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      Selected HBS Resources on African Americans in Business | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
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      • March 2021
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      The U.S. Home Improvement Sector in 2020

      By: Jose Alvarez and David Lane
      Provides an overview of the U.S. home improvement sector in 2020, reviewing sources of growth in the decade ending in 2020, with special attention to the impact of Covid-19 on market leaders Home Depot and Lowe’s and the spike in online revenues for both. Also noted...  View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Trends; Leading Change; Operations; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Performance; Technology; Construction Industry; United States
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      Alvarez, Jose, and David Lane. "The U.S. Home Improvement Sector in 2020." Harvard Business School Case 521-032, March 2021.
      • September 2020 (Revised November 2020)
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      Student Success at Georgia State University (A)

      By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
      Georgia State University had developed a reputation for driving student success by nearly doubling its graduation rate for students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. It did so while growing its student body and the proportion of Black/African...  View Details
      Keywords: Education; Higher Education; Learning; Curriculum And Courses; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Income; Race; Leadership; Goals And Objectives; Measurement And Metrics; Operations; Organizations; Mission And Purpose; Organizational Culture; Outcome Or Result; Performance; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation; Service Operations; Performance Improvement; Planning; Strategic Planning; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Wealth And Poverty; Equality And Inequality; Technology; Technology Platform; Education Industry; Atlanta
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      Toffel, Michael W., Robin Mendelson, and Julia Kelley. "Student Success at Georgia State University (A)." Harvard Business School Case 621-006, September 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
      • July 2020
      • Case

      Amanda and Kristen: Mented Cosmetics

      By: Steven Rogers, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Alterrell Mills
      The co-founders (Black HBS alumnae) of an e-commerce beauty startup explore the unmet needs within the beauty industry. This case study examines the entrepreneurial opportunities that come from identifying an underserved market, specifically within the Black community...  View Details
      Keywords: Brands And Branding; Competition; Customers; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Distribution Channels; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Macroeconomics; Marketing; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Mission And Purpose; Organizational Culture; Product Design; Product Development; Product Positioning; Sales; Social Issues; Social Marketing; Business Startups; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Venture Capital; Advertising Industry; Public Relations Industry; Chemical Industry; Beauty And Cosmetics Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; North And Central America; United States; New York (city, Ny); New York (state, Us)
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      Rogers, Steven, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and Alterrell Mills. "Amanda and Kristen: Mented Cosmetics." Harvard Business School Case 321-002, July 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Discrimination, Disenfranchisement and African American WWII Military Enlistment

      By: Nancy Qian and Marco Tabellini
      This paper documents that disenfranchisement and discrimination discouraged WWII volunteer military participation of African American men, relative to Caucasian men, after the Pearl Harbor attack. The race-gap in volunteer enlistment is most pronounced in regions where...  View Details
      Keywords: World War Ii; Race; Military Enlistment; War; Race; Prejudice And Bias; United States
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      Qian, Nancy, and Marco Tabellini. "Discrimination, Disenfranchisement and African American WWII Military Enlistment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-005, July 2020. (Revised August 2020. Available also from KelloggInsight.)
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Changing In-group Boundaries: The Role of New Immigrant Waves in the U.S.

      By: Vasiliki Fouka, Shom Mazumder and Marco Tabellini
      How do social group boundaries evolve? Does the appearance of a new out-group change the in-group’s perceptions of other out-groups? We introduce a conceptual framework of context-dependent categorization, in which exposure to one minority leads to recategorization of...  View Details
      Keywords: In-group-out-group Relations; Immigration; Race; Attitudes; Boundaries; Prejudice And Bias
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      Fouka, Vasiliki, Shom Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini. "Changing In-group Boundaries: The Role of New Immigrant Waves in the U.S." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-100, March 2020. (Revise and resubmit at American Political Science Review.)
      • November 2019 (Revised February 2020)
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      Starbucks: Reaffirming Commitment to the Third Place Ideal

