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Terrance Rogers
No one ever told my mother to dream. She grew up in 1950s Georgia, where nothing of importance was expected of little black girls. Yet without a high school degree, she scraped her way up from rural poverty to build a wonderful life for... View Details
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
initiative, with over a hundred area corporations, from Fortune 500 companies to mid-sized businesses, pledging to expand Black and Brown talent in their management roles by 25% and overall staff by 15% by 2025. Over the course of the... View Details
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Valentina Zarya
ended in puberty, but my hair tells the real story. It’s been a dozen different colors over the years: Raven black during a goth phase in high school; varying shades of copper in college; and blonde to test the “they have more fun”... View Details
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Hayling Price
my first exam. Growing up, I was unlike some of my friends because I was lucky enough to have access to privileges like academic support and adult mentors at home. As a young black man in public school, I was deeply troubled to learn that... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Courtesy Steven Rogers Courtesy Steven Rogers On May 31st, 2020, six days after the murder of George Floyd, Steven Roger's daughter Ariel sent him a text. In it, she told her dad that the View Details
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Heritage & Identity Months at Baker | Baker Library
Heritage & Identity Months at Baker Surfacing Library Collections. Amplifying Diversity. These exhibits are part of an ongoing strategy to recognize one another's humanity, value the lived experiences of others, and build meaningful... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. This new biography of two of America's most influential black leaders is a brilliant analysis of their two different leadership styles and is... View Details
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Jaynie Randall
working, dancing, loving... just how I hope to live mine. His death has brought the realization that thinking of life in terms of one wild and precious life, no matter how 'wild' or filled with how many... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
a manifesto for those who want to claim their unique space in the world. By embracing your inner Black Sheep, you’ll learn to navigate life’s complexities with agility and grace. Stand apart, think boldly, and View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Flexible Teams to Do the Best Work of Their Lives By Brian Elliot (MBA 2008), Sheela Subramanian (MBA 2011), and Helen Kupp (MBA 2015) Wiley The way we work has changed. The era of toiling from nine-to-five, five-days-a-week in the office... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
(MBA 1991), founder & CEO, Savvy Growth “If you make two things happen, no matter what, it will transform your life: 1) live close to school so your children can walk to and from it, and 2) View Details
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Alexa Brownell
margaritas wear floppy hats grow parsnips and rutabaga deep dive into the caverns of my soul and live questions about WHY this is and WHAT could be try to ... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
racist name was bad business. Still, FedEx did not act. Finally, in late June 2020, in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests, Boston Common and a coalition of 86 other... View Details
- 21 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow
to become better employers. “Throughout my career, I have explored how private capital and public resources can be leveraged to ensure people living in historically marginalized communities have the opportunity for economic mobility,”... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. This new biography of two of America's most influential black leaders is a brilliant analysis of their two different leadership styles and is... View Details
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
something big might happen, even though they think they do. We therefore continue to concentrate on matters irrelevant to Black Swans ("noise"?) and also fail to develop the humility that Silver... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Outtakes with Russ Wilcox
what they do.” Not quite a black sheep: “My dad, brother, aunt, uncle, and cousin all went to MIT. I was a math major at Harvard, but it’s not quite the same.” Creative license: “Start-ups let you create something from nothing. It’s a... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
sense of purpose, sense of community and their financial and social well-being and found that “blacks and Hispanics typically score higher than whites,” noting that “these findings highlight the remarkable levels of resilience among View Details
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Jason Gurwin
Roller coasters scare me. The overwhelming speed. The stomach-wrenching plunges. The unpredictable twists and turns. But, that's how I've chosen to live my life. And for some reason, it doesn't scare me. As an entrepreneur, it's hard to... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- News
The Road to Racial Equity
John Rice (MBA 1992) John Rice (MBA 1992) In late October, Willy Walker (MBA 1995) hosted John Rice (MBA 1992) as a guest on the Walker Webcast interview series to talk about family, the lived reality of racism, and how to drive diversity... View Details