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- 09 Sep 2016
- News
Airbnb Adopts Rules to Fight Discrimination by Its Hosts
- 16 Nov 2016
- News
The best ways to combat bias
- 01 Nov 2019
- News
Toward a Racially Just Workplace
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
Airbnb Plans To Fight Racism With Diversity. But Will It Be Enough?
- 12 Oct 2021
- News
Apollo Hires Legendary Banker Bill Lewis (MBA 1982) to Boost Top Ranks
article announcing the move in Bloomberg. Before that, he spent 24 years at Morgan Stanley, becoming the firm's first African-American managing director in 1989. Lewis was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Harvard Management... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
African-American city. It's a heavy military city. I had the business acumen and I had a heart to serve, and my team worked very, very hard. This was not a Phillip Jones campaign, this was the community. This was grassroots and we hit... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
in terms of access to capital: women-owned businesses; operators of color from African-American and Hispanic communities; and military veterans. We’re really trying to shine a light on the groups that are often quietly overlooked by big... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987
on Wall Street. “That was my introduction to finance and the MBA degree,” she says, noting that back in Cambridge, she began crossing the river to study at Baker Library and attended a conference organized by HBS’s African-American... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
York after graduating from college. Then, in 1988, Ferguson and Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990) founded Urban Profile, a lifestyle magazine for young African-American professionals. “We didn’t consider printing costs or subscribers,”... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
“We’re delighted that our event has left such a positive impression, and we look forward to continuing to provide valuable experiences for our community in the future.” Alumni Clubs Co-Host Expert Panel Talk on Tech Leadership The HBS View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Motivation through hard knocks
Ask Creighton Taylor (MBA 2014) what he does as copresident of the HBS African-American Student Union (AASU), and he replies, “Too much!” Laughing, he qualifies: “It’s been great. My favorite part is that I get to give back to the School... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
who started his first company, Tribeca Designs, an efficient storage CD tower, while a student at Harvard Business School, spent his early post-HBS years working for private equity firms before joining Radio One—an American broadcasting company that targets View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
More Than a Business
When you call Black Enterprise's corporate offices in Manhattan and ask for Earl G. Graves, you have to specify which one. There's Earl Senior, the chairman, editor, and publisher, who, since founding the magazine in 1970, has turned it into the premier business... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
being his own boss, Royster instead went to work at Boston-based Capital Resource Partners, then the African-American private equity firm TSG Capital in Stamford, Connecticut. At TSG he was introduced to one of its portfolio companies,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Help in the Vicinity
African-American executives in Silicon Valley. "Most executives tend to hire, recruit, and work around people who are like them," he said. "I don't think you necessarily have to have the same color skin. In fact, I know you don't. But you... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
president. Pounding away steadily, Fudge eventually broke through. The scene couldn't have been more symbolic of Fudge's life. As an African-American woman, she has been breaking down walls since she was a child, quietly dismantling the... View Details