      By: Francesca Gino, Katherine B. Coffman and Jeff Huizinga
      On April 12, 2018, two African American entrepreneurs had scheduled a business meeting at a Starbucks in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square neighborhood. They sat without ordering, waiting for a local businessman to show up for the meeting. The store manager called 911...  View Details
      Keywords: Mission And Purpose; Values And Beliefs; Prejudice And Bias; Crisis Management; Employees; Training
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      Gino, Francesca, Katherine B. Coffman, and Jeff Huizinga. "Starbucks: Reaffirming Commitment to the Third Place Ideal." Harvard Business School Case 920-016, November 2019. (Revised February 2020.)
      • September 2019 (Revised June 2020)
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      African American Inequality in the United States

      By: Janice H. Hammond, A. Kamau Massey and Mayra G. Garza
      This note describes how historical and on-going policies and practices that discriminate against African Americans led to present-day inequality. Topics include slavery, segregation, Jim Crow laws, “black codes,” and policies and practices relating to criminal justice,...  View Details
      Keywords: African Americans; Justice; Slavery; Discrimination; Race; Equality And Inequality; Prejudice And Bias; Policy; History; United States
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      Hammond, Janice H., A. Kamau Massey, and Mayra G. Garza. "African American Inequality in the United States." Harvard Business School Background Note 620-046, September 2019. (Revised June 2020.)
      • 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?...  View Details
      Keywords: Race And Ethnicity; Diversity Management; Inclusion; Leader Selection; Race; Ethnicity; Diversity; Leadership; Leadership Development; Employment
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      Roberts, Laura Morgan, Anthony J. Mayo, and David A. Thomas, eds. Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2019.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Racial Diversity, Electoral Preferences, and the Supply of Policy: The Great Migration and Civil Rights

      By: Alvaro Calderon, Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
      Between 1940 and 1970 more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized...  View Details
      Keywords: Civil Rights; Great Migration; Race; Diversity; Demographics; Rights; Government Legislation
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      Calderon, Alvaro, Vasiliki Fouka, and Marco Tabellini. "Racial Diversity, Electoral Preferences, and the Supply of Policy: The Great Migration and Civil Rights." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-017, August 2019. (Revised February 2021. Available also from VOX and in Broadstreet.)
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration

      By: Vasiliki Fouka, Soumyajit Mazumder and Marco Tabellini
      How does the appearance of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration. Between 1915 and 1930, 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to...  View Details
      Keywords: Assimilation; Great Migration; Group Identity; Immigration; Race; History; United States
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      Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini. "From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-018, August 2018. (Revised October 2020. Accepted at Review of Economic Studies. Also appears in VoxEU, The New York Times, Broadstreet and in the Skepticast.)
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Racial Heterogeneity and Local Government Finances: Evidence from the Great Migration

      By: Marco Tabellini
      Between 1915 and 1930, during the First Great Migration, more than 1.5 million African Americans migrated from the South to the North of the United States, altering the racial profile of several northern cities for the first time in American history. I exploit this...  View Details
      Keywords: Migration; Race; City; Financial Condition; Government And Politics; History; United States
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      Tabellini, Marco. "Racial Heterogeneity and Local Government Finances: Evidence from the Great Migration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-006, July 2018. (Revised September 2019. Featured in Harvard Magazine.)
      • 2018
      • Working Paper

      Black Out-Migration and Southern Political Realignment

      By: Leah Boustan and Marco Tabellini
      Can emigration from less democratic and economically less developed areas induce political and economic change? We study this question in the context of the second Great Migration of African Americans (1940–1970), when more than 4 million blacks left the U.S. South and...  View Details
      Keywords: Great Migration; Immigration; Race; Government And Politics; Economics; United States
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      Boustan, Leah, and Marco Tabellini. "Black Out-Migration and Southern Political Realignment." Working Paper, 2018.
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      Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women

      By: Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony Mayo, Robin Ely and David Thomas
      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...  View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Diversity; Race; Gender; Personal Characteristics; Relationships; Success
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      Roberts, Laura Morgan, Anthony Mayo, Robin Ely, and David Thomas. "Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 2 (March–April 2018): 126–131.
      • February 2018
      • Case

