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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
not hesitant to use the words discriminated against. When only 2.3 percent of venture-backed founders are women, when only 1.5 percent are LatinX, when only 1 percent are Black founders—clearly there’s neglect, ignoring, and View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Ellen Pao (MBA 1998)
groups that don’t fit the VC mold. There is no magic set of experiences that makes you a great venture capitalist. I filed a gender discrimination suit against Kleiner Perkins because I had tried everything else. It seemed like a lawsuit... View Details
Keywords: April White; photo by Eric Millette
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
companies that can afford to buy that—but there aren’t millions. And it’s very difficult to price discriminate on something which is a physical asset that you sell. Because if you’ve got effectively the exact same box that you’re selling... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
real market would permit Americans to buy health insurance for themselves, not from a shopper like an HMO. Americans are rejecting what they view as the unfair tactics that HMOs use to keep their costs down: discrimination against... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
An Advocate for Women's Equality
the armed forces came at this time. On the policy side, Nixon's Labor Department enforced new requirements for contractors to hire and promote women; conducted compliance reviews of universities; and gave the Equal Opportunity Commission enforcement powers to pursue... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
of their own significant involvement with those programs. Robert Haas (MBA '68) of Levi Strauss: ending racial discrimination in the community is a business imperative. (photograph by Jamie Tanaka) Robert Haas (MBA '68) of Levi Strauss:... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
also a lot to be optimistic about. Just 20 years ago, the economics literature was in a mode of documenting gender differences, whether it was about discrimination or the different outcomes for men and women. But more recently we’ve... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
50 or 60 years ago. Discrimination used to be perfectly legal; it wasn’t until the 1980s that the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defined and prohibited sexual harassment in the workplace. We certainly have made progress on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
On the Outside at HBS
role models for all students. Another positive step would be for HBS to facilitate more open classroom dialogue during case studies, not just in the context of LEAD or LCA but also in TOM and Finance, to create opportunities for minorities to openly share their... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
established NIB). “We exist to create good, enabling work environments of choice for blind people,” he explains. “They have an extraordinarily high unemployment rate, ranging from 65 percent to 75 percent. There’s a lot of discrimination... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
project reveals that anxiety reduces self-confidence and tends to increase a reliance on others’ advice. Unfortunately, anxiety also reduces the ability to discriminate between good and bad counsel. So it’s best to take a deep breath,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
markets in developed nations. But by the mid-1980s, the Yangs decided the time had come to differentiate themselves. They would concentrate on quality and meeting the needs of the most discriminating designers and retailers in areas such... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
alleviate that concern? Yes. GINA protects Americans against discrimination as a result of their genetic information. It’s a critically important step on the path to realizing the promise of personalized medicine. It will take some time... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
discrimination and harassment lawsuit a woman cofounder lodged against the Tinder dating app to the comments of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who advised women against asking for a raise, but instead “knowing and having faith that the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
techniques to analyze that data and build an algorithm that successfully predicted job fit while minimizing bias—matching candidates to the right jobs based on their traits and aptitudes, for example, without discriminating on the basis... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
discrimination and product bundling. After graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar, he worked as a Charles M. Williams Research Fellow at the School from 1991 to 1993, writing more than a dozen cases on finance, business ethics, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
diseases, including HIV, Ebola, and COVID-19. Weiss points out that contact tracing and exposure notification have raised privacy and discrimination concerns for as long as they have been used. These worries have come to the fore as... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
1970s," says Andrews, "a number of firms, many headed by HBS alumni, set an example for other companies by eliminating racial discrimination and, in certain cases, by deliberately ignoring discriminatory laws." Andrews notes that several... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
you think got the most mentions? Elon Musk for how innovative he is. Across the board. This really does not discriminate by who voters were. Number two was Warren Buffett. I will tell you, after that, it was shocking. They could barely... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
entrepreneurial powerhouse. Carolyn’s mix of pep talk and tough love got Tyra to where she is today, and here they pay it forward to empower readers. Whether they’re writing about watching Tyra’s most imperfect moment go viral or how they’ve overcome everything from... View Details