African Americans - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Oct 2016
First Look

October 25, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51759 forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy When Discounts Raise Costs: The Effect of Copay Coupons on Generic Utilization By: Dafny, Leemore S., Christopher Ody, and Matt... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

economic growth has stagnated, and poverty is on the rise. Most people in Latin America, the Middle East, and Central Asia are poorer today than they were ten years ago, and most Africans were better off forty years ago. The average per... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

01 Apr 1998
News

World Class Learning

Solana reflects. Ruwende notes that for most Africans, "it is extremely difficult, given earning levels, inflation, interest rates, and currency devaluation" to save the amounts necessary to matriculate at HBS. "I think the sheer financial requirements deter many... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

12 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

study this question in the context of the first Great Migration (1915–1930), when 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to urban centers in the North, where 30 million Europeans had arrived... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

Philadelphia; two African American men being escorted from the store. He flew out there that same day. How could Mark disappear for five days? As did his partner, Sheryl Sandberg. And it even got worse... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

10 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

infrastructure development came from traditional international sources like the World Bank or African Development Bank, those lenders would worry about foreign exchange, interest rates, and political risk and would almost always seek... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

extensive American military action between the U.S.-Mexican and Civil wars. Based on a half-century of research and a wealth of carefully selected new material, itpresents the history of the conflict through the voices of... View Details

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consistently overcome formidable barriers to achieve truly worthwhile purposes. In a closely related project at Harvard, faculty have conducted detailed interviews with former American Secretaries of State—Henry Kissinger, George Shultz... View Details

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