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Community Values

Community Values Statement The mission of HBS is to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. Achieving this requires an environment of trust and mutual respect, free expression and inquiry, and a commitment to truth,... View Details
  • June 10, 2021
  • Article

How to Be a Purpose-Driven Leader in a Capitalist World

By: Celia Bravard, John Pontillo and Andrew J. Hoffman
Today’s business school education isn’t suited to the big challenges facing the world — climate change, economic inequality and racial injustice — that the leaders of tomorrow will be expected to solve. So, how can students and young professionals succeed in a system... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Mission and Purpose; Social Issues; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Opportunities
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Creating Emerging Markets

Emerging Markets has conducted lengthy and impactful interviews with business leaders across the emerging world on topics including innovation , leadership , family business , business and education , and business-government relations .... View Details
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Race, Gender & Equity

Built For Change Advancing knowledge, educating leaders, and bridging research & practice Race, Gender & Equity Initiative The Race, Gender & Equity Initiative catalyzes and translates cutting-edge research to transform practice, enable... View Details
  • March 2022
  • Article

Gender Gaps in Venture Capital Performance

By: Paul A. Gompers, Vladimir Muhkarlyamov, Emily Weisburst and Yuhai Xuan
We explore gender differences in performance in a comprehensive sample of venture capital investments in the United States. Investments by female venture capital investors have significantly lower success rates than investments by their male colleagues when controlling... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Performance; Gender
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  • January 2021 (Revised March 2022)
  • Teaching Note

Ureed.com: The Marketplace for Language

By: Ashley V. Whillans
This case explores the growth of Ureed, an online marketplace for translation services that is powered by a workforce consisting of remote freelancers who are based in the United Arab Emirates. Nour Al Hassan, the founder and CEO faced the challenge of how best to... View Details
Keywords: Language Translation; Freelancers; Remote Work; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Management; Motivation and Incentives; Job Design and Levels
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  • 2006
  • Other Unpublished Work

Rural Clusters of Innovation: Berkshires Strategy Project: Driving A Long-Term Economic Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter
The Berkshires Strategy Project, a six-month strategy development effort involving dozens of private and public sector organizations in the Berkshires, has led to broad consensus behind an economic strategy for the County, and galvanized a leadership group in the form... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Industry Clusters; Growth and Development; United States
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  • 18 Jun 2020
  • News

Community Conversation on Race: June 11, 2020

  • 17 Oct 2024
  • Video

Sarah Kaplan: Challenges can be turned into innovation

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School Leadership | About

Administrative Leadership Elizabeth (Beth) Clark Chief Information Officer Angela Q. Crispi Executive Dean for Administration Jean M. Cunningham Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs Terrill L. Drake Chief Community and Culture Officer Gabriel Handel... View Details
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South Asia - Global

business issues, helping to build intellectual capital on this important region. Further, the IRC is home to an HBS style classroom, allowing for regional business leaders to experience our faculty and the hallmark case study method in local Executive View Details

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 14 Sep 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity?

    So much has changed since a groundbreaking study found that daughters of working moms often perform better in their own careers than daughters of stay-at-home moms—and are just as happy, to boot. Diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts across higher View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • Research Summary

    Retailing: Past, Present, and Future

    Walter J. Salmon is working on several retailing-related research and course development projects, including a study (with Gwen K. Ortmeyer) of the evolution and future of American department stores, and a case book (with DAVID E. BELL) for use in graduate... View Details
    • 2022
    • Chapter

    Luxury Tourism and Environmentalism

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    This chapter examines the evolution of luxury tourism and its environmental impact. Whilst mass tourism is widely seen as environmentally damaging, the impact of luxury tourism is nuanced. During the first stage of the growth in the nineteenth century, the numbers of... View Details
    Keywords: Luxury Consumption; Environmentalism; Tourism; Green Business; Luxury; History; Ethics; Globalization; Environmental Management; Business History; Tourism Industry; Antarctica; Latin America; North and Central America; Europe; Switzerland; Chile; Costa Rica; Africa; Kenya
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    • August 2019 (Revised November 2021)
    • Case

    Helena Divišová

    By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
    Helena Divišová (MBA, 2016) decided to return home to the Czech Republic after graduation to be near her father who became seriously ill soon after she started HBS. She had considered leaving HBS immediately to help run his business, but her father—who grew up in the... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Czech Republic
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    • 2017
    • Chapter

    The Swedish Competitiveness Scorecard 2017

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels
    The Swedish Competitiveness Scorecard assesses Sweden's current competitiveness across a broad range of indicators, applying an impact logic from competitiveness fundamentals to productivity and prosperity outcomes. On these indicators Sweden is compared to a peer... View Details
    Keywords: Competitiveness; Sweden; Economic Policy; Economy; Policy; Competition; Sweden
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    Exposure to Harmful Workplace Practices Could Account for Inequality in Life Spans Across Different Demographic Groups

    By: Joel Goh, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Stefanos A. Zenios
    The existence of important socioeconomic disparities in health and mortality is a well-established fact. Many pathways have been adduced to explain inequality in life spans. In this article we examine one factor that has been somewhat neglected: people with different... View Details
    Keywords: Occupational Health; Inequality; Life Expectancy; Socioeconomic Issues; Health
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    The Role of the Corporation in Society: An Alternative View and Opportunities for Future Research

    By: George Serafeim
    A long-standing ideology in business education has been that a corporation is run for the sole interest of its shareholders. I present an alternative view where increasing concentration of economic activity and power in the world's largest corporations, the Global... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Governance; Environment; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainability Research; Sustainability Targets; Corporate Performance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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    • February 2008 (Revised June 2008)
    • Case

    Shoppers' Stop Group (SSG)

    By: Rajiv Lal and Virginia Fuller
    As B.S. Nagesh thumbed through the 2006-2007 Annual Report for Shoppers' Stop Group (SSG), action shots of healthy-looking people dressed in the latest fashions amid the words "Redefining Retail" brought a smile to his face. As managing director of SSG-a Rs 8.9 billion... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Initial Public Offering; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Emerging Markets; Retail Industry; India
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