Black Leadership - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Feb 2017
Cold Call Podcast

Black Business Leaders Series: Franklin Leonard, 'Black List' Mastermind

Keywords: Re: Henry W. McGee; Entertainment & Recreation

February 2016 (Revised August 2021)
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Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Black Voting Rights

By: David Moss and Dean Grodzins

In January 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the most prominent leader of the civil rights movement in the United States, launched a campaign of civil disobedience in Selma, Alabama, to bring national attention to disenfranchisement of black voters in the South. On... View Details

Keywords: Rights; Voting; Race; Government and Politics; Conflict and Resolution; Leadership; History; Alabama

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02 Mar 2021
News

What Black Leaders Bring to the Table

16 Oct 2023
HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

At the end of 2020—seven months after COVID-19 had sent the airline industry into a tailspin and five months after George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police provoked nationwide protests for racial justice—Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian was moved to take more action... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation

August 2021
Case

Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund (A)

By: Anita Elberse, Briana Richardson and Cydni Williams

In May 2020, Chris Lyons, a partner at leading venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz receives the news that his company has reached a verbal agreement with one of Silicon Valley’s hottest social-media startups to lead its ‘Series A’ funding round, in a deal that... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment; Talent Management; General Management; Inclusion; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Networks; Nonprofit Organizations

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03 May 2019
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Giving Voice to Black and Hispanic Women

black women were thought of as uncouth, loudmouth, unfeminine, on welfare, poor, and couldn't read. And that's what we had to overcome. “At the Essence Festival, which is now an extraordinary event that takes place over a 4th of July... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Success Comes From Affirming Your Potential

By: Laura Morgan Roberts and Anthony Mayo

Keywords: Inclusion; Black Leadership; African Americans; Diversity

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18 Aug 2021
News

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

pursue anti-racist initiatives in the areas of policing reform; safe ballot access and civic participation; and economic inclusion. The initiative was spearheaded by six Black HBS alumni members of the View Details

2018
The Significance of Race Research in the 21st Century

Sankofa: Learning about and from Black experiences of Leadership, Race and Work

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

and criminal justice systems in the United States. “The corporate world needs to have the conviction to change the mindset,” he said, citing the grim representation of Black people in leadership positions at... View Details

20 Aug 2020
News

Why are there still so few Black executives in America?

15 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5

Black students in our community have spent the last few weeks grappling with the weight of a devastating truth: that our country and society has undeniably and systemically failed Black communities – and the... View Details

09 Aug 2021
News

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

29 Jun 2020
News

What Black Employee Resource Groups Need Right Now

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 View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; leadership; Black; African American

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School Leadership | About

School Leadership Faculty Leadership Srikant M. Datar George F. Baker Professor of Administration Dean of the Faculty C. Fritz Foley André R. Jakurski Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate... View Details