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- 04 Apr 2022
- What Do You Think?
As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?
governor would follow through on his intentions to sign it into law. The bill had taken on the moniker “Don’t Say Gay.” There had been “Say Gay” protests across Florida and the US by groups supportive of LGBTQ+ rights. Hundreds of Disney... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
decision was announced captures the despair and anger of the workers to be displaced. It also captures a management team trying to act reasonably by giving workers a rare one-year notice of the move—but doing so with a tin ear. For example, View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security
no closer to addressing the underlying causes of systemic racism. Two months ago, a mob of supporters of former President Donald J. Trump stormed the US Capitol, which had a far smaller law enforcement presence than it did during protests... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
Stay beautiful”—went viral on social media in 2013. (See illustration below) Campaign ad featuring Indian actress Nandita Das protesting skin-lightening creams. Source: Women of Worth, courtesy Rohit Deshpandé Fair skin part of India’s... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details
- 02 Mar 2021
- HBS Case
The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?
American history, yet descendants of residents harmed by the attack note that government officials have never made reparations for those killed or for homes and businesses that were destroyed. The killing of George Floyd by a police officer last summer and the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
intellectual property, or getting Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland to come to terms. By spending intensive time with these great negotiators, writing cases on their most challenging deals, and relentlessly probing their... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1
were working. We were supportive and made sure everyone felt heard, and we made decisions and moved on without protest or hard feelings. I feel so lucky to have met my teammates through the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences program, and made... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
down. It was an exciting, if unsettled, time. “Transition is very hard,” Enan says. “Now we know.” Over the next 18 months, she worked under three ministers of finance, sometimes sleeping at the office when protesters demanding... View Details
- Research Summary
Overview
Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One
People might be more likely than ever to protest in reaction to a social problem or geopolitical crisis. But do such activist events, even large-scale demonstrations, change public opinion? New research shows that View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
Martin Vasev
The cycle of protests never stopped. When I was twelve, all the teachers, including my mom, went on a months-long strike. At nineteen, my friend suffered a skull fracture from police brutality during a student protest. At twenty-five, we... View Details
- 04 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives
right away. Join a protest or take virtual action. If you’ve never participated in a protest before, now is the time to do it! You can also take virtual action by signing petitions, engaging in social media... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
A McDonald’s employee takes part in a March protest calling for unionization and higher minimum wages for fast-food workers. (© David Eulitt/TNS/ZUMA Wire) In May, thousands of McDonald’s employees swarmed the company’s Oak Brook,... View Details
- 21 Mar 2012
- Op-Ed
Finding the Right Jeremy Lin Storyline
Protestant faith makes him seem less "other" to a non-Asian-American audience than his race, especially in the context of current public discourse about politicians who have Muslim names or Mormon faith? There are two plausible... View Details
- Portrait Project
Onaizah Panhwar
“But you need a shelter a man to provide security to your family” – a well-intentioned relative advised, trying to convince me to marry when I was seventeen. “I will be my own shelter I may not know how but I have faith in myself” – I View Details
- Portrait Project
Brendan Sullivan
elderly Japanese women and men. They respond with curiosity by stroking my blonde, almost white, hair. My reluctance during this weekly ritual led to protests that my parents dismissed. My mother, a Colombian immigrant, and my father, an... View Details
- 03 Mar 2010
- News
Last Look - March 2010
one wonders what the sign, carefully held up by Collins, was for. It reads, “Scholars under the Baker Foundation,” with the words “Non Hokum sed but Veritas” circling a shovel. If they’re not suffering a fit of existential ennui, this may be a very decorous (inside the... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
LaMure (HBS MBA '02), is that targeted corporate executives who decide to ignore NGO protests do so at their own peril. Spar and LaMure recently detailed the rising power of NGOs and corporate responses in "The Power of Activism:... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell