulated by
Engerman and Sokoloff (2002) as generating long-term inequality are shown here empirically to be exogenous determinants of political instability. Second, that exogenously-determined political instability in turn holds back financial development, even when we control for factors prominent in the last decade's cross-country studies of
financial development. The findings indicate that inequality-perpetuating conditions that result in political instability are fundamental roadblocks for international organizations like the World Bank that seek to promote financial development. The evidence here includes country fixed effect regressions and an instrumental model inspired by Engerman and Sokoloff's (2002) work, which to our knowledge has not yet been used in finance and which is consistent with current tests as valid instruments. Four conventional measures of national political instability — Alesina and Perotti's (1996) well-known index of instability, a subsequent index derived from Banks' (2005) work,
and two indices of managerial perceptions of nation-by-nation political instability — persistently predict a wide range of national financial development outcomes for recent decades. Political instability's significance is time consistent in cross-sectional regressions back to the 1960's, the period when the key data becomes available, robust
in both country fixed-effects and instrumental variable regressions, and consistent across multiple measures of instability and of financial development. Overall, the results indicate the existence of an important channel running from structural inequality to political instability, principally in nondemocratic settings, and then to financial
backwardness. The robust significance of that channel extends existing work demonstrating the importance of political economy explanations for financial development and financial backwardness. It should help to better understand which policies will work for financial development, because political instability has causes, cures, and effects quite distinct from those of many of the key institutions most studied in the past decade as explaining financial backwardness.)
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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Dean Nitin Nohria | About
September 2020 Plan for Racial Equity Announced Dean Nohria’s Anti-Racism Task Force of faculty, staff, students, and alumni resolved to take action to promote racial equity on campus and in the world. June 2019 Dialogue The DIALOGUE... View Details
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
good at responding to client demand, they have limited ability to promote their own agenda. However, even “incremental” change can be important from such an influential platform. The Rise Fund: TPG Bets Big on Impact (318041) by Vikram... View Details
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Dillon House | About
Johnson from 1961 to 1965, Dillon focused on trade deficit reduction and on promoting the Kennedy tax program, which called for sweeping cuts to encourage economic growth. Following his government service, Dillon returned to the private... View Details
- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
increased insomnia. “The more time-pressed you feel, the lower your well-being,” Whillans says. She hopes the study—Buying Time Promotes Happiness, which was published in the August issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
With "variable sunglasses" users could adjust the degree of glare they wanted to eliminate. Polaroid promotional literature affirmed that "vibration-direction has been a scientific curiosity, and little more. Now, Polaroid puts it under... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
the strength of our MBA and Doctoral Programs; fuel the growth of HBP, Executive Education, and HBSO; and expand our ability to conduct innovative research. In fiscal 2022, six candidates accepted Assistant Professor positions, and two faculty members were View Details