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01 Sep 2006
News

Street Singer

and student jobs, they did. Before moving to Cambridge in 1980, Harris says she harbored the usual expectations of Harvard as a preppy, stuffy place, but found she was one of the few wearing Docksiders and green sweaters. The diversity of her classmates also surprised... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

Harvard Business School Case 319-013 Jackie Taylor: The Black Ensemble Theater Jackie Taylor, an African American social entrepreneur, founded the Black Ensemble Theater in 1976. Since the ensemble’s... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics

earning her MBA at Harvard Business School. In fact, she spent the first decade of her life living down the road from Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, yet the halls of Harvard Business School could not have been further from her sense of belonging. “As a little... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

proposal appeared as white letters on a black background. 44 Olsen, Digital Corporate History , 11. 45 Digital Equipment Corporation, "A Proposal to American Research and Development Corporation 27 May 1957," 4. GCA. 46 Olsen quoted in... View Details

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How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values - Recruiting

specificity, and provide clear metrics by race and gender,” said Eliason. Avoid reporting numbers in aggregate though; “women and people of color” is too broad of a data point whereas "number of Latinx employees" is specific. Also be sure to incorporate... View Details

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

Relationships Authors:Robin Ely and Laura Morgan Roberts Publication:In Diversity at Work, edited by Arthur P. Brief. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming Abstract No abstract available. Exploring Black Greek Letter Organizations... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 May 2023
News

Fail Better

president of Lazard and former vice chairman of Citigroup. As the longest tenured head of an investment banking group in the history of Wall Street, he became one of its most prominent Black executives, advising on transactions valued at... View Details

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Field Course: Investing for Impact

details. SimplyAnalytics - enables creation of maps and tables for the United States that incorporate data such as population, age, race, income, employment, and education. See also, resources for Black Business Leaders and... View Details

18 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

rise in hybrid models is important for social entrepreneurs, Battilana says, because traditionally there has been a tendency to divide the business world into black and white: the for-profit sector, solely driven by the prospect of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 May 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Denial Endemic to Management?

"denial is avoidable and leads to failure," such as Henry Ford's presumption that consumers would continue to want black autos in the face of evidence that they were becoming more interested in color; IBM's dogged pursuit of PC... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

30 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

intellectually superior to females or whites as intellectually superior to blacks or Hispanics. Society has largely accepted such stereotypes as offensive, inappropriate, and leading to the lack of consideration of people as unique. But,... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

09 Jun 2023
Blog Post

How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values

incorporate intersectionality. For example, the number of Black women in your organization. These numbers are important indicators for prospective employees considering your organization. For many organizations, the current data will not... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

06 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

York, he modeled drivers of economic disparities for low- and moderate-income communities across the U.S. As a grassroots community organizer, he advocated alongside such communities, creating Washington, D.C.’s first-ever $10 million View Details

08 Mar 2019
Blog Post

Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day

(MBA '19): Vice President of the Manbassadors Matt Piltch (MBA '19): Vice President of Equity Engagement Lindsey Morrow (MBA '19) & Amanda Tyson (MBA '19) - Co-Presidents of the African American Student Union To us, feminism means equality and freedom. As View Details

18 Jan 2022
News

HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference

five historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Atlanta area, but the only college in Georgia founded solely by African-American patronage. The school lost its accreditation in 2004, but has worked diligently since then... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests

names were accepted roughly 42 percent of the time. This study followed a 2014 study in which Edelman and Luca found that black hosts charged approximately 12 percent less for rentals than nonblack hosts—even when the properties were... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accommodations; Web Services

01 Apr 1998
News

Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO

Gary T. DiCamillo (MBA '75) was second in command at Black & Decker Corporation and leading a turnaround of that company's power tools division when Polaroid snapped him up in late 1995. The world-famous instant-imaging company made him... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity

racial diversity. Black and Latinx employees are well-represented in non-leadership roles but are not equally represented on the executive team. “There’s always going to be another challenge,” Eberle Walker says. “But it is important for... View Details

25 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation

“Having segregated workplaces reduces our exposure to other races. That’s not good.” “If these occupations, like cleaning workers, used to exist within a single firm, you had Hispanics, whites, and blacks all working for the same... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

findings, Kahn argues that hiring great managers is truly a bargain, both for the organization and for individual players. And yes, it can be a smart move to take a pay cut to work under a great leader. The career of Bill Belichick represents a notable example. Other... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

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