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21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Racial Diversity Pays Off

objective, branch-level productivity measures, Ely said. In general, Ely added, companies such as the one they studied tend to take on one of three perspectives about diversity: 1. Discrimination and fairness perspective. The work groups aspire to being color blind, so... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests

to prevent this apparent discrimination? In their paper “Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy,” the researchers note that the most obvious way to squelch racism on Airbnb is to squelch the ability to identify the race of guests or... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accommodations; Web Services

31 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

that mentoring relationships are less likely to form across race than among people of the same race. But the positive approach would be to look at the research and say, 'Well, even though they may be rare, let's try to understand these... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

12 percent less for rentals than nonblack hosts—even when the properties were equivalent in terms of location and quality. How did the researchers find out the race of each host? The same way potential guests do—they looked at the hosts'... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising

11 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

mortgage originations from 2012 to 2018 for loan performance data. They further parsed findings using US Census data and ZIP codes to match loan officers, mortgages, specific lenders, and applicants. The researchers matched first and last names and geographic data to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

13 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams

the salience of ethnicity in a country like Kenya that has experienced significant recent racial tension—and may not necessarily be as strong in a country like the United States or France. Even so, these trends are worth keeping in mind in any context in which View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Videos - Advancing Racial Equity

Professor Cash discusses the term white privilege, which is often misconstrued and misunderstood, and advises... Professor Jim Cash: Why it’s hard to talk about race Professor Jim Cash: Why it’s hard to talk about View Details

21 Feb 2017
News

Wilson Claims Title of Fastest American Solo Sailor

American sailor Rich Wilson (MBA 1982) became the fastest American skipper to race solo nonstop around the world on Tuesday afternoon when he crossed the finish line of the Vendée Globe solo round-the-world View Details

Keywords: Vendee Globe

28 Aug 2020
Video

Peter Vundla

Peter Vundla, who co-founded the first Black-owned advertising agency HerdBuoys in South Africa in 1991, describes how hard it was for Black people to start a business in apartheid South Africa. They were forced to live in townships such as Soweto which were intended... View Details

28 Aug 2020
Video

Cas Coovadia

Cas Coovadia, the long-running Managing Director of the Banking Association South Africa, argues that the government needs proactive policies to support the Black community because of the discrimination it experienced under apartheid. View Details

28 Aug 2020
Video

Sanjay Bansal

Sanjay Bansal, former head of Ambootia tea estates in Darjeeling, India, discusses the near-feudal conditions which prevailed in the tea industry in this region, and the acute social problems faced by the Nepalese-speaking labor force, which was predominately female.... View Details

28 Aug 2020
Video

Manu Chandaria

Manu Chandaria, Chair of the Comcraft Group in Kenya, describes the racial discrimination he experienced as an ethnic Asian in colonial Kenya, and more recent ethnic tensions in the country. View Details

04 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

Drbouz In June 2016, I gave a TED Talk called We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change. The talk discussed the world’s realistic options for reducing fossil CO2 emissions soon enough to contain climate change’s more severe effects. To my surprise, that talk has... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology

16 Nov 2020
News

Moderna Announces Promising Vaccine Trial Results

competitors in the race to develop a vaccine, though, Bancel makes a point in the December article that is increasingly relevant today as coronavirus cases spike nationwide: “We’re not racing against each... View Details

2023
Chapter

Ongoing Inclusion: African Americans in the Military

By: Hise O. Gibson, Morten G. Ender, Liat Shapiro and JooHee Han

Keywords: Inclusion; Military; Race; United States

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Race, Work & Leadership: Learning about & from Black Experience Race, Work & Leadership: Learning about & from Black Experience 08–09 MAR 2018 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Mar 08 Thursday, March 08, 2018 Panel: The Significance of Race... View Details

02 Feb 2017
Cold Call Podcast

Black Business Leaders Series: The Entrepreneurship Behind Ebony Magazine

Keywords: Publishing

Video

Louisa Mojela & Gloria Serobe

Louisa Mojela, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of WIPHOLD, reflects on ways that she navigated her early career in the context of South Africa's apartheid system. View Details

28 Aug 2020
Video

Fadi Ghandour

Fadi Ghandour, Founder of Dubai-based courier company Aramex and a leading entrepreneur in the Gulf, explains that his company purposefully recruited Arabs from the region rather than Western expatriates as he wanted long-term commitment and loyalty, and knowledge of... View Details

28 Aug 2020
Video

Shahnaz Husain

Shahnaz Husain, the founder of Shahnaz Herbals, a natural beauty company based in India, discusses how her products need to adapt to local cultures, and explains why she sells creams facilitating light skin in India. View Details

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