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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
acceptance into A Better Chance (ABC), a program designed to help smart, minority kids reach their full potential. As a tenth-grader, Rogers was placed in a group house in Radnor, Pennsylvania, with eleven other teenagers from all over... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
cites a library full of studies (some his own) as well as his own personal experiences to document that minorities receive a lower standard of health care than do white men. For example, he writes, African Americans receive fewer... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
enroll at HBS. "With minorities now present in most professions, I see a lot of promise for white and black America to come together," he says. "I also believe it's possible to help people who are downtrodden and desperate to transform... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74
significant changes took place at HBS during Fouraker's tenure as Dean, including sizable increases in the numbers of women and minority students; new curriculum initiatives in ethics, business and government, human resource management,... View Details
- 30 Nov 2019
- News
Land of the Rising Scrum
despite minor language barriers. “Rugby is its own language; it connects people,” said Rush. “I’ve always said that on-field rugby behavior is policed somewhat by the fact that you have to interact with your opponents at the party... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
education programs like Kellogg’s Women’s Director Development Program or participation in associations like the Latino Corporate Directors Association weighed when considering candidates for board roles? Are educational and networking opportunities something women and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
about seventy minority students, most of them wearing dashikis and Afro hairstyles; and around thirty brave-hearted women." Within a month, O'Donnell recalls, "the three-piece-suit culture was dead. We dressed casually, and a lot of us... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
develop tolerance for minor annoyances - at home as well as in the office. Many organizations are still unprepared to meet the Y2K deadline. Why? The further you are from something, the less dangerous it appears. And, as already... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
interpretability, fairness, and adversarial robustness of AI and ML models, i.e., how these models can be made more understandable to humans, and how they can be made more accurate, equitable to minority groups, and resistant to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
diversity issues, notes, "Even companies that once were mostly interested in hiring women and minorities either out of a sense of moral obligation or merely to comply with the law now see the value that comes from broadening the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
said. Already a global thought leader, the School should strive to enhance that position in the years ahead, he added. 4. Inclusion For a school that prides itself on diversity — more than a third of MBA students are women, a third are international, and roughly a... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
released in January that detailed those gains was prefaced by the authors' blunt assessment: "The research shows that to date, high-performing charter schools are in the minority." So what will it take to make that minority a majority?... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
decades of minority rule under apartheid, the government shaped a protected economy that virtually ignored the well-being of the country's black majority and left the country ill-prepared to compete in today's vigorous global marketplace.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
color, diversifying boards, and leveraging diversity in organizations, as well as one called Thrive, which is designed to encourage career advancement for underrepresented minorities with 5 to 7 years of experience (with an emphasis on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
happiness by tweaking minor behaviors and dealing with emotional impulses to accentuate their positive impact. Reinventing the Product: How to Transform your Business and Create Value in the Digital Age by Erik Schaeffer and David Sovie... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
filing proposals for companies to add women and minorities to boards. Those proposals never got a majority vote, but they did spark the conversation. And that conversation, as you know, picked up as there was more social activism, more... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Three Decades of Change and Counting
Here, a few SVMP alumni who went on to graduate from HBS describe their first impressions of the program and how it influenced them. Karen Caswelch Photo courtesy of Karen Caswelch Karen Caswelch (SVMP 1983, MBA 1988) CEO, Akoya, Inc. Indianapolis "I heard about SVMP... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Down on the Farm: Frank Burke (MBA '87)
For fans and management alike, with so much of professional sports now indistinguishable from other high-powered enterprises, where can one turn for an affordable and quality sports experience? Ask Frank Burke (MBA '87), owner of the Chattanooga Lookouts Double-A View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
deal with Cuba.” In reality, the policy changes entailed reinstating some minor restrictions on US travel, but in effect, it sent the message to potential American visitors that Cuba was once again closed. Two months later, reports began... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Boosting Boardroom Diversity
According to the Alliance for Board Diversity, representation of women and minority men on Fortune 500 companies has grown, however slightly—from 12.8 percent in 2010 to 14.4 percent last year. A new Executive Education program, Women on... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna