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Case Study: How Hard Should You Push Diversity?

Harvard Business Review

It had appeared in a special online supplement of Businessweek on the subject of diversity, and it concerned the company's efforts to increase female and minority representation in management. Charles Begley, GlobeBank's managing director of diversity recruiting, was already reading it onscreen, dumbfounded. "We Who wrote that?". "He

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year. In a previous generation, both would have likely followed a lucrative career in the government or perhaps even stayed overseas.