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- 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
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- Portrait Project
Michael Lage
in yet another MarioKart race in his hospital room. Or the gleam in his eye when he told me he was going to beat me in the race to Heaven. He did. And though Tim lost his life, he forever changed mine. I... View Details
- 2019
- Presentation
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Mandi Nerenberg
Mandi is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. She is interested in the impact of how gender and racial dynamics shape workplace evaluations. Her research explores gender biases in interpersonal professional contexts,... 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, 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
- 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
- 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
- Web
Harvard Business School
Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits Visiting the Exhibit AGENTS OF CHANGE: A REVIEW OF HBS-AFFILIATED THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ON RACE AND BLACK BUSINESS LEADERSHIP Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of... 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
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
half of its programming to younger audiences—the future of western Michigan—by 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... View Details
- 2014
- Bridging Race