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Toward a Racially Just Workplace: Diversity Efforts are Failing Black Employees. Here's a Better Approach
By: Laura Morgan Roberts and Anthony Mayo
Morgan Roberts, Laura, and Anthony Mayo. "Toward a Racially Just Workplace: Diversity Efforts are Failing Black Employees. Here's a Better Approach." Harvard Business Review (website) (November 20, 2019).
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Burunda Prince (MBA 1987)
My parents were both public school teachers, but they also owned a repair shop called Satellite TV. After school and on Saturdays we’d all go over to the family business. That was my first insight into the hard work of entrepreneurship. At RICE, we help Black... View Details
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
in what people think, and you need to find the right people to talk to you,” says Elkins, a professor of history and African and African American Studies at Harvard, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
who started his first company, Tribeca Designs, an efficient storage CD tower, while a student at Harvard Business School, spent his early post-HBS years working for private equity firms before joining Radio One—an American broadcasting... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
scholars studying racialization as an enduring American strategy for the coercion and control of labor, particularly African American labor. Race and capitalism is an expanding... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
prevailing beliefs.” America and his family forebears have experienced an odyssey that, one might say, is uniquely American. As best he can determine, America is descended from an enslaved African named America who escaped to freedom... View Details
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
You wouldn’t know it from most American media, but many sub-Saharan African nations have booming economies. And although the press may have missed the boat on this African... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
In addition to traditional wine distribution in the United States, Cuffe made deals with several US airlines to carry Heritage Link wines. "Our first contract created 200 jobs on the ground," Cuffe says proudly. "And ours was the first South View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
exacting and precise, even Americans are this way to a certain extent. They demand almost perfection all the time. And Africans don't. And so as a result, they're forgiving when people are imperfect. And... View Details
- October 2013 (Revised November 2021)
- Case
Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American (A)
By: Gautam Mukunda, Lisa Mazzanti and Aldo Sesia
In 2007, Cynthia Carroll, the newly-appointed chief executive of mining giant Anglo American, was considering shutting down mines in South Africa for safety reasons, namely worker fatalities. No company had ever done so before. Carroll felt that operating a company... View Details
Keywords: Culture; Leadership; Gender; Safety; Working Conditions; Business Exit or Shutdown; Organizational Culture; Change Management; Mining; Mining Industry; South Africa
Mukunda, Gautam, Lisa Mazzanti, and Aldo Sesia. "Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American (A)." Harvard Business School Case 414-019, October 2013. (Revised November 2021.)
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
Bridging the Worlds of Hip-Hop and Contemporary Art
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
because they play such a significant part in people’s lives,” says Sundy, now senior vice president and chief commercial officer for another American classic, La-Z-Boy. “Sometimes these brands get old or stale,” he admits, “but they still... View Details
- September 2019 (Revised October 2019)
- Case
Burunda Prince at The Farm, a Comcast NBCUniversal Innovation Hub (Powered by Boomtown)
By: Linda A. Hill, Eric Mankin and Emily Tedards
After a successful inaugural year, Burunda Prince, the Managing Director of Comcast’s startup business accelerator The Farm, was getting ready for an eventful 2019. Comcast was America's largest cable and internet service provider, having built a profitable business... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Accelerator; Entrepreneur; Startup; Outsourcing; Hiring; Talent; Culture; Ecosystem; Digital; Women; African Americans; Leadership; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Management; Diversity; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Culture; Media; Entertainment; Transformation; Atlanta
Hill, Linda A., Eric Mankin, and Emily Tedards. "Burunda Prince at The Farm, a Comcast NBCUniversal Innovation Hub (Powered by Boomtown)." Harvard Business School Case 420-057, September 2019. (Revised October 2019.)
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Leslie Hale (MBA 2001)
surround myself with very smart people. But don’t confuse my desire to be collaborative with an inability to make decisions. I’m honored and humbled to be the first African American woman to become CEO of a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Mason (MBA 1995)
In the summer when it got really hot, my brother and I would buy cases of water. We grew up in Queens near Linden Boulevard and we would stand on the corner and sell bottles of water to people who stopped at the light. We always had this knack for creating... View Details
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Arab American Heritage Month | Baker Library
Arab American Heritage Month Explore Baker Library resources with a connection to Arab Americans and business. Want to stay up-to-date on DEI topics? Consider subscribing to our monthly Diversity Equity and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
noting that the founders drew on planning documents for several recent museums, including the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. “For a museum on our scale, it takes a lot... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- October 2017
- Article
American Danger: United States Empire, Eurafrica, and the Territorialization of Industrial Capitalism, 1870–1950
By: Sven Beckert
During the last third of the nineteenth century, a debate emerged in a number of European countries on the “American danger.” Responding to the rapid rise of the United States as the world’s most important economy, some European observers feared their nations’... View Details
Keywords: Atlantropa; Colonial Expansion; Economic Nationalism; Second Great Divergence; Economics; Global Range; History; United States; Europe; Africa
Beckert, Sven. "American Danger: United States Empire, Eurafrica, and the Territorialization of Industrial Capitalism, 1870–1950." American Historical Review 122, no. 4 (October 2017): 1137–1170.
- 17 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
interviews. 'Whitened' resumes produce more job call-backs for African Americans Blacks get more job interview callbacks when they “whiten” their resumes. Graphic by Blair Storie-Johnson (Source: “Whitened... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman