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- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
acquisition of Essence Communications Partners in 2005, for example, has made it possible for Time Inc. to reach more than 7 million African-American adult readers each month through Essence magazine. As for global expansion, Moore's... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
Clubs News Clubs News Webinars Connect Black Alumni Taking Leadership in Turbulent Times Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, a shaky economy, and racial unrest across the country, the HBS African-American Alumni Association... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
Americans have had on the School, the business world, and society at large. The HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) has partnered with the AASU and the HBS Leadership Initiative to produce five core initiatives for AASU50: a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
between 6 weeks and 12 years of age, whose philosophy is based on the African-American principles of Kwanzaa. BCC served as the lead construction lender on a recently completed renovation and expansion at the school that has significantly... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
characterized the conference as "a community-wide call to action" and an opportunity to explore the role of HBS graduates in contributing to development in the African-American community. On the opening day of the conference, alumni... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
“That was the first time I was exposed to the concept of an MBA.” At Harvard, Harris crossed the river to attend an HBS African-American Alumni Association conference. “I had never seen so many folks of color doing such impressive... View Details
- Web
Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
charged by Congress in 1922 and 1923 to investigate the coal industry and its labor problems. The pictures depict the company-owned houses and schools, churches, boarding houses, commissaries, markets, and other buildings (many of which were segregated for white and... View Details
- 18 Jan 2022
- News
HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
five historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Atlanta area, but the only college in Georgia founded solely by African-American patronage. The school lost its accreditation in 2004, but has worked diligently since then... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
says. "It requires a whole new way of designing things. It's all worth thinking about." Related Reading: How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
Brooks immersed herself in HBS, resurrecting the inactive role of historian of the African-American Student Union. She also joined the Harbus Foundation and the Management Consulting and Social Enterprise clubs. She also was elected to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
careers, recruiting them repeatedly to new positions. Fifth, the mentors often protected their protégés by confronting subordinates or peers who leveled unfair criticism, especially if it had racial undertones. For example, a superior-performing View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
Solitary,” a traveling exhibition of African-American abstract art that opened at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans in fall 2017. Now on view at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the exhibit has expanded to more... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
317-030 Valerie Daniels-Carter: High Growth Entrepreneurship via Franchising This case looks at entrepreneurship via franchising through the leadership of an African-American entrepreneur who owns almost 150 stores including Burger King,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
One-Year Action Plan Update - Advancing Racial Equity
an example, is how exhausting it is, enervating it is for the African-American students, for example, to have to explain to people over and over again why it is that after 150 years after the end of the Civil War it's important for us to... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
opportunity that is unmet in a market and the requisite fundraising to launch a new business. Mented co-founders became the 15th and 16th African-American women to raise over $1 million in startup funding. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
the (A) case. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/417030-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-059 United Housing—Otis Gates Otis Gates, the only African-American in his HBS graduating class, is an entrepreneur... View Details
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
African-American studies from Northwestern University. The Bok Center for Teaching and Learning: BOK Applied Theatre Practice Program The Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences recently established... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
hands-on education. Honored annually at the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference—the yearly gathering of the HBS African American Student Union and the HBS African-American Alumni Association, an organization he cofounded in 1978—Fitzhugh, who... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
American man to win an Oscar (Academy Award) for Best Supporting Actor for his moving portrayal as Sergeant Emil Foley in An Officer and a Gentleman in 1982. Despite his accomplished Hollywood career, as an African-American male he was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
India, China), but they overlook significant ethnic markets within the United States. For example, the combined African-American and Hispanic markets in the U.S. are larger than the economies of all but 13 countries, and more than 2... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne