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- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I...
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by Kathryn Haviland
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Tulsa Massacre | Information Technology
commentary from Regina Goodwin, an Oklahoma state representative and a descendant of massacre survivors, to recount the vibrancy of Tulsa’s Black Wall Street, revisit the atrocities of May 31 and June 1, 1921, and explore how historic...
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- Portrait Project
Mike Cohen
States in hopes of offering my sister and me an even better life and even more opportunity. In the notion of legacies, each generation tries to provide a better life for the next. But how do you follow such acts, when your starting point...
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Daniel Hong
business functions, but catching that last wave was well worth it. I relish shoveling the driveway because it makes me look like a hero to my wife and children. My sorrow for all of the injustices around me grows deeper and deeper. But my...
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Hayling Price
country, I see faces that look just like mine on the other side of the opportunity gap. It's an injustice I take personally. I'm going to invest in young people and the neighborhoods they call home, because I'm not leaving our collective...
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Eric Adamson
Homo Sapiens, the Anthropocene, Humanity: there is darkness within us. In my comfortable Californian childhood, I learned about distant injustices and atrocities. It felt unfair that I would grow up so softly in such a harsh world. So,...
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Karibu Nyaggah
will combat injustice through education and the private sector. With humility, I will build bridges connecting people to their dreams. With joy, I will harness creativity to reveal Beauty. America has been the staging ground. As it turns...
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Gordon C. Liao
situations of resistance never relying on someone else to correct the injustice but most of all i just want to have an opportunity to do this with all my effort, an endless spark and certainly with all of my heart
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Faya Peng
blessed me. I want to generously give my heart, resources, and abilities. I want to fight the injustices that I see, even though, at times, my actions may not appear to have widespread impact. I don't want my life — my career, my time,...
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Michael Worosz
to sit in these classrooms, listening to your perspectives and offering my own. Whether it was probing racial injustice in South Africa or restructuring Mexico's debt, I have come to see our worlds as inextricably linked that I might...
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Ripple Effect | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
management and strategic thinking tools in the social sector,” he recalls. In that class, however, Nicolette grappled much more deeply with the challenges and injustices faced by urban school districts in America. “That realization...
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- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Bringing Teachers to All of America
education system that work quite well. The real injustice and the real opportunity for improvement is in low-income districts and in high-poverty schools. That is where we're missing the mark and where we need to make the biggest...
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Tim Nicolette
the social sector. Does any particular class have special relevance for you? In my 1st year, I took Entrepreneurship in Education Reform—and it was transformative. In case after case, we saw systemic injustice in so many US cities, school...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
The high-profile deaths last year of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd were not the first tragic outcomes of racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
enrolled at Penn State where he majored in economics and took a couple of courses from Lawrence Fouraker, who was an economics professor there. “Fouraker wrote me a letter of recommendation to HBS while unbeknownst to me, he was about to...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Library Web site at www.library.hbs.edu/hc/daring/. Kudos for “American Odyssey” I wish to applaud you for the article “An American Odyssey” in the March issue. How Richard America has chosen to utilize his HBS education to address global social View Details
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 5/5
discredits the Black experience, I patiently wait until my heart rate slows down and I regain my composure before raising my hand. Unlike you, my comment in an emotional state will cause me to come off as an “angry black woman” and make...
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- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
When lawyers fare better than inventors and entrepreneurs where U.S. patents are concerned, you know injustice is being done. The current system makes patents easier to acquire, sure, but renders them less prestigious as well, and less...
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by Ann Cullen
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
HBS alumni have been actively engaged in responding to the racial and social injustice in their communities and around the world. Read their various efforts below: OCTOBER 20 In their new book A Blessing: Women of Color Teaming Up to...
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- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 4/5
other, and finally demand the communities, companies, and institutions that represent you also reflect on and act on their role in perpetuating or benefitting from racism. I grew up in Houston, TX, the most ethnically diverse city in the nation. Despite all of this...
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