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- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Planning Ahead
his philanthropy. “I wanted to support the people and the institutions that had made a difference in my life,” he says. “Obviously, HBS was one of them.” Admitting with a laugh that like most entrepreneurs he has some tendencies toward... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 08 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes (MBA 2017)
at ExxonMobil or elsewhere. I KNEW what my next step was, so I could focus on learning and not on routing my career. I also felt that I wasn’t betraying my ultimate goal of being an entrepreneur by going to a large company: it was part of... View Details
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
such as through leading African-American Student Union’s (AASU’s) Black New Venture Competition. Rea: In the near term, Solara is exploring pilot opportunities in three to four localities with key research institutions and private... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
“What was exciting was that we had the full technology ecosystem represented. We had CEOs and entrepreneurs who had gone from startup to launch to IPO, and we had CEOs or CTOs who were representing large, multibillion-dollar, global tech... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
academic partner of the OneTen Initiative, which seeks to create 1 million living-wage jobs over 10 years for Black and underrepresented minority women and men who do not have a college education. If you believe, as I do, that talent is... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Younger Black Knowledge Workers BIO As global leaders prepare to meet in Glasgow, the prospects for mitigating the impact of climate change do not look very good. A detailed new analysis from the Rhodium Group, as reported by Axios.com,... View Details
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
quarantine activity: Going for runs along the Charles River with Moxie, our black lab. Boston is beautiful in the spring with tulips, crocus, daffodils popping up everywhere, and sunshine soothes the soul. I remember When the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
the selection of a vastly increased enrollment of blacks in the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration to take the talented black business entrepreneurs who,... View Details
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Booker T. The Negro in Business . Boston: Hertel, Jenkins & Co., 1907. Weems, Robert E. Business in Black and White: American Presidents & Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth... View Details
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Engage with the broader business community to promote racial equity. - Advancing Racial Equity
Harvard Business School and other organizations focus on the metrics that matter in attracting, hiring, and retaining a diverse workforce and ensuring their Boards of Directors are equally diverse. Creating published content or advisory services that help View Details
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Advocating for Best Practices on Tech Boards - Blog: RGE Report
their own firm’’s investment in the new company instead of what’s right for that company, Beninga said. She picks carefully the private companies on whose boards she will sit and looks for entrepreneurs who want her to be part of a board... View Details
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Harvard Business School
Business Community," presented from the point of view of Black entrepreneurs and managers. Haynes was president of Management Formation, Inc., a firm focused on increasing diversity in managerial positions.... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
civic engagement. Black and brown social entrepreneurs who work on these issues “usually aren’t well known to funders with big pockets,” explains Shell, “and big funders don’t often give large sums to people... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
and Amaris Singer (all HBS 2014). As Gerald explains: "With globalization, there's been a lot of attention paid to what's happening overseas, and rightly so. But our goal is to help MBAs better understand the challenges of being an View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY
pillars of underfunded structural challenges: policing and criminal justice reform; economic empowerment; health care equity; and youth education, empowerment, and civic engagement. Black and brown social View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Announces 2021-22 Blavatnik Fellows
Dan Ahlstedt (MBA 2021), Nicole Black (PhD 2020), Ying Kai Chan (PhD 2015), Jannine Versi (MBA 2014), and Ananya Zutshi (MS/MBA 2021) Photos by Susan Young HBS has named its 2021-22 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s eighth cohort.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
economy, wanted to see how the algorithm performed. What she found surprised her: Although Airbnb had designed the pricing tool to be race-blind, the algorithm nonetheless widened the revenue gap between white and Black hosts. The reasons... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
EnTRIPreneurs
Gerald (HBS 2014). "But our goal is to help MBAs better understand the challenges of being an entrepreneur here in the 'other' United States, far from the two coasts." At summer's end, Gerald and fellow students Hicham Mhammedi Alaoui,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
owned slaves and accepted Black people as full citizens. Thanks to the efforts of Creek leaders like Cow Tom, a Black Creek citizen who rose to become chief, the United States government recognized Creek... View Details