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- 31 Oct 2015
- News
Social networks, ethnicity and entrepreneurship
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons
The first in a series of occasional articles on HBS graduates who have embarked on second careers. Just a few months removed from Wall Street, where he commanded a workforce of six thousand seasoned financial services pros, Richard S. Pechter (MBA ’69) stood before an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
MBA Material
impact they could have as business leaders. The students, nominated by sponsoring organizations, are often the first in their families to attend college or are from racial and ethnic groups that are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
Steven Rogers (MBA 1985) Before his 14th birthday, Steven Rogers (MBA '85) was already learning a lot about business. He had delivered newspapers and milk in his Southside Chicago neighborhood, bused tables at a downtown hotel, distributed dentures for a View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic
my own.” Kamdani integrated all the businesses into the newly named Sintesa Group (“sintesa” translates to “synergy” in Indonesian) and shook up the organizational structure, establishing an executive committee and shifting from a family... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
different ethnic groups in the country’s north, along with Indian, Chinese, European, and American expats. “My early exposure to people from diverse backgrounds is probably the reason I enjoy such... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
innovation and entrepreneurship. She is also cofounder and executive director of KDDC, a 30-megawatt hydropower dam—one of the first to be privatized in the country. She says her knowledge of Nigeria, which has 250 ethnic View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
On the Outside at HBS
third are international, and roughly a quarter are ethnic minorities — the School can be a difficult place for these groups to thrive. To its credit, HBS understands that the real value of diversity is not... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Christensen Center: Open for Business
shed light on ways to improve teaching. The center will offer a range of services to help faculty improve their teaching skills, including one-on-one coaching sessions, seminars on particular classroom challenges, group workshops, and... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
In the early 1990s, Gloria Lara (MBA 1983) found herself in a debate with five male engineers on Chrysler’s development floor as they tossed around the idea of two sliding doors for the minivan, as opposed to only one on the right-hand side. The men in the Chrysler... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
said. Already a global thought leader, the School should strive to enhance that position in the years ahead, he added. 4. Inclusion For a school that prides itself on diversity — more than a third of MBA students are women, a third are international, and roughly a... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
indicates that the number of Latinx businesses getting started is astounding,” says Perez. He adds that, according to the report, the Latinx community is among the most entrepreneurial segments of the US population, starting more businesses per capita than any other... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
countless studies have shown that résumé reviewers often exhibit bias—consciously or unconsciously—against women and minorities, Pymetrics’s matches arrive without any demographic data. “And there are no known gender or ethnic biases in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
development of certain industries coincided with my interest in exploring how local governments can create environments that are favorable to the development of particular businesses.” After HBS, Duch worked in Spain’s Basque country for Porter’s Monitor View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
approach to evaluating job candidates is virtually bias-free when compared with traditional methods: Men and women perform almost identically on the game-based assessments, with only minute variations occurring across racial and ethnic... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
outside of Nairobi, studying ethnic violence. His experience there prompted him to found a non-governmental organization, Carolina for Kibera, and he wrote about it in the book It Happened on the Way to War. After his military service,... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
links between gender and ethnic diversity and profit, finding that “companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on their executive teams were 21 percent more likely to experience above-average profitability than companies in the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
ahead. But they had virtually no experience in the roles of government and private sector in creating a dynamic economy. Putting Myanmar in perspective, it's the size of Texas, and it has a population of 54 million-- same as California and New York combined. There were... View Details