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- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
disparity, wealth disparity, gender disparities, racial disparities. When we're in a moment when democracy is in decline, authoritarianism is on the rise around the world and where many people in this country and beyond are fearful and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
experience gave me more of an emotional connection. I told my wife that I couldn't remember anything that bothered or interested me as much. But I had no skills as a gender scholar. She said, "Well, maybe you should take a look at this... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
gender and racial barriers (“crashing through the glass ceiling and the ‘concrete wall,'” as the New York Times put it) when she was named president of Maxwell House in 1994. Three years later, she became president of Kraft Foods' $5... View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Pitching In for Female Leaders
Ebru Koksal (AMP 192, 2017) is a senior advisor with J. Stern & Co. in Istanbul, Turkey. She was the CEO of Galatasaray SK, the leading football club in Turkey for 15 years, and is the only woman to be elected to the executive board of... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
organizer and HBSAB board member Radha Bennett (MBA 2014), adding that only about 2 percent of VC funding goes to women founders. That doesn’t mean they won’t find VCs to back them, just that they might have to pitch their ideas to many more VCs than male founders do.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
particularly women of color, were more likely to be employed by the industries hardest hit by shutdowns, including leisure, hospitality, and retail. “The gender pay gap, in aggregate, has shifted 8 cents in 25 years, which is pathetic.”... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
break out the most authentic Bhangra moves, you wouldn't guess that many of them were not exposed to South Asian dance styles before training to become instructors. "Another key aspect of our fitness program is that it is truly gender... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
reversed decades of progress, particularly in places that lack access to vaccines, worsening hunger, poverty, gender inequality, and conflict—the impacts of which could be more deadly than COVID-19 itself. The global picture is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
according to research conducted by private-capital database PitchBook, just 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. A survey by The Information, a tech-sector media outlet, found that just 1 percent were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
An Advocate for Women's Equality
established the groundbreaking Task Force on Women's Rights and Responsibilities. That body's recommendations, included in its "A Matter of Simple Justice" report, was a blueprint for working toward gender equality in the White House and... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
Professor George Serafeim (left) and Professor Rebecca Henderson (right); image by John Ritter CEOs are increasingly being asked to take the lead on some of the most vexing problems of our time, from climate change and data privacy to issues of income or View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
Part of it is this unconscious bias. But we just need more women to feel comfortable writing checks.” Dan Morrell: Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) has spent much of her career as an entrepreneur and tech executive and was well aware of the... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
products. As the firm’s chief executive officer, she’s overseen the development of several new products, such as Pulse, a jump rope that can generate and store enough power to charge a cell phone. At the same time she was running... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
Curriculum that focus our students’ attention on the role that business can, and perhaps should, play in addressing societal challenges. Some of this material is already in the MBA Program—and in the Elective Curriculum and Executive... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
three months after returning to work, she became pregnant again. When she informed the paper's executive editor, he deadpanned, "You did that last year." Prepared to leave the paper following her second child's birth, Quindlen said she... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
to Spain, women, and dissenters. Who will enjoy this book? Just about everyone, but especially curious laypeople without any background in this field, students trying to get a handle on a difficult history course, business executives who... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
faculty members, so the women students I’m sure felt some of that. We dealt with both race and gender issues. LEWIS: In the first year, I recall there being no African Americans on the faculty. In the second year there were a number of... View Details
- 30 May 2025
- News
Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte
in the MBA program, Executive Education, and HBS Online. Wallace is also a TONY-nominated Broadway producer through Nothing Ventured Productions and an active angel investor through Phi Factor Capital. “She’s a rock star,” says Fernandez.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
When Johnson was born, social norms and her government-issued birth certificate said she was Negro, nullifying her mother’s white blood in her identity. Later, as a Harvard-educated business executive feeling too far from her black roots,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
comprehensive playbook for business leaders and people on their way up to give the best presentations of their lives. More often than not, the best intentions and most innovative ideas get lost in a poorly executed presentation. With... View Details