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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
important to treat a founder with respect and kindness, to instill dignity and confidence. It's not just writing a check. And as much as people say ‘Don't take it personally,' of course it's personal. There's so much at stake. For a...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 4/5
is all too familiar and similar to how I felt seeing the human dignity stripped from Tamir Rice, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Michael Brown, and many others. There were no iPhones and no social media then,...
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- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
crucial to the subsequent response of those on the receiving end. "We define a necessary evil as a work-related task that requires a person to cause physical, emotional, or material harm to another human being in order to advance a...
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by Martha Lagace
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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
scales, it’s incumbent upon us to ensure that our work is concerned with human dignity and quality of life. When we consider the history of our workforce and cultural practices around labor, trends reveal...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Safari Beauty
These two species, which we saw migrating by the hundreds during the trip, are naturally compatible. Both prey of the lion, the wildebeest has keen hearing and eats short grass, while his companion the zebra has excellent eyesight and eats tall grass. The maned View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
nature" and "an intensely human soul that champions dignity and freedom of spirit," Arjun Balakrishnan also pointed out the need for someone with "a solid grasp of big-picture forces ......
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by James Heskett
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On Championing Equity in a Post-Affirmative Action World - Blog: Monthly Insights
to recognize the dignity of others nor the importance of eradicating the discrimination and bias that harm many and diminish the collective humanity of us all. To reinforce our shared commitment to making...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
Fairness) and Reese’s Book Club. “It’s been a time for deeply human leadership,” says Harden of working remotely during the pandemic. “I’ve shared the struggles of having a full-time job, three children, and a husband who has also been...
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Make clear where we stand and where we aim to go. - Advancing Racial Equity
Business School is to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. To make the greatest difference, leaders must respect and draw on the full palette of human talent. They cannot adopt the fundamental tenet of racism—that one race...
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Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity
Teams equipped with vast budgets and elite credentials make decisions without understanding the reality of people who’ll need to make concessions for them. The decisions we make are directly tethered to human View Details
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Commencement 2011 Address | About
His parents were standing in front of the gas station they owned. “I don’t think I ever saw them with clean hands,” Rob recalled. But the dignity and integrity they brought to their work transcended their surroundings. Rob worries that...
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- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
jobs that provide a sense of dignity for individuals.” Terry is riding the crest of the electric vehicle wave. The White House has an aspirational target of 50% of all new cars sold in the U.S. being zero-emissions models by 2030. And...
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Her current focus is on dignity and ethics of care as experience and practice in leading change. Diane Forbes Berthoud Diane Forbes Berthoud, Ph.D. is the Assistant Vice Chancellor, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion at the University of...
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- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
consistency in our guiding principles, such as supporting human rights, without sacrificing much-needed nuance and variation in strategy (e.g., backing military intervention in one case but not another). Third, diplomacy should be guided...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
human potential. It has made the US an economic powerhouse. It has played a major role in capital being allocated to the most productive uses. Free enterprise has led to the creation of a staggering number of jobs that support families...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
the people to help me. I would involve them in the organization and I would get them to make this thing work. Derek van Bever: I think that putting the humanity into M and A, I'm sure is one of the things that our students react to so...
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- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
“Despite the progress the United States has made, Black Americans are too often denied basic privileges that others take for granted,” wrote Mason. “I am not talking about the privileges of wealth, education or job opportunities. I’m talking about fundamental View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
the first time read versus books that I’ve re-read dozens of times. I feel like this helps me think in broader strokes, with more perspective, and helps stimulate ideas and connections that I wouldn’t have otherwise encountered. Three books on the meaning of View Details
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by Staff
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test managers’ skills and humanity. Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to balance their analytical work with the human...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Scudder and his daughter Roseanne to struggle for the dignity of all people. Doggett Determination: Believing in Yourself to Create Success in Life and Business by Ron E. Doggett (AMP 81, 1979) and Karen Zelden (Zelden Writing Solutions...
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