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- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023
microcosm for the future of media and information. Muhammad Ali: A Case Study in Purpose-Driven Decision Making Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., rose from a poor family in segregated Louisville, Kentucky, to international... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One
case to challenge segregated busing?" So there's a lot of preparatory work and a lot of careful work afterwards. Quiet leadership is not really the flip side. If you look behind lots of great heroic leaders, you find them doing lots... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
Gerdeman is senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: PeopleImages] Related Reading Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
and organizations at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Challenging segregation at work and home The study comes at a time when cries for racial justice have grown in the United States, and Jachimowicz says it should be a... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- Portrait Project
Carlton Burrell
epidemic. It was a sanctuary for my grandparents escaping the segregated South during the Great Migration. It’s the birthplace and matchmaker of my parents. It is where blue-collar residents find their independence as they look to survive... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
1900. So he grew up in a country where segregation in the South, he grew up in the South where segregation was acceptable, where lynching was acceptable. And the thing that he taught me more than anything... View Details
- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
choices, they may still end up in racially segregated schools because racism has created a different motivation structure. Black parents, more than White parents, seek the highest-rated schools and are willing to travel further to get... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
actually makes you better.” An idea taking root Despite the success of his firm, Brown had not been immune to brushes with bias. Growing up in a small segregated town in Florida after World War II, Brown recalled being awestruck by white... View Details
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Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity
first-generation Latino students in higher education, while situating their experiences within the ethnic community, the overall American society, and the international community. Mapping Racial Literacies: College Students Write About Race and View Details
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Current working papers
Organizational restructuring: the influence of formal and informal structure on tie formation. This paper considers how changes in formal structure and a key element of informal structure – the embeddedness of employee... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security
internment camps and barred them from military service. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized a segregated military unit for Japanese Americans in 1943, enlistment rates were miniscule. However, in Hawaii, where far fewer... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Web
K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
schools in the US had access to the ... School Choice Increases Racial Segregation Even When Parents Do Not Care About Race By: Kalinda Ukanwa, Aziza C. Jones and Broderick L. Turner Jr. August 30, 2022 | Proceedings of the National... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
which directly contributed to the segregation of neighborhoods. Understanding the role systemic racism has played is essential to EJ. For environmental policy to really be EJ, it needs to combat the systemic inequalities from sources like... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
exclusion." But there were problems. The racial divide and income disparities in this highly segregated region left many women and people of color with few ways to find resources and support. This was coupled with an outmoded image of... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
segregated white and Black neighborhoods. Analysis by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition indicates that three-quarters of the neighborhoods graded as hazardous 80 years ago are now low- to moderate-income communities, with... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
“critical workers,” employees who were essential to manage the production facility. Activities and schedules were organized so that two critical workers never interacted with each other under any circumstances. This strict segregation... View Details
- 15 Apr 2016
- News
First African American Woman to Receive Harvard MBA Talks Power of Persistence, Resilience, and Courage
when she was honored as an HBS Alumni Achievement Award recipient. In a recent wide-ranging interview with Black Enterprise, Lambert reflects on the impact of HBS on her career, her upbringing in the segregated South, and how she has met... View Details
- 10 May 2019
- News
Bringing Art to the People It Depicts
government agencies and Life magazine, taking intimate photos of regular people, such as families in the segregated South, and celebrities such as boxing great Muhammad Ali alike. “Art is not meant to be in your personal space,” Dean told... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
providing advice for communicating more clearly why English proficiency is important for Rakuten’s future. “This is not just a Japanese company issue,” Mikitani points out. “Other companies doing global business also have been segregated... View Details
- 26 Oct 2018
- News
A Chance to Lead
Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA 1969) is a retired business executive and author of The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond. In this interview, she talks about using her position as a... View Details