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  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Flying High

years—about the time she expects that the next generation of green aircraft will debut. She isn’t sure which of the innovations currently in development—such as planes powered by hydrogen or battery power—will win the race to the runway,... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • March 2007 (Revised April 2011)
  • Case

Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur, Leader, and Philanthropist

By: Nancy F. Koehn, Anne Dwojeski, William Grundy, Erica Helms and Katherine Miller
Madam C. J. Walker, who has been credited as the first self-made African-American woman millionaire, created a hair-care empire after years spent as a laundress in St. Louis, Missouri. Decades before the Civil Rights movement, her company gave employment to thousands... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Business History; Race; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Saint Louis
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  • 06 Sep 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Thumbs Up Down Under

September 11, they had interrupted their departure preparations at the Chelsea Piers to race to Ground Zero to assist with rescue efforts. Wilson, a severe asthmatic, used his knowledge of the condition to aid medical technicians treating... View Details
Keywords: Water Transportation; Transportation
  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

a dealer's back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the world's largest automaker, a... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • Profile

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
  • May 2021
  • Supplement

Career at a Crossroads? (B)

By: James K. Sebenius and Alex Green
A career professional at a major consumer goods company, Kym Lew Nelson is hoping to negotiate a promotion to vice president, which would make her one of the senior-most African American women in the organization. But when Nelson’s white German boss arrives in the... View Details
Keywords: Culture; Negotiation; Race; Gender; Organizational Culture; Prejudice and Bias
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  • 2016
  • Flash Talks

Modupe Akinola

    Mohamed Jaffer

    Keywords: Cargo Handling
    • July 2022
    • Case

    General Mills: Responding to the Killing of George Floyd (A)

    By: Debora L. Spar and Alicia Dadlani
    Jeff Harmening, CEO of General Mills, one of the world's largest manufacturers of breakfast cereals and packaged foods, was deeply disturbed and instantly aware that he and General Mills would need to respond. George Floyd, an African-American man who had been accused... View Details
    Keywords: Race; Decisions; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Minneapolis; Minnesota; United States
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

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

    By: Nancy Qian and Marco Tabellini
    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; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Government Administration; United States
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    • 2015
    • Organizational Change

    Don Tomaskovic-Devey

    • Fast Answer

    Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Tools

    & Bradstreet, as well as demographic data including income, age, race and educational attainment from the US Census. Business Analyst Online: access to data on demographics and businesses in the USA. Business Analyst Online is... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2016
    • News

    A Club for the Cosmos

    Ezzeddine (PLDA 17, 2014), was having a liftoff of its own. The group’s activities will focus on three industry clusters: civil aviation, defense/security, and space exploration. READ MORE The New Space Race Maiden Voyage UAE’s ambitious,... View Details
    Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
    • July 2021
    • Article

    Structuring Local Environments to Avoid Diversity: Anxiety Drives Whites' Geographical and Institutional Self-Segregation Preferences

    By: Eric Anicich, Jon M. Jachimowicz, Merrick Osborne and L. Taylor Phillips
    The current research explores how local racial diversity affects Whites’ efforts to structure their local communities to avoid incidental intergroup contact. In two experimental studies (N=509; Studies 1a-b), we consider Whites’ choices to structure a fictional,... View Details
    Keywords: Segregration; Structural/institutional Racism; Organizational Exclusion; Diversity; Race; Organizations; Local Range; Prejudice and Bias
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    • Article

    A Fair Game? Racial Bias and Repeated Interaction between NBA Coaches and Players

    By: Letian Zhang
    There is strong evidence of racial bias in organizations but little understanding of how it changes with repeated interaction. This study proposes that repeated interaction has the potential to reduce racial bias, but its moderating effects are limited to the treatment... View Details
    Keywords: Discrimination; Bias; Interaction; NBA; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Equality and Inequality; Interpersonal Communication; Sports
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    • Profile

    Marco Crespo

    Marco Crespo's story is one of continuity. Before attending HBS, he had been active in the Ayrton Senna Foundation, a Brazilian nonprofit founded by a world-famous Formula 1 race car driver, dedicated to improving public education. While... View Details
    • 2017
    • Report

    The Competitive Advantage of Racial Equity

    By: Mark R. Kramer, Angela Glover Blackwell, Lalitha Vaidyanathan, Lakshmi Iyer and Josh Kirschenbaum
    Corporate America is missing out on one of the biggest opportunities of our time for driving innovation and growth: creating business value by advancing racial equity.
    Developed in partnership with PolicyLink and funded by the Ford and W.K. Kellogg foundations,... View Details
    Keywords: Racial Equity; Diversity; Race; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation
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      Peter Wharton-Hood

      Keywords: Healthcare; Finance; Banking
      • 27 Nov 2017
      • Blog Post

      Joining a Start-up: 10 Lessons Along the Way

      for advice to budding founders and joiners. He said it's simple: "Don't do it." He was joking, but this is actually the perfect test: are you so passionate and eager to run your own race that you can ignore everyone that says... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail