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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Creating Change
(HBS Archives Photographs: Student Life) In 1970, there were no female members of the Harvard Club of New York City, and women entered the club through a separate entrance. Alumna Roslyn Payne (MBA 1970) and her classmates were determined to change that. Their... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs
rental clothes to clients, was comical at times. “I was trying to convince a roomful of men in blue button-down shirts why wearing a new outfit everyday would empower them,” she said. Hyman said the bigger problem in the business world is the subtle View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Where Innovation Rules
Kiva Systems Intuit Angie’s List Rakuten athenahealth Pandora Bloomingdale's and Gilt Groupe Social Finance Innovation is the real business of Harvard Business School. It begins with the School’s bias toward action, as embodied in its... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
edited and abridged version of his remarks follows. The Model T was invented in 1908. Since you had to change your tires every nine months in those days, the tire industry was a good one to be in. By 1970, however, you only had to replace the View Details
- 06 Nov 2020
- News
Signal Boost
like implicit bias and the actions you can take as an individual or as an organization or as a community to be more welcoming,” says Lara. “I get employers telling me, ‘Well, you know, we tried hiring diverse people but they don’t stay.’... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named
For many entrepreneurs, the inspiration for starting a business is rooted in personal experience. An enterprise is born not just to fill a neglected market niche but a personal need as well. Such is the case with ventures created by HBS graduates, Darren Brehm (MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
Lang Related Links “It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t”: New research by HBS associate professor Jordan Siegel finds that multinational companies can spin gender bias into gold by recruiting and hiring well-educated female... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
notes, although representation across an organization is a valuable first step. For her team, it’s about what follows. “What I’m focusing on right now is, what’s next?” says Lara. “We’re updating our programming to focus more on things like implicit View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
Archie Jones. Jeff Bussgang, Yasmin Cruz Ferrine, Glynn Lloyd, and Karen Mills On September 30, Bussgang and Mills presented this case to more than 80 HBS alumni in a virtual panel discussion that explored what the BNVC got right, what it exposed in terms of View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
or their parents. If 10 percent of the people they spoke to tell more people, it can become a true change factor,” she says. “Awareness is the first step.” MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: Advancing Racial Equity HBS Addresses Racial Equity Alumni Work to Reverse View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
candidates. With about one hundred thousand people responding, the top five votegetters were Hillary Rodham Clinton, Elizabeth Dole, Christine Todd Whitman, Dianne Feinstein, and General Claudia Kennedy [the highest ranking woman in the military]. We've also done... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 25 May 2023
- News
3 Strategies for Making Better, More Informed Decisions
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Notes from W50
Fifty years after the first eight women enrolled in the two-year MBA Program at HBS, 800 alumni came to campus to celebrate that milestone. As part of the School's April W50 Summit, HBS hosted two days of panels, workshops, and presentations covering everything from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
parenting daughters and hypothesizes that this change in attitude is an important contributor to the economic benefit of gender diversity he observed. It’s going to take years to ameliorate unconscious bias and close the gender gap in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
who are increasingly willing and able to care for their own conditions. The result: changing models of health-care delivery. The Bias of Wall Street Analysts Historically, stock analysts’ recommendations have been swayed by business... View Details
- 12 Dec 2015
- News
Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy
Earlier this year, HBS professors Benjamin Edelman and Michael Luca, working with doctoral student Dan Svirsky sent 6,400 rental requests to Airbnb hosts in five cities using distinctly white or distinctly African-American names. In the responses, the researchers found... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
transplant, or a joint replacement in the United States, here's the key to getting the very best medical care: be a straight, white, middle-class male. White, a pioneering black surgeon, and his coauthor make sense of the unconscious bias... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
media. Most have been from West Africa, but this is changing. Elumelu hopes the program will reach across the continent. “Geographical bias should no longer constrain people,” he says. The foundation recently introduced TEFConnect, an... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
told the Burden crowd. The HBS Student Association—headed by its first female copresidents, Libby Leffler and LaToya Marc (both MBA 2017)—offered an unconscious bias training session facilitated by Harvard’s Project Implicit and... View Details