Minority - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2016
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Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board

education programs like Kellogg’s Women’s Director Development Program or participation in associations like the Latino Corporate Directors Association weighed when considering candidates for board roles? Are educational and networking opportunities something women and... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

exhibitions and NFL Europa, a de facto minor league, failed to establish a viable Continental presence for the league. Longer term, the NFL will look at London and other foreign markets to determine whether a franchise could be supported.... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

about seventy minority students, most of them wearing dashikis and Afro hairstyles; and around thirty brave-hearted women." Within a month, O'Donnell recalls, "the three-piece-suit culture was dead. We dressed casually, and a lot of us... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

economic development in minority communities in fall 1968, the AASU began to have an impact on the second-year elective curriculum. The next fall, it was developed into an elective course, Organizational Development in the Inner City, and... View Details

01 Dec 1998
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Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

develop tolerance for minor annoyances - at home as well as in the office. Many organizations are still unprepared to meet the Y2K deadline. Why? The further you are from something, the less dangerous it appears. And, as already... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Labs Enable Large-scale Research

interpretability, fairness, and adversarial robustness of AI and ML models, i.e., how these models can be made more understandable to humans, and how they can be made more accurate, equitable to minority groups, and resistant to... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

diversity issues, notes, "Even companies that once were mostly interested in hiring women and minorities either out of a sense of moral obligation or merely to comply with the law now see the value that comes from broadening the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2010
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Innovation Takes Center Stage

said. Already a global thought leader, the School should strive to enhance that position in the years ahead, he added. 4. Inclusion For a school that prides itself on diversity — more than a third of MBA students are women, a third are international, and roughly a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

released in January that detailed those gains was prefaced by the authors' blunt assessment: "The research shows that to date, high-performing charter schools are in the minority." So what will it take to make that minority a majority?... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way

decades of minority rule under apartheid, the government shaped a protected economy that virtually ignored the well-being of the country's black majority and left the country ill-prepared to compete in today's vigorous global marketplace.... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity

color, diversifying boards, and leveraging diversity in organizations, as well as one called Thrive, which is designed to encourage career advancement for underrepresented minorities with 5 to 7 years of experience (with an emphasis on... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

happiness by tweaking minor behaviors and dealing with emotional impulses to accentuate their positive impact. Reinventing the Product: How to Transform your Business and Create Value in the Digital Age by Erik Schaeffer and David Sovie... View Details

12 May 2022
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Onboarding

filing proposals for companies to add women and minorities to boards. Those proposals never got a majority vote, but they did spark the conversation. And that conversation, as you know, picked up as there was more social activism, more... View Details

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

deal with Cuba.” In reality, the policy changes entailed reinstating some minor restrictions on US travel, but in effect, it sent the message to potential American visitors that Cuba was once again closed. Two months later, reports began... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run

small town like Calhoun, Langford says. That’s more or less how he and his family came to foster a young child whose parents couldn’t care for her. The girl’s father, jailed on minor drug charges, was known to Langford—his grandmother had... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

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