Minorities - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Oct 2020
News

Two MBA Startups Cited as “Most Disruptive”

targets STEM and healthcare students with 5-year income share agreements that set aside a fixed percentage of a recipient’s future earnings. (The firm collects nothing if a client earns less than $40,000 annually.) Women and minorities... View Details

Keywords: disruptive innovation; startups; student loans; entrepreneurship; i-Lab; entrepreneur in residence; Finance

25 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

severity while innovations vary in their sophistication and novelty. We use recurrent-event accelerated failure time models to examine how product failures experienced by firms and their competitors impact subsequent major and minor... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Work & Life - Race, Gender & Equity

trying to figure out how to be a present father without that impacting how I’m perceived at work (leaving early, not online in the evening so that I can do feedings, etc.).” Man, 36 HBS Couples When it comes to “HBS couples” (alumni married to other alumni) with View Details

Portrait Project

Lee Koffler

their lives over again. One hundred years after Johannes Brahms's death, his passion and sorrow survive in his Piano Quartet #3 in C Minor. For two centuries, Beethoven's Choral Fantasy in C Minor has led audiences to rejoice. In another... View Details

10 Feb 2022
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

advocate for Black and minority communities. Thus, in the HBS classroom I try to highlight the impact that business decisions and new innovations (both positive and negative) can have on minority... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters

The story of how nonprofit start-up Montage Entertainment came about would be familiar to many past participants in the HBS Business Plan Contest. “Some friends and I were sitting in the café at Shad, discussing film and the way women and View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Information

01 Sep 2013
News

Three Decades of Change and Counting

Here, a few SVMP alumni who went on to graduate from HBS describe their first impressions of the program and how it influenced them. Karen Caswelch Photo courtesy of Karen Caswelch Karen Caswelch (SVMP 1983, MBA 1988) CEO, Akoya, Inc. Indianapolis "I heard about SVMP... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Eligibility | New Venture Competition

(HBS) Field Course: Innovating in Health Care (HBS) Field Course: Investing for Impact (HBS) Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation (HBS) Field Course: Scaling Minority Businesses (HBS) Field Course: Startup Operations (HBS) Impact... View Details

June 2016
Article

Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation for Corporate Social Responsibility

By: Bryan Hong, Zhichuan (Frank) Li and Dylan B. Minor

We link the corporate governance literature in financial economics to the agency cost perspective of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to derive theoretical predictions about the relationship between corporate governance and the existence of executive compensation... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Incentives For CSR; Non-financial Performance Measures; Agency Costs; Board Independence; Institutional Holdings; Managerial Power; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Executive Compensation; Corporate Governance

19 Nov 2014
News

Advancing opportunities for diverse professionals

Wall Street banker Sherrese Clarke Soares (MBA 2004) works with the Council for Urban Professionals to help minority professionals advance in their careers to the C-suite and corporate boards. (Published November 2014) View Details

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Natalie Margulies | MBA

donor matches and optimizing humanitarian relief after natural disasters through data. However, my time at Facebook also showed me the tremendous potential for misuse in data analytics; I watched Facebook’s ad-targeting technology exclude View Details

Career Coach

Wendi Zhang

development policies and analysis in the public sector. Wendi attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she received Bachelor of Science degrees in both Mathematics and Management Science, along with minors in Economics... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Angel Investing; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Real Estate; Social Enterprise; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship; Technology

Shara Ticku

from Harvard Business School and a BA/BBA from the University of Texas, where she double majored in Plan II Honors Program and the Business Honors Program, with a minor in Finance. Shara currently serves as an Entrepreneur in Residence at... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products & Packaged Goods;#2;#Agriculture;#13;#Biotech & Life Sciences;#28;#Energy, Oil, Renewables, & Environment;#35;#Food & Beverages;#56;#Personal Health & Wellness

01 Jun 2017
News

Boosting Boardroom Diversity

According to the Alliance for Board Diversity, representation of women and minority men on Fortune 500 companies has grown, however slightly—from 12.8 percent in 2010 to 14.4 percent last year. A new Executive Education program, Women on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

25 Feb 2020
News

Research Brief: May I Ask Your Advice?

feedback that women typically receive relative to their male peers, as well as the withholding bias that minorities experience in the workplace. In those dynamics, people refrain from sharing the information that could be most useful in... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

30 Mar 2015
News

Raising the bar to provide quality education

my husband and I—he’d been involved from the beginning at ARK—we moved to California and decided we wanted to help children in our backyard there. We serve a population of low-income, mostly minority children, whose choices are public... View Details

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Incentives and Operational Excellence

lives, said Narayanan. Owens & Minor allowed customers to internalize the consequences of their demand for services.— V.G. Narayanan The case of Video Vault, a small outfit in Massachusetts, was a fine example of how an operational... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 1997
News

Benaree Wiley

"Early in life," says Bennie Wiley, "I learned an important guiding principle: look for ways to exercise your values." As president and CEO of The Partnership, an organization designed to open doors for minority professionals in the city... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

leaders’ public statements repudiating these bills, a charge led by Black business leaders; increased violence against Asian Americans, particularly older women, but also increased visibility for a minority that has long remained... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Research Brief: Pocket Change

Illustration by Jim Frazier Women and ethnic minorities donate small amounts of money to political candidates in ways that have helped to democratize the American electoral process, suggests Associate Professor Vincent Pons. In his “Small... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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