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  • 2021
  • Book

Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective

By: Jaqueline Bhabha, Margareta Matache and Caroline M. Elkins
In this sweeping international perspective on reparations, Time for Reparations makes the case that past state injustice—be it slavery or colonization, forced sterilization or widespread atrocities—has enduring consequences that generate ongoing harm, which... View Details
Keywords: Reparations; Slavery; Colonization; Structural Racism; State Injustice
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    Geoffrey G. Jones

    Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. He holds degrees of BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, UK. He has an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration... View Details

    Keywords: banking; beauty products; construction; consumer products; energy; entertainment; fashion; financial services; food; food processing; green technology; petroleum; service industry
    • April 2023 (Revised April 2025)
    • Case

    Eike Batista: Making or Breaking Brazil

    By: Geoffrey Jones, Pedro Magalhães, Daniel Tong and Marcel Anduiza
    This case explores the meteoric rise and fall of Eike Batista, once Brazil’s richest person and the world’s seventh wealthiest in 2012. Batista began his career by investing in gold mining in the Amazon, using the network his father had built after years serving as... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; Brazil
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    • February 2018
    • Case

    Infrastructure in Nigeria: Unlocking Pension Fund Investments

    By: John Macomber and Pippa Tubman Armerding
    The so-called “infrastructure finance gap” was a problem in Nigeria as in many parts of the world. Infrastructure projects like power plants and dams were very large capital investments that could generate long-term consistent cash flows, but their financing and... View Details
    Keywords: Pension Fund Investing; Infrastucture; Power/Energy; Credit Enhancement; Infrastructure; Project Finance; Investment Funds; Emerging Markets; Nigeria; Africa
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    • March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
    • Case

    The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry

    By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio
    In Maseru, the capital of the Kingdom of Lesotho, the stirrings of industrialization and modernization were promising, and more than 50,000 workers, mostly women, were employed in the textile sector; the figure reflected more than a threefold increase in just a few... View Details
    Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Trade; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Financial Crisis; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Foreign Direct Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Lesotho
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    • 20 Sep 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    How Consumers Value Global Brands

    companies like Disney, McDonald's, Levi Strauss, and Jack Daniel's spun American myths for the rest of the world. But today's global myths have less to do with the American way of life. Further, no longer... View Details
    Keywords: by Douglas B. Holt, John A. Quelch & Earl L. Taylor
    • 18 Sep 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

    in the context of the first Great Migration (1915–1930), when 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to urban centers in the North, where 30 million Europeans had arrived since 1850. We test... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 29 Jun 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: June 29, 2007

    social entrepreneur," was born in 1963 and grew up in poverty, like virtually all non-white South Africans during apartheid. During the 1970s and 1980s, he served in leadership positions in the ANC, struggling against apartheid.... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace

      Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World

      A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.

      In the first decades after World War II, many newly... View Details
      • 2022
      • Book

      Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World

      By: Jeremy Friedman
      A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.

      In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent... View Details
      Keywords: Socialism; Economic Systems; Globalization; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies
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      • 31 Oct 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Why the Largest Minority Group Faces the Most Hate—and How to Push Back

      African Americans as immigration from Mexico expanded between 1960 and 2010. Hate crimes against African Americans dropped during that period and... View Details
      Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
      • Web

      Curriculum - Case Method Project

      1993 This case explores the history of redistricting and gerrymandering in the United States, with a particular focus on how redistricting has affected the voting strength of African American communities in... View Details
      • 11 Feb 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: February 11

      largest American investors in that country. His close relationship with Harry Oppenheimer, the head of the Anglo-American Corporation, gave him substantial influence within the South African business system.... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 11 Jun 2024
      • In Practice

      The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

      As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
      Keywords: by Avery Forman
      • Web

      HBS - Key Metrics

      Gender: Female 45% 46% 46% 44% 43% International Citizenship 39% 38% 37% 33% 35% US Race / Ethnicity 1 American Indian / Alaska Native 0% 0.2% 0% 0% 0% Asian 22% 24% 24% 19% 17% Black / African View Details
      • 20 Jun 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      Creating a Positive Professional Image

      situations, they choose to draw attention to a social identity, if they think it will benefit them personally or professionally. Even members of devalued social identity groups, such as African American... View Details
      Keywords: by Mallory Stark
      • 30 Sep 2019
      • Book

      6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

      Black Experience, co-edited by Mayo, University of Virginia Professor Laura Morgan Roberts, who is a visiting scholar at HBS, and David A. Thomas, president of Morehouse College and a former professor at HBS. “These African View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
      • Web

      Connect with Clubs - Recruiting

      Judson Asiruwa jasiruwa@mba2026.hbs.edu Website http://www.africa-hbsclub.com Club Email afbc@studentclubs.hbs.edu African American Student Union Co-Presidents Maria Curry mcurry@mba2026.hbs.edu Khalil... View Details
      • Web

      Skydeck - Alumni

      American education system Carbon's Second Act A startup employing nature's C02 recycling model—and the necessity of sweeping, speedy scaling Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains Scaling carbon capture in Southwest Wyoming Can We Really... View Details
      • 24 Oct 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

      might be a more significant issue than formerly considered, as the non-heterosexual population and anti-gay workplace-related sentiment are both larger than previously measured. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51547 forthcoming View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne