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- 27 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Meet the Latino Student Association
alumni. We are excited to continue the Portrait Project to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. This is our marquee event involving the entire HBS community. It is an opportunity for our members to share their stories on what it means to be... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
kidney and liver transplants, and less pain medication when they are operated on. Furthermore, women with heart disease receive less angioplasty than men; Hispanics have a lower rate of recommended health-care services such as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
United States indicate that by age nine, African American and Hispanic students are 20 to 30 points below proficient cut off scores in math and reading. The high-school graduation rate in the 50 largest US cities is about 53 percent.... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
Blacks. My concern is Hispanics which wield significantly more economic buying power, land ownership It seems to me that everywhere I look Hispanics are being left out.”), and more systematic mentoring... View Details
- Profile
Rocio Parra
Participating in external events, such as the National Society of Hispanic MBAs career conference as both an RC and an EC, was critical to helping me streamline my list of target companies as well as helping me firm up my professional... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- Profile
Jonathan Assayag
chance encounter with a fellow Brazilian led to a new direction. "We were at a conference for the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers," Jonathan explains. "He worked as a Senior Manager at Accenture, and when he... View Details
- Web
Harvard Business School
policies. The activist efforts of AASU inspired the formation of other clubs including the Hispanic Club, Latin American Club, and Women's Club (later the Women's Student Association). HBS responded in part to growing student unrest by... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
literature. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-058.pdf Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout? Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Joel Waldfogel Abstract Since the dawn of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 May 2023
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Two days before Thanksgiving 2002, the 4th graders of Irving Primary in Peoria, Illinois, gathered in the school's gym for an assembly. The students were restless, Jen Wilfong (GMP 3, 2007) recalls. They were chatting and jostling one another and had little interest in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
Holmes said. Data compiled by Google, Yahoo, Twitter, and Pinterest in 2014 showed that the number of female workers at those companies was typically 30 percent or less of the staff and that the number of black and Hispanic employees was... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
students were all thoroughly trained in the technology's use. Five years later, the test scores of the school's students - 95 percent Black and Hispanic - are double the New Jersey average, and 100 percent of the students want to attend... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
but I didn’t have an appreciation of all the ethnicities that exist in the world — Italian, Russian, Polish, the differences between various Hispanic cultures. That was fascinating.” Harris says she came to Harvard with the intention of... View Details
- Web
Advocating for Best Practices on Tech Boards - Blog: RGE Report
Beninga is a confidant who can always provide valuable insight. Beninga also is a person who supports Banks “showing up” as herself — a Black and Hispanic woman with a feminine style of dress who might need to take time off to help her... View Details
- Web
Latin America - Global Activities 2021
Bruck, who is now vice president, marketplace, Hispanic South America and Retail and Private Label, at MercadoLibre, hopes the case will help students understand that human experiences and emotions are an important part of leadership. “We... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
Terry understands but rejects the time-worn theory of a “sustainability divide” in favor of an abundance mindset, of greater equity in the technology field. In fact, social scientists have quantified the optimism and resilience in Black and View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
become more diverse: For white workers, exposure to nonwhite co-workers has steadily increased for 40 years. But the reverse isn’t true; during the same period, for nonwhite workers, particularly Hispanics and Asians, exposure to other... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
and clothing, with almost half draining their savings to pay the bills, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey. Medical debt tends to be a more pervasive problem among those earning less than $40,000 per year and among Black and View Details
- 14 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Making the MBA Degree More Accessible
for financial aid to account not just for individual income and assets but also for socioeconomic background. Create a new complementary fellowship to support students who have demonstrated exemplary commitment to serving Black / African American, View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
A Lifelong Friendship: From Classmates in Cameroon to Roommates at HBS
entrepreneurial successes of Hispanic immigrants in the US. Gana: I'll have a better short-term answer after I test out management consulting this summer. As Kevin mentioned, we launched Blackminds to help share black stories - that is... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
whether one pays it willingly or begrudgingly, with or without awareness of its existence." Thomas and Gabarro discovered that the successful African-American, Asian-American, and native-born Hispanic executives in their study... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross