Minority - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2001
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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

Keywords: Young, Susan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2011
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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

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Health, Social Assistance

01 Oct 1996
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 1999
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New Releases

glass ceiling that confronts most minority managers in large U.S. companies? In their new book, Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America, HBS associate professor David A.... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Dec 1998
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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

13 May 2025
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If I Knew Then

200 major companies on their talent strategies. Over the past 20 years, MLT has developed 1,000 senior leaders, with 15,000 alumni following in their footsteps; and 50 percent of minority students at the top US business schools completed... View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

15 Jun 2021
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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

01 Mar 2011
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On the Outside at HBS

third are international, and roughly a quarter are ethnic minorities — the School can be a difficult place for these groups to thrive. To its credit, HBS understands that the real value of diversity is not in the statistical percentage of... View Details

28 May 2019
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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

29 Apr 2025
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Challenge Accepted

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details