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- 27 Apr 2022
- News
Following the Flow of Aid
support being rushed to some and others being ignored,” McKenna says. Indeed there have been reports of Africans and other minorities like Ukrainian Romani communities being turned away at the border. To address that, Mercy Corps has set... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
Group to provide management assistance to minority business owners. Later, with the support of Sealed Air and his wife, Joan, a former English professor, he pledged to fund a college education for students in a sixth-grade class in... View Details
- Web
Shimon Attie Night Watch (Victor with Freedom Tower), Hudson River 2018 | About
Watch displayed silent close-up video portraits of twelve new New Yorkers whose lives have been saved by recently being granted political asylum in the US. Most of the individuals are from the international LGBTQI communities or were unaccompanied View Details
- 04 Jun 2014
- What Do You Think?
Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?
information technologies will punish weak brands faster and more severely than in the past. That's the general sense I received from responses to this month's column. There was a minority opinion, however. As Carl P. put it, "If you... View Details
- 13 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Trust
we wanted to see if trust posed an even higher barrier for minority groups. This is in fact the case. It is particularly difficult for African Americans to break into trusting buyer-supplier relationships. Q: What can suppliers who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
From A to Z
ABEREOJE AND ZOTOVA: Two of the new faces (and new friends) of the Class of 2009. Class of 2009 Class Size 901 Yield 89% Women 36% Minorities 24% International 33% Total Countries 67 Undergraduate Majors Humanities and Social Sciences 36%... View Details
- 11 Aug 2020
- News
Find Your Allies
realize that the reason that I was working for this person over and over again was because [the other associates] were refusing to,” she says. “So I started looking through a different lens and realized that I had the power to also say, ‘No más.’” Harris notes that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent
professional skills, says Fuller. The problem with this approach, he explains, is that “you are excluding traditionally disadvantaged populations, you are excluding minority populations, and you will often be excluding a 55-year-old with... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- Profile
Ruth Cenat
discussed a case from his country, he talked about how multiculturalism is such a difficult issue in Norway. As a member of a minority group, he’s never felt sure of where he stands. Because of the uncertainty, his family owns a second... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Purdue University in the early 1970s, Harris saw lots of classmates veer down the wrong path. Seeing the high failure rate among minority students, he joined a campus group of black engineers, where, he says, "Our entire objective was to... View Details
- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
disadvantaged or minority groups in India whose members are elected to local governments have not only more of a "political voice" but also more access to and better results from the justice system. In the working paper The... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
the successes of the BNVC became the basis of the 2020 case, “The Black New Venture Competition,” written by HBS faculty members Karen Mills, Jeff Bussgang, and Martin Sinozich. The case is also the basis for the HBS course, Scaling View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
leadership and mentoring and on achieving organization alignment, both vertically and horizontally, across the entire structure of the organization. He also gives readers a method for tracking progress—plant by plant and function by function. View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
important Delaware case law created a difference in the standard of judicial review for the two basic methods of freezing out minority shareholders. While a freeze-out executed as a statutory merger is subject to stringent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Eric D'Arbeloff
studio Lionsgate owns a minority stake in his company. Seeing so many interesting films struggle to make it into a theater was his impetus for starting Roadside. "Hollywood is a dream factory. We're kind of the factory part of it,... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media
- Portrait Project
Ben Schumacher
access to a quality education. Indeed, the American Dream is but a mirage to millions of minority students, and this is not for a lack of will, intelligence, or courage. This is a civil injustice, pure and simple, and I will devote my... View Details
- 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
- 12 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
Applying to HBS in Round 3?
of Mexican immigrants, now US citizens and entrepreneurs, HBS was my dream so I could contribute to minority representation at the decision-making table. I had nothing to lose and every reason to try. The rest, as they say, is history. It... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
most-in-demand option, with 80 percent of the US workforce in need of that minor flexibility. “That means three out of four people who have a doctor’s appointment or a parent-teacher conference or need to let in a handyman actually can’t... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.
evaluate candidates solely on past job performance, failing to consider the job's difficulty? Why do university admissions officers focus on high GPAs, discounting influence of easy grading standards? Researchers investigate the "fundamental attribution... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne