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- 11 Feb 2017
- News
Harvard Business School Makes a Case for Diversity
As central as case studies are to research and learning at Harvard Business School, they’ve been missing one major feature, says senior lecturer Steven S. Rogers (MBA 1985): diversity. Notably, the stories of African-American business owners and leaders. In a lengthy...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
learn from past experiences.” “The AT&T and Vodafone cases are examples of how technology and demographics are changing the workplace, and how leading companies have responded to these challenges,” says Kerr, co-chair of HBS’s Managing...
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- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
study about the Genzyme Center—the first building in the nation to receive a LEED Platinum rating.) Toffel and Simcoe collected data on 735 California cities from 2001 to 2008, including LEED registrations, construction starts, and View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?
About GenderGender discrimination in a typically male workplace is not necessarily driven by misogyny. Rather, employers are less willing to hire applicants associated with a lower performing group—even if that group is defined by a View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 1999
- Chapter
Theory for Practice: Making Sense of Race Relations in Organizations
By: D. A. Thomas and Karen Proudford
- January 2013
- Background Note
Apartheid in South Africa
By: Paul Healy
A short history of Apartheid in South Africa
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Healy, Paul. "Apartheid in South Africa." Harvard Business School Background Note 113-084, January 2013.
- July 1993 (Revised September 1995)
- Supplement
Block 16: Indigenous Peoples' Perspective
By: Malcolm S. Salter and Susan E.A. Hall
Supplements Block 16: Conoco's Green Oil Strategy (A). Provides the indigenous people's perspective on Conoco's Ecuadorian strategy. Designed to be distributed to students who will be playing the role of Ecuadorian indigenous people.
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Salter, Malcolm S., and Susan E.A. Hall. "Block 16: Indigenous Peoples' Perspective." Harvard Business School Supplement 394-003, July 1993. (Revised September 1995.)
- July 1991 (Revised May 1995)
- Case
Work: Craft and Factory in Nineteenth-Century America
Illustrates conditions of work for two types of 19th-century workers: an itinerant craftsman and New England textile factory "operatives," most of whom were women. The contrast is between freedom and geographical and occupational mobility for the craftsman, versus...
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McCraw, Thomas K. "Work: Craft and Factory in Nineteenth-Century America." Harvard Business School Case 391-264, July 1991. (Revised May 1995.)
- 20 Jul 2016
- News
The Woman Behind One of Africa’s Leading Food Brands
- March 2021
- Supplement
Artea (A), (B), (C), and (D): Designing Targeting Strategies
By: Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
Power Point Supplement to Teaching Note for HBS No. 521-021,521-022,521-037,521-043. This collection of exercises aims to teach students about 1)Targeting Policies; and 2)Algorithmic bias in marketing—implications, causes, and possible solutions. Part (A) focuses on...
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Targeted Advertising;
Targeting;
Algorithmic Data;
Bias;
A/B Testing;
Experiment;
Advertising;
Gender;
Race;
Diversity;
Marketing;
Customer Relationship Management;
Prejudice and Bias;
Analytics and Data Science;
Retail Industry;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States
- March–April 2020
- Article
An Institutional Approach to Gender Diversity and Firm Performance
By: Letian Zhang
This study examines data from 35 countries and 24 industries to understand the relationship between gender diversity and firm performance. Previous studies report conflicting evidence: some find that gender-diverse firms experience more positive performance and others...
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Keywords:
Institutional Theory;
Cross-cultural;
Diversity;
Gender;
Organizations;
Performance;
Situation or Environment;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
Zhang, Letian. "An Institutional Approach to Gender Diversity and Firm Performance." Organization Science 31, no. 2 (March–April 2020): 439–457.
- 17 Mar 2021
- News
Managing Diversity, The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
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Racial justice
- 30 Dec 2020
- News
Research: Women Are Better Leaders During a Crisis
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Male Consumers as Man-of-Action Heroes
What do men want? The conventional theory — the so–called compensatory consumption thesis — has held that men are torn between responsibility and domesticity on the one hand and a desire to live the untethered, exciting life of the rebel on the other. Accordingly, so...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Opening Minds Through Expanded Learning Opportunities
"it was the highlight of my HBS experience." Igniting a Passion for Business Scholarship Tami Kim (standing) with Harvard College students and PRIMO participants Marcus Dennis and Hannah Leverson "For many young scholars, especially those from View Details
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Backlash Against Male Elementary Educators
By: Corinne A. Moss-Racusin and Elizabeth R. Johnson
We investigated the existence, nature, and processes underscoring backlash (social and economic penalties) against men who violate gender stereotypes by working in education, and whether backlash is exacerbated by internal (vs. external) behavioral attributions....
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Moss-Racusin, Corinne A., and Elizabeth R. Johnson. "Backlash Against Male Elementary Educators." Journal of Applied Social Psychology 46, no. 7 (July 2016): 379–393.
- 30 Nov 2007
- Conference Presentation
The Ethnic Composition of US Inventors: Evidence Building from Ethnic Names in US Patents
By: William R. Kerr
- 26 Oct 2001
- Conference Presentation
Venture Capital Access in the New Economy: Is Gender an Issue?
By: Myra M. Hart, Candida Brush, Nancy Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood and Patricia Greene
Hart, Myra M., Candida Brush, Nancy Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, and Patricia Greene. "Venture Capital Access in the New Economy: Is Gender an Issue?" Paper presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference, Washington, DC, October 26, 2001.
- 14 Jun 2018
- News
Dhivya Suryadevara Named GM’s Next CFO
Photo courtesy of GM Photo courtesy of GM The CEO of General Motors, Mary Barra, recently announced that Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003) will be named CFO. Fortune reported that as vice president of corporate finance, Suryadevara has been instrumental in GM’s divestiture...
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