Equity Issues - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Oct 2020
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related story]. To support this work, we have created new processes and systems that will enable us to track protagonist demographics for all of our new cases. The plan also includes developing courses exploring racial equity View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

18 Sep 2017
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Private Equity for Cheapskates Like You

02 Nov 2021
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The Road to Racial Equity

and expand the leadership pipeline. Employers play an important role in moving the needle on racial equity, Rice says. MLT is helping that effort with the creation a first-of-its kind certification program called the MLT Black Equity at... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

06 Nov 2022
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Antisemitic Threats Spotlight America’s Issue with Hate

04 Aug 2020
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How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

focused on the issue of racial equity, but what are some of the key factors that will determine whether businesses can continue to make good on commitments like the Business for Racial Equity Pledge... View Details

23 Sep 2020
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HBS Action Plan for Racial Equity

This week, Dean Nohria shared the School’s Action Plan for Racial Equity in a letter to the HBS community. “The horrifying murder of George Floyd, and an all too long history of similar injustices, has spurred our collective awakening to... View Details

18 Dec 2020
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Progress Update on Racial Equity Plan

This week, HBS offered a progress update on its Racial Equity Plan—a seven-part action plan developed by the Dean’s Anti-Racism Task Force and released in September. In the past three months, the School’s progress has included launching a... View Details

28 Oct 2021
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Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

access capital. “We wrote this case because it not only tells a particular story of two student leaders effecting change,” says Bussgang, a Senior Lecturer at HBS and managing partner at the VC firm, Flybridge. “But it also speaks to larger systemic View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

18 Jun 2022
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Using Our Business Leadership to Advance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

08 May 2015
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A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks

Capital requirements for banks, which govern the ratio of equity to debt, have come under greater scrutiny in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. A central question is how these requirements affect banks’ overall cost of capital, or... View Details

02 Dec 2020
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A New Case at Harvard Business School Highlights the Real-World Issues for Latinx Considering an MBA

01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea