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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business

the needs of Black grocers. A close friend of Justice Thurgood Marshall, Dowling served in managerial roles for the U.S. Department of Internal Revenue, the American Cancer Society, and the New Jersey Urban League. Howard Naylor Fitzhugh,... View Details

22 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)

for disability justice in the workplace, and I’m now focusing on making HBS a more inclusive place for students, faculty, and staff with disabilities. Jeremy Fischer (MBA 2023) - VP of Academics and Research My primary focus within DAAG... 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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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

science-powered platform. Social Enterprise Track, 2021 Shelly Xu Design (SXD) Shelly Xu, HBS 2021 Ahmed Fardin Junga Park, HBS 2021 Social Enterprise Track & Crowd Favorite Winner Vocal Justice Shawon Jackson, HKS Social Enterprise Track... View Details

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

09 Nov 2022
In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

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, calls to address racial View Details

17 Jan 2023
Book

Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

controls to not have it arise again.” Lambert: Is it helpful for such companies report violations? Or should they just go ahead and cooperate with investigators? Soltes: On the one hand, there are many incentives to self- report because the Department of View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

17 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

percent voted for him—the lowest percentage of all groups--reflecting, perhaps, their concern about the treatment of blacks in the criminal justice system as well as their recognition of Clinton’s stronger support of minorities and her... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely

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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Coney Island Prep Connecticut Office of the Governor Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Detroit Economic Growth Corporation Dillard University Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Endeavor Global Environmental Defense Fund Equal Justice... View Details

16 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault

that’s how we will have long term success.” Looking forward, the ARF team plans to continue focusing on their four Pillars of Purpose – Justice System Reform, Education Parity, Health & Wellness Access, and Community Outreach &... View Details

09 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

and organizations at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Challenging segregation at work and home The study comes at a time when cries for racial justice have grown in the United States, and Jachimowicz says it should be a... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

15 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax

them." It turns out that Romney, like Obama and FDR, views taxes as our way of paying for what we want government to do for us. As US Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously said: "I like to pay taxes. With them I... View Details

Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl

31 May 2023
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

call from the Ford Foundation, I said, ‘That’s it.’ Ford also focuses on racial justice and so many other issues I care about deeply.” Before and after: “My husband had a stroke in October 2020 and died two months later. People supported... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

Portrait Project

Aman Kumar

for those who don't. There are two options: forge ahead, or pause and rest. Life is a fragile balance of both, managing energy as well as time, drawing inward in order to dispense outward. I wish for myself equanimity and peace alongside the drive and restlessness to... View Details

11 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas

dollars to tip the scales of justice in local court cases—and companies following such strategies earned much more than local appreciation for their efforts. What’s more, the strategy usually works to return favorable verdicts from... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

2024
Article

Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022

By: Mark J. Roe and Charles C.Y. Wang

The number of public firms in the United States has halved since the beginning of the twenty-first century, causing consternation among corporate and securities law regulators. The dominant explanations, often advanced by Securities and Exchange commissioners when... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Law; Securities Regulation; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Concentration Levels; Antitrust; Initial Public Offering; Public Ownership; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Mergers and Acquisitions; Monopoly; United States

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

saying that, “It is manifestly ridiculous, if not actively racist, to frame this issue of justice as being worth doing because it is profitable.” The point, of course, is that economic data may be needed to counter negative gut reactions... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

them down, and that is fascism, not capitalism.” Can a platform-based tech giant be broken up? What do you think? ORIGINAL COLUMN With the United States Justice Department’s objection to the AT&T-Time Warner merger, we are being... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

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