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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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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
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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- 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 in the statistical percentage of...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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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...
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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...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Christensen Center: Open for Business
evolution of teaching styles over time, and the role of gender and ethnicity in the classroom. Research findings will be used in interactive media materials developed and distributed by HBS Publishing. A natural teacher himself, Emmons’s...
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- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
being influenced by women, yet they weren’t paying attention to what women wanted.” Giving voice to those who aren’t always heard has been a hallmark of Lara’s career. Today, she works as the executive director at Lakeshore Ethnic...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
funding, Hofmann says. “We hear this a lot from founders in underserved communities. You don’t have to be networked on the West Coast to get an application to us.” Similar logic applies to racial and ethnic diversity. In May, Republic...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
me to succeed as a working woman in India than it is for many of my female counterparts elsewhere in the world. First, women in India are accepted as just another element in a diverse workforce consisting of many different ethnic and...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
I was fortunate the reservation didn't have a tribal high school. Graduating students were funneled into a much larger public school about 20 miles off the reservation, and I was suddenly in the majority ethnic population (white) and no...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as...
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- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
consulting firm could do.” Urgency and Long-Term Impact After being based in Barcelona for many years, Duch was happy to bring his family to Washington, DC, a city that he says offers “more racial, religious, and ethnic diversity and a...
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Deborah Blagg
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
to studying athletes of different ages, genders, and ethnicities to better understand the potential of the healthy human body and to improve knowledge of injury prevention and rehabilitation. The goal is to give people of all abilities...
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- 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,...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 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...
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Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
but I didn’t have an appreciation of all the ethnicities that exist in the world — Italian, Russian, Polish, the differences between various Hispanic cultures. That was fascinating.” Harris says she came to Harvard with the intention of...
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- 15 Apr 2017
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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...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
and animist south, on and off since the mid-1950s, has mostly ceased as a result of a peace agreement between rebels in the south and the Arab-dominated Khartoum government. But as the major powers squabble about what to do in Darfur, View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
accomplished executive Dr. Errol L. Pierre delivers a pragmatic and actionable guide to help underrepresented individuals from all ethnic backgrounds achieve their professional goals and elevate their careers in today’s virtual workplace....
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade
mainstream American beauty market, for example, increasingly reflected the country’s rapidly growing ethnic diversity. The nearly 80 million Hispanics, African Americans, and Asians recorded by the U.S. Census in 2000 had already reached...
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