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- 12 Dec 2015
- News
Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy
Earlier this year, HBS professors Benjamin Edelman and Michael Luca, working with doctoral student Dan Svirsky sent 6,400 rental requests to Airbnb hosts in five cities using distinctly white or distinctly African-American names. In the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sankofa!
Sankofa, a word in the Akan language of Ghana, embodies the idea of learning from the past to build for the future — a fitting name for a student performance that draws its inspiration from the rich cultural traditions of the African Diaspora. Organized by the HBS... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
sharing upward mobility with all African Americans was the theme of the 26th annual HBS African-American Student Union (AASU) Career/Alumni Conference, "The Next Step: Revitalizing Our Community," held January 22-25. Taking place at HBS... View Details
- 04 Oct 2024
- News
On the Vineyard, Black Alumni Reconnect With Friends and HBS
The summer weather could not have been better on August 9, when 180 HBS alumni and guests converged on Martha’s Vineyard for “HBS on the Vineyard: A Summer Reception,” an event co-hosted by HBS External Relations and the HBS View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
@Soldiers Field
turnaround. Hilfiger also shared the story of his first company, which went bankrupt in 1977—an experience he referred to as “my MBA.” Some 500 members of the HBS community attended a candlelight vigil on Spangler Lawn organized by the View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
African-American graduates. The H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professorship of Business Administration, the first chair at the School to be named for an African American, was recently established in his honor with gifts from more than three hundred... View Details
- 07 Feb 2019
- News
New Charter School CEO Debuts Colorful Changes
a charter network in the Chicago area” as well as the first African-American woman to serve as Noble’s CEO. The article noted that the move to loosen the dress code was also prompted by Jones’s own desire to get a tattoo to memorialize... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Inner-City Advantage
Investment in the inner city can reap social rewards, but there’s real money to be made as well, agreed panelists at the 32nd annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference. Named for Fitzhugh (MBA ’33), one of the School’s first African-American... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
@Soldiers Field
HISTORY In February, New York Times staff writer Nikole Hannah-Jones spoke about her 1619 project in Klarman Hall Auditorium. The event, which included a panel on the connections between history and present-day race relations, was sponsored in part by the HBS View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes Abstract African Art
museums such as the Tate Modern showcase their works. “There is power in abstract art, not merely as a stylistic mode, but as a personal choice for generations of African-American artists,” says the former member of the Obama... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
information about Cyberposium 2001 can be found at www.cyberposium.com. AASU Conference Looks to the New Economy The 29th annual career and alumni conference sponsored by the HBS African-American Student Union (AASU) celebrated the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events
WeMaintain celebrating at Le Hub in Paris with judges, club officers, and guests after winning the Europe regional HBS New Venture Competition Alumni Track in March. 3 Roy Willis, Ted Lewis, and Lillian Lincoln Lambert (all MBA 1969)—three of the five founders of the... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
African-Americans, to help them to manage their money,” she recalls. “These were people like Oprah— people who are on the Forbes list of wealthiest African-Americans. “I got to know some of them, and at the time we did this there were a dozen or so Africans whose net... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
progress. That’s where my focus is these days.” Richard America was already a focused individual when he arrived on the HBS campus in 1961. He was one of four African-American students at the School, but that wasn’t the only thing that... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
AASU Looks Ahead
"Back to the Future: Leveraging Past Successes to Shape the New Millennium" was the theme of this year's African-American Student Union career and alumni conference. The 27th annual AASU event offered a variety of thought-provoking... View Details
- 19 May 2020
- News
Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online
Clubs News Clubs News Black Businesses Get Pandemic Survival Tips Via Webinar Series The HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA), in partnership with Steven Rogers (MBA 1985), the MBA Class of 1957 Senior Lecturer of Business... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Lighting the Way
them.” —From Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women, by Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony Mayo, Robin Ely, and David Thomas Symposium on Race, Work, and Leadership: Learning about and from Black Experience The... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Motivation through hard knocks
Ask Creighton Taylor (MBA 2014) what he does as copresident of the HBS African-American Student Union (AASU), and he replies, “Too much!” Laughing, he qualifies: “It’s been great. My favorite part is that I get to give back to the School... View Details
- 14 Jul 2010
- News
The Concerts in the Chapel
have been special interactive children’s concerts demonstrating musical instruments, Music for Valentine’s Day, and music by African-American composers to celebrate Black History Month. There have also been concerts of harp music, music... View Details
- 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 company that targets View Details