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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
that being an entrepreneur was empowering. "While discrimination and sexism are still realities, if you own your company, you can have an impact," she says. After graduating from HBS, Lambert held a variety of positions, working as a... 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
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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
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
zones while she was a student here. Her first book, 2012’s The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, tells the story of Kamila Sidiqi, a young female Afghan entrepreneur who built a thriving business under Taliban rule. Her 2015 book, Ashley’s War,... View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
A Lifelong Friendship: From Classmates in Cameroon to Roommates at HBS
What's your story? Gana: I grew up in Cameroon, in a town called Douala. My grandfather made the importance of education and how it impacts your life front and center. I grew up with my parents working, my dad in the petroleum industry, my mom as an View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
been too far away, otherwise.” Along with pandemic-related shifts, the Black Lives Matter movement inspired a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion in the alumni club ranks and in projects and programming. The Community Partners... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
Values Matter—No Matter Where You Are | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
move the black musicians from the back of the parade to the front. At UNC Chapel Hill, he and four other black students were the pioneers who first integrated the institution. At twenty-seven, he became the... 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
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
dilemmas. The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs by William H. Draper III (MBA '54) (Palgrave Macmillan) Draper looks at how the world of venture capital and entrepreneurship works.... View Details
- 25 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Not Waiting for Progress: Diversity and Inclusion in the Film Industry
to promote diversity and inclusion. Many of those connections are between successful young entrepreneurs and up-and-coming members of the same generation who share comparable career experiences and expectations. Similarly, he says, at... 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
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as... View Details
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
institutions to leverage their procurement power to support entrepreneurs of color. As part of our work, we were able to triple our private institutions’ annual spend with local Black and Brown-owned... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal
Listening to entrepreneur pitches is one of the best parts of working in venture capital, says Anna Khan (MBA 2016), a vice president in the San Francisco office of Bessemer Venture Partners. “It’s a sacred kind of meeting because they’re... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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
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Israel - Global Activities 2021
and nutrients directly to the root zones of plants and the slow flow ensures uniform delivery. “Water is scarce here,” says Danielle Golan, assistant director of the Israel Research Office, who worked with Reinhardt, the John D. Black... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
the African American Student Union hosts the annual Black New Venture Competition to help early-stage Black entrepreneurs further their business concepts. Tom Eisenmann: If you... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
while many consultants can assess, advise, and strategize, Culture Shift goes further by capitalizing on the people they have brought together over the years through networking events. “I unintentionally built the nation’s largest database of View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
themselves as entrepreneurs. “There’s a misunderstanding that you have to be from a certain place, to look a certain way, to have a certain type of background training, to have one type of personality—all these misconceptions about what the prototypical classic View Details