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      • Make clear where we stand and where we aim to go.
      • Establish the enduring structures required for the journey ahead.
      • Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community.
      • Develop and disseminate research and course material on advancing racial equity in business.
      • Equip our students to become leaders for racial equity.
      • Engage with the broader business community to promote racial equity.
      • Hold ourselves accountable to meaningful, measurable progress.
      • Developing the Plan
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    Action Plan

    Action Plan

    • Make clear where we stand and where we aim to go.
    • Establish the enduring structures required for the journey ahead.
    • Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community.
    • Develop and disseminate research and course material on advancing racial equity in business.
    • Equip our students to become leaders for racial equity.
    • Engage with the broader business community to promote racial equity.
    • Hold ourselves accountable to meaningful, measurable progress.
    • Developing the Plan

    Developing the Plan

    Developing the Plan

    One-Year Action Plan Update

    Re: Srikant Datar, Terrill Drake, Jan Hammond & Brian Kenny
    Re: Srikant Datar, Terrill Drake, Jan Hammond & Brian Kenny
    • 23 SEP 2021
    Dean Srikant Datar discusses the School’s Advancing Racial Equity action plan at the one-year mark—progress made so far, and where there is still work to do—with Professor Jan Hammond, chief marketing & communications officer Brian Kenny, and chief inclusion & diversity officer Terrill Drake.
    We formed the Dean’s Anti-Racism Task Force and identified the work required in seven key areas. After further input from faculty, staff, students, and alumni, we developed the final action plan released on September 23, 2020.

    George Floyd’s murder on May 20, 2020 was an act of police brutality. Importantly, the ensuing movement for racial equity also focused on the economic and other brutality Black Americans have endured for over 400 years, often at the hands of business. In conversations on race in mid-June 2020 and beyond, community members made it resoundingly clear that they felt the School had failed to do all it could and should have done to welcome and advance Black talent, advance knowledge related to race, educate students about racism and anti-racism, and engage the business community in change efforts. The School needed a new action plan.

    Toward this end, former Dean Nitin Nohria invited a group faculty, staff, students, and alumni to form the Dean’s Anti-Racism Task Force. Task Force members identified work required in seven domains: curriculum, research & dissemination, faculty & doctoral, students & participants, staff, business engagement, and organization & culture. Teams that focused on these seven areas engaged additional members of the community and these teams formulated recommendations in their areas. Compilation and reconciliation of the recommendations yielded a draft action plan by the end of August 2020.

    In September 2020, the Task Force sought feedback on the draft plan from groups of faculty, staff, students, and alumni. The additional input shaped this final action plan, which was released on September 23, 2020. As of September 2021, administration of the initiatives and activities associated with the REP has been transferred to the team within the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion under the leadership of Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Terrill L. Drake and in partnership with the Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community Janice H. Hammond.

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