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- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How To Do Business in Islamic Countries
"For instance, if you invested in an Islamic mutual fund, among those industries which would be barred from representation as funds would be the gambling industry. But gambling also relates to futures; it relates to currency hedging;... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate
question of when life begins.” You Might Also Like: How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
leadership teams. It's pathetic. There's almost no African American representation at the top. There's four of us in the Fortunate 500. I think these leaders have to take a strong stance. And what we have to be willing to do is to talk... View Details
- 29 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
both employers and job candidates can build on it.” You Might Also Like: Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders Lack of Female... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
"teaching parables" can be produced. In this regard, we suggest not only more action research but also the use of social science portraiture, a genre of inquiry and representation that joins science and art. Sara... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
same. This is in the face of research findings that organizations with significant minority representation are stronger than their peers. A McKinsey & Company study in May of top executive teams in more than a thousand organizations... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Sep 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: How Can I Gain Power and Influence?
vacancies job applicants have more choice and more bargaining power. But with less than 11 percent of American workers being unionized and given that in the vast majority of companies, workers have no representation on the board of... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
assist you when you need help later. DeLong urges executives to create support networks of "truth speakers." Within your organization, you should seek out two or three people "who will tell you the things you don't want to hear and who will give a fair... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
book that points out the counter-intuitive relationship between success and listening to customers: The Innovator's Dilemma. Whether or not that is an accurate representation of Clay Christensen's book, it raises another interesting... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
disputes ceasing very quickly." One of the biggest delusions in world business, he added, is that governments will entirely step out of the way. "You still need the government for dealing with other national governments, and for View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women Leaders and Organizational Change
challenges that organizations face in their attempts to transform their working environments and structures to increase the representation of women in leadership positions in business, government, and the professions? A: The biggest... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 25 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse
and of the way we're going to fit into it—is no longer working. We all carry a representation of the world, our work, how we do our work, and how we fit in and where we're going; and that map is always inadequate in a number of ways. It... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
school degrees over the same period. Ethnic minority representation was even lower, with Hispanics and African Americans representing around 2 percent and at 1 percent respectively over the same period. “We really saw how powerful the... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
level of coordination can nonetheless be achieved.” A fascinating set of cases that clearly reflects the properties of diffuse pragmatic interest representation involves specific disease populations. Individuals that either are suffering... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
coauthored the study with Marcella Alsan, a professor at Harvard Kennedy School; Heidi Williams, a professor at Stanford University; and Harsh Gupta and Maya Durvasula, doctoral candidates at Stanford. Why might representation matter? One... View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
Political Representation and Crime in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Anandi Mani, Prachi Mishra, and Petia Topalova Abstract Using state-level variation in the timing of political reforms, we find that an increase in female View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2021
- What Do You Think?
Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?
issues of voting rights, or gun safety, or immigration, or climate change, or others being debated in state legislatures across the country. It is instead about CEO representation on such matters. When they identify with their... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
offering nationwide negotiation and representation services to professional athletes. "I didn't have a lifelong desire to be an entrepreneur," said Paula E. Groves (HBS MBA '91), founding partner of Axxon Capital, a venture... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
and approved, but when minority loan officers shepherd those applications, approval rates increase significantly, says Adi Sunderam, the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance at Harvard Business School, in the working paper, “The Impact of Minority... View Details
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
performance to provide quantitative insight into the link between a firm's business model choices and its profit consequences. The method is applied to Walmart by building a qualitative representation of its business model and mapping... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel