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- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
While cancer drugs are typically tested out of major academic medical centers, HIV/AIDS clinical trials are often based at “safety-net” hospitals that serve low-income and minority populations. In addition, there is significantly more... 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
- Web
Native American Heritage Month | Baker Library
Uncovering hidden stories and knowledge in Baker Collections. Aquaculture, Fisheries, and Food Processing as a Combined Economic Development Option for Indian Communities [1977] View Record This diagram comes from a 1977 report prepared... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Escape from Alcatraz
Borg in the United States in Malden, a suburb of Boston, last year. (Matt DuPlessie [MBA 2003] is a minority owner; his company, 5 Wits, constructed some of the quests.) Boda Borg Boston is designed first and foremost to be fun—with 17... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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 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
- 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
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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
- Profile
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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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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
- 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
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How Startups Win Deals by Resetting Expectations | Working Knowledge
that movie with Tom Cruise, Minority Report. We predict where a crime or, in this case, where an injury is more likely to take place, and we recommend how to fix it.” Staging demonstrations. Entrepreneurs prepare selective demonstrations... View Details
- 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