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- 15 Apr 2016
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First African American Woman to Receive Harvard MBA Talks Power of Persistence, Resilience, and Courage
(Image: Cathy Walsh) (Image: Cathy Walsh) The first African American woman to earn an MBA at Harvard Business School, Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA 1969) attended the School at a time when women weren’t allowed to live on campus. Instead,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeanne Jackson
Most Powerful Women in Business.” Based on her experience in retailing and her current service on the boards of global giants Nike and McDonald’s, Jackson says, “Whether you’re in Texas or in China, you must focus business practices and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
they work to peel away a portion of the consumer decision-making process, the way Birchbox offered women a new way to sample new beauty products from a variety of cosmetics and fragrance companies, without having to go to the Revlon or... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
meaningfully. But I became an introvert, so I relied on other skills. And I did leave that experience triumphant, but it just gave me a heightened sense of sensitivity and awareness for being another. I was the only black, the only American, one of two View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
many ways, Wu Yajun is the personification of China’s newfound wealth. As one of Chongqing’s leading property developers, she is among the wealthiest women in China, worth over $9 billion — the living antithesis of those Scotsmen who made... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
pandemic, with topics such as the divisive paranoia of coronavirus; the burdens and blessings of quarantine; and a bucket list for lockdown. In June she launched a podcast focused on finding growth in a crisis. The segments feature women... View Details
- 30 May 2018
- News
HBS Fellowship Program Puts an MBA Within Reach
American women about her time as an MBA student. “Without this fellowship, I wouldn’t be able to be here and to share my story so that others who look like me could see what it’s like to attend HBS,” she explains. “I’m so appreciative of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
countless studies have shown that résumé reviewers often exhibit bias—consciously or unconsciously—against women and minorities, Pymetrics’s matches arrive without any demographic data. “And there are no known gender or ethnic biases in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Honoring the Code
responsibility. All the way up to when I was chairman, I felt responsible for over two million men and women in uniform, active guard and reserve. So leading them, being responsible for them, understanding their challenges, putting them... View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
Striking a Balance
as well as a mentor to working women, Wilson knew how difficult those challenges could be. “Diane was a great advocate of dealing with the barriers that prevent or discourage women from moving ahead,” says Silk, an authority on the... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
selection committee. “We won’t honor a company if they don’t share our values. For example, how they treat women or other issues,” says Hao. “We ask, are they representative of the entrepreneurial spirit of HBS and our club? Are we going... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
Since its earliest days, HBS has committed to educating students with the highest potential for leadership, regardless of their financial circumstances. As a result, the School is able to attract and enroll exceptional women and men from... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
School has done a great job maintaining its core values over the years. What are some of the biggest changes you have seen? Certainly, the mix of our student body is quite different; you can see it when you look at photos from across the decades. Today, there are a lot... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
that women and children would be hurt in traffic by exiting from the left side. Lara, then a manager of product strategy for Chrysler and the mother of an infant daughter, spoke up. “First of all, we park in parking lots, not traffic.... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
particularly since Whitman installed a countdown clock in a central spot of the open-plan office, just down the hall from her desk. On that morning in May, it blinks out an unambiguous warning: 326 days, 10 hours, 15 minutes, 56 seconds. The story of how Whitman, one... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
influence over so many areas of business and society. "World War II catalyzed mass production techniques, quantitative analysis methods, women in the workplace, and world trade through the Marshall Plan and Japan's economic renaissance,"... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Research Brief: May I Ask Your Advice?
feedback that women typically receive relative to their male peers, as well as the withholding bias that minorities experience in the workplace. In those dynamics, people refrain from sharing the information that could be most useful in... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
A Case For Fellowships
that Harvard Business School attracts a wide-ranging group of men and women who share one common trait: a capacity for leadership. Our promise to our faculty and to every student is to deliver the most diverse class—on multiple... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
government and other institutions” to expand the service. Like any good businessman, Raju saw in emergency care an untapped market. The need was clear enough: Every day some 200,000 Indians face a medical emergency. Each year some 136,000 View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details