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- 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...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
happened” across the city along racial and ethnic lines. In the early 20th century, Baltimore pioneered the use of racially discriminatory housing ordinances and deed covenants that prevented Blacks, Jews, and other minorities from buying...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons
national training program geared toward recent college graduates. He was eventually placed as a mathematics teacher at Jersey City, New Jersey’s Liberty High, an ethnically diverse high school for students who have struggled in...
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- 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 underrepresented in business schools...
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- 18 May 2016
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What Does the American Dream Mean in Today’s America?
boundless compassion, unique talents and selfless generosity; all while maintaining the traditions of their ethnic heritage as they uphold the ideals and spirit of America.” Navab wrote about the honor on KKR’s blog, reflecting on his...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Made in the USA
collective expertise of generations of Wisconsin cheese makers and dairy farmers in the burgeoning US market for ethnic cheeses. “Ethnic cheese wasn’t huge in Wisconsin when we launched the Specialty Cheese Company,” he notes, “but you...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A taste of home leads to jobs creation and community improvements
In a small, undercapitalized cheese manufacturing operation in rural Wisconsin, Paul Scharfman (AB 1976, MBA 1979) saw the opportunity to develop a variety of specialty cheeses that would appeal to the palates of the growing population of View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
always been proud of maintaining my ethnic identity while also being a part of the broader community.” Rogers likes to say that he put an end to the cycle of welfare in his family, and he is quick to emphasize that he did not do it alone....
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- 23 Aug 2020
- News
In the UK, She Leads the Search for a COVID Vaccine
she said. “Vaccine hesitancy is something we need to address, especially in ethnic minority communities who tend not to sign up for vaccine trials. So that’s been a big push in what we’ve been doing with the vaccine registry.” READ MORE
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- 18 Feb 2021
- News
Jumping In, Fighting Bias
to leadership roles at Quidsi, Jet.com, and Walmart. “My gender, ethnicity and faith compelled me to be ambitious in a way that I don’t know if I otherwise would have been,” Balbale told the Wall Street Journal. Last June, Balbale left...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
sending countries. What are the inbound effects of high-skill immigration for the United States? Legal immigrants represent about 14 or 15 percent of the workforce, but our studies of patent data show that ethnic names [primarily Indian...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Research Brief: Pocket Change
Illustration by Jim Frazier Women and ethnic minorities donate small amounts of money to political candidates in ways that have helped to democratize the American electoral process, suggests Associate Professor Vincent Pons. In his “Small Campaign Donors” paper, Pons...
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Jill Radsken
- 28 May 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic
woman who is also ethnic Chinese, many in Indonesia would consider me a triple minority.” Time stamp: “I became pregnant with my fourth child after my first year at OPM. I wasn’t sure if I would come back but my husband said, ‘If you...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
and national, intertwined with racial or ethnic identities and loyalties. Certainly not the “universal civilization,” united by a sense of the sacred, it once was. Why did this come to be? Allawi points to a lack of political, religious,...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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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 environments,” says Oteh, who served for...
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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 groups spread...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Donors Invest in Students’ Future
research in Kenya’s Kibera slum, the largest in Africa. Today, Carolina for Kibera runs a clinic that treats more than 30,000 patients a year as well as a number of programs to ease ethnic tension and educate young leaders. “HBS has left...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
Sanford Climan (MBA/MS 1979) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Sanford Climan (MBA/MS 1979) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I grew up in the northeast part of the Bronx. There was no internet, so how did you learn about the world? If you had any resources in my...
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- 20 Jan 2011
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A Precursor from the 1930s
In his State of the School address at last fall’s reunion, Dean Nohria laid out his vision for HBS organized in what we can call the Five I’s: curriculum innovation, intellectual ambition, internationalization, inclusion (making the HBS experience more of a level...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
uneducated, and ill-equipped population; and exhausted resources. The military leaders considered the daunting prospects of simmering border and ethnic instability, continued castigation, an imprisoned and widely revered charismatic...
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