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- 03 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 2)
the little things. The joy that comes with progression and achievement counterbalances an immense pressure to give back. You look after those who, like you, face the same starting point. You never forget where you come from View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
(cherry blossoms) Project, where the company asked users in Japan to report about how cherry blossoms were blooming near them day by day, had opened up opportunities for the company's consumer business in Japan. The project ultimately garnered positive publicity View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog
that VCPE investors encounter. This course does not help build deal-execution skills; students instead should enroll in Entrepreneurial Finance, Private Equity Finance, or Venture Capital Journey. The course covers three broad categories:...
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- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
NPC had been quite successful doing. In 2011, the five-year revenue projections were revised significantly downward, and Wyss needed to cut costs while also building the organization's capabilities quickly...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2020
- Podcast
WWT: IT innovation rooted in diversity and employee wellbeing
Corporate social responsibility and commitment to a local workforce can go hand-in-hand with profitability. World Wide Technology in St. Louis is managing to thrive while dealing head-on with the pandemic and social and racial issues. One of the largest minority-owned...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
Below the surface of the roller coaster political negotiations in the Middle East, a new process is quietly being played out. It is a process in which economics, not politics, is the focus, in which companies, not governments, are the driving force. Companies were...
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- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
assured that they can defend their achievements—that they will be listened to if they feel aggrieved or abused. Jobs that reasonably fulfill all 4 drives are the building blocks of healthy organizations. It is also important to make sure...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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IFC: Miami; Climate and Commerce - Course Catalog
of an important region. We will explore whether leaders are effectively working together across sectors to address Miami’s climate risks, and what strategies and tactics can be used to accelerate action...
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Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills - Course Catalog
and firms, but also for themselves. This list became the structure for the course themes, topics, and cases, which was further refined in partnership with members from the inaugural 2023 cohort. The course...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- Podcast
Can AI and analytics deliver efficient, equitable skills markets?
As employers and job seekers cope with pandemic-induced disruption and uncertainty, the role of intermediary is more crucial than ever. Job platform CareerBuilder, with its two-sided skills market, looks to smooth the employment process and increase diversity. CEO...
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- 06 Aug 2020
- Podcast
Unilever’s workforce transformation: hard truths and help with change
Unilever is several years into a company-wide plan to revolutionize its workforce. Faced with the challenge of selling its employees on change as opportunity, the multinational offers job counseling, retraining, and assistance with career moves—within the company or...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Providing education and opportunities to children in Pakistan
in 2013, she discusses the inspiration for and impact of building schools and fighting illiteracy. “I was working in a flood area 24 or 25 years ago View Details
- 19 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures
food waste away from landfills by upcycling it into high-value sugar polymers using a combination of insects and microbial cell factories. PARTICIPANTS Algoma Homes - Josef Bromovsky (MBA 2023) - Algoma Homes designs View Details
- 29 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Bloom Energy
opportunities, be sure to visit our job board. What recruiting tactics have you found most successful in engaging with students and/or alumni at HBS? Our most successful recruitment tools have been on-site visits to Bloom Energy’s corporate headquarters View Details
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Manufacturing
- December 1998 (Revised May 1999)
- Exercise
Negotiating Peace Accords in Bellicoso for the Leader of the Peasant Freedom Front (PFF): General Instructions and Confidential Information
Bellicoso is a multi-party conflict resolution simulation based loosely on the bitter civil war in El Salvador. It is designed to explore issues in: 1) the management of interactions between external negotiations between sides and internal negotiations within them, 2)...
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War;
Negotiation Tactics;
Negotiation Participants;
Government and Politics;
Conflict and Resolution;
El Salvador
"Negotiating Peace Accords in Bellicoso for the Leader of the Peasant Freedom Front (PFF): General Instructions and Confidential Information." Harvard Business School Exercise 899-092, December 1998. (Revised May 1999.)
- 2014
- Working Paper
Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide
By: Jordan I. Siegel, Lynn Pyun and B.Y. Cheon
The organizational theory of the multinational firm holds that foreignness is a liability, and specifically that lack of embeddedness in host-country social networks is a source of competitive disadvantage; meanwhile the literature on labor market discrimination...
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Prejudice and Bias;
Human Capital;
Selection and Staffing;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Competitive Advantage;
Markets;
Profit;
Gender;
South Korea
Siegel, Jordan I., Lynn Pyun, and B.Y. Cheon. "Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-011, August 2010. (Revised February 2014.)
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
need to cut the cost of a building by 10 percent in order to make the numbers work, they need to understand what has been given up. I'd like them to be better at visualizing the impact of what is being created View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
time crunched, the last thing we want to do is squander labor market opportunity and flexibility. Yet that’s what could happen if new companies are forced to build workforces based on dated assumptions about...
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- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
boxes on the way to promotion. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/418031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-042 LeBron James: Building a Hollywood Empire It is June 2016. Superstar basketball player LeBron...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
Life was hard enough for the one-third of Americans who had wrestled with anxiety prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the disease that has killed almost 100,000 in the United States, left millions unemployed, and socially distanced many...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost