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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Outtakes with Russ Wilcox
what they do.” Not quite a black sheep: “My dad, brother, aunt, uncle, and cousin all went to MIT. I was a math major at Harvard, but it’s not quite the same.” Creative license: “Start-ups let you create something from nothing. It’s a... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
Desai’s new case, “The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations.” “Talking about race is hard. When you add the business implications, some people are too afraid to start the conversation. But, we did. We started a dialogue,” says McCray, a View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Administration, Emeritus Harvard Business Review Press Race, Work, and Leadership is a rare and important compilation of essays that examines how race matters in people's experience of work and leadership. What does it mean to be View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Nelson Mandela’s Right-Hand Man
stated that investment is sorely needed to help reduce unemployment, one of South Africa’s most pressing problems. A positive sign, he said, is the increasing involvement of blacks in business. HBS professor Linda Hill, the event’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
The Equity Network began with a single LinkedIn post. Kristina Hu (MBA 2022) Photo courtesy Kristina Hu In the summer of 2020, Kristina Hu (MBA 2022), then an incoming HBS student, was sitting in her San Francisco home watching the Black... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Courtesy Steven Rogers Courtesy Steven Rogers On May 31st, 2020, six days after the murder of George Floyd, Steven Roger's daughter Ariel sent him a text. In it, she told her dad that the View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
fifteen hours of live programming, five days a week. "It's a pretty full plate," she admits in an interview at the network's Fort Lee, New Jersey, headquarters. The CNBC offices clearly favor function over form, with dozens of reporters... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- News
The Road to Racial Equity
John Rice (MBA 1992) John Rice (MBA 1992) In late October, Willy Walker (MBA 1995) hosted John Rice (MBA 1992) as a guest on the Walker Webcast interview series to talk about family, the lived reality of racism, and how to drive diversity... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Flexible Teams to Do the Best Work of Their Lives By Brian Elliot (MBA 2008), Sheela Subramanian (MBA 2011), and Helen Kupp (MBA 2015) Wiley The way we work has changed. The era of toiling from nine-to-five, five-days-a-week in the office... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
the world’s top athletes. They reveal the secrets behind ESPN’s success and the many scandals, rivalries, and triumphs that have accompanied that ascent. (For more, see Miller’s “My Two Cents” in this issue.) The Little Black Book of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Assembly-Line Innovation The title of the 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory (Harvard Business Review Press) conjures an image of raw materials being dumped into a black box and emerging on conveyor belts as fully formed iPhones,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
become a bigger authority and voice to drive change in our community,” says Sean. “In many ways, COVID revealed fundamental weaknesses in the US economy and our politics, as evidenced by the Black Lives... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
racist name was bad business. Still, FedEx did not act. Finally, in late June 2020, in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests, Boston Common and a coalition of 86 other... View Details
- 07 Dec 2020
- News
Lifting The Stigma
Sangu Delle (MBA/JD 2016) Sangu Delle (MBA/JD 2016) Early on, it was clear that Sangu Delle (MBA/JD 2016) was driven to excel. As a six-year-old living in Ghana Delle wrote to Harvard University President Neil Rudenstine to ask when he... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Experience of a Lifetime
Growing up in rural North Carolina between two towns with fewer than 300 people combined, Duke Buchan dreamed big. After living in Spain during high school and college, and earning a BA in economics and Spanish at the University of North... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Proposed Chair Would Honor African-American Business Pioneer
Fitzhugh's honor. Fitzhugh, who passed away in 1992, graduated with honors from Harvard College in 1931, despite being forced to live off-campus because of his race. He was one of the first African Americans to attend HBS, where he... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
College, it was at a time when African Americans were not even allowed to live on campus. When he graduated from HBS, no one would offer him a job. Yet throughout his life, his unwavering optimistic spirit brought him great success and... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- News
Checking in with One Championship
As a student at HBS, Chatri Sityodtong (MBA 1999) lived on four dollars a day, teaching the martial arts discipline of Muay Thai and sending the extra cash home to his mother and brother in Bangkok. “Everything I owned could fit into a... View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
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... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Mar 2018
- News
Do the Things You Love
Rebecca Henderson (MBA 1985, PhD BE 1988) is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University. In this interview, she discusses the value of money versus personal satisfaction. “Money doesn't matter nearly as much as... View Details