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August 2022 (Revised May 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

Keywords: Impact Investing; Investment; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship; Race; Food and Beverage Industry; Boston

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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

Keywords: Race; Employees

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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

Keywords: Race; Employees

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02 Sep 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Legislators' Response to Changes in the Electorate: The Great Migration and Civil Rights

Keywords: by Alvaro Calderon, Vasiliki Fouka, and Marco Tabellini

01 Jun 2002
News

In the Driver's Seat

NASCAR racing is one of the more popular spectator sports in the country, but it's a tight little fraternity that's tough to join and expensive to belong to — maintaining a competitive team costs about $15 million per season. But die-hard... 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 Sep 2005
News

Last Look

House Raft Race. Harvard professor Robert Kiely says this race of jerry-rigged craft was already in place when he became master of Adams House in 1973. Lore has it that athletically challenged Adams House decided to create a “sport” in... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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

2014
Bridging Race

Aida Hurtado

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

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

10 Jul 2007
Working Paper Summaries

The Persuasive Appeal of Stigma

Keywords: by Michael I. Norton, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Dana R. Carney & Dan Ariely

Web

How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values - Recruiting

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 whereas "number of Latinx employees" is specific. Also be sure... View Details

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

16 Feb 2017
Cold Call Podcast

Black Business Leaders Series: A Remarkable Legacy of Firsts, Maggie Lena Walker

Keywords: Re: Anthony Mayo; Banking; Journalism & News

21 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google

In light of the tragedies in Paris and San Bernadino, a number of politicians, following in the footsteps of Donald Trump, have urged this country to respond by barring immigrants, refugees, and Muslims from our shores. Such a “solution” is perhaps emotionally... View Details

Keywords: by Shane Greenstein; Information Technology

2022
Working Paper

Racial Diversity in Private Capital Fundraising

By: Johan Cassel, Josh Lerner and Emmanuel Yimfor

Black- and Hispanic-owned funds control a very modest share of assets in the private capital industry. We find that the sensitivity of follow-on fundraising to fund performance is greater for minority-owned groups, particularly for underperforming groups. We... View Details

Keywords: Buyouts; Capital Formation; Minorities; Venture Capital; Minority-owned Businesses; Race; Diversity; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry

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