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- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
average, NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic “patent trolls.” NPEs sue cash-rich firms and target cash in business segments unrelated to alleged infringement at essentially the same frequency as they target cash in segments related to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
Black-owned banks go to Black people. We know that, Carver Bank in New York, for example, 80 percent of their commercial loans or business loans go to Black people. And we know conversely, that less than... View Details
William Nickerson, Jr.
Nickerson founded and led the first African American life insurance business established in the state of California. Under his leadership, Golden State expanded to other states and grew to become one of the largest View Details
Keywords: Finance
John Merrick
Merrick began his professional life as a barber, at one time owning five shops. However, by 1905, he devoted himself fully to his insurance company, and by 1919, the premium income was $1.2 million with insurance in force totaling $26 million, making it the largest... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Ivan J. Houston
Houston was instrumental in streamlining Golden State’s operations and enabling it to profitably expand. He moved the company into the group insurance field securing business from organizations such as Ford, General Motors, and AT&T.... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Robert L. Johnson
Johnson created the first and only cable television station with programming for and about black Americans. Though he struggled to gain a subscriber base in the early eighties, Johnson persevered and built a viable enterprise. When he took the company public in 1991,... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Charles C. Spaulding
Joining his uncle’s firm in 1898, Spaulding rose to director of North Carolina Mutual. Under Spaulding, the company grew to be the largest black-owned business of the time and had amassed assets of over $37... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
For one thing, Black hosts were underrepresented in the data that was used to train the algorithm. What’s more, says Zhang, societal bias may result in different demand curves for Black-owned properties versus white-owned ones. Renters... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Attention, Oenophiles
THE CUFFES: A new career importing “fantastic” African wines from black-owned vineyards. In 2005, while on a trip in South Africa, Selena Cuffe (MBA ’03) saw an ad for the Soweto Wine Festival. “I was used to seeing negative African... View Details
Keywords: Wholesale Trade
- 04 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Black History Month at HBS
year to design a new Harvard Business School (HBS) course, Scaling Minority Businesses, in which students learn about the unique challenges of Black-owned businesses. Students are grouped into teams and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
company was not yet a year old. It had launched just as key provisions from the 2012 Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act took effect, opening opportunities for companies to raise a total of just over $1 million from non-accredited... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
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Hold ourselves accountable to meaningful, measurable progress. - Advancing Racial Equity
Action Plan Hold ourselves accountable to meaningful, measurable progress. Like many of the organizations we study, Harvard Business School is at risk of declaring a lot of good intentions and goals and then failing to follow through on... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
Black-owned businesses in the Boston area. The course is cotaught by Senior Lecturers Archie L. Jones, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and Henry W. McGee, and uses case discussions, presentations from subject experts,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
of Black-owned and sustainable brands the company stocks, highlighting those changes on TikTok and Clubhouse, the new audio-focused social media platform. “Beauty...has the ability to articulate a brand promise or personality.”... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
nonprofit focused on improving urban economies, and ICV Partners, a Black-owned private equity firm focused on companies in the lower middle market. Willie Woods is cofounder, president, and managing director of ICV Partners, and in this... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
business loans, job skills training, and unemployment benefits that were provided to white veterans. These publicly-provided benefits laid the foundation for much of the American middle class. That might explain why Timothy Hood didn’t... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
million fund "for targeted programs, economic initiatives and community development projects." FEBRUARY 2 Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) recently donated $1 million to the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund (NCF), a Boston-based group of Black and Brown... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
changing world, if your business is built on the assumption that diversity and inclusion is a ‘nice to have,’ it’s an unstable territory,” Ric Lewis (PMD 69, 1995), executive chairman and CIO of London-based Tristan Capital Partners,... View Details