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- 07 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
From Teach for America – to HBS – and Back Again
taught me to make decisions without all of the information. How do you stay connected to HBS and why is it important to you? I am really committed to coaching and mentoring women and people of color through the admissions process. As a View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
a handful of wealthy families. That change gave me an extraordinary level of freedom to take part in our daughters’ early lives and to spend time on a number of nonprofit projects, some in Southeast Asia. Then fate intervened again: In 2005, at the still-young age of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
many of whom are HBS graduates. We’ve also been expanding our portfolio of cases with underrepresented minorities as case protagonists, and introduced into the Elective Curriculum a field course taught by Henry McGee, Archie Jones, and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
empower underrepresented groups, from founding mentorship programs for college and high school students to supporting non-profit boards focused on expanding educational outcomes for minority students. “Through a career focused on... View Details
- 07 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity
transparency, more data, and more collaboration.” Finally, while 93 percent of donors to both programs were white, the entrepreneurial venture attracted a higher percentage of non-white donors (11.2 percent vs. 2.5 percent). Anteby and Hyman speculate that the higher... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
digital therapeutics (app-based programs designed to improve health outcomes), he did not fully appreciate the bureaucratic hurdles the company would face. Developing the technology and processes to administer a contingency management program were relatively View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
the great equalizer,” says Gibbons, who himself makes use of voice-recognition software on his PC and a portable, computerized organizer that uses a Braille-audio interface. The challenge, he observes, is convincing employers that with View Details
- Profile
Lauryn Hale
to common goals Mentors at American Express and Management Leadership for Tomorrow, an innovative nonprofit program that helps minorities explore opportunities for a business education, encouraged Lauryn to expand her leadership... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Lighting the Way
situation. Finally, don’t forget to reach back and bring someone along.” Photo courtesy of Ceena Beall Photo courtesy of Ceena Beall “It is so important to shed light on the issues that underrepresented minorities face in the pursuit of... View Details
- Profile
Leila Meliani
administrators to "improve the way women and underrepresented minorities experience HBS." Together, they work on issues such as diversifying the case curriculum and establishing gender equity policies. "I really appreciate... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- Profile
Brittany Williams
those skills and advance more personal interests. “I’ve always benefited from mentors, and now I want to mentor others.” Her personal goal: start a nonprofit mentoring program “to get under-represented minorities interested in science and... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
clients. “But there is a hidden cost,” says Viceira. “Index funds by definition don’t look at what is happening in the corporations they own.” That is less important when index funds are a minority of a company’s ownership—investors can... View Details
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
important in negotiation. In volatile situations, you and your organization must be poised to act quickly. But don't confuse quickness with frenzy. In the heat of the moment, it's easy to bicker over minor points and lose sight of larger... View Details
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
what job offers we get, or even when we get news about our applications. Staying physically healthy while I was having a minor emotional meltdown helped feed that need for control. Going for a run or a yoga class also forced me to take a... View Details
- 03 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund
begin fundraising. In parallel, faculty Archie Jones, Henry McGee, Jeff Bussgang and students Allie O’Shea (MBA ’21), Mickias Hailu (MBA ’21), and Shani Carter (MBA ’21) designed a new EC field course, Scaling Minority Businesses, for the... View Details
- 22 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club
Hedge funds are no different. Despite recent evidence showing hedge funds led by females or minorities performed better than their non-minority counterparts, the industry still suffers from a severe lack of diversity in ownership.... 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
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
generate significant returns? This case provides students with an opportunity to analyze Perry's decision to invest in NEC Electronics. In doing so, it asks for the reasons that NEC might take actions that destroy value and shift value away from NECE's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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