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  • March 2005 (Revised April 2007)
  • Case

Oprah!

By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean
Oprah Winfrey believed in sharing the experiences that shaped her development and enabled her to become the wealthiest women in the entertainment industry and first African American billionaire. Traces her childhood and entertainment career, drawing connections in... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Wealth; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Biography; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 21 Jul 2020
  • News

Starbucks Commits to Raising Awareness of Racial Bias

  • 2017
  • Interviews

Laura Morgan Roberts (2)

  • December 1994 (Revised February 1995)
  • Case

Anne Livingston and Power Max Systems (A): Interviewing with the PowerPlayer Software Engineering Team

Follows the entry and early experiences of engineer Anne Livingston, an African American woman, as she joins Power Max Systems in 1991 as software engineering manager for the new product development group. Power Max is facing stiff competition and wants to be first to... View Details
Keywords: Race; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Culture; Gender; Information Technology Industry
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  • 31 Jan 2023
  • Cold Call Podcast

Addressing Racial Discrimination on Airbnb

Keywords: Web Services
  • 09 May 2018
  • News

4 Ways Women Can Break Barriers by Breaking the Rules

  • 02 Feb 2018
  • Video

HBX Live Case Discussion w/ Professor Steven Rogers

  • 2017
  • Interviews

Laura Morgan Roberts (1)

  • 2017
  • Interrogating Authenticity

Moments of Truth? Authentic Encounters with Realistic Identities

  • 13 Apr 2021
  • Blog Post

2021 48th Annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference Honors Black Women Leaders

“Good morning!” welcomed Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA 1969) in her address to the African American Student Union’s (AASU) 48th Annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference on February 27, 2021. The conference was... View Details

    Kym Lew Nelson

    Kym Lew Nelson joined the NOM unit of the Harvard Business School as a Visiting Lecturer in January of 2020. In July of 2020, she became a Senior Lecturer in the Negotiations unit. Prior to joining the faculty, Kym was a guest lecturer in the Negotiations class at... View Details

    • 01 Dec 2018
    • News

    Diversity and Diminishing Tax Revenues

    • 31 Jan 2011
    • News

    Texas Christian University honors James I. Cash Jr.

    • Article

    From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration

    By: Vasiliki Fouka, Soumyajit Mazumder and Marco Tabellini
    How does the arrival of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration. Between 1915 and 1930, 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to Northern... View Details
    Keywords: Assimilation; Great Migration; Group Identity; Immigration; Race; History; United States
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      Caroline M. Elkins

      Caroline Elkins is the Thomas Henry Carroll/Ford Foundation Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government and International Economy unit at HBS. She is also Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, an... View Details

      • 14 Jun 2022
      • Cold Call Podcast

      What Does It Take to Close the Opportunity Gap in America’s Labor Market?

      Keywords: Re: V. Kasturi Rangan
      • Forthcoming
      • Article

      Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act

      By: Andrea Bernini, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini and Cecilia Testa
      How did southern whites respond to the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA)? Leveraging newly digitized data on county-level voter registration by race between 1956 and 1980, and exploiting pre-determined variation in exposure to the federal intervention, we document that... View Details
      Keywords: Government Legislation; Race; Behavior; Voting; Prejudice and Bias
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      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration

      By: Vasiliki Fouka, Soumyajit Mazumder and Marco Tabellini
      How does the arrival of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration. Between 1915 and 1930, 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to Northern... View Details
      Keywords: Assimilation; Great Migration; Group Identity; Immigration; Race; History; United States
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      • June 2013 (Revised November 2016)
      • Case

      Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Elliot R. Benton
      This case considers the strategies of Charles W. Engelhard, an American mining magnate who made large investments in apartheid-era South Africa. Engelhard was widely believed to have been the model for the James Bond villan Auric Goldfinger. During the 1950s and 1960s... View Details
      Keywords: Political Economy; Business History; FDI; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; South Africa; Mining; Ethics; Globalization; Government and Politics; History; Mining Industry; Africa; South Africa
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      • January 2018
      • Case

      John Rogers, Jr.—Ariel Investments Co.

      By: Steven Rogers and Greg White
      John Rogers Jr., the founder and CEO of Ariel Investments, an enormously successful finance firm with $12 billion of invested capital, is one of the few African Americans in the asset management industry. As one of the high profile leaders in the black business... View Details
      Keywords: Advocacy; Diversity; Investment Management; Affirmative Action; Disruption; Cost vs Benefits; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Problems and Challenges; Financial Services Industry; Chicago
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