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- 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
- Portrait Project
Patrick Chun
graduate school halfway across the world; all the way to the smaller, quiet moments he spent teaching me, his grandson, about life. I have the blessing of being able to choose the races I run. A privilege that came not of my own doing,... 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
- Web
2014 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
University of Illinois Value Threat: How Concerns With Being Seen as a Valued Group Member Affect Women's Preference For Female Candidates Leah D. Sheppard , Sauder School of Business at University of British Columbia Prescriptions for Female Solidarity and Women’s... View Details
- January 2013
- Background Note
Apartheid in South Africa
By: Paul Healy
A short history of Apartheid in South Africa View Details
Healy, Paul. "Apartheid in South Africa." Harvard Business School Background Note 113-084, January 2013.
- 2018
- Speaking truth: Mobilizing Change Through Artistic Expression
"Black Can Be Me": Voicing the Musical Blackness through Song, Scholarship, and Social Media
- 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
- 17–18 Oct 2015
Head of the Charles Regatta: HBS Alumni Tent
Join HBS students and alumni to watch the rowing at the Head of the Charles Regatta! The tent will be staffed 9:00 am 4:30 pm on Saturday and 9:00 am 4:00 pm on Sunday. View Details
- August 2022 (Revised January 2025)
- Case
Fresh Food Generation
By: Brian Trelstad, Amy Klopfenstein and Mel Martin
This case highlights one of five BIPOC entrepreneurs in the Boston area as part of the HBS Impact Investment Fund. In fall 2021, a team of HBS students reviewed the financial statements of Fresh Food Generation (FFG), a Dorchester, Massachusetts-based food service... View Details
- November 2007
- Supplement
Differences at Work: Erica (B)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
In Differences at Work: Erica (B) HBS Case No. 9-408-048, Erica discovers that both she and the client are African-American. She reflects on why she has been invited to attend the dinner. View Details
Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Erica (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 408-048, November 2007.
- November 2007
- Case
Differences at Work: Erica (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
In Differences at Work: Erica (A) HBS Case No. 9-408-015 Erica, a junior sales person, has just been offered the opportunity to attend an important client dinner. Later, Erica learns that she received the invitation because of her race. View Details
Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Erica (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-015, November 2007.
- 02 Sep 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Legislators' Response to Changes in the Electorate: The Great Migration and Civil Rights
- 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
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
In the months leading up to the 2008 presidential election, CNN ran a story titled "Gender or Race: Black Women Voters Face Tough Choices in South Carolina." The "tough choice" in question: should they vote according to race (Barack... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
Despite the uncertain climate for start-ups, launching a business continues to hold irresistible appeal for aspiring entrepreneurs. For many African-Americans, entrepreneurship is seen as a means of building community as well as personal wealth, suggested Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna