Perspective - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Aug 2021
Blog Post

The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise

mesmerized by the way they leveraged their diverse backgrounds and experiences to bring new perspectives into the classroom. After years in the Silicon Valley bubble, it was refreshing to learn about industries, business challenges and... View Details

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective By: Sanaz Mobasseri, William A. Kahn and Robin J. Ely This paper uses systems psychodynamic concepts to develop theory about the persistence of racial inequality in... View Details

03 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit

It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

19 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

operations leader and former management consultant, specializing in growth strategy and operational efficiency. Gibson and Wilson both served as officers in the US Army culminating at the ranks of colonel and captain, respectively. [iStockphoto/tolgart] What do you... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

How to Avoid a Price Increase

we have to define "success." If we define success from the perspective of the manufacturer, then there have been success stories. For instance, I think coffee is a product category that has successfully used downsizing. For the longest... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

21 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

ambassador program through trusted word-of-mouth channels (senior influencers on social media, and WhatsApp and community groups). For Laryea, who has worked around the world, the biggest takeaway was the importance of refining one’s global View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

1994 in accordance with changes in federal law. Executive Education: A Vital Component McArthur saw executive education as vital to the School’s success as a result of its capacity to broaden faculty members’ perspectives through... View Details

02 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Applying to the JD/MBA Program

pursue an MBA to gain both (1) substantive perspective on how to run companies and (2) qualitative perspective on how to lead. In the long term, the types of organizations I hope to help lead are those... 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'

Design Institute to create and support opportunities for Black entrepreneurs. “The pattern recognition that stems from my learning differences and unique perspective does help with surfacing unknown unknowns.” As for the art world’s... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

Portrait Project

Shara Ticku

really lost, I realized, was the chance to view life through my father’s eyes. I lost the chance to hear about his childhood in Kashmir, his perspective on the future of science, his favorite zinger from last night’s Jon Stewart episode.... View Details

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Online Business in Society Courses | HBS Online

signature case method. Business leaders will share challenges they’ve faced. As the story unfolds, you’ll leverage course concepts, vital tools and frameworks, and the diversity of your peers’ perspectives to analyze the problem and... View Details

Research Summary

Informing Brand Marketing Practice

Susan M. Fournier is involved with several projects relating more generally to brand managment issues. These include boardroom-level projects (with Professors Thomas Madden and Franke Fehle of the University of South Carolina, and sponsored by Interbrand) on the... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

A World of Difference

closest airport), he kept broadening his perspective. He asked a lot of questions. He checked in with the air traffic controller and the first officer; everybody’s perspective was brought in. He considered many alternatives when most of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

23 Aug 2006
Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

company to be "more like Target"—that is, more differentiated—even though this move doesn't fit particularly well with Wal-Mart's existing locations or capabilities. Lessons From The Past History also provides perspective on the... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail

01 Oct 2002
News

Michael F. Cronin

Nature's Blessing Michael F. Cronin: A Focus on the Fundamentals Ann M. Fudge: Enhanced Perspective Steven C. Watson: Course Change Karen Gordon Mills: Her Excellent Adventures Amy S. Langer: Fighting the Good Fight Jeremiah P. Murphy,... View Details

13 May 2019
Blog Post

The Many Facets of Becoming a Mother at HBS

Each student at HBS brings their own experiences, style, and perspective to every aspect of the MBA experience. Today, we are celebrating the unique perspectives of new mothers at HBS. Each of these women not only were pregnant during... View Details

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

and DeKalb, Illinois, as well as Gary, Indiana. 19 See Michele H. Bogart, Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995), 202. 20 Tedlow, Keeping the Corporate Image , 196. 21 The series in Fortune examined U.S. Steel... View Details

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

to work on the mission at hand. It has not always been fun, and it’s never been easy, but it has honestly been worth every ounce of struggle. All this hardship has made me the person I am today. I gained perspective from all walks of life... View Details

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

businesses diluted the concept of sustainability that created the cluster in the first place. Considering the historical perspective “The historical perspective is important, because you rarely have a linear... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

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