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18 Nov 2021
News

What Do Black Executives Really Want?

26 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Baker Library's Latest Collection: Little Black Library

When Cathy Chukwulebe (MBA 2021) set up a plastic bin with books about antiracism and the Black experience in the Harvard Business School Schwartz Pavilion in the summer of 2020, she never imagined that the collection would grow to sites... View Details

02 Feb 2022
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Cold Call: Black Business Leaders Series 2022

22 Jul 2020
Blog Post

Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club

INSPIRED BY RECENT EVENTS The protests against the unjust murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others since have mobilized the nation to take a stand in support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and... View Details

20 Feb 2024
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Honoring the History of Black Americans in the Military

January 2022 (Revised October 2023)
Case

OneTen: One Million Careers for Black Talent (A)

By: Boris Groysberg, V. Kasturi Rangan, Annelena Lobb and Kerry Herman

The OneTen case study examines the nonprofit organization’s origin story. Its founding team includes a roster of corporate superstars—Ken Chenault (former CEO of American Express), Ken Frazier (former CEO of Merck), Charles Phillips (chair of Infor), Ginni Rometty... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Demographics; Ethics; Organizations; Social Enterprise; Society; Business or Company Management; Nonprofit Organizations

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6 PM – 7:15 PM EST, 28 Feb 2022
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A Blessing and Little Black Library at Harvard Business School presents a virtual author chat to celebrate Black History Month

HBSs iconic Baker Library is the largest business library in the worldand its collection expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the first time in its 95-year history, Baker brought in non-business books, over 170 titles (to date) organized by Cathy Chukwulebe (MBA... View Details

15 May 2017
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New Black Entrepreneurship Course Draws Strong Interest

2018
Race & 21st century economy: Access, investments and institution-building

The Struggle is Real: Black Colleges, Resources, and Respect

October 1987 (Revised October 1992)
Case

Black & Decker Corp.: Household Products Group, Brand Transition

This rewritten version differs from Black & Decker Corp.: Household Products Group (A1) in two ways: 1) It has an explicit decision focus. Homa must decide on a program to transfer the Black & Decker name to GE small appliances; and 2) The detailed information... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Consumer Products Industry

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April 1990 (Revised October 1992)
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Black & Decker Corp.: Spacemaker Plus Coffeemaker (A)

A fire is reported in a Black & Decker Spacemaker Plus Coffeemaker. This newly introduced product is a "Key Introduction" for Black & Decker's Household Product Group (HPG). HPG's president has to decide whether the product should be recalled and, if so, how the recall... View Details

Keywords: Safety; Risk Management; Ethics; Product Marketing; Consumer Products Industry

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December 1997 (Revised February 1998)
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Black Sun Interactive, Inc. (B)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Sylvia Sensiper

Keywords: Web Services Industry

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April 1991 (Revised July 1991)
Case

South Africa: Whither Black Enterprise?

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: South Africa

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04 Aug 2023
News

The Sales Training Black Hole

02 Apr 2020
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What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

Eddisonphotos SUMMING UP In What Ways Will the Pandemic Stimulate Research in Leadership? Preparation for Black Swan events, to the extent that it is even possible, has to be balanced against the demands for short-term results. It may be... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Sep 2019
Book

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

false illusion of a post-racial society, where many people thought we had transcended issues of race,” he says. “But that was not the case at all.” It certainly wasn’t the experience for many of the black business executives included in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

February 2025
Case

Managing EPS at Stanley Black & Decker?

By: Jonas Heese, Joseph Pacelli, Yuan Zou and James Barnett

The case explores Stanley Black and Decker’s (SBD) 2022 financial restatement announcement, which related to how SBD accounted for certain equity issuances in 2019. These transactions had a minimal effect on earnings but significantly reduced shares outstanding, and... View Details