Laura Morgan Roberts - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2009
News

Robert F. Greenhill, MBA 1962

achievement possibilities are limitless.” One of Wall Street’s preeminent investment bankers, Bob Greenhill has helped shape some of the world’s most successful corporations. Greenhill earned a reputation as a man of action during his 31 years at View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain

diagnosis -- a "road map" or "operating guide" for breast cancer patients. While Just Get Me Through This! includes medical information from her coauthor, Dr. Robert M. Gelfand, its primary intent is to help women manage the day-to-day... View Details

Keywords: Morgan Baker

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

you need heroic leaders in order to have meaningful, sustained change. Why Change Efforts Fail "Change is one of the few areas where experts have been in violent agreement for decades," declares David A. Garvin, Robert and Jane... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

02 Jul 2015
Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

could go on as usual were out of sync with reality. Hopefully, cooler heads will prevail in the days ahead. — Laura Alfaro Laura Alfaro is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at HBS. She... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking

17 Nov 2016
News

Where Did All Those Women Voters Go?

2018
The Significance of Race Research in the 21st Century

Sankofa: Learning about and from Black experiences of Leadership, Race and Work

Awards

Axiom Business Book Award. Gold Medal. Women/Minorities in Business

By: David A. Thomas

Winner of the 2020 Axiom Business Book Award Gold Medal in the Women and Minorities in Business category for Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019) with Laura Morgan Roberts and Anthony J. Mayo. View Details

20 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Creating a Positive Professional Image

As HBS professor Laura Morgan Roberts sees it, if you aren't managing your own professional image, others are. "People are constantly observing your behavior and forming... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

02 Mar 2016
News

The New Space Race

achieving firsts,” he says. “Now we’re taking proven business models and applying them to a new approach to space.” Akshay Patel (MBA 2010), who left an investment banking position at Morgan Stanley last year to become VP of strategy and... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

12 May 2015
News

A Flash of Insight

what they should be doing with their lives. Louis B. Cooper (MBA 1988) was among them. Until earlier in the year, he had been managing partner at Anvil Capital Management, a hedge fund he had launched a year prior following a successful 12-year investment-banking... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; 9/11; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

30 Sep 2019
Book

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

Black Experience, co-edited by Mayo, University of Virginia Professor Laura Morgan Roberts, who is a visiting scholar at HBS, and David A. Thomas, president of Morehouse College and a former professor at... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

2018
Dialogue

Welcome and Introductions

2019
Chapter

Pathways to Leadership: Black Graduates of Harvard Business School

By: Anthony J. Mayo and Laura Morgan Roberts

In chapter 3, “Pathways to Leadership,” Anthony J. Mayo and Laura Morgan Roberts present a portrait of the backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of black alumni of the HBS MBA program. With this study, HBS has allowed itself to be exposed in a way that other... View Details

Keywords: Race And Ethnicity; Inclusion; Race; Diversity; Leadership

Citation

Find at Harvard

2019
Chapter

Why a Chapter on Race, Work, and Leadership?

By: Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo and Serenity Lee

In this chapter, Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo, and Serenity Lee outline the rationale for the publication of an edited volume on race, work, and leadership that is squarely focused on the black experience. View Details

Keywords: Race And Ethnicity; Race; Ethnicity; Diversity; Leadership

Citation

2017
Interrogating Authenticity

Moments of Truth? Authentic Encounters with Realistic Identities

27 Feb 2018
News

Markets, Fidelity, Framingham

21 Feb 2020
News

Leading Race Work at HBS: From the Back Yard to the Front Lawn

Africa Research Center Webinar Series: COVID-19: Reflections, Challenges and Next Steps

In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Harvard Business School (HBS) leadership urged faculty seeking to contribute to not overthink their engagement—to do what they could for whom they could. That hit home with HBS faculty member Euvin Naidoo.... View Details

2019
Presentation

Enough

20 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54267 February 6, 2018 Harvard Business Review What Could Amazon's Approach to Health Care Look Like? By: Huckman, Robert S. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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