Race - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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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

06 Sep 2004
What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

advantage on firms and countries and a convenient, inexpensive, and relatively clean source of carbon energy on the world's consumers. As a result, there is a race to consume it as fast as possible, a race... View Details

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James W. Rouse

marketplaces throughout the United States. An "urban pioneer," Rouse also planned the entire town of Columbia, MD, based on his ideal of an "open community" where all races and levels of income would be represented. View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

February 2015
Other Article

Evaluating the Impact of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative on Breast-feeding Rates: A Multi-state Analysis

By: Summer Sherburne Hawkins, Ariel Dora Stern, Christopher F. Baum and Matthew W. Gillman

Objectives: Despite the passage of state laws promoting breast feeding, a formal evaluation has not yet been conducted to test whether and/or what type of laws may increase breast feeding. The enactment of breastfeeding laws in different states in the USA creates a... View Details

Keywords: Race; Nutrition; Laws and Statutes; United States

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2018
Race & 21st century economy: Access, investments and institution-building

The Importance of Entrepreneurship to the Black Community

2019
Interviews

Interview with Kira Hudson Banks on "Corageous Self Awareness for Social Change"

23 Mar 2016
News

Curing Parkinson’s Disease

HBS alumni Jonathan Solomon and Hampus Hillerstrom (both MBA 2007) play an important role in Jon Palfreman’s recent book Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson’s Disease. As the cofounders of NeuroPhage... View Details

Fall 2021
Article

Emboldening and Contesting Gender and Skin Color Stereotypes in the Film Industry in India, 1947–1991

By: Sudev Sheth, Geoffrey Jones and Morgan Spencer

This article examines how the film industry influenced prevailing gender and skin color stereotypes in India during the first four decades after Independence in 1947. It shows that Bollywood, the mainstream cinema in India, shared Hollywood's privileging of paler skin... View Details

Keywords: Bollywood; Film Industry; Hollywood; Tamil Cinema; Male Gaze; Stereotypes; Social Impact; Gender; Race; Ethnicity; Film Entertainment; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; India; United States

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September 8, 2020
Article

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

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Business Administration and faculty chair of the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on organizational change, group dynamics, learning, conflict, power,... View Details

Ernesta G. Procope

Procope founded her company to initially provide automobile and home owners insurance for the underserved African-American community in New York City. When insurance coverage was denied to certain minority communities after the race riots... View Details

Keywords: Finance

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Exposing, Rejecting, & Appropriating Pushkala Prasad presents at the 2022 Gender and Work Symposium Pushkala Prasad Pushkala Prasad presents "True Colors of the Masters Tools: Race as Symbolic Capital" at the 2022 Gender and Work... View Details

April 2023
Supplement

Fresh Food Generation

By: Brian Trelstad

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This case highlights one of five BIPOC entrepreneuers in the Boston area as part of the HBS Impact Investment Fund. In fall 2021, a team of... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Race; Food and Beverage Industry

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