Black Executives - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity

Plan, Harvard Business School has signed on as the first academic partner to the OneTen Initiative, a coalition of leading executives and organizations in America who have joined together to hire one million View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Apr 1999
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HBS Collaboration Helps Management Education for Minority Students

and help companies tap into this incredible talent pool." When he first began visiting historically black colleges, Aguilar recalls, he discovered that few faculty members were conversant with the teaching of business practice. As a... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

01 Mar 2018
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Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events

Recent HBS Alumni Events Around the World 1 In November, the HBS Association of Southeastern New England hosted its first-ever reunion of local nonprofit leaders, who through the club’s scholarship program attended the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

Howard, Fitzhugh joined Pepsi in 1965, where he developed the first marketing efforts directed at African Americans. Credited with creating the concept of targeted marketing, he also attracted and mentored black View Details

25 Mar 2021
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Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy

the barriers facing Black businesses. The research conducted by HBS faculty members, including the course materials they develop, has a wide reach and significant impact. Cases are taught to hundreds of MBA students and thousands of View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

black rights offers a firsthand view of the debates, boycotts, marches, and negotiations that would change the face of race relations in Chicago and the United States at large. Think Inside the Box: Discover the Exceptional Business... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books

often-overlooked role of Black women in the social, political, psychological, and economic history of the United States, A Blessing offers a playbook for Black teams to find innovative ways to support one... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2009
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Magician Turns HBS Upside Down

executive coach who has garnered plaudits from numerous corporate leaders and from celebrities such as Larry King, Woody Allen, and David Letterman (“he’s as good as Houdini”). With a Ph.D. in social psychology, Randal is a... View Details

Keywords: magic; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Apr 1999
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A Vibrant Brand

who, in 1993, teamed up with Time Warner to launch a magazine that would cover the traditionally black music genres that Rolling Stone magazine often overlooked. "Rolling Stone created the category of music journalism," says Clinkscales.... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards

anyone. Most of the top executives didn’t understand the risks they were taking, so can you imagine a septuagenarian sitting in the boardroom getting a PowerPoint presentation on synthetic CDOs and credit default swaps?” In a conference... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

04 Sep 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

Equity Finance class, an advanced elective course offered in the Harvard Business School MBA elective curriculum. The structure of the book follows the timeline of a typical investment. Starting with deal sourcing, due diligence and valuation, followed by View Details

01 Mar 2023
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Family Matters

University of California. The $5,000 cost was beyond her family’s means, but Thompson-Woode’s mother decided she would ask the community to invest in her daughter’s dream. “The city raised the money,” Thompson-Woode says. “People wanted to see this View Details

Keywords: April White

24 Mar 2021
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Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education

been too far away, otherwise.” Along with pandemic-related shifts, the Black Lives Matter movement inspired a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion in the alumni club ranks and in projects and programming. The Community Partners... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot

Schultz (MBA 1983) was working as an executive chairman for a tech company, and on his way home from a fundraising presentation at a venture firm when he had an epiphany. A longtime executive with a personal... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

owned slaves and accepted Black people as full citizens. Thanks to the efforts of Creek leaders like Cow Tom, a Black Creek citizen who rose to become chief, the United States government recognized Creek... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Apr 2000
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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

Association, and the Asia Business Club provided attendees with an opportunity to engage in lively discourse, thoughtful reflection, and gala celebrations. AASU Conference: A Call to Action "Leading the Restoration: Black Business... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

01 Sep 2006
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Street Singer

and student jobs, they did. Before moving to Cambridge in 1980, Harris says she harbored the usual expectations of Harvard as a preppy, stuffy place, but found she was one of the few wearing Docksiders and green sweaters. The diversity of her classmates also surprised... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance

18 May 2023
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Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes

Black students from lower-income families in struggling neighborhoods—hope for a successful future. The kids were attentive as the assembly concluded, but, Wilfong later learned, they didn't expect this stranger to follow through on her... View Details