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- January 2024
- Technical Note
The ICARUS Principles: What It Takes to Tackle the World
By: Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau
Over the course of the 20th century, most of the world’s major multinational corporations framed their mission around Milton Friedman’s famous mantra: that the sole purpose of the firm is to maximize its shareholders’ profits. Recently, however, growing numbers of...
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Purpose;
Mission;
Social Business;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Social Enterprise;
For-Profit Firms
Spar, Debora L., and Julia M. Comeau. "The ICARUS Principles: What It Takes to Tackle the World." Harvard Business School Technical Note 324-055, January 2024.
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
executives and their personal characteristics to study gender gaps in CEO appointments and pay. Both gaps are sizeable: 18% for CEO appointments and 27% for pay. At most one-eighth of the gaps can be...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
and patenting data for 1,315 employees at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 500 technology firm, I exploit a natural experiment where the assignment of managers for newly hired college graduates is mandated by rigid HR rules and is uncorrelated to observable View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Employers Favor Men
men perform better on average at certain tasks, according to the research paper When Gender Discrimination Is Not About Gender. The paper was written by Katherine B. Coffman and Christine L. Exley, both assistant professors at Harvard...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- Article
Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women
Any list of top CEOs reveals a stunning lack of diversity. Among the leaders of Fortune 500 companies, for example, just 32 are women, three are African-American, and not one is an African-American woman. What’s going on? The authors studied the careers of the roughly...
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Roberts, Laura Morgan, Anthony Mayo, Robin Ely, and David Thomas. "Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 2 (March–April 2018): 126–131.
- 07 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Glasses Land the Gig: Employers Still Choose Workers Who 'Look the Part'
to aid evaluations. The study examined some of the characteristics that employers look for in photos when assessing whether a candidate is a good fit. And it is an effect, Troncoso, notes, that goes “above and beyond demographics and...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- March–April 2021
- Article
Network-biased Technical Change: How Information Management Tools Overcome Some Biases but Exacerbate Others.
By: Gerald C. Kane and Lynn Wu
Organizations have long sought to improve employee performance by managing knowledge more effectively. In this paper, we test whether the adoption of digital tools for expertise search and access within an organization, often referred to as a support to an...
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Digital Tools;
Social Media;
Social Networks;
Transactive Memory Systems;
Augmented Intelligence;
Artificial Intelligence;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Gender;
Equality and Inequality;
Technology Adoption;
Knowledge Management;
Performance Improvement;
Power and Influence;
Organizational Change and Adaptation
Kane, Gerald C., and Lynn Wu. "Network-biased Technical Change: How Information Management Tools Overcome Some Biases but Exacerbate Others." Organization Science 32, no. 2 (March–April 2021): 273–292.
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
U.S., and an experimental exercise) that are consistent with the model. Working PapersWhen Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation Authors:Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We examine...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
stability—bailouts and regulation—varies with the government's fiscal burden and characteristics of the economy. Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-Family Narrative as a Social Defense...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Forthcoming
- Article
Sampling Bias in Entrepreneurial Experiments
By: Ruiqing Cao, Rembrand Koning and Ramana Nanda
Using data from a prominent online platform for launching new digital products, we document that ‘sampling bias’—defined as the difference between a startup’s target customer base and the actual sample on which early ‘beta tests’ are conducted—has a systematic and...
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Cao, Ruiqing, Rembrand Koning, and Ramana Nanda. "Sampling Bias in Entrepreneurial Experiments." Management Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online December 14, 2023.)
- Web
Fellowships - Business History
will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions, or any...
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- Aug 2017
- Conference Presentation
To Highlight or Downplay Differences? A Threat-Matching Model for Crafting Diversity Approaches
By: J. Lees and E. Apfelbaum
We integrate organizational and psychological scholarship to devise the threat matching model, a contingency theory that illustrates when, how, and which diversity approaches—frameworks leaders provide employees to understand and respond to diversity—promote...
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Keywords:
Race And Ethnicity;
Inclusion;
Diversity;
Gender;
Race;
Ethnicity;
Equality and Inequality;
Leadership
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Anywhere Sikochi
Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details
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AttributesCategories Analyst Reports Macroeconomic Data Biographies Contact Information Board Characteristics Executive Compensation Ownership Forecasts & Estimates Credit Ratings Branches & Subsidiaries Competitors New Issues Mergers &...
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Women’s health is more than female anatomy and our reproductive system—it’s about unraveling centuries of inequities due to living in a patriarchal healthcare system. - Blog: Health Supplement
“women’s health”? Is it serving health needs based on gender (one’s identity of being a woman) or sex (different biological and physiological characteristics females face)? Women’s health through the lens of...
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- 18 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions
can amplify bias. Some companies try to address the issue by making sure that their algorithms don’t use data on protected characteristics such as race or gender. Yet, eliminating factors like race from an algorithm doesn’t address the...
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by Rachel Layne
- Web
Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
support students who are members of the African American Student Union at HBS. Coleman is an organizational development consultant focusing on gender equity, inclusion, and diversity. A graduate of Stanford University, she serves on...
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- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women Leaders and Organizational Change
these frameworks shares that makes them inadequate in explaining the problem? A: The first three frames are rooted in the common tendency to think of gender as an individual characteristic and View Details
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by Mallory Stark
- Web
Standards of Conduct - Recruiting
Business School to treat all members of our community with respect, to provide an environment conducive to learning and working, and to ensure equal access to rights, privileges and opportunities without regard to race, color, sex, gender...
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- 20 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think
unethical actions are occurring without intent, we need to solve those problems as well. Our book is an attempt to move in this direction. Q: What are ethical blind spots, and how do they influence our decisions? A: There are many. But a few that will illustrate the...
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by Sean Silverthorne