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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
important in shaping who we are as businesspeople," echoes David E. Simmons (MBA '85), president of Simmons Family, Inc., a firm established by Roy Simmons in 1978 that owns and operates radio stations in the western United States. "The...
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6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees - Recruiting
Leadership echo the same message: Race not only still matters in the American workplace, but it remains a powerful barrier that prevents African Americans from ascending to leadership roles. The data is indeed bleak. While an increasing...
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- 09 May 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)
stories on TV, I frequently felt like an almost-shameful afterthought. And yet, I’m relatively lucky; my personal struggle is a mere echo of a long history of Chinese Exclusion Acts and Japanese internment camps and murders of Vincent...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
center her, she says. Later on she made elaborate mix-tapes, borrowing tracks from her mother’s record collection (Luther Vandross, Anita Baker, Hall & Oates, and Billie Holiday), grabbing new songs off the radio, and adding her own alternative tastes, from View Details
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
2016 Echoing Green Fellow Christine Su is co-founder and CEO of PastureMap. The for-profit software company helps sustainable ranchers record their grazing practices on mobile devices. (Photo courtesy of View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
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Prizes & Benefits - New Venture Competition
International, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, Echoing Green, Invested Development, and The Bridgespan Group. Fast-tracking & in-kind awards for winners and runners-up, in addition to financial awards totaling $75,000. How to register...
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- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
presidents he managed still echoed in his head. He couldn't escape his frustrations about carrying one partner who hated travel, didn't know how to sell business, and—while good at producing work that was assigned to him—hadn't progressed...
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by Kim Girard
- 15 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Closing the ‘Intention-Action’ Gap
how sustainability has been central to the company’s mission and image. He outlines specific steps that the company has taken in a way that echoes the marketing tools cited in “The Elusive Green Consumer,” expressing a clear message about...
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- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
comment from “The Real Deal” echoes this belief: “If you want real diversity, surround yourself with people from different backgrounds who do not think like you. You could hire 50% women, and if they are clones of your existing leaders,...
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by James Heskett
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Silence Spells Trouble at Work
discuss different perspectives. But one speaker after another just echoed what the previous speaker had said. When any manager did dare to dissent, a colleague would quickly dismiss his idea. Having effectively tabled every discussion in...
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by Leslie A. Perlow
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News - Research Computing Services
remain on a non-default version of Grid3 at login (to keep stable the software versions), so that all launchers use the same default, execute the following command in a terminal/shell window that is logged into the HBSGrid cluster: echo '...
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- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
know-it-all leaders unnecessary for successful change, they often muck it up. Echoing Garvin, Rosabeth Moss Kanter notes that it's very difficult for leaders to spell out in advance precisely what the future state should look like—so many...
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by Nick Morgan
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
a discovery. “If they know what they want, [they are] going to buy it on Amazon.” (photo by Eric Millette) From the West Coast, Kathryn Grantham (MBA 2005) echoes those challenges—and opportunities. Grantham’s Black Bird Bookstore, which...
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April White
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
and attracting entirely new ones. Rethinking A Trip To The Museum A museum trip has traditionally been an intensely physical experience: walking gallery floors, hearing footsteps echo off spacious halls, and seeing up-close the brush...
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- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
someone I always thought was inclusive, but in hindsight he was not. He put women in top roles, but they did not get an equal voice. Many times, I was told what decisions were rather than being asked to make the decision or provide input.” This experience is View Details
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by Kristen Senz
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
traditional nonprofits, what's most important is the social purpose, but hybrids also have economic objectives to generate enough revenue to sustain their operations." Echoing Green Battilana and Lee, who were designing the database...
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by Carmen Nobel
Jane Trahey
Trahey was one of the first women to own and manage a major advertising agency in the United States. A prolific copywriter and author, Trahey is credited with the inspiration for the long-running “What becomes a legend most?” campaign for Blackglama mink. Her agency...
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- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
other slums in Asia. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710004-PDF-ENG Echoing Green Harvard Business School Case 410-013 This case presents the leadership challenges that Cheryl Dorsey, the president of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- Portrait Project
Jacquie Sandberg
laughter filled recovery rooms and echoed from hospital hallways. Together we transformed tear-streaked cheeks from a symptom of grief to the mark of a particularly winning joke. My metric has changed, and the lesson didn't come cheaply....
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- Portrait Project
Mark Giragosian
My parents said not to worry about those kids. Thirteen years later I took the stage as a professional. I lived my dream. I even met the love of my life. My parents were always in the audience. Today, the passion I cultivated on that stage View Details