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About the Project - Creating Emerging Markets

David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies , the Harvard University Center for African Studies , and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University to identify new interviewees. In Latin America, the... View Details

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

Wilson High School Washington, DC RI Gregg Burke Mt. Hope High School Bristol, RI IL Joshua Burmeister Partners For Success Addison, IL DC Nicole Butler Coolidge High School Washington, DC Subjects: Government, African American History,... View Details

13 Jul 2020
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Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

below, Frazier provides insights into this turbulent period of American history with Tsedal Neeley (@tsedal), the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Topics ranged from corporate America’s role... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

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Skydeck - Alumni

Nobel Prize Leading to Salvation 2022 Alumni Achievement Award recipient Bob Ryan (MBA 1970) had just stepped off his last board when he was called on for a different sort of service: revitalizing the oldest African American-owned... View Details

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AASU50 - Alumni

students, including the first black woman to graduate from HBS, joined forces to form the predecessor of the African American Student Union (originally called the Afro-American Student Union). More on the View Details

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business

success within a black economy, which developed in response to the nation's rise of two worlds of race." 4 African Americans who attended HBS during this time went on to make significant contributions in diverse fields and in their... View Details

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Research Award for “Financing the African Colonial State: Fiscal Capacity Building and Forced Labor.” Marlous van Waijenburg : 2018: Winner of the International Economic History Association's triennial... View Details

28 Nov 2005
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Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

or local companies. It was also the sheer spread of businesses it owned beyond packaged consumer products, including African trading, plantations, specialty chemicals, paper and packaging, transport, advertising, and market research... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

01 May 2020
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5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

Aaron Hancock is a member of the HBS Class of 2021. He serves as Senator for Section H and is the Chair of the Senate Clubs Committee. He is also one of the incoming Co-Presidents for the African American Student Union (AASU). Aaron is... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

activities during the 2022–2023 academic year, from developing cases to convening thought leaders to conducting business history interviews. AFRICA RESEARCH CENTER (Johannesburg; offices in Nairobi and Lagos) Addressing some of society’s... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Yinka Shonibare CBE RA Wind Sculpture (SG) V 2019 | About

inspired by Indonesian design, mass-produced by the Dutch, and then sold to the colonies in West Africa. In the 1960s, the material became a symbol of African identity and independence. As Shonibare has stated, “Based on the View Details

30 Apr 2020
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Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

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A Tradition of Philanthropy - Alumni

fellowship funding, and more. 1978 The George P. Baker Minority Fellowship is established to honor Dean Baker’s contributions to increasing African Americans’ access and admission to graduate business schools, and specifically to HBS,... View Details

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Dean Nitin Nohria | About

convene thought leaders, and undertake initiatives to advance African American business leaders. November 2017 Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab is a shared laboratory space for high-potential life sciences and... View Details

05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check

practice.) It’s not just Berman’s own history and hope for the future success of children that motivates him—he notes that there is real science behind his belief. In 2000, for example, researchers found that 120 hours of chess... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

02 Jun 2021
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A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

and possibly took African American patients to different hospitals than their white neighbors. Primary care physicians recommended these hospitals. Patients’ families had long histories of receiving care at... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details

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Harvard Business School

Unilever, Infosys, the Harvard Corporation Finance Committee, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. Paula Sneed MBA 1977 Paula Sneed is the chairperson and CEO of Phelps... View Details

09 Nov 2022
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Building Community: Meet the HBS Latino Student Organization Leadership

legacy this upcoming year. LASO Priorities for 2022-2023 Our priorities this year are focused on community building, sustaining and celebrating LASO history and tradition, fostering a strong pipeline of diverse applicants, and giving back... View Details

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