Race And Ethnicity - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2014
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Carla Ann Harris at Morgan Stanley

Keywords: Career Management; Authenticity; Race; Identity; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Banking Industry

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30 Jun 2021
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

28 Aug 2020
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Peter Vundla

Peter Vundla, who co-founded the first Black-owned advertising agency HerdBuoys in South Africa in 1991, discusses how the business started by exploiting the fact that white-owned companies had no understanding of Black consumers and their languages, and by providing a... 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

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Establish the enduring structures required for the journey ahead. - Advancing Racial Equity

HBS will establish an Initiative focused on advancing racial equity . The new Initiative will serve as the center of gravity for research, course development, convening, and outreach related to race in... View Details

12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

it is important to consider the context and development life cycle of an idea when collecting data or running an experiment—what have we really learned from this experience. —Amy Lieb (MBA 2001) Back to top “Carter Racing” Siblings BJ... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Louisa Mojela & Gloria Serobe

Louisa Mojela, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of WIPHOLD, reflects on ways that she navigated her early career in the context of South Africa's apartheid system. View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap

‘those’ kids. “We’re a southern, midsize city that’s still struggling with race and how that unfolds around access to opportunity,” continues Morgan. “This is the moment for public education.” With the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

Business Administration, Emerita Robin Ely is the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with... View Details

11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

28 Aug 2020
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Shahnaz Husain

Shahnaz Husain, the founder of Shahnaz Herbals, a natural beauty company based in India, discusses how her products need to adapt to local cultures, and explains why she sells creams facilitating light skin in India. View Details

01 Oct 2014
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Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

Summing Up What Are the Antidotes to Too Much Focus? Individuals and organizations suffer from too much focus much of the time. That was the sense of the majority of responses to this month's column. Respondents didn't stop there. They... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Aug 2020
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Sanjay Bansal

Sanjay Bansal, former head of Ambootia tea estates in Darjeeling, India, discusses the near-feudal conditions which prevailed in the tea industry in this region, and the acute social problems faced by the Nepalese-speaking labor force, which was predominately female.... View Details

08 Mar 2021
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International Women's Day Featured Stories

International Women's Day (IWD) celebrates the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. It is an official holiday in at least 20 countries and grows in recognition each year. This... View Details

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History - Entrepreneurship

yearlong program supports 20-25 Rock Summer Fellow teams with up to $1,500 in seed capital, matched mentors, and facilitated workshops as they race to Demo Day where teams pitch their ventures to investors,... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons

kids last summer and experienced something he hadn’t in years: complete panic. Once a “master of the universe” as chairman of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette’s Financial Services Group, Pechter was now just another teacher-in-training,... View Details

Keywords: Lory Hough; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

(everything from Alpine racing to slopestyle), as well as creating a pipeline of young athletes and increasing the accessibility of snow sports. Crafting Your Life: Are You Living Consistent with What... View Details

27 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

high-throughput genome engineering capabilities that enable dramatically faster genetic innovation. Coupled with the discovery of extremely fast-growing photosynthetic microalgae and racing against a... View Details

28 Aug 2020
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Ian Fuhr

Ian Fuhr, who later founded Sorbet, the largest chain of beauty salons in South Africa, describes his struggles to convince white-owned companies in South Africa in the 1990s to take racism in the workplace seriously, and how he developed a play on the subject to try... View Details

11 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

mortgage originations from 2012 to 2018 for loan performance data. They further parsed findings using US Census data and ZIP codes to match loan officers, mortgages, specific lenders, and applicants. The... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

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