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- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
Peter Vundla
Peter Vundla, who co-founded the first Black-owned advertising agency HerdBuoys in South Africa in 1991, describes how hard it was for Black people to start a business in apartheid South Africa. They were forced to live in townships such as Soweto which were intended... View Details
- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
Cas Coovadia
Cas Coovadia, the long-running Managing Director of the Banking Association South Africa, argues that the government needs proactive policies to support the Black community because of the discrimination it experienced under apartheid. View Details
- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
Sanjay Bansal
Sanjay Bansal, former head of Ambootia tea estates in Darjeeling, India, discusses the near-feudal conditions which prevailed in the tea industry in this region, and the acute social problems faced by the Nepalese-speaking labor force, which was predominately female.... View Details
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Reuel J. Khoza
Reuel J. Khoza, Chairman of South Africa's Dzana Investments and Discovery Bank, describes the obstacles he faced to establish his management consultancy firm in the context of apartheid. View Details
- 08 Jul 2021
- Video
Peter Wharton-Hood
Peter Wharton-Hood, a former senior executive at Standard Bank and Deutsche Bank in South Africa, discusses how Standard Bank responded to Black Economic Empowerment in the 1990s, which included allaying the fears of incumbent white staff that they would lose their... View Details
- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
Peter Vundla
Peter Vundla, who co-founded the first Black-owned advertising agency HerdBuoys in South Africa in 1991, explains how advertising was entirely controlled by white people in apartheid South Africa, who defined how Black people were presented in the media, and how he... View Details
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Sizwe Nxasana
Sizwe Nxasana, the founding partner of SizweNtsalubaGobodo, the largest Black accounting firm in South Africa, discusses the discrimination he experienced as a young Black accountant during the apartheid era, and how he initially built his business serving Black... View Details
- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
Peter Vundla
Peter Vundla, who co-founded the first Black-owned advertising agency HerdBuoys in South Africa in 1991, discusses how the business started by exploiting the fact that white-owned companies had no understanding of Black consumers and their languages, and by providing a... View Details
- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
Ian Fuhr
Ian Fuhr, who later founded Sorbet, the largest chain of beauty salons in South Africa, describes how he was sent to a refinery owned by the Murray & Roberts group in the 1990s and encountered appalling racism at the top management. The CEO eventually took steps to... View Details
- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
Ian Fuhr
Ian Fuhr, who later founded Sorbet, the largest chain of beauty salons in South Africa, describes his struggles to convince white-owned companies in South Africa in the 1990s to take racism in the workplace seriously, and how he developed a play on the subject to try... View Details
- July 1993 (Revised September 1995)
- Supplement
Block 16: Indigenous Peoples' Perspective
By: Malcolm S. Salter and Susan E.A. Hall
Supplements Block 16: Conoco's Green Oil Strategy (A). Provides the indigenous people's perspective on Conoco's Ecuadorian strategy. Designed to be distributed to students who will be playing the role of Ecuadorian indigenous people. View Details
Salter, Malcolm S., and Susan E.A. Hall. "Block 16: Indigenous Peoples' Perspective." Harvard Business School Supplement 394-003, July 1993. (Revised September 1995.)
- 2018
- Speaking truth: Mobilizing Change Through Artistic Expression
"Black Can Be Me": Voicing the Musical Blackness through Song, Scholarship, and Social Media
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A taste of home leads to jobs creation and community improvements
In a small, undercapitalized cheese manufacturing operation in rural Wisconsin, Paul Scharfman (AB 1976, MBA 1979) saw the opportunity to develop a variety of specialty cheeses that would appeal to the palates of the growing population of View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
MBA Material
impact they could have as business leaders. The students, nominated by sponsoring organizations, are often the first in their families to attend college or are from racial and ethnic groups that are underrepresented in business schools... View Details
- 2018
- Race & 21st century economy: Access, investments and institution-building
The Importance of Entrepreneurship to the Black Community
- 2019
- Presentation
Enough
Mandi Nerenberg
Mandi is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. She is interested in the impact of how gender and racial dynamics shape workplace evaluations. Her research explores gender biases in interpersonal professional contexts,... View Details
- 18 May 2016
- News
What Does the American Dream Mean in Today’s America?
boundless compassion, unique talents and selfless generosity; all while maintaining the traditions of their ethnic heritage as they uphold the ideals and spirit of America.” Navab wrote about the honor on KKR’s blog, reflecting on his... View Details