      Infrastructure in Nigeria: Unlocking Pension Fund Investments

      By: John Macomber and Pippa Tubman Armerding
      The so-called “infrastructure finance gap” was a problem in Nigeria as in many parts of the world. Infrastructure projects like power plants and dams were very large capital investments that could generate long-term consistent cash flows, but their financing and...  View Details
      Keywords: Pension Fund Investing; Infrastucture; Emerging Markets; Power/energy; Credit Enhancement; Infrastructure; Project Finance; Investment Funds; Emerging Markets; Nigeria; Africa
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      Macomber, John, and Pippa Tubman Armerding. "Infrastructure in Nigeria: Unlocking Pension Fund Investments." Harvard Business School Case 218-071, February 2018.
      • October 2017
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      Still Leading (B10): Louis Gossett Jr.— A New Role Erasing Racism

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
      Louis (Lou) Gossett Jr.’s exemplary life included a groundbreaking career in entertainment and a bold and audacious goal to erase racism. From the Broadway stage to television and the movie screen, Gossett earned major accolades in his field, notably becoming the first...  View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Advanced Leadership Initiative; Advanced Leadership; Entrepreneurship; Change; Transition; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Philanthropy And Charitable Giving; Prejudice And Bias
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Still Leading (B10): Louis Gossett Jr.— A New Role Erasing Racism." Harvard Business School Case 318-053, October 2017.
      • April 2017
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      Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment

      By: Benjamin Edelman, Michael Luca and Daniel Svirsky
      In an experiment on Airbnb, we find that applications from guests with distinctively African-American names are 16% less likely to be accepted relative to identical guests with distinctively White names. Discrimination occurs among landlords of all sizes, including...  View Details
      Keywords: Discrimination; Field Experiment; Race; Bias; Airbnb; Prejudice And Bias; Race; Accommodations Industry
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      Edelman, Benjamin, Michael Luca, and Daniel Svirsky. "Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 9, no. 2 (April 2017): 1–22.
      • 2017
      • Working Paper

      Diversity in Innovation

      By: Paul A. Gompers and Sophie Q. Wang
      In this paper we document the patterns of labor market participation by women and ethnic minorities in venture capital firms and as founders of venture capital-backed startups. We show that from 1990-2016 women have been less than 10% of the entrepreneurial and venture...  View Details
      Keywords: Diversity; Gender; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital
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      Gompers, Paul A., and Sophie Q. Wang. "Diversity in Innovation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-067, January 2017.
      • March 2016
      • Teaching Note

      Carla Ann Harris at Morgan Stanley

      By: Lakshmi Ramarajan
      This case follows Carla Ann Harris, an African-American executive on Wall Street, from her childhood to the eve of her 20th year at Morgan Stanley. In addition to her professional identity as an investment banker, Harris is also an accomplished gospel singer, an...  View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices And Conditions; Identity; Personal Development And Career; Financial Services Industry
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      Ramarajan, Lakshmi. "Carla Ann Harris at Morgan Stanley." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 416-040, March 2016.
      • July 2015 (Revised January 2020)
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      Horst Dassler, Adidas, and the Commercialization of Sport

      By: Geoffrey Jones, Michael Norris and Sophi Kim
      The case focuses on the career of Horst Dassler, the son of the founder of the German-based sports shoe manufacturer Adidas. The origins of the firm were in the interwar years, and it rose to public prominence after it provided spikes for Jesse Owens, the famous...  View Details
      Keywords: Corruption; Economic History; Business History; Entertainment; Business; Strategy; Media; Sports; Digital Technology; Blockbuster; Superstar; Film; Television; Music; Publishing; Performing Arts; Nightlife; Crime And Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; History; Sports; Apparel And Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Fashion Industry; Sports Industry; Germany; South America; Europe; Asia; North And Central America
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      Jones, Geoffrey, Michael Norris, and Sophi Kim. "Horst Dassler, Adidas, and the Commercialization of Sport." Harvard Business School Case 316-007, July 2015. (Revised January 2020.)
      • January 2014
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      Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Malone
      The case includes law, business, and public health perspectives on an African American leader's social entrepreneurship and leadership in other social movements. Later in his life, Dr. Benjamin Hooks championed the eradication of lead poisoning. Prior to that Hooks...  View Details
      Keywords: Leading Change; Health Disorders; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development And Career; Social Issues; United States
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Ai-Ling Malone. "Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 314-092, January 2014.
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