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- 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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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
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
Despite the uncertain climate for start-ups, launching a business continues to hold irresistible appeal for aspiring entrepreneurs. For many African-Americans, entrepreneurship is seen as a means of building community as well as personal wealth, suggested Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 15 Feb 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Black Business Leaders Series: John Rogers and the Importance of Hiring Minority-Owned Services Firms
Keywords: Financial Services
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Reuel J. Khoza
Reuel J. Khoza, Chairman of South Africa's Dzana Investments and Discovery Bank, describes the obstacles he faced to establish his management consultancy firm in the context of apartheid. View Details
- 08 Jul 2021
- Video
Peter Wharton-Hood
Peter Wharton-Hood, a former senior executive at Standard Bank and Deutsche Bank in South Africa, discusses how Standard Bank responded to Black Economic Empowerment in the 1990s, which included allaying the fears of incumbent white staff that they would lose their... View Details
- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
Peter Vundla
Peter Vundla, who co-founded the first Black-owned advertising agency HerdBuoys in South Africa in 1991, explains how advertising was entirely controlled by white people in apartheid South Africa, who defined how Black people were presented in the media, and how he... View Details
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Sizwe Nxasana
Sizwe Nxasana, the founding partner of SizweNtsalubaGobodo, the largest Black accounting firm in South Africa, discusses the discrimination he experienced as a young Black accountant during the apartheid era, and how he initially built his business serving Black... View Details
- 21 Mar 2012
- Op-Ed
Finding the Right Jeremy Lin Storyline
New York Knicks basketball sensation Jeremy Lin has attracted worldwide attention because he crosses so many boundaries and defies so many stereotypes. Lin, an Asian-American (rare in the NBA) who played college hoops at Harvard (even rarer in the NBA), was cut from... View Details
- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
Mohamed Jaffer
Mohamed Jaffer, Chairman of MJ Group, which is Kenya’s largest provider of cargo handling services, recalls the long struggle of locally-born Asians to be considered truly local. In 2017 the Kenya government finally recognized Asians as Kenya’s 44th tribe. View Details
- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
Peter Vundla
Peter Vundla, who co-founded the first Black-owned advertising agency HerdBuoys in South Africa in 1991, was prominent in building post-apartheid South Afrca, including working on for developing the South African flag, the first democratic ballot paper, and the logo... View Details
Ernesta G. Procope
Procope founded her company to initially provide automobile and home owners insurance for the underserved African-American community in New York City. When insurance coverage was denied to certain minority communities after the race riots... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 2014
- Bridging Race
Jennifer Richeson
- 2017
- Interrogating Authenticity
Moments of Truth? Authentic Encounters with Realistic Identities
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Louisa Mojela & Gloria Serobe
Louisa Mojela and Gloria Serobe, Co-Founders and leading executives of WIPHOLD, discuss what South Africa's Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policies and legislation have meant for the company and the country's business landscape as a whole. View Details
- 06 Nov 2020
- News
Signal Boost
belong.” LEDA starts inclusion education at a young age, offering programs like Calling All Colors, which allows students in middle and high schools to discuss race in their communities and calls on them to make their schools a welcoming... View Details
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
"Blackwomenomics: Equity in Leadership Advancement of Modern Black Women" at the 2018 Gender and Work Symposium. Sandra Finley presents "Blackwomenomics: Equity in Leadership Advancement of Modern Black Women" at the 2018 Gender and Work Symposium. What's View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Acing Reality
The Amazing Race. Dubbed Team Chippendales by their rivals, the openly gay couple won the television audience’s favor and took the top prize in a 44,000-mile race across four continents. “In the last leg, the two overcame Arndt’s reckless... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
Above: Drone Racing League Founder and CEO Nick Horbaczewski is having a magic moment. (photo by Jordan Hollender) Drone Racing League (DRL) founder and CEO Nick Horbaczewski (MBA 2008) wants to be clear: He... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna