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- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
It's no coincidence that the new book America the Principled is coming out just as the U.S. presidential election gets into full swing, says its author, Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. She wants us all to rethink the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718030 Harvard Business School Case 317-082 Corey Thomas and the IPO Corey Thomas, the African American CEO of the company Rapid7, must decide if it is the right time... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 2)
African American Student Union (AASU), First-Gen Club, Latino Student Organization (LASO), and PRIDE. WHAT DOES BEING FIRST-GENERATION, LOW-INCOME (FGLI) MEAN TO YOU? Sami Pal, Class of 2023 Being FGLI has... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
Anglo American in 2007, one of the world’s largest mining companies, Cynthia Carroll determined that increased transparency was important if the company—and the industry as a whole—was going to improve its safety record. “People responded... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
that all the giants in this book are white men. It is inconceivable that an African American or a woman could have done what Andrew Carnegie did when he did it. When Carnegie immigrated in 1848, there was... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
mainstream American beauty market, for example, increasingly reflected the country’s rapidly growing ethnic diversity. The nearly 80 million Hispanics, African Americans, and Asians recorded by the U.S.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
opportunities, housing, and access to capital. It found, for example, that low-income whites were twice as likely to be approved for loans as Native or African Americans with higher incomes. The task force's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Web
2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Leadership and Change. She is also a Visiting Scholar with the Harvard Business School Leadership Initiative, researching the influence of African American business leaders at HBS and beyond. Laura is a... View Details
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
"The central African thunderstorms are amazing," Virts said. "They're so bright that the modules of the space station light up." He repeated the point for emphasis. "The thunderstorms are so bright that they light... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
connects tech companies to African software engineers. And in this episode of Skydeck, Sulyman talks to associate editor Julia Hanna about how his work is empowering Africa—and about the journey that led him to this mission. READ MORE... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
for predominantly white spaces is still not enough to keep Black people safe – and there isn’t a job title or degree in the world that can protect Black communities from institutionalized and systemic racism. Members of the HBS African... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
height of the civil rights movement, Thomas-Graham's parents held up Thurgood Marshall and other lawyers as role models who created peaceful change at a time when racial tensions were running high. "Our family heroes were African View Details
- 25 May 2023
- Blog Post
Interview Strategies to Connect with a Wider Range of Candidates
in various student clubs including the African American Student Union, Armed Forces Alumni Association, Asian Affinity Business Association, Black Investment Club, Latino Student Organization, PRIDE, Women... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 03 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
9 Lessons from the Class of 2019
Society. This important distinction highlights the indelible impact that certain students have already made on Harvard, Harvard Business School, and/or broader communities. This year's recipients were: Amanda Tyson and Lindsey Morrow (Co-presidents of the View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
Tomography) scanner at MRC helps doctors diagnose diseases and abnormalities. Augmented Intelligence The American Medical Association uses the term “augmented intelligence” as a conceptualization of artificial intelligence that focuses on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
It isn’t news that US companies have a problem with diversity, especially in the C suite. Although African Americans make up 13.2 percent of the US population, only 1 percent—that’s just five people—are CEOs... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
field experiment on Airbnb, we find that requests from guests with distinctively African-American names are roughly 16% less likely to be accepted than identical guests with distinctively White names. The difference persists whether the host is View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
Leone, which was also founded by repatriated North American freed slaves. Both countries have a small population and have suffered overlapping conflicts. "They're siblings as far as nations go, and their paths to recovery are likely... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
are transferable. Please let me talk to him. So he arranged the interview and I went and I, of course, I didn't get it. I wanted it so terribly and I remember so well at the end of the interview, a couple days later, one of the woman who interviewed me was an View Details
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 5/5
for predominantly white spaces is still not be enough to keep Black people safe – and there isn’t a job title or degree in the world that can protect Black communities from institutionalized and systemic racism. Members of the HBS African... View Details