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Develop and disseminate research and course material on advancing racial equity in business. - Advancing Racial Equity

race and business. Through its Division of Research & Faculty Development, HBS already provides generous support for research and course development related to race. The Division funds this research by drawing on revenues generated... 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

01 Oct 2001
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Gordon Celebrates a Century

Gordon family organized a 100-mile relay race that began at 4:30 a.m. and finished at 8:30 p.m. Twenty family and community members participated, each running four to eight miles. Gordon, the legendary Wall Street figure whose career at... View Details

Keywords: Albert H. Gordon (MBA 1925); Finance

12 Sep 2007
Working Paper Summaries

The Ethnic Composition of U.S. Inventors

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

April 2017
Article

Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Benjamin Edelman, Michael Luca and Daniel Svirsky

In an experiment on Airbnb, we find that applications from guests with distinctively African-American names are 16% less likely to be accepted relative to identical guests with distinctively White names. Discrimination occurs among landlords of all sizes, including... View Details

Keywords: Discrimination; Field Experiment; Bias; Airbnb; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Accommodations Industry

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2014
Bridging Race

Jennifer Richeson

2019
Flash Talks

The Just Wage Tool: Moving from a “Just Hope to a “Just Wage” Economy

2017
Interrogating Authenticity

Moments of Truth? Authentic Encounters with Realistic Identities

Video

Louisa Mojela & Gloria Serobe

Louisa Mojela and Gloria Serobe, Co-Founders and leading executives of WIPHOLD, discuss what South Africa's Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policies and legislation have meant for the company and the country's business landscape as a whole. View Details

September 8, 2020
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Allocation of COVID-19 Relief Funding to Disproportionately Black Counties

By: Pragya Kakani, Amitabh Chandra and Sendhil Mullainathan

This study describes correlations between the dollar amount of relief funding authorized by the US Congress to fund prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and to reimburse health care entities for lost revenues, and county-level... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Resource Allocation; Demographics; Race

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2018
Flash Talks

Minimizing Identity Threats While Increasing Safety: Attending to Diversity Ideologies

Portrait Project

Soline Miniere

I raise my voice, disagreeing strongly with my classmates. I realize that I have not been listened to. It infuriates me. I am not heard: my French accent, my harsh tone, my messy choice of words discredit me. My heart racing faster,... View Details

2014
Bridging Race

Aida Hurtado

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
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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

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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

23 Mar 2020
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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

Presentation

Danielle Allen Presents at the 2021 Gender and Work Symposium

2018
The Significance of Race Research in the 21st Century

Harvard Business School AASU50 Research Findings

2013
Stereotypes

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