Minorities - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Dec 2015
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Living the Legacy

Indiana University in Bloomington majoring in computer science with minors in business and math. As his interests in business crystallized, he realized he couldn’t switch to a business major and still graduate in time. “I knew HBX CORe... View Details

01 Dec 2006
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2006 MBAs Go to Work

“We encourage them to give function a high priority because it’s been shown to result in the highest career satisfaction from a long-term perspective. The numbers show that our message is being taken to heart.” Class of 2008 Class Size 907 Yield 90.8% Women 35% View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Mar 2021
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Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy

Press, proposes that entrepreneurial thinking will be the key to government’s ability to solve big problems (written by Professor of Management Practice and Richard L. Menschel Faculty Fellow Mitchell B. Weiss). Scaling Minority... View Details

18 Dec 2020
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Progress Update on Racial Equity Plan

updating future MBA financial aid evaluations to consider a student’s socioeconomic background; and the creation of a new, custom multi-year Executive Education program to develop underrepresented/unrecognized minority leaders. The... View Details

24 Mar 2021
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Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education

program’s 2020 annual report sums it up best: “Many nonprofits serve minorities in their communities, and the Black Lives Matter movement galvanized a fresh look at who and how they serve clients who need help. We at Community Partners... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2002
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SVMP a High-Energy Success

management-training session for talented minority college students, completed its sixteenth season in June. This year's class consisted of 77 participants from 53 colleges, with many of the students drawn from smaller state and community... View Details

29 Jan 2021
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Holding Business to Account

the naming rights to the team’s Maryland stadium and, in 2003, FedEx’s CEO became a minority owner in the team. In protest of the shipping-services giant’s involvement with the football team, a group of impact investors—including the... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

into Moss’s analysis and recommendations. Warren and two Democrats embraced Moss’s views on the need for a systemic risk regulator. But the two Republican members issued a dissenting minority report. The partisan clash of views... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

05 Oct 2022
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Inside the Chip Shortage

Chosun. Shibata cites the shortage of minor chips that are used in peripherals, not the lack of key semiconductors, as the main issue. “Until now, computing capabilities were only necessary in computers and smartphones, but from now on,... View Details

Keywords: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Oct 1997
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Short Takes

to several common organizational problems. For example, they examine how a majority group's perception that a minority group or individual is performing poorly can mushroom into a self-fulfilling cycle of negativity. Discouraged at being... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Ronald P. Mitchell

managing partner is an African American, and that's important to me," Mitchell says. "Forming our own enterprises is key to helping minorities get to the next level." View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Shari P. Hubert

copresident of the African American Student Union (AASU), as a panel chair at the 1999 HBS Entrepreneurship Conference, and as a member of the Finance and Management Consulting clubs. She has also worked with the Admissions Office and the Women's Student Association to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2004
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Life Lessons

expose minority youngsters to the same opportunities I had,” he explains. At HBS, Sundy has served his classmates as cochair of the Leadership and Values Initiative. “I believe in empowering people by involving them,” he says. “That means... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2024
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The Exchange: Chance Encounters

world. The more I research it, the more convinced I am that, at an individual level, we will choose a 3D-internet world over the physical world, particularly in any instance where there’s a minor inconvenience to being in person—whether... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2022
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Road to Recovery

digital therapeutics (app-based programs designed to improve health outcomes), he did not fully appreciate the bureaucratic hurdles the company would face. Developing the technology and processes to administer a contingency management program were relatively View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Apr 2001
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Beyond Accommodation

the great equalizer,” says Gibbons, who himself makes use of voice-recognition software on his PC and a portable, computerized organizer that uses a Braille-audio interface. The challenge, he observes, is convincing employers that with View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; AT&T; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

24 Oct 2013
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Engineering a More Secure World

Purdue University in the early 1970s, Harris saw lots of classmates veer down the wrong path. Seeing the high failure rate among minority students, he joined a campus group of black engineers, where, he says, "Our entire objective was to... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

06 Mar 2017
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Leading in the Community and the Boardroom

for you,” says Wiley, who served for 15 years as president and CEO of the Partnership, a nonprofit talent management organization for minority professionals in greater Boston. “I want to grow and contribute to a professional organization,... View Details

01 Dec 2004
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Comings and Goings

2006 Class Size 895 Women 34% International 32% Minorities 21% Median Age 27 Total Countries 67 Undergraduate Majors Humanities and Social Sciences 38% Business Administration 24% Engineering 21% Natural Sciences 8% Other 9% Class of 2004... View Details