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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded...
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- 21 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)
1.3-billion-observations panel. We find that fears that strict ID requirements would disenfranchise ethnic minorities and other disadvantaged populations have not materialized. We do not find any significant effect of the laws on...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
Publications 2006 pub Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives By: Bandiera, Oriana, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources and survey data to study the match between firms and managers. The...
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Anna Secino
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
that minor emotion induction, the anxious negotiators made lower initial offers and bartered less favorable prices than the neutral participants. Anxious buyers, for example, ended up with a $6.60 final profit versus $7.94 for those who...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
academic partner of the OneTen Initiative, which seeks to create 1 million living-wage jobs over 10 years for Black and underrepresented minority women and men who do not have a college education. If you believe, as I do, that talent is...
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Harvard Business School
was a consortium of ten leading business schools, including Harvard and MIT, designed to recruit outstanding minority students and provide them with financial aid and jobs after graduation. Nearly 2,000 View Details
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What Black Executives Really Want
WHY DID YOU START RESEARCHING BLACK EXECUTIVES? I am not an expert in diversity and inclusion, but I had thought about marginalization, both as a child growing up in India, where I saw the marginalization of some minority groups, and as a...
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- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
critical thinkers Patterns of behavior strive to persuade othersdefend your positiondownplay weakness present balanced argumentsremain open to alternativesaccept constructive criticism Minority views discouraged or dismissed cultivated...
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by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
subjective, and all too often women or minorities have been excluded because others have not found them to "fit." One way individuals have coped with this reality is to hide who they really are or how they really think until...
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by Linda Hill
- Profile
Melcolm Ruffin
his college education and his NBA career offered him simultaneous introductions to HBS alumni – and powerful Black leadership. In his second year at UMass, Melcolm attended an event featuring Dan Reed, then president of the NBA D-League (the basketball equivalent of...
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A Tradition of Philanthropy - Alumni
fellowship funding, and more. 1978 The George P. Baker Minority Fellowship is established to honor Dean Baker’s contributions to increasing African Americans’ access and admission to graduate business schools, and specifically to HBS,...
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Managing the Advantages and Tradeoffs of Collaborative Structures
To solve complex problems, organizations must both collect facts and use them to solve problems. In one study, my coauthors and I show that increased connectivity—measured as network... View Details
- 06 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs
professionally. How have you leveraged your unique HBCU experience at HBS? Having grown up in a predominantly Black community and attended an HBCU in Baltimore, I've seen firsthand how some of the decisions made by people at the top can have lasting negative impacts on...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
happened” across the city along racial and ethnic lines. In the early 20th century, Baltimore pioneered the use of racially discriminatory housing ordinances and deed covenants that prevented Blacks, Jews, and other minorities from buying...
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
blight Rust Belt Influence: Medium-High 801980s19 Population migrates to West and Southwest Influence: High 901990s Immigration tops 9 million (largest number since first decade) Baby boomers age Hispanics become fastest-growing minority...
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- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
mistake. However, rather than simply discarding the mistake, the Dupont chemist gave the result some analysis and discovered that the fibers had congealed. This discovery was the first step toward the invention of nylon. With similar attention to the View Details
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by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
totality of Tate's efforts. "The response is predominantly awe at the magnitude of what Tate has been able to pull off," she says. Still, some leaders remain skeptical. "There is a minority view of, 'Oh my goodness, we...
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- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
After a year at an investment bank, Dunn began his venture capital career at J.H. Whitney. Having earned his education the hard way, Dunn is particularly interested in improving educational opportunities for new generations of students from disadvantaged and View Details
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
Goodyear introduced its first belted-bias tire in 1967, Firestone's Research and Development group responded with a matching product in a matter of months and provided a second generation belted bias tire within a year.8 Belted bias tires could be manufactured with...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
regulators rose 15 percent. The findings suggest that companies become more lenient when the penalty is merely a financial one (and a minor one, at that) and there’s none of the reputational risk that a breaking story in the local paper...
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