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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 23 Oct 2024
- News
Running Man
There aren’t many people on this planet—let alone septuagenarians—who can contemplate running 50 or 100 miles at a time. But for 77-year-old Eric Spector (MBA 1972), a retired entrepreneur and CEO in the tech, consumer retail, and media sectors, running long (long,... 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
- 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
- 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
- 14 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
for grooming and shaving products. Why did you decide to pursue an MBA given your STEM background? At the University of Michigan, I majored in Mechanical Engineering and minored in Community Action & Social Change. I have always... View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Grads Launch Cybersecurity Nonprofit to Fight Infodemic
reviewing a restaurant’s food quality, visitors can review whether the restaurant is friendly to ethnic minorities or has a gender-neutral bathroom. humanID powers GreenZone’s identity layer so that all GreenZone users remain completely... View Details
- 07 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
From Teach for America – to HBS – and Back Again
taught me to make decisions without all of the information. How do you stay connected to HBS and why is it important to you? I am really committed to coaching and mentoring women and people of color through the admissions process. As a View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
a handful of wealthy families. That change gave me an extraordinary level of freedom to take part in our daughters’ early lives and to spend time on a number of nonprofit projects, some in Southeast Asia. Then fate intervened again: In 2005, at the still-young age of... View Details
- 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
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
many of whom are HBS graduates. We’ve also been expanding our portfolio of cases with underrepresented minorities as case protagonists, and introduced into the Elective Curriculum a field course taught by Henry McGee, Archie Jones, and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 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
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
empower underrepresented groups, from founding mentorship programs for college and high school students to supporting non-profit boards focused on expanding educational outcomes for minority students. “Through a career focused on... View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
likely to collaborate on a deal than were two VCs from different alma maters. And the probability of collaboration between VCs increased by 39.2 percent if they were members of the same ethnic minority group. The data held up with what... 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