Racism - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 15

scholars to devote more resources to obtaining a fundamental understanding of contemporary and future practice and how analytic tools and contemporary advances in accounting and related disciplines can be deployed to improve the professional practice of accounting.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

2017 Gender and Work Symposium. Ben’s mission is to use fashion to design a better world by celebrating diversity, disrupting gender norms and empowering differences. Hair Penalties and Other Organizational Sins: Racism Disguised as... View Details

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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth about Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations recently published by Penguin Random House. Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Advance Racial Equity in the Office

Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong Can you name a handful of measurable initiatives that your organization is actively pursuing to address racial inequities? If not, chances are good that third-degree View Details

18 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5

racism.” Or maybe this one: “Before reaching out to Black people, go through these 10 steps.” I find the full text scripts of what to say to your Black friends particularly funny. Jokes aside, these posts are highlighting the fact that the burden to fix systemic View Details

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Resources, and Respect" at the 2018 Gender and Work Symposium. Melissa E. Wooten is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She studies how the structure of race and racism influences... View Details

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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

served as a diversity consultant to scores of Fortune 500 companies, public-sector agencies, and non-profit organizations. He is the author of the book The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth about Racism Can Radically... View Details

06 Jul 2020
Blog Post

A Letter from the Women in Investing Club

has been fostered in this group, the bonds made are able to transcend physical proximity. While racism is nothing new in this country, much less the world of investing, as women of color, we recognize the importance of using our platform... View Details

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo and Ibram Kendi’s How to Be An Anti-Racist. I’ve been keen to re-read The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcom X, but can’t seem to find my copy as I think I... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

15 Jun 2021
News

HBS Addresses Racial Equity

our action plan, it begins with a clear position: “Harvard Business School rejects racism in all its forms, and anti-Black racism in particular, as wrong and fundamentally inconsistent with our mission and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

15 Jun 2021
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Diversifying HBS's Case Collection

initiative to hire and advance one million Black Americans during the next 10 years—may give HBS faculty additional case-writing opportunities. Sharing Scholarship Broadly HBS cases and related materials also have been written recently that examine historical aspects... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Racial Diversity Pays Off

the integration and learning perspective revealed an awareness that racism in personal life and work can and do interact, she said. Employees whose work groups adopted perspectives 1 or 2—neither of which encouraged learning from... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Jan 2000
Research & Ideas

Strategic Alliances

Timberland apparel called City Year Gear. Writes Austin, "Value statements like 'Give Racism a Boot' and 'Hike the Path to Justice' were associated with products such as backpacks and T-shirts that were marketed through Timberland's... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

19 Feb 2014
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Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

Evaluation, a paper published in 2011. “We know racism and sexism exist. The question is what can we do about it?” Parsons has made a habit of asking surprising questions about economic issues, looking at situations where small factors... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Information; Publishing

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Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity

complexity? Pipeline problems Max Bazerman on Reducing Discrimination Charlice Hurst on The Just Wage Tool The premise of our work is this core belief that racism and inequity are products of design. And, if they are products of design,... View Details

11 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

tremendous way for developers to learn quickly, and for both developers and technology companies to reap real benefits.” About the author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: gorodenkoff] Related Reading 6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

05 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Developing Black Talent for Leadership

College, and dozens of majority Black talent development organizations like Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), have prepared Black professionals to thrive in spite of covert and overt racism for decades. Although I'm a beneficiary... View Details

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

classic The Obstacle is the Way. I have also been ramping up my anti-racist readings, devouring White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo and Ibram Kendi’s How to Be An Anti-Racist. I’ve... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

11 May 2021
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Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020)

interesting there that has connections with race and racism as well. I'm thinking a lot about the responsibility of a place like HBS to ensure that students from lower income backgrounds are able to experience genuine social mobility—of... View Details

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Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting

addressing institutional racism has many people focusing on what can be done—as individuals and as employers—to improve diversity, inclusion, and understanding in an organization. Below are several resources and recommendations from... View Details

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