Black Executives - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Apr 2024
In Practice

Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

that looks at both the H1-B restrictions and the executive orders that Donald Trump issued in April 2017. We found that led to an erosion of $100 billion of valuation for US companies. Finally, the US is losing a policy battle related to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

07 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

success, even though he has a .650 failure rate. But in entrepreneurial management, there's a tendency to see things in black and white, rather than looking at the whole picture. And while VCs are likely to recruit an View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Mar 2023
HBS Case

ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

technology in the case “Timnit Gebru: ‘Silenced No More’ on AI Bias and the Harms of Large Language Models.” The case study examines the efforts by the pioneering Gebru to warn Google’s executive suite. Born in Addis Ababa to Eritrean... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

located in a largely Black section of Miami-Dade County. After teaching at a public school in Harlem for two years, Rebecca Fishman Lipsey rose through the ranks at Teach for America, moving to Miami as the organization’s regional View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

28 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

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Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Jan 2021
Book

In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

significant challenges faced by the country. Along with protesting racially motivated violence, the Black Lives Matter movement has opened broader conversations around social justice, including the need for economic opportunity to be far... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

06 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

What makes a successful entrepreneurial leader? Is it the technical brilliance of Bill Gates? The obsessive focus on user experience of Steve Jobs? The vision, passion, and strong execution of Care.com’s Sheila Lirio Marcelo? Or maybe... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge

25 Jul 2023
Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

cross-sector and cross-border partnerships needed to execute the model. Adding new information about how pharmaceutical companies handle global public health challenges. Jessica Martinez, a former Big Pharma View Details

Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

overlook our most powerful tool for effecting change: our own thoughts. Through a variety of exercises called Think Keys, Zaltman guides the reader through the mind’s most important unconscious and conscious dynamics. Zaltman has used these techniques with View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 10

filled with immersive and engaging content, activities, experiences, and communities. Looking to the future, Stack was working to execute a new digital strategy, one that included digital as a dimension of everything the Tate did, both... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Nov 2022
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

in a business environment awakening to equity and inclusion. One of the first Black portfolio managers, Eddie Brown, founded the eponymous firm in 1983. It was only the second Black-founded investment firm in the US. Its performance in... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

27 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?

choose an all-white group. Decades of diversity initiatives have failed to drastically alter the American executive suite, especially for Black people, who hold only 3.2 percent of senior View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

conflict. Roosevelt replaced Stevens with Colonel George Washington Goethals. Goethals was a cold, withdrawn man of many prejudices, including ones both common and uncommon for the time. He disdained blacks and loathed obese people, with... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

Co managed to serve clients profitably, transferring most of the additional costs and getting a bump for improved service-level agreements and number of orders managed similar to the one they usually get during peak times like Black... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

06 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

Achiever, fills the senior executive ranks. These leaders rarely fail to achieve their goals and often exceed sales quotas, create generous profits, and are frequent stars at merit-award dinners. The Achiever, to use Peter Drucker's... View Details

Keywords: by Mitch Maidique

11 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

launch a new blockchain currency to facilitate financial services for unbanked and underbanked customers in emerging markets via their smartphone. Santos had to decide whether to go forward with the new plan despite regulatory risk, View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

announced recently they would increase efforts to recruit persons of color, in part a response to the Black Lives Matter movement. Some of the same organizations made similar announcements in the past—yet the numbers of persons with... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 28

selection, and athletic participation. Two initial studies, utilizing explicit and implicit measures, captured the stereotype content of different racial groups: the Asian stereotype was seen as more feminine whereas the Black stereotype... View Details