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Racial Discrimination and the Social Contract: Evidence from U.S. Army Enlistment During WWII

This paper documents that the Pearl Harbor attack triggered a sharp increase in volunteer enlistment rates of American men, the magnitude of the increase was smaller for Black men than for white men and the Black-white gap was larger in counties with higher levels of... View Details

Keywords: State Capacity; Institutions; War; History; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Government Administration

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January 2023
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Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights

By: Alvaro Calderon, Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini

Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized... View Details

Keywords: Civil Rights; Great Migration; History; Race; Rights; Prejudice and Bias; Government Legislation

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September 2020 (Revised July 2022)
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Spreadsheet Supplement to "Artea: Designing Targeting Strategies"

By: Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli

Spreadsheet Supplement to "Artea: Designing Targeting Strategies" (521-021). View Details

Keywords: Race; Gender; Marketing; Diversity; Customer Relationship Management; Retail Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Technology Industry; United States

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Derek Aframe

change direction and make the years race past Knowing that the next day will be even better than the last. Temper all actions with both reason and emotion. Make thinking with both head and heart the goal of my devotion. When making... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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High Stakes on the High Seas

In 1998, on the day after Christmas, 115 sailboats crossed the starting line in Sydney, Australia, bound for Tasmania, a 630-mile dash across the Bass Strait, one of the world’s most treacherous bodies of water. The fabled Sydney to Hobart View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

September 2024 (Revised December 2024)
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Ming Min Hui at Boston Ballet

By: Edward H. Chang, David Allen and Annelena Lobb

This case asks how Ming Min Hui, the newly appointed executive director of Boston Ballet, should ensure that the company stays true to its art form yet relevant to its times. Hui stood out among ballet leaders as a young, Asian American woman with a Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Arts; Change; Diversity; Gender; Race; Theater Entertainment; Leadership; Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Music Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Boston

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Health Equity, Schooling Hesitancy, and the Social Determinants of Learning

By: Meira Levinson, Alan C. Geller, Joseph G. Allen and John D. Macomber

At least 62 million K-12 students in North America—disproportionately low-income children of color— have been physically out of school for over a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These children are at risk of significant academic, social, mental, and physical harm... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Public Health; Air Quality; Social Determinants Of Health; Schooling Hesitancy; Vaccine Hesitancy; Racial Injustice; Inequity; Inequality; Health Pandemics; Education; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Race; Equality and Inequality

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2021
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Racial Disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program

By: Sergey Chernenko and David S. Scharfstein

Using a large sample of Florida restaurants, we document significant racial disparities in borrowing through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and investigate the causes of these disparities. Black-owned restaurants are 25% less likely to receive PPP loans.... View Details

Keywords: Discrimination; Paycheck Protection Program; Economic Injury Disaster Loans; Bank Lending; Nonbank Lending; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Prejudice and Bias; Race

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April 2006
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Managing a Public Image: Cheri Mack

By: Robin J. Ely and Ingrid Vargas

Cheri Mack, an African-American woman, has just arrived at Harvard Business School after working for three years at a major consulting firm where she learned to adopt the demeanor of her male colleagues in order to fit in. Some of her male classmates are critical of... View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Race; Reputation; Personal Development and Career; Leadership Style; Gender; Massachusetts

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David Shin is a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. His research explores how technological innovation shapes relationships at work, particularly as it... View Details

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John Oxtoby

Many young people have watched “The West Wing;” John Oxtoby is one of the few who has actually worked in it. In a political career that began with Barack Obama’s Senate race in 2004, and culminated with policy responsibilities in the... View Details

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Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship | Baker Library

Buying Power Good for finding granular data on income, purchasing power, and lifestyle of American consumers. Suggested Resources Books American Incomes: Demographics of Who Has Money Who we are: Blacks Who's Buying by Race and Hispanic... View Details

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Kelly Cheng

I am always running. Running to submit that HBS application at the eleventh hour. Racing to Aldrich for class. Sprinting to deliver my résumé to recruiters. Running along the Charles (for fun!). Early in the first year, before TOM turned... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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Maiden Voyage

have launch capability, with some also doing a brisk business putting satellites into orbit for other nations. (India, for example, has launched more than 40 satellites into orbit for 19 client countries.) READ MORE The New Space Race An... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Space Research and Technology; Government

03 Oct 2018
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How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?

CamiloTorres What Are the Most Effective Management Approaches to Inclusion? Inclusion is important to an organization. But it is a challenge in the current day workplace climate, especially when it comes to such things as one-on-one activities between men and women.... View Details

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January 4, 2020
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The 10 Commitments Companies Must Make to Advance Racial Justice

By: Mark R. Kramer

In the wake of George Floyd’s tragic death in Minneapolis, major corporations have been voicing their support for racial justice in the United States. But we are way past the point when words alone suffice. Actions are needed. Corporations can and should make 10... View Details

Keywords: Racial Justice; Racial Equity; Race; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

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November 2020 (Revised June 2022)
Case

Community-First Public Safety

By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta

How many police officer positions to fund? In August 2020, the question facing St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, which might have seemed routine to another mayor at another time in another place, was anything but. A pandemic had rendered the city some $19-$34 million short... View Details