Filter Results:
(257)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (257)
- Faculty Publications (13)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (257)
- Faculty Publications (13)
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
opportunities, housing, and access to capital. It found, for example, that low-income whites were twice as likely to be approved for loans as Native or African Americans with higher incomes. The task force's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
distinguished thirty-year career at HBS. An Arkansas native who began his education in a two-room schoolhouse, Stobaugh entered Louisiana State University at 15 and earned his bachelor's degree in 1947. He then spent eighteen years... View Details
- Web
2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
best feminist book on American popular culture. Margaret’s focus on the midlife (in Safe at Last in the Middle Years and Declining to Decline ) has expanded into the field of Age Studies, now institutionalized in two international... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
middle class, and the fact that India's film industry sold 3.2 billion tickets in 2009. “Movie piracy in India is rampant—you can get one online the day after a release” Harvard Business School Associate Professor Lakshmi Iyer, a native... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
Education participants who took his courses. "Jai cared greatly about what students learned, and it showed every time he entered the classroom," commented HBS professor Roy Shapiro. "He set high standards. His students loved him." A View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
though, may evolve into journal articles, books, or be used to feed broader research in which Latin American entities play a key role. According to HBS Professor Herminia Ibarra, who moderated the series of presentations by HBS faculty on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the PRIDE Club
Washington, DC and London offices, where he worked in the aerospace & defense and retail practices. A native of New Rochelle, New York, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015 with a B.A. in Near Eastern Languages and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Meditations on the Bottom Line
growth by pursuing activities such as meditation and Native American spirituality. "Eventually," she says, "I started looking for a professional avenue that would allow me to express my spiritual values in... View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
Greg Jarzabek (PLD 21, 2016) was living in London and working in finance when his mother was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in her native Poland. Jarzabek wanted to reach out to doctors around the world to review and discuss... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
focused on matters of race in America, with an additional 50 in development. Faculty members also have completed more than 90 cases (plus 20 still in process) featuring protagonists who are Latinx/Hispanic, Asian or Asian American/Pacific Islander, or View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
actually was in Pamplona for the Running of the Bulls. "I slipped. I had climbed to the top of a tall wall, and I just plummeted and hit my head." Perez de Leza was 25 at the time, a native of Madrid taking an extended summer vacation... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
other minorities on corporate boards? A: It's no revelation that US companies are not doing very well in this regard. Even if a company has a woman and an African American on its board, what about an Hispanic or an Asian or a View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
Schrier. Interviews with potential advisees helped the cofounders create a viable business model. The Equity Network would be a mentor marketplace to give the next generation of Black, Latinx, and Native View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
those classes,” she says. A return to consulting, for marketing firm Mavens & Moguls—run by her sister-in-law, Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)—led Ruhr to join the volunteer board of the American Refugee Committee (ARC). Eventually she became... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
Debates over the pluses and minuses of immigrant entrepreneurs on the American economy are white hot, but one thing seems stubbornly lacking from them: facts. The arguments are familiar by now. Immigrants take jobs from native-born... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
A native of rural Chehalis, Washington, Orin C. Smith (MBA '67) was an EVP for Danzas, an international freight shipping company, when Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz approached him in 1990 to join the fledgling company. Schultz, Smith... View Details
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
Fisher, Jurvetson, can serve as an example. In 1995 he and his partners heard a proposal from two coworkers who aspired to be entrepreneurs, Sabeer Bhatia, a native of India, and Jack Smith. Though lacking any entrepreneurial experience,... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
someone else has run away with the whole market." Venkatesan points to Apple, which waited for better distribution systems in India before it established its presence. "But Samsung didn't wait, and has the whole market now." The book, he says, is a "wake-up call to... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
experiences and internships around the world. While in Boston, Shibayama became close with some Boston University students and was surprised by the prominence of the liberal arts at American universities, which was not the case in Japan.... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman