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2014 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
University of Illinois Value Threat: How Concerns With Being Seen as a Valued Group Member Affect Women's Preference For Female Candidates Leah D. Sheppard , Sauder School of Business at University of British Columbia Prescriptions for Female Solidarity View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The power to change nuclear waste into cost-efficient energy
Entrepreneur Russell Wilcox (AB 1989, MBA 1995) envisions creating clean energy from the world’s stockpiles of nuclear waste at a price cheaper than coal. He is building Transatomic Power, a startup based on innovative MIT technology that converts spent nuclear fuel to... View Details
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
Two years have passed since more than 700,000 Rohingya people fled a bloody ethnic cleansing campaign in Myanmar and created the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh. But not much has changed since... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In the Driver's Seat
NASCAR racing is one of the more popular spectator sports in the country, but it's a tight little fraternity that's tough to join and expensive to belong to — maintaining a competitive team costs about $15... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
protection and mimicking and changes in crime victimization. Our findings are consistent with the presence of a negative externality on the poor arising from the protection expenditures of the rich. Seeing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 1999
- Chapter
Beyond the Simple Demography-Power Hypothesis: How Blacks in Power Influence Whites to Mentors Blacks
By: D. A. Thomas
Thomas, D. A. "Beyond the Simple Demography-Power Hypothesis: How Blacks in Power Influence Whites to Mentors Blacks." In Mentoring Dilemmas: Developmental Relationships within Multicultural Organizations, edited by A. Murrell, F. Crosby, and R. Ely. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999.
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
that prides itself on diversity - more than a third of MBA students are women, a third are international, and roughly a quarter are ethnic minorities - HBS can also be a difficult place for these groups to... View Details
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
standards. A second fire kills a suburban dad who filled his lawn mower with gas too close to a recently tossed cigarette; the fire raced up the flow of gas and into the can, which exploded. Who is to blame... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
and national, intertwined with racial or ethnic identities and loyalties. Certainly not the “universal civilization,” united by a sense of the sacred, it once was. Why did this... View Details
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Living in Boston | MBA
and make your way to Central Square, home to every imaginable ethnic cuisine. Walk the Freedom Trail and Beacon Hill's cobblestone lanes to see how Boston looked during the... View Details
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Student Life | MBA
student clubs. Clubs & Associations Community A truly diverse student body is the foundation of the HBS experience: interaction inside and outside the classroom is enriched by classmates representing a variety of industries, countries,... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
national identity is a collective identity of a particular kind: an identity shared among a population and shaped by historical memory and cultural symbols. National identity can include components of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
Who those leaders are has changed dramatically over the past generation, from a largely white, male, domestic student body to one today that is 38 percent female, 27 percent ethnic minorities, and 33 percent... View Details
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Michael Lage
in yet another MarioKart race in his hospital room. Or the gleam in his eye when he told me he was going to beat me in the race to Heaven. He did. And though Tim lost his life,... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- News
Curing Parkinson’s Disease
HBS alumni Jonathan Solomon and Hampus Hillerstrom (both MBA 2007) play an important role in Jon Palfreman’s recent book Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson’s Disease. As the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
@Soldiers Field
HISTORY In February, New York Times staff writer Nikole Hannah-Jones spoke about her 1619 project in Klarman Hall Auditorium. The event, which included a panel on the connections between history and present-day View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
gridlock trapping a Formula 1 race car. Blockchain promises to solve this problem. The technology behind bitcoin, blockchain is an open, distributed ledger that records transactions safely, permanently and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
AndrewsHarvard Business School Case 812-004 Toward the end of 2010, companies in the gene sequencing industry were pushing aggressive R&D programs to develop technologies and products in the race to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
me to succeed as a working woman in India than it is for many of my female counterparts elsewhere in the world. First, women in India are accepted as just another element in a diverse workforce consisting of many different ethnic View Details
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
high-throughput genome engineering capabilities[v] that enable dramatically faster genetic innovation. Coupled with the discovery of extremely fast-growing photosynthetic microalgae and racing against a... View Details