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08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

time: from a logic of bias (women presented as victims of unequal treatment), to a logic of underrepresentation (women presented as stuck at lower levels of organizations), to a logic of work-family conflict... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

29 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad

sample of 82 ads for 30 brands in their homes or workplaces. The research relied on webcams that track visible changes on a person's face as they watch an ad, responding to funny, or amusing content. The... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting

23 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

Here’s some bad news and some worse news for women who aspire to the executive suite. The bad news is that there’s a huge gender gap in top corporate positions, both in terms of the number of female executives and how much money they make... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

to Washington Hospital Center as a pair. Jeffrey Lurie enticed Joe Banner to join him at the Philadelphia Eagles. Dusty Baker brought a cadre of coaches with him from the San... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

are younger. Most of the women I have interviewed say, "The time that I most want flexibility in my work, the time I most want to be staying at home instead of traveling, is when my children are... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

A host of organizations — among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines — have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated,... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

crossed the American border.HBS Working Knowledge: As you and Lina Gálvez-Muñoz write in the first chapter of your new book, the word "multinational" usually conjures up images of American firms. You have chosen to focus on... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

The "sharing economy" is a burgeoning business model in which people offer their personal belongings and personal services to others, usually through online marketplaces that facilitate the transactions. It seems absolutely egalitarian at... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

intones, "How do you prepare to deal with the unexpected that's coming up? Get there early, set the place up. Read every signal you can get. So it's intuitive, but it's also systematic." Those two qualities—systematic... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

02 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

door and ready to be marketed to with more profitable products such as home mortgages. Already, entrepreneurial competitors are pecking around the margins of banking—Paypal... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

always like it, but I explained to them that they ought to have pride enough in their jobs to learn about this piece of equipment and what it did." He created a simple... View Details

Keywords: by Theodore Kinni

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

fashion and execute against a higher-ambition agenda. Q: Many companies in your book have a global reach. At the same time, however, they are often connected to a local identity or home base. How do... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

his home on Kiraly Street on the Pest side of Budapest and he then had to endure a Soviet Communist regime from 1945, when the Russians forced the Germans out of Budapest after a lengthy and very destructive... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

14 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

eminent hospitals, and for decades has been a leader in pioneering cardiac care. Explores the methods, processes, and personnel that the hospital has cultivated over the years in order to develop its track... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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