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Danelle Radney
college, Danelle returned to Target where she invented her own position as coordinator and liaison with INROADS, a national organization that prepares minority youth for corporate and community leadership.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
Thomas A. James “As an undergrad at Harvard, I majored in economics and minored in philosophy. There are a lot of connections between the two.” During 40 years as CEO of Raymond James Financial, James, a Baker Scholar, transformed the... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
understand differences among the groups and find ways to appeal to a broader set of employees and customers," according to HBS professor David A. Thomas. Since then, the number of female executives in the company has grown by 370 percent, ethnic View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
its campus, the School acted quickly to address another critical challenge, one underscored by the murder of George Floyd and other highly publicized incidents of racial injustice in the United States: How does HBS create a culture and an environment where all members... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Feedback
top 10 percent of all schools in NYC. The key to building a pipeline of women pursuing STEM careers is to start early. Through high-quality education and early exposure to science...we can transform the next generation of female and View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB
Hedge funds are no different. Despite recent evidence showing hedge funds led by females or minorities performed better than their non-minority counterparts, the industry still suffers from a severe lack of diversity in ownership.... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Class of 1997 Graduates with Distinction
Class of '99 Profile Number of applicants 7,467 Total size of class 880 September cohort 560 January cohort 320 Median age 26 Women 30% Minorities 17% International 26% Married 20% Have children 4% Undergraduate Majors Engineering and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Ronald P. Mitchell
"HBS Ventures." Thanks in large part to Mitchell's efforts, revenue from these businesses, now run by hired professionals, goes straight into SA coffers rather than into individuals' hands. "This benefits the entire School community... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 14 May 2020
- Blog Post
A PRIDE Farewell
and share joyful moments in their days; we join forces with student leaders across campus to financially support local relief efforts; and our community continues to find heroes in unexpected places—for example, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
time to avoid the unfolding civil conflict. Clashes between Sri Lanka’s Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority ran from 1983 to 2009, closing down areas of the country for extended periods of time and costing an estimated 100,000 lives. By... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 22 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club
Hedge funds are no different. Despite recent evidence showing hedge funds led by females or minorities performed better than their non-minority counterparts, the industry still suffers from a severe lack of diversity in ownership.... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
as a commodity and an investment. Japanese culture has always valued art and incorporated it into nearly everything, Shibayama notes. Something as minor as the gift wrapping on a box is usually carefully considered and meticulously... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Lighting the Way
situation. Finally, don’t forget to reach back and bring someone along.” Photo courtesy of Ceena Beall Photo courtesy of Ceena Beall “It is so important to shed light on the issues that underrepresented minorities face in the pursuit of... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Purdue University in the early 1970s, Harris saw lots of classmates veer down the wrong path. Seeing the high failure rate among minority students, he joined a campus group of black engineers, where, he says, "Our entire objective was to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
enroll at HBS. "With minorities now present in most professions, I see a lot of promise for white and black America to come together," he says. "I also believe it's possible to help people who are downtrodden and desperate to transform... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
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Harvard Business School
self–determined, moral act in organizing ourselves to address such societal issues of racism, poverty, neglect, exclusion and tokenism," AASU co–founder A. Leroy Willis (MBA '69) wrote. 21 In December 1969, AASU students voiced their concerns about the hiring of View Details
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Harvard Business School
Science, 1936. Henderson, Alexa Benson. Atlanta Life Insurance Company: Guardian of Black Economic Dignity . Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1990. Hill, Laura Warren, and Julia Rabig, eds. The Business of Black Power: View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
leadership and mentoring and on achieving organization alignment, both vertically and horizontally, across the entire structure of the organization. He also gives readers a method for tracking progress—plant by plant and function by function. View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
opened up all these possibilities for me,” adds Tierney, whose summer internship at Bain & Company turned into a full-time position upon graduation. Although he claims to have gotten off to a rocky start, in three years he was promoted to partner. “It was like going... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 27 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Impact Investing Fund Course: An Experiential Education in Social Financing
builds their investment experience and network. Designing the Course The three of us (Tim Cho, Zach Komes, and Devon Sanford) joined Professors Brian Trelstad and Henry McGee this summer to source BIPOC-led and -owned businesses actively seeking capital. We... View Details