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- September 2014
- Case
Carla Ann Harris at Morgan Stanley
By: Lakshmi Ramarajan and Alex Radu
Keywords: Career Management; Authenticity; Race; Identity; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Banking Industry
Ramarajan, Lakshmi, and Alex Radu. "Carla Ann Harris at Morgan Stanley." Harvard Business School Case 415-029, September 2014.
- 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
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
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
- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
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
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
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
- Video
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
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
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
- Video
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
- Blog Post
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
- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
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
- What Do You Think?
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
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
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
- 13 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?
to drive to the grocery store to pick up the kids and go on errands, rather than pushing it to its limits on the open road. They were not interested in the racing heritage of Porsche. The commentators would... 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
- 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
- Portrait Project
Brian Kreiter
I will not race to climb the nearest and steepest hill only to find myself looking backward, wondering if my sacrifices were worthwhile. Or worse, wondering if, by taking another step, I will start the... View Details
- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
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
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
space race have been blessed somewhat by the glamour of it all. Investors enthusiastically, maybe too much so, backed a host of startups including those headed by superstar names like Sir Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, View Details
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Reuel J. Khoza
Reuel J. Khoza, Chairman of South Africa's Dzana Investments and Discovery Bank, describes the obstacles he faced to establish his management consultancy firm in the context of apartheid. 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