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- 13 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
Launching leaders: HBS's new initiative fuels first-generation and low-income student success
to recognize what we’ve done and try to erase any barriers that we may still have. We are a more diverse community than people think, in the traditional ways of race and gender but also diverse in ideologies... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers
consumption of local, sustainably produced food.” That mission was inspired by the work of Food Solutions New England (FSNE), an organized network of agricultural experts, farmers, academics, concerned citizens, and regional grassroots organizations working to overcome... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders Tsedal Neeley My intellectual agenda is ambitious and somewhat risky,” says Associate Professor and Marvin Bower Fellow Tsedal Neeley. “I truly believe that HBS is one of the few... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
The Far-Reaching Impact of Fellowships
Financial aid provides the foundation for HBS’s need-blind admission policy, ensuring that the cost of attending is not a barrier to entry into the MBA Program. By lessening the burden of debt, this support enables students to study at... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
Image by John Ritter In 2020, the number of women running Fortune 500 companies hit an all-time high: 37, or just 7.4 percent. Of those CEOs, only three (less than 1 percent) were women of color. In their new book, Glass Half Broken: Shattering the View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Rebooting Europe
how to reignite that flame. The former Goldman Sachs banker and Portuguese secretary of state has his work cut out for him. The EU’s 2012 Community Innovation Survey found that while nearly half of European companies claimed innovation... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
the pull of public service. “I am impressed by the number of principled candidates who served in the military and are running for office across the country,” Barcott says, “but I also recognize that these younger veterans often face incredibly high View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 29 Sep 2015
- News
Juan Salgado Honored for Immigrant Education Efforts
the “genius grants.” Juan Salgado (OPM 45, 2014), president and CEO of Instituto del Progreso Latino in Chicago, has led the organization since 2001, working with the largely Latino community on Chicago’s southwest side. Many of the... View Details
- 06 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Meet the Black Investment Club
CO-PRESIDENTS Akapelwa, Ernst, and Coates were all drawn to serve as leaders of the Black Investment Club to advocate for equitable access to investing career opportunities. They shared, “We understand the implications of being excluded from the alternative investment... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Up to the Highest Heights
has,” says Tai, who admits there’s a high barrier for entry into the daring sport. “But anything that draws people together will create trusting relationships that lead to commerce.” Multimillion-dollar deals have been made on the beaches... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
anxiety, a sense of disconnection, and the feeling that things are not going well. One way around this is to have frequent check-ins. Don’t wait for the year-end evaluation. The best leaders for high-need-for-achievement professionals View Details
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Benefits | Information Technology
and ideas—and we’re ready to help you bring your teaching, convening, and community engagement experiences to life. Bringing the HBS classroom to more remote learners Most of all, HBS Live Online Classrooms allow Harvard Business School... View Details
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Black History Month | Baker Library
business can succeed.'" (p.44) This city profile from the March 1971 issue unpacks the systemic barriers that the Black business community of Boston faced over 50 years ago, namely a lack of institutional... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
community leaders and Celtics players: equity in education, economic opportunity and empowerment, equity in health care, criminal and law enforcement, breaking down barriers and building bridges between... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
all of their shopping and communicating from there. Our services - password management, merchant mail, and find and compare - stick to the consumer, following them wherever they shop on the Web." With companies like Brodia breaking down... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
of them from Rwanda. A local Nigerian factory, Kaldi Africa, roasts the beans to produce a stronger brew than what Starbucks pours. Many of the other barriers to developing a coffeehouse culture that Dozie has encountered are simple... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
harm entrepreneurial incentives are often the same people who claim that current disclosure is adequate for communicating the economics of stock option grants. The two positions are clearly contradictory. If current disclosure is... View Details
- 22 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club
investors are unaware of the biases that create barriers to actually investing in Black founders. It is no surprise that the rest of the investing world also severely lacks racial diversity. According to Kanyi Maqubela, managing partner... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
business community who recognizes its growing potential in the US economy. Avance’s focus on lower middle-market business services and consumer sectors that often correlate to the types of companies founded by Latinx entrepreneurs meant... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online
Manager at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Identify and analyze performance and opportunity gaps to overcome barriers to change and effectively inspire and lead your team. "This was an excellent course with concepts that were immediately... View Details