Race And Ethnicity - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2020 (Revised September 2021)
Case

Student Success at Georgia State University (A)

By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley

Georgia State University had developed a reputation for driving student success by nearly doubling its graduation rate for students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. It did so while growing its student body and the proportion of Black/African... View Details

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04 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

began gathering demographic information on individual VCs to better understand if their gender or race influenced a firm’s performance. “It was a real guerilla research effort,” he says. Starting with commercial data on 14,000 VC... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services

01 Mar 2024
News

Case Study: Testing the Waters

Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores

28 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)

headquarters maximize an organization's overall revenues by efficiently (and effectively) monitoring the desires of consumers representing a wide range of ethnicities and income levels, large families View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

and diversity, representing a new pride and interest in ethnic and local beauty ideals. The tremendous growth of skin lighteners in India View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

regulatory differences. Keywords: Climate Change ; Corporate Governance ; Diversity ; Leadership ; Business or Company Management ; Mission and Purpose ; Social Media ; Race ; Environmental Sustainability ;... View Details

26 Jun 2013
News

How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case

resources beyond his current control to pull the project together. He successfully raced to get TV Guide's TV Game distributed to both high-end and discount retailers (priced accordingly) in time for... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

Repeated and, as of this writing, ongoing revelations of corporate wrongdoing over the past two years have eroded public trust in business institutions and executives to levels not seen in decades. A recent Gallup poll indicates that... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

01 Oct 1997
News

W. Hall Wendel, Jr.

At an altitude of more than 29,000 feet, on a bright May morning in 1994, Hall Wendel gazed down at the mountainous panorama beneath him. To the north lay China; to the south, Nepal. Wendel's view was not from the pressurized comfort of a jetliner. After weeks of... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; mountain; adventure; climbing

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Events - Business History

other manuscript volumes belonging to the Medici family dating from late 14th and early 18th century. The reception was held in Baker Library Lobby from 5:30pm-8pm and was open to the public. Graduate... View Details

Profile

Rachel H Chung

stretch my ambitions. Being part of the HBS community is like Playing on a giant sports team, where your teammates are also your cheerleaders and coaches. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

workshops as they race to Demo Day where teams pitch their ventures to investors, entrepreneurs, and their classmates. Read More Rock 100 Initiative Rock Center support for entrepreneurs extends far beyond... View Details

31 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

chains work and the performance of the factories that comprise them. The area is also a primary supplier of lithium battery chemicals, flash memory, and anisotropic conductive film used in LCD flat panel... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Auto; Technology; Computer; Electronics

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

work safety movement Influence: Low 10 1910 s 19 Sedition Act Prohibition begins Red Scare Race riots Influence: Medium-High 20 1920 s 19 Social divisions arise between rural and urban areas Women's suffrage... View Details

02 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

documenting the disparities we’ve known about for 20 or 30 years,” says Harvard Business School Professor Amitabh Chandra. “One more research paper that finds that minority health care is separate and unequal may be important but is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

speed building, we raced towards the desert floor. “Sight picture, how do you feel?” I asked. “I’m steep, sir,” the student replied, as she tilted the nose down to make the correction. Tiny corrections now: a little left, a slight bunt... View Details

04 May 2021
Blog Post

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

from our respective ethnic languages. We all saw each other as one community, absorbing each other’s cultures and customs while throwing jokes at one another. When I first came to the U.S. more than a decade... View Details

28 Aug 2020
Video

Peter Vundla

Peter Vundla, who co-founded the first Black-owned advertising agency HerdBuoys in South Africa in 1991, was prominent in building post-apartheid South Afrca, including working on for developing the South African flag, the first democratic ballot paper, and the logo... View Details

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

©iStock/maislam To find out, McDonald fixed his sights on the emerging market of online investing, studying five unnamed competitors at the beginning of their race to the top and following their actions... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

other American cities as well. Too many people were left out and left behind, despite their grit and determination,” says Kanter, who cowrote the case with HBS Research Associate Joyce Kim. Miami’s gender... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

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