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- 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
- 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
- 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
- Portrait Project
Jonathan Wilkins
spirit will recover. Should my body stiffen, I will seek to be revived. I will run knowing this race is contingent upon my will rather than my speed. Regardless, I will do my best to remain in my lane and on my course. I will run the... View Details
- 02 Sep 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Legislators' Response to Changes in the Electorate: The Great Migration and Civil Rights
- 14 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Reversing the Queue: Performance, Legitimacy, and Minority Hiring
- March 1991
- Supplement
Black Caucus Groups at Xerox Corp., January 1991, Video (Abridged)
Eight of the founding members of the black caucus movement at Xerox speak about their experiences. The film vividly shows the individuals who made the caucus system happen, how they interact together, and their commitment to performance, mutual support, and the black... View Details
Friedman, Raymond A. "Black Caucus Groups at Xerox Corp., January 1991, Video (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 891-514, March 1991.
- 2020
- Presentations & Discussions
Lessons from AASU50
- 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
- Portrait Project
Nathalie duPreez
When I was three years old, my dad made me a pair of wooden wings and told me that if I practiced enough, I could learn how to fly. I raced around our garden for hours but soon realized that my efforts were in vain. I see now that those... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- Cold Call Podcast
Black Business Leaders Series: Putting Diversity to Work
Keywords: Re: Robin J. Ely
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
motivated and characterized successful firms for decades, in the environmental arena and elsewhere. Thus, he concludes, "The way to situate business in the context of the natural environment is to integrate the natural environment into the mainstream of business."... View Details
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values
understanding that people are demanding a higher degree of specificity, and provide clear metrics by race and gender,” said Eliason. Avoid reporting numbers in aggregate though; “women and people of color” is too broad of a data point... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 12 Sep 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
The Ethnic Composition of U.S. Inventors
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- April 2017
- Article
Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment
By: Benjamin Edelman, Michael Luca and Daniel Svirsky
In an experiment on Airbnb, we find that applications from guests with distinctively African-American names are 16% less likely to be accepted relative to identical guests with distinctively White names. Discrimination occurs among landlords of all sizes, including... View Details
Keywords: Discrimination; Field Experiment; Bias; Airbnb; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Accommodations Industry
Edelman, Benjamin, Michael Luca, and Daniel Svirsky. "Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 9, no. 2 (April 2017): 1–22.