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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni Are Integral to HBS
to his connection with Elkins, who was founding director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies. She is also Harvard’s professor of History and of African and View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Training managers in the developing world
business school development, is creating a new social impact fund to finance manufacturing in Africa. He has taught at the Institute Supérieur de Management in Dakar, Senegal, and coauthored two books focusing on the progress of African... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
reason Americans view Africa as a land of misfortune is that all they hear about in the media is African misfortune. To counter this simplistic picture, Africa.com offers curated articles showing the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 10 May 2019
- News
Bringing Art to the People It Depicts
and his wife, Grammy Award-winner Alicia Keys, have acquired the largest private collection of Parks’ works. They’ve loaned 80 pieces to the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery at the Hutchins Center for African and View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
of Corporate Boards Is Ruining American Business and Costing Us Trillions by John Gillespie (MBA ’83) and David Zweig (MBA ’83) (Free Press) The authors expose the flaws in the dysfunctional corporate board system: directors who are... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
archives One of the first African American graduates of HBS, the late H. Naylor Fitzhugh overcame numerous racial barriers in a career that spanned academia and the private sector. Born in Washington, DC, in... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
interacted with it...I wanted to take the chapel and make it a public space." Bob Ryan: The funeral home was in a very rundown building. If you segment the African American market, you had people who... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
@Soldiers Field
PITCH PERFECT POWER SOURCE On March 8, Nina Bowman (MBA 1994) of Paravis Partners, former Johnson Publishing CEO Desirée Rogers (MBA 1985), and Benaree Pratt Wiley (MBA 1972) of the Wiley Group kicked off the 46th H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference, hosted by the View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Diversifying HBS's Case Collection
—JAN RIVKIN SENIOR ASSOCIATE DEAN “When our cases don’t feature the full range of human talent, we fail all of our students.” —JAN RIVKIN, SENIOR ASSOCIATE DEAN With the REP, the School has made a commitment to developing more cases featuring Black and View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
different ethnic groups in the country’s north, along with Indian, Chinese, European, and American expats. “My early exposure to people from diverse backgrounds is probably the reason I enjoy such environments,” says Oteh, who served for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
youngest, the blackest, the only female in so many different environments. So, for example, when I went to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, I was a business major. And I remember being only one of less than 10 African View Details
- 17 Jan 2020
- News
A Wider Frame
to Chester Middlebrook Pierce, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School who was the first African American to be a full professor at Massachusetts General Hospital. “I tell many people that... View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
African American Directors Forum, which connects companies with Black board candidates and builds community among Black board members across the country. Motley’s Pittsburgh network has also drawn him into... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Bruce Levy (MBA 1977)
United States. Imagine if you’re an African American player who has never left Louisiana, and all of a sudden you find yourself in Japan. I realized very early on the importance of educating the team on how... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Chris Sorensen
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
Things may not have looked this bleak for African Americans in a long time, but at the First Baptist Church of Riverhead in eastern Long Island, which serves many of the area's black families -- including... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
Carroll Illustration by Dennis Balogh Founded as a gold mining company in 1917 in South Africa by Ernest Oppenheimer (with help from Herbert Hoover and J. P. Morgan), Anglo American plc is the world’s fourth-largest diversified mining... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
discuss areas of interest ranging from opportunities in Asian markets, to managing work/life balance, to the impact of wireless technology on business strategy, to the achievements of African Americans in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa
College, is also committed to public service. Re- cently she put her career on hold for six months to help make a difference in the lives of hundreds of South African children. She left her job as managing director at Abt Associates,... View Details
- 14 Apr 2010
- News
The First African-American MBAs at HBS
early African-American MBAs at HBS, drawn from the H. Naylor Fitzhugh conference booklet, see http://www.hbsaasu.com/history/. Organized by HBS’s African American Student Union, the H. Naylor Fitzhugh annual... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
sharing upward mobility with all African Americans was the theme of the 26th annual HBS African-American Student Union (AASU) Career/Alumni Conference, "The Next Step: Revitalizing Our Community," held... View Details