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01 Mar 2006
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Second Acts

signed on as chairman of former Lt. Gov. William Scranton’s campaign to win the Republican nomination for governor in this year’s race against incumbent Ed Rendell. Drawing on his business background, Meakem advocates policies that will... View Details

Keywords: e-commerce; B2B; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

January 2022
Background Note

Native American Incarceration

By: Reshmaan Hussam, Sophus A. Reinert and Jordan Naylor

In the early twenty-first century the Native American populations of the United States continued to live with the legacy of colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and cultural destruction. Although other minority groups had increasingly been able to make their voices heard,... View Details

Keywords: Colonialism; Incarceration; Social Issues; Race; Equality and Inequality; History

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2018
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Black Out-Migration and Southern Political Realignment

By: Leah Boustan and Marco Tabellini

Can emigration from less democratic and economically less developed areas induce political and economic change? We study this question in the context of the second Great Migration of African Americans (1940–1970), when more than 4 million blacks left the U.S. South and... View Details

Keywords: Great Migration; Immigration; Race; Government and Politics; Economics; United States

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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

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

Creary has been a member of the HBS community since 2007; first as Professor David Thomas's research associate, then as a member of Professor Robin Ely's Gender and Race in Organizations (GRO) group, and finally as a View Details

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

01 Apr 1999
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AASU Looks Ahead

meeting titled "How Will We Maintain Unity as a Race in the New Millennium?" Six panel discussions took on issues that ranged from global capitalism to emerging high-tech opportunities to balancing work, home, and community... View Details

2007
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A Gentler Capitalism: Black Business Leadership in the New South Africa

By: L. Hill

Keywords: Economic Systems; Leadership; Race; South Africa

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2019
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Enough

Mandi Nerenberg

Mandi is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. She is interested in the impact of how gender and racial dynamics shape workplace evaluations. Her research explores gender biases in interpersonal professional contexts,... View Details

14 Oct 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Reversing the Queue: Performance, Legitimacy, and Minority Hiring

Keywords: by Andrew Hill & David Thomas; Sports

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

Keywords: Networks; Race; Organizations; Technology Industry

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2020
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Lessons from AASU50

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Robert Livingston Presents at The 2021 HBS Gender and Work Symposium

12 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them

Black patients and their doctors may be more open to new medications if drug trials included more Black people, new research shows. Currently, Black Americans represent just 5 percent of drug trial participants. Nearly three-quarters of doctors surveyed in a new study... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Pharmaceutical; Health

June 2018
Article

Firm Turnover and the Return of Racial Establishment Segregation

By: John-Paul Ferguson and Rembrand Koning

Racial segregation between American workplaces is greater today than it was a generation ago. This increase has happened alongside the declines in within-establishment occupational segregation on which most prior research has focused. We examine more than 40 years of... View Details