Minorities - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Feb 2020
News

Research Brief: May I Ask Your Advice?

feedback that women typically receive relative to their male peers, as well as the withholding bias that minorities experience in the workplace. In those dynamics, people refrain from sharing the information that could be most useful in... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

30 Mar 2015
News

Raising the bar to provide quality education

my husband and I—he’d been involved from the beginning at ARK—we moved to California and decided we wanted to help children in our backyard there. We serve a population of low-income, mostly minority children, whose choices are public... View Details

03 Jun 2021
Blog Post

HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund

begin fundraising. In parallel, faculty Archie Jones, Henry McGee, Jeff Bussgang and students Allie O’Shea (MBA ’21), Mickias Hailu (MBA ’21), and Shani Carter (MBA ’21) designed a new EC field course, Scaling Minority Businesses, for the... View Details

22 Jul 2020
Blog Post

Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club

Hedge funds are no different. Despite recent evidence showing hedge funds led by females or minorities performed better than their non-minority counterparts, the industry still suffers from a severe lack of diversity in ownership.... View Details

19 Oct 2021
News

In the Contest for Content

be chasing. But she has long maintained a focus on minority artists. Her application to HBS even included a proposal for an investment platform that would support artists of color, according to the Times. “I wanted to impact how the world... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

workplace, panelists agreed, people of color must learn to overcome it. Benaree Pratt Wiley (HBS MBA ’72), president and CEO of The Partnership, Inc., a Boston-based nonprofit that attempts to increase the number of minorities in... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

Profile

Lauryn Hale

to common goals Mentors at American Express and Management Leadership for Tomorrow, an innovative nonprofit program that helps minorities explore opportunities for a business education, encouraged Lauryn to expand her leadership... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Lighting the Way

situation. Finally, don’t forget to reach back and bring someone along.” Photo courtesy of Ceena Beall Photo courtesy of Ceena Beall “It is so important to shed light on the issues that underrepresented minorities face in the pursuit of... View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

From A to Z

ABEREOJE AND ZOTOVA: Two of the new faces (and new friends) of the Class of 2009. Class of 2009 Class Size 901 Yield 89% Women 36% Minorities 24% International 33% Total Countries 67 Undergraduate Majors Humanities and Social Sciences 36%... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

11 Aug 2020
News

Find Your Allies

realize that the reason that I was working for this person over and over again was because [the other associates] were refusing to,” she says. “So I started looking through a different lens and realized that I had the power to also say, ‘No más.’” Harris notes that... View Details

Keywords: workplace diversity; gender diversity; career paths; career advice; leadership; networking; workplace relationships; Finance

01 Dec 2017
News

Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent

professional skills, says Fuller. The problem with this approach, he explains, is that “you are excluding traditionally disadvantaged populations, you are excluding minority populations, and you will often be excluding a 55-year-old with... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

Student-Profile

Ahmmad Brown

educational, public sector, and for-profit contexts. His main project focuses on how a minority socialization program affects students’ ability to build networks for academic and psychosocial support. He works closely with Professors... View Details

07 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

what job offers we get, or even when we get news about our applications. Staying physically healthy while I was having a minor emotional meltdown helped feed that need for control. Going for a run or a yoga class also forced me to take a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education

31 Oct 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers

share useful information in informal settings. One of the ways people who are in the numerical minority (I call them O’s) get accepted into groups of otherwise all X’s is to be seen as “having a good sense of humor.” That means laughing... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

20 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Being patients compelled us. Sequoia inspired us. HBS sustained us.

and badger the CEOs of their Fortune 500 employers to become our clients. Heck, someone from my section even introduced us on a blind date! My sectionmates have helped us over-celebrate minor feats and replenish our vigor when the chips... View Details

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In The Community | About

Remedy Novobeing Sweet Teez Bakery MBA FIELD Course: Scaling Minority Businesses (partial) Archipelago Strategies Group (ASG) Caan Fence, Inc. City Fresh Foods, Inc. The Panther Group Stop and Compare Supermarket Career Development... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Feedback

top 10 percent of all schools in NYC. The key to building a pipeline of women pursuing STEM careers is to start early. Through high-quality education and early exposure to science...we can transform the next generation of female and View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

New Economy Theme of HBS African-American Alumni Conference

said of his decision to become CEO of CarStation.com, a Web site linking car owners, repair shops, insurers, and suppliers. Mature industries with established relationships can present barriers to minority entrepreneurs, Goldsberry... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

06 Aug 2020
Blog Post

WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB