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Does Customer Prejudice Help Drive the Employment Gap Between White and Black Americans?

Harvard Business Review

And a 2010 study of more than 800 retail stores and their surrounding communities found that sales slightly fell in white communities when black employment shares in those stores rose. More on the Data From the General Social Survey , I selected two waves of data to build a proxy for prejudice between 1996 and 2004.

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Paid Family Leave Pays Off in California

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, we conducted the first evaluation of how the program is working for the state's employers and workers, six years after it began operation. Our research has yielded three major findings. California's paid family leave (PFL) program is structured as an insurance scheme, similar to unemployment insurance.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. Coca-Cola, for example, faced a water shortage in India that forced it to shut down one of its plants in 2004. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

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Is Your Next Great CEO a Management Consultant?

Harvard Business Review

While former management consultants are not frequently chosen as CEOs — our research noted 28 former management consultants with five-plus years of consulting experience out of a total of 541 CEO transitions between 2004 and 2010 — the evidence we’ve uncovered here would suggest that, as a class, they are fully worthy of consideration.

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The HBR Approach to Failure

Harvard Business Review

To set about answering that question, we ran a semantic clustering analysis on a sample of articles from HBR's archives over the course of several periods between 1990 and 2010 (the time period when the HBR online archive is the most complete). 2007-2010 is not surprisingly dominated by negatives.

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Research: Most Large Companies Can’t Maintain Their Revenue Streams

Harvard Business Review

I found that in the period from 2000 to 2009, over half of the firms in the sample shrunk their revenue by 10% or more in at least one of those years, clear evidence of eroding competitive advantage. In the 2004 sample, roughly 20% of the firms came from emerging markets. Further, the index is extremely dynamic.