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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Images, Identities and the Space(s) Between Images, Identities and the Space(s) Between 06–07 APR 2017 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Ben Barry Ben Barry is an Associate Professor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the School of Fashion... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
outfitter Timberland, begun in 1989 when City Year requested from Timberland fifty pairs of boots for its urban youth service corps, founded the previous year. The service corps program organizes youths from diverse ethnic, racial, and... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
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Fangfang Wang
In China, Fangfang Wang participated in a general management training program at Mars Food that allowed her “the freedom to customize my career path.” Through a series of rotating assignments, Fangfang developed a deep understanding of... View Details
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Facing Job Loss? More Skills Meant Faster Recovery in Uganda | Working Knowledge
the world learn? When a global shock like COVID-19 puts people out of work, skilled workers are often among the first to lose their jobs. Yet, new research suggests that their training helps them find employment faster than unskilled... View Details
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Brett Gibson
perspective. "My passion has always been for service," Brett says. "With 9/11, I realized how important it was to direct that passion to serve in the military." With no appetite for half-measures, Brett aimed for the Army Rangers. After a year of... View Details
- 02 Nov 2010
- News
Commanding Officers
to students about public service, is the assistant secretary for the Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS) at the U.S. Department of Labor. His agency, which he is notably reinventing and recharging, helps former military... View Details
- 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
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
lawsuit: training systems, selection systems, and a career posting center. By 2010, Sodexo, North America was continuing to gain traction on its diversity strategy, and a global View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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How One Coffee Shop Is Brewing Change for Business and Society | Working Knowledge
Diversity and Inclusion How One Coffee Shop Is Brewing Change for Business and Society Featuring Richard S. Ruback and Robin Greenwood . By Kara Baskin on January 21, 2025 . The experience of Lucky Ones Coffee illustrates the benefits of... View Details
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
while hiring and assigning conventional managers to deal with more familiar and common tasks and goals.” “The right question is therefore not the amount of ‘rebel talent’ but how to focus it on the right causes.” Grace was more cautious. “I applaud Ms. Gino for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
of internationalizing firms’ policies that require employees of diverse skill sets to adopt English as their business language. For the past four years, with extensive support from the School’s research centers in Asia, Europe, and Latin... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
explores these differences in a working paper titled "Limits to Globalization: Organizational Homogeneity and Diversity in the Semiconductor Industry." Extensive interviews with managers at nine major firms (four American and five... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
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Alejandro Maldonado
also spent five years as a vice-president at H.I.G. Capital, a leading US private equity firm investing in diverse industries in the middle market space. In 2012, he founded Appian Education Ventures, a fund dedicated to consolidate... View Details
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Rachel Silverstein
classical training in corporate finance could bring a lot of value – in structure and strategy – to a startup." Rachel's hunch was right, and she proceeded to work for two different startups in the food and beverage and vacation... View Details
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Harvard Business School
essence, leadership training for us while we were here on campus . . . . The thing that I'm most proud of is the fact that each succeeding class has carried on this tradition." 25 Beginning in 1972, AASU has organized annual career/alumni... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Fuel a Passion to Help Underserved Communities
passionate about increasing human potential in underserved communities,” says Asamoah, who credits the Johnita Walker Mizelle (MBA 2008) Fellowship, the Byron Wien (MBA 1956) Fellowship, and financial aid from the HBS Fund for enabling her to explore her View Details
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Expansion of the Case Method | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
successfully incorporated the teaching pedagogy into their curricula. Reaching across Harvard, the program for women studying business, founded in 1937 as the Radcliffe Training Course in Personnel Administration, adopted case method... View Details
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Develop and disseminate research and course material on advancing racial equity in business. - Advancing Racial Equity
diversity of protagonists in HBS courses and in new cases. The effort to diversify case protagonists will be sustained by the CRG and the Racial Equity Initiative, much as the CRG and the Global Initiative have helped make HBS’s cases... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
candidacy requirements and training programs. Promote constructive engagement in the workplace. Implement policies that encourage respectful dialogue and acknowledge diverse political views among employees.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Funa Maduka
scholarship offers abroad? Was I selling out my dreams? Or myself?" Finally, after taking the advice of a mentor who told her "to just do the two years and learn," Funa accepted the offer. "In hindsight," she says, "it was the best... View Details