Justice - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Oct 2023
Research & Ideas

In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?

nobody was aware that they existed in such a systematic way.” The authors also digitized official voter registration rolls held by the Atlanta-based Southern Regional Council’s Voter Education Project. Other information came from the US Department of View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Professor Sawyer’s research focuses on U.S. political economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, concentrating on the development of competition policy and the administrative state. While the conventional history of U.S. competition policy portrays the... View Details

01 Jun 2023
HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

Boardroom, released in 2022, to encourage criminal justice reform. While some readers embraced Miller’s message, others lashed out, believing his homicide was unforgiveable. In late 2021, Miller met with the family of his murder victim,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories

16 Oct 2023
HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

Delta employees—which was considered a bold action by a high-profile CEO, Hill says. That summer he went on a “listening and learning tour,” holding in-house sessions with Delta’s Black workers and meetings with numerous national racial View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation

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About - Race, Gender & Equity

University, where she focused on developing and managing partnerships and programs that intersected education, international development, and racial & gender equity. She brings a deep commitment to equity and social justice to her work... View Details

07 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

partnerships. Within weeks, Enron collapsed into bankruptcy as its trading partners quickly lost faith—proving, once again, that even a hint of negligence or misconduct can be devastating to a company. In the end, the Justice Department... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

29 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

lost critical people in the background who make this whole thing work. Gazette: Twitter has been under a consent decree for over a decade over data privacy and security violations. Back in May, the company had to pay the Department of View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

Hurwitz April 2025 (Revised June 2025) | Case | Faculty Research In early 2025, boards of directors had to rethink corporate responsibility and sustainability efforts amid rapidly-shifting social, legal, regulatory, and economic forces. While just a few years earlier,... View Details

30 Nov 2021
In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

04 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

When US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in 2020, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Edward Chang noticed something interesting: To fill the vacancy, then-President Donald Trump replaced Ginsburg with another woman,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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HBS - The year in Review

Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Ed Cordell, The Juilliard School Afroza Damji, MassChallenge Kyler Evitt, Year Up Liza Gaylord, Boston Ballet Nina Harstad, Equal Justice Initiative Vi Mai, MBTA Alejandro Molina, White House National... View Details

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

In the summer of 2023, Initiatives intern Skye Bluestein conducted important research with the BEI on the intersection of environmental justice (EJ), policy, and business. The resulting paper posted below provides an interesting and... View Details

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Chase Hall | About

appointed him treasury secretary, and in that position, Chase implemented the National Bank Act, which established the basis for the US paper money system that is still in use today. In 1864, Lincoln appointed Chase the sixth chief View Details

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Partners - Case Method Project

Dedham, MA Subjects: US History MA 107 of 159 Sean McCann St. Sebastian's School Needham, MA MA 108 of 159 Isaac Miller Madison Park Technical Vocational High School Boston, MA Subjects: AP U.S. Government, Criminal Justice MA 109 of 159... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

case, 2017. With Saloni Chaturvedi. Work , Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy, 2012. Justice in Production , Journal of Political Philosophy, 2008. Jan W. Rivkin C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business... View Details

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

The SEED School of Washington, DC Washington, DC Subjects: AP US History, AP US Government & Politics MA Sean McCann St. Sebastian's School Needham, MA PA Amanda McCaw Parkway Northwest For Peace And Social Justice Philadelphia, PA ME... View Details

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

hypothesis testing. Business Analytics has helped me pursue a career in data analytics and land a job as a Business Intelligence Analyst at Ministry of Justice New Zealand. I'm leading a few modelling and reporting projects across the... View Details

24 May 2017
News

Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1953 Born, Ibadan, Nigeria 1975 Earns BA, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Oxford 1979 Earns JD/MBA 1980 Clerks for US Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall 1982 Joins... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

criminal justice reform, other issues like that, health care reform, but the nexus between corporate America and what Black America needs and the most, in my opinion, is employment. And so if we can do something about the 5.5 million... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

15 Sep 2022
Blog Post

6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS

VP of Sustainability, and get involved with the annual Climate Symposium. Sustainability is more than Environmentalism HBS has been expanding its integration of social equity and environmental justice into the campus’ sustainability work,... View Details

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