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- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
employee learning into changes in individual and organization behavior or improved financial performance. Put simply, companies are not getting the return they expect on their investment in training and education. By investing in training that is not likely to yield a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
Its currency only grew with the 2012 publication of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic Monthly article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” followed by Sheryl Sandberg’s (MBA 1995) 2013 book, Lean In. This conversation was born out of a...
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- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
With more data available than ever before, why would any executive gamble on a hunch—especially for decisions that involve their own employees? An emerging field that uses data to study human behavior at work, “people analytics” is...
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by Ben Rand
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
million fund "for targeted programs, economic initiatives and community development projects." FEBRUARY 2 Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) recently donated $1 million to the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund (NCF), a Boston-based group of Black and Brown...
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- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
list began in 1955. The figures are only slightly better beyond the corner office. According to a 2016 report on corporate diversity, black men and women account for 4.7 percent of executive team members in...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
later known as the “dean of black businessmen.” Fitzhugh encouraged Lambert to apply to HBS, where she was the first African American woman to attend the School during the early years of women’s acceptance into the two-year MBA Program. At the time, all View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
near the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory outside of Chicago, she dreamed of being a physicist. Instead, she has focused her career on executing “pro climate business solutions.” As the COO of Fermata Energy since March 2022, Claire...
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- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration, teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. According to HBSCB president Bing Sherrill (MBA 1962), about 45 alumni from HBS, Harvard College, and MIT attended the...
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Margie Kelley
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Scores By: Coffman, Katherine B., and David Klinowski Abstract— Multiple-choice exams play a critical role in university admissions across the world. A key question is whether imposing penalties for wrong answers on these exams deters guessing from View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
education and skills training. We’ll also talk about online learning opportunities for women and frontline workers who’ve been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. How can students, workers, and employers benefit from the new...
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- Web
Harvard Business School
said, "[I]t was also about just seeing some faculty and staff who looked like you. When you walked down the hall at the time, there were no black and no women faculty members, so the women students I'm sure...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
as CEO and president of Palm Computing and a decade as a marketing and logistics executive at Apple and its spin-off Claris, Dubinsky cofounded Handspring. As the company’s CEO, she oversees development, production, and marketing of the...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
differently while pregnant?” The focus is on practical, actionable recommendations. Risks are put into context so women can make their own choices, aware of the trade-offs they’re actually making. Pursuing Other Opportunities: A Corporate...
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- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
that, "It's very hard to change one's habit and society's perception. You may be the only executive strolling in the park with young mothers and playing kids. You feel completely out of place, and feel like 'getting back to...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
Corey Thomas (MBA 2002) Corey Thomas (MBA 2002) Greg Shell (MBA 2001) and Corey Thomas (MBA 2002) launched the NCF in June 2020, along with 17 other executives of color from leading Massachusetts corporations. Pursuing an innovative,...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
New Ventures by Jon Burgstone (MBA 1999) and Bill Murphy Jr. (Farallon Publishing) The authors explain the key common strategies and tactics used by some of today’s most extraordinary entrepreneurs and offer a seven-step framework for the efficient formation,...
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- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
primacy of signaling cooperative intent, handshaking actually reduced cooperation when the action signaled ill intent (e.g., when the handshaker was sick; Study 5). Finally, in Study 6, executives assigned to shake hands before a more...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
HBS alumni have been actively engaged in responding to the racial and social injustice in their communities and around the world. Read their various efforts below: OCTOBER 20 In their new book A Blessing: Women of Color Teaming Up to...
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- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
Steiner, executive vice-president of commercial acceptance, must decide if the situation in Brazil is stable enough to support a significant increase in breeding and biotech spending to develop products specifically designed for the...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
opportunities for women and minorities. While there are no real guarantees, being born as an insider increases the odds and likelihood of success. In our research, we saw education supplanting religion, birthplace, and nationality as a...
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by Sean Silverthorne