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- September 7, 2020
- Harvard Business Review Digital Articles
Remote Networking as a Person of Color
By: Laura Morgan Roberts and Anthony J. Mayo
| In remote work situations, where people cannot rely on impromptu elevator conversations or water cooler chats with coworkers, the answer isn’t to turn inward. In fact, the need for networking is even more important. In particular, our interactions with people whose... |
- July 2020 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
Rosalind Fox at John Deere
By: Anthony Mayo and Olivia Hull
| Rosalind Fox, the factory manager at John Deere’s Des Moines, Iowa plant, has improved the financial standing of the factory in the three years she’s been at its helm. But employee engagement scores—which measured employees’ satisfaction with working conditions and... |
- Harvard Business Review (website)
Toward a Racially Just Workplace: Diversity Efforts are Failing Black Employees. Here's a Better Approach
By: Laura Morgan Roberts and Anthony Mayo
- Harvard Business Review (website)
Success Comes From Affirming Your Potential
By: Laura Morgan Roberts and Anthony Mayo
- 2019
- Book
Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience
By: Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo and David A. Thomas
| Race, Work, and Leadership is a rare and important compilation of essays that examines how race matters in people’s experience of work and leadership. What does it mean to be black in corporate America today? How are racial dynamics in organizations changing? How do we... |
- 2019
- Book Chapter
Why a Chapter on Race, Work, and Leadership?
By: Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo and Serenity Lee
| In this chapter, Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo, and Serenity Lee outline the rationale for the publication of an edited volume on race, work, and leadership that is squarely focused on the black experience. |
- 2019
- Book Chapter
Pathways to Leadership: Black Graduates of Harvard Business School
By: Anthony J. Mayo and Laura Morgan Roberts
| In chapter 3, “Pathways to Leadership,” Anthony J. Mayo and Laura Morgan Roberts present a portrait of the backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of black alumni of the HBS MBA program. With this study, HBS has allowed itself to be exposed in a way that other... |
- 2019
- Book Chapter
Conclusion—Intersections of Race, Work, and Leadership: Lessons in Advancing Black Leaders
By: Laura Morgan Roberts and Anthony J. Mayo
| In chapter 23, the concluding chapter of Race, Work, and Leadership, “Intersections of Race, Work, and Leadership,” Roberts and Mayo provide insights for understanding and enhancing the black experience. In addition, the editors summarize a series of recommendations... |
- Harvard Business Review
Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women
| Any list of top CEOs reveals a stunning lack of diversity. Among the leaders of Fortune 500 companies, for example, just 32 are women, three are African-American, and not one is an African-American woman. What’s going on? The authors studied the careers of the roughly... |
- October 2015 (Revised September 2016)
- Case
The Transformation of Mudo
By: Anthony J. Mayo, Esel Çekin and Çiğdem Çelik
| After 16 years in management consulting, Barış Karakullukçu left to become the CEO of Mudo in 2012, one of the best-known names in Turkey's retail industry. She was tasked with leading Mudo's transition from a family business to a more institutionalized, corporate... |