Black Leadership - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2022
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Full Court Press

decades thereafter, the NBA’s activity on the continent focused on grassroots development. Its international Basketball Without Borders program, which launched in Africa in 2003, featured athletic development and training as well as View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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Ken Zeng

into an exhilarating dream, like riding a high-speed train, gazing out the window at a captivating new world unfolding before me, both intimidating and eye-opening. What is your most memorable classroom moment? During a recent Leadership... View Details

08 Mar 2022
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Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

are in a leadership role, or any role where your input is required, you will be asked things that you might not be prepared for. Once you have the skill of gracefully and factually answering unexpected questions, you will be able to... View Details

11 Aug 2021
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The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise

income, alma maters, and employers can give someone up to a 12x advantage over others in accessing opportunity. I adopted this mission during the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement when I realized that my habit of helping people in my... View Details

03 Nov 2021
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Recent Grad Reflections: From Being Cold Called to Becoming a Case Protagonist

Janelle Teng is from the Harvard Business School Class of 2020 and a proud member of Section C. While at HBS, Janelle was on the leadership team for the Venture Capital and Private Equity Club and the Women in Investing Club. She is... View Details

01 Oct 2021
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Fostering Diversity

believe is crucial to society. “You need to invest in the pipeline in order for things to change,” says Victoria, an independent consultant focused on health care and technology. “We believe that we need more diversity—race, gender, perspective—in View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Graduate's Gift Honors HBS Friend

who in addition to his role with the HADC had served as Midwest chair of the Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.) before coming to HBS, said that initially he believed he would not get a fair shake as a black person at a predominantly... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Sanaz Mobasseri, William A. Kahn and Robin J. Ely This paper uses systems psychodynamic concepts to develop theory about the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. organizations and to inform an approach for disrupting it. We treat White men as the dominant group and... View Details

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Decade Award for “Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women’s Leadership Development Programs” (September 2011) with Herminia Ibarra and Deborah M. Kolb. Robin J. Ely : Awarded the 2021 Outstanding Practitioner-Orientated... View Details

30 Jun 2021
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

08 Mar 2021
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International Women's Day Featured Stories

famous names in the private market investment community. Kathu Gatobu Harvard MBA Student, Class of 2022 I choose to challenge the idea that women have to give up their aspirations and identity because of motherhood. Having a successful career, taking up visible View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

one of 100 Black Board Members Making a Difference by Board Prospects in 2024. Archie L. Jones : Received the 2024 Dr. James I. Cash Advancing Pathways Award. Olivia S. Kim : Winner of the 2024 Best Paper Award at the Red Rock Finance... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave

the selection of a vastly increased enrollment of blacks in the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration to take the talented black business entrepreneurs who, regardless of education, are making a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2018
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Lighting the Way

them.” —From Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women, by Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony Mayo, Robin Ely, and David Thomas Symposium on Race, Work, and Leadership: Learning about and from View Details

01 Jun 2022
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3-Minute Briefing: Earl “Butch” Graves Jr. (MBA 1988)

Black Enterprise is a multimedia company with the mission to ensure that everyone can act on the opportunities this country has provided to so many. Our tagline is “Wealth for life.” My father launched Black... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

11 Feb 2017
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Harvard Business School Makes a Case for Diversity

last week, Rogers said that less than 1 percent of the roughly 10,000 HBS cases focus on a black executive, even though 9 percent of American companies are black-owned. Rogers, who has been teaching at HBS for five years, has set out to... View Details

07 Aug 2018
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DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground

becomes one of the only black women to have raised that much cash in private funding. According to Project Diane, just 34 black women have raised over $1 million in venture dollars. Last year, Woolley-Wilson... View Details

05 Apr 2018
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50 Years After King

April 4, 1968, when King was assassinated, and one of four black girls from a class of 100 in Washington, DC. In the days that followed, while standing outside a Rhode Island Avenue convenience store waiting for her grandfather, an armed... View Details

25 Apr 2018
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Giving Minorities a Playbook for Corporate Success

John Rice (MBA 1992) founded Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a national nonprofit organization, to equip underrepresented minorities with the skills, coaching, and relationships they need to become high-impact leaders in... View Details

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

number of black students at HBS, the hiring of black faculty members, and the creation of more socially relevant electives. By establishing the African-American Student Union (AASU) in 1968, the five... View Details

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