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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Christian University, he was not only TCU’s first African American basketball player but also the first in the entire Southwest Conference. In 1975, about the same time a kid named Bill Gates opened a shoestring operation called...
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- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Smith’s plan included developing an Explore Your Family History Center, which...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
their rare level of detail, geographic scope, and depth of narrative information about individual businesses and the people who ran them—the high-flying bankers and railroad men as well as women, recent immigrants, and African Americans....
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
Back then, Rolling Stone was in a league of its own - with a 25-year history and a loyal readership of 1.2 million. "For me to even utter in a meeting that we were going to challenge Rolling Stone sounded crazy," reflects Clinkscales,...
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
noting that the founders drew on planning documents for several recent museums, including the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. “For a museum on our scale, it takes a lot...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Focused and pragmatic, she is deeply committed to across-the-board success at a school where 93 percent of students are African American, and 65 percent are from economic backgrounds that qualify them for free or reduced school lunches....
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Student Conferences, at a Glance
Lee-Chin, chairman and CEO of AIC, a Canadian mutual fund company. “Our behavior today will be our history tomorrow,” Chin said. “We have to make sure it is well written.” Panels included alumni from recent MBA classes discussing the ups...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Related Links Ten Amazing Facts about Beauty Register for a Club presentation with Professor Jones on October 19 In his new book, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry (Oxford University Press), HBS professor Geoffrey...
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- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
in Johannesburg. They also drew on the vast experience of Caroline Elkins, Harvard University professor of History and African American Studies and a visiting professor at HBS, and Hakeem Belo-Osagie (MBA...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
discuss areas of interest ranging from opportunities in Asian markets, to managing work/life balance, to the impact of wireless technology on business strategy, to the achievements of African Americans in business. Highlights of some of...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Taylor Gibbs chronicles more than 200 years of her paternal family’s history and highlights their contributions to the civil rights movement in the United States. The Human Element: The...
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- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Cherokee—is the first woman. It's an epic history that has its continuing point at this moment in late July, in an unassuming volunteer garden on the site of a reclaimed golf course in suburban Omaha, Nebraska. This garden is a living...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
no national reputation — was appointed,” Ferguson recalled. “But he listens to everyone, judges ideas on their quality rather than on their source, and makes better decisions because of that.” Financial consultant Andrew Brimmer, the first View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
exposure to curators and how they work and how exhibitions come together. All of these things just kind of fed into a growing curiosity, spending more and more of my free time participating in these activities on a very limited basis, buying the work of emerging...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
think is right.” How did you prepare for this assignment? I took a two-week ambassadorial training seminar and several weeks of refresher instruction in French. I read up on the history of Morocco and attended a number of State Department...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
formed. American Business, 1920–2000: How It Worked by Thomas K McCraw (The American History Series/Harlan Davidson) The past decade has brought such enormous change to the business world that it can be easy to lose sight of the equally...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
What’s in a Name
George Floyd. There were a lot of corporate announcements. They found that African Americans in New Orleans were saying to them, “I didn’t have a problem with the name before but I certainly couldn’t defend it. Now that you’re coming to...
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- 18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Theodore Roosevelt, on horseback and flanked by a Native American man and an African man, which has presided over the entrance of New York’s American Museum of Natural History since 1940, will be removed....
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- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Drawing on generous contributions from the search fund community as well as his own experience, he sheds light on how this community converted $1.4 billion of investments into $8.7 billion, with $1.8 billion going to the entrepreneurs. Faculty Books Legacy of Violence:...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates
Africa; its importance to the country is as great as the threat to its existence. Illegal logging fueled Liberia’s recent civil war: “Blood timber” financed the violence, just as blood diamonds have in other African conflicts. The civil...
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