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- 01 Jul 2020
- News
Covid-19 Dispatch: Tsedal Neeley
- 09 May 2018
- News
4 Ways Women Can Break Barriers by Breaking the Rules
- 31 Jan 2011
- News
Texas Christian University honors James I. Cash Jr.
- 12 Feb 2024
- News
Dale LeFebvre to Receive Horatio Alger Award
Arts at the Kennedy Center. An avid art lover, he was named a founding Milestone Donor of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture after donating $1 million in 2016. READ MORE View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
1619 and 1628. Cumbo was one of the first African men to own land in the colonies. Kearns also discovered he is the great-great-great-great-great grandson of Johannes Schmierer, who immigrated from central Europe to North America in 1755,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
nearby Borders bookstore revealed a three-year life expectancy with no available treatment options. And trying to navigate the complexities of the American health care system—bouncing from pathologist to a medical oncologist to... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
What are your long-term goals? I want Forby to make movies that draw people back to theaters. Ultimately, there will be a resurgence in moviegoing. The stat from the 1950s (when 80% of Americans went to the movies at least weekly) might... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
practice.) It’s not just Berman’s own history and hope for the future success of children that motivates him—he notes that there is real science behind his belief. In 2000, for example, researchers found that 120 hours of chess instruction for View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
Tom Eisenmann; in it, she compared mobile money use in African countries with Latin America’s much slower adoption and discovered that while 85 percent of Mexico’s population owned a smartphone, only 30 percent had a bank account and 10... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
as the School’s first Goldman Sachs Fellow, and was elected copresident of the African American Student Union (AASU). “I had never taken an accounting or finance class before I went to HBS,” he notes. “The... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
vuvuzelas competes with the arena’s mix of American hip-hop and regional hits. It is a distinctly regional take on an iconic American export. The league is a core pillar of NBA Africa, a two-year-old venture... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
care, transportation, edtech, and fintech sectors. Ayman Ismail, assistant professor of entrepreneurship and founding director of the American University in Cairo’s (AUC) Venture Lab, pegs the earliest movements of Egypt’s venture capital... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
legislation he helped draft around raising the minimum wage and reforming the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court. But he also got a bruising lesson in politics when he spoke out against disenfranchisement of the Cherokee Freedmen, a group that includes descendants of View Details
- 21 Sep 2018
- News
Joyner to Receive Harvard’s DuBois Medal
Pamela J. Joyner (MBA 1984) (photo by Nathanael Turner) Pamela J. Joyner (MBA 1984) (photo by Nathanael Turner) Philanthropist and founder of Avid Partners Pamela J. Joyner (MBA 1984)is among several notable African View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Baker Scholar. After spending a year at HBS as assistant to the legendary Professor Georges F. Doriot, Barford moved on to work as a financial analyst at Doriot's American Research & Development Corporation, one of the first U.S. venture... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
Distinguished Professor of Medical Education and professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School and was the first African American department chief at Harvard’s teaching hospitals. In his new... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
efforts,” notes Hammond, who, in the following conversation, talks about the School’s commitment to antiracism education and research, support for the Black and African American community at HBS, and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Proposed Chair Would Honor African-American Business Pioneer
Fitzhugh's honor. Fitzhugh, who passed away in 1992, graduated with honors from Harvard College in 1931, despite being forced to live off-campus because of his race. He was one of the first African Americans... View Details