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- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
Peter Vundla
Peter Vundla, who co-founded the first Black-owned advertising agency HerdBuoys in South Africa in 1991, discusses how the business started by exploiting the fact that white-owned companies had no understanding of Black consumers and their languages, and by providing a... View Details
- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
Shinta Widjaja Kamdani
Shinta Kamdani, owner of Indonesian-based consumer products and energy company Sintesa Group, describes the reputation of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia as being only concerned with making money, and her response to the May 1998 anti-Chinese riots in the country which... View Details
- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
Ian Fuhr
Ian Fuhr, who later founded Sorbet, the largest chain of beauty salons in South Africa, describes how he was sent to a refinery owned by the Murray & Roberts group in the 1990s and encountered appalling racism at the top management. The CEO eventually took steps to... View Details
- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
Ian Fuhr
Ian Fuhr, who later founded Sorbet, the largest chain of beauty salons in South Africa, describes his struggles to convince white-owned companies in South Africa in the 1990s to take racism in the workplace seriously, and how he developed a play on the subject to try... View Details
- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
Mavath R. Chandran
Mavath R. Chandran, a veteran executive in the Malaysian palm oil industry and an advisor to the Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil, discusses how the British colonial regime contributed to the complex ethnic make-up of modern day Malaysia. He discusses at length the... 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
- 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
- 09 Feb 2017
- Cold Call Podcast
Black Business Leaders Series: Putting Diversity to Work
Keywords: Re: Robin J. Ely
- 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
- Web
Events - Advancing Racial Equity
Investments By: Mellody Hobson & Hubert Joly 30 DEC 2020 | Harvard Business School "Genius and talent do not discriminate. They don't come to you based upon race or gender," says Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO & President of Ariel Investments,... 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
- Web
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
- 15 Feb 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Black Business Leaders Series: John Rogers and the Importance of Hiring Minority-Owned Services Firms
Keywords: Financial Services
- Video
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