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- 20 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms
American corporations have never been more partisan—starting at the top with executives who often bring on like-minded managers belonging to the same political party. Now, new research shows that when boardrooms are dominated by one... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 14 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World
audacious decisions that embody risks and often go against the grain. They cannot afford to keep their heads down, using traditional management techniques while avoiding criticism and risk-taking. In fact, their greatest risk lies in not having the courage to make bold... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
School and in the world of business. Here, in honor of Pride Month, we hear about the role the student club played in the lives of some of those who belonged over the years. 1970s “I was scared to death that someone would figure out where... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist
Three dollars in cash, six changes of clothing, five bottles of rum, and a box of cigars. These were the items that belonged to 12-year-old Carlos Saladrigas when he arrived in Miami in 1961. His parents chose the risk of sending their... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
personal details just to explain that people like me do exist. All the while, I have a voice in the back of my mind saying ‘wouldn't it be easier to just say you are straight?’ and questioning whether I really do belong in this community.... View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
following the steps a customer takes to select, buy, and consume a product or service. You call these situations “decoupling.” Could you give an example? Teixeira: A great example of decoupling is an insurance startup called Trov. It’s an app that allows you to quickly... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
communication, transportation, and travel, creating a new commercial reality. He argued that the future belonged not to the multinational corporation but to the global corporation that did not cater to local differences. Known for his... View Details
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
James W. Riley has been confronted with questions of identity and alienation since he was a teenage graffiti artist navigating 1990s Los Angeles. “I’ve always had this notion of going places and being in spaces that maybe subtly said, ‘You don’t View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 24 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?
professor. They surveyed 1,770 members of Alignable, an online platform for small-business leaders. To supplement that small-business data, a second survey was completed by 70 business economists belonging to the National Association for... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
What does this imply for the B-list? A: Yes. There are many examples of blockbuster movies that did not have any stars that belonged to the A-list at the time it came out. In fact, some of the best-selling movies of all time did not have... View Details
- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
belonging or exclusion), resource (providing survival), and control—describe 70 percent of our inner feelings. The objective is to find deep metaphors that individuals share in common (a true market segment or a basis for resolving a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Jul 2008
- What Do You Think?
Are Followers About to Get Their Due?
followership? Why isn't followership addressed by business school curricula along with leadership? Does it belong in a course of study? Or does this just run the risk of deteriorating into a discussion of how to manipulate your boss? What... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
belonging to a certain ethnicity to isolate distinctively Asian names. Because most guests leave reviews, the researchers say they can accurately reflect the number of bookings a host is getting. The researchers then compared the change... View Details
- 30 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Finding Pride
community and encourage advocacy for LGBTQ+ individuals at the School and in the world of business. Here, in honor of Pride Month, we hear about the role the student club played in the lives of some of those who belonged over the years.... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
racial/ethnical/cultural backgrounds, yet who feel forced to choose or be bucketed by social perceptions. I co-founded Mixed Millennial with the purpose of bringing a voice, community, and sense of belonging to a silent group. Nori... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
others will be making along the way. The number of places that don’t belong to any one of these three categories and that are not interested at all is, nowadays, very low. Frei: That final category has to be zero, which is an astonishing... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 28 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)
However, I still dream that one day, I will open my own restaurant chain! Sebastián Cisterna, Class of 2023 Being FGLI at Harvard is both a challenge and an opportunity. I often feel that I don’t belong here. I feel uncertain about the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
the question of what happens when there’s no one left to break the story. Using a dataset of more than 10,000 facilities belonging to more than 1,000 publicly listed companies in the United States—a dataset that represents 80 percent of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
American Booksellers Association, a trade organization for independents, began to host “survival strategy” sessions throughout the country. By the late 1980s, however, it would be Waldenbooks and B. Dalton struggling to survive, while many independents maintained niche... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
advantage. Lagace: What advice do you have for conventional firms looking to explore platforms? Yoffie: There are three potential strategies. You can belong to an existing platform, buy a platform if time to market is critical, or build... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace