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    Managing Diversity Speaker Series

    The “Managing Diversity” speaker series brings together leading scholars and business leaders in a series of conversations on the impact of systemic racism in business and in society, the policies and practices that have worked (and that haven’t) to ameliorate racism, and the critical ongoing leadership role that business must play.
    James Cash

    Series Kick-off with Professor Emeritus James Cash

    By: Jim Cash & Nitin Nohria
    • 20 OCT 2020 |
    • Harvard Business School
    The first event of the Managing Diversity series features then Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria interviewing James Cash, the first Black faculty member to receive tenure at HBS and a scholar and business leader whose accomplishments range from serving as a board member of companies such as General Electric, Microsoft, and Walmart to being part owner of the Boston Celtics.
    Isabel Wilkerson

    A Conversation with Isabel Wilkerson, Author of Caste

    By: Isabel Wilkerson & Caroline Elkins
    • 05 NOV 2020 |
    • Harvard Business School
    Isabel Wilkerson, an American journalist and the first woman of African American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism, discusses her most recent book, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, to explore the structure of an unspoken system of human ranking and reveals how our lives are still restricted by what divided us centuries ago. The conversation was moderated by Caroline Elkins, Harvard Professor of History & African and African American Studies.
    Roger Ferguson

    A Conversation with Roger Ferguson, CEO, TIAA

    By: Roger Ferguson & Hubert Joly
    • 23 NOV 2020 |
    • Harvard Business School
    A conversation between Roger Ferguson, president and CEO of TIAA, and Hubert Joly, a senior lecturer at HBS and former CEO of Best Buy.
    Mellody Hobson

    A Conversation with Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO & President, Ariel Investments

    By: Mellody Hobson & Hubert Joly
    • 30 DEC 2020 |
    • Harvard Business School
    "Genius and talent do not discriminate. They don't come to you based upon race or gender," says Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO & President of Ariel Investments, "They are equally distributed in society, but it does not show up in our places of work." This conversation between Hobson and Senior Lecturer Hubert Joly addresses the role of race in business and society.
    John Lewis - Civil Right Movement

    A Conversation about John Lewis and the Civil Rights Movement

    By: Nancy Koehn
    • 16 FEB 2021
    Professor Nancy Koehn shares her latest thinking on a case study she and Research Associate Eugene B. Kogan are creating on Congressman John Lewis and the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

    The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations Case Discussion

    By: Mihir Desai
    • 17 MAR 2021
    Professor Mihir Desai leads a discussion of his new case study, “The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations.”

    Seminars & Conferences

    Leadership Accelerator: A Dialogue Among Women of Color

    By: Linda Hill & Tony Mayo
    • Harvard Business School
    A special Zoom workshop convening 160 women of color from the HBS community and diversity, equity, and inclusion executives from global organizations, to answer two questions: What can HBS do to accelerate the development of women leaders of color? What are the key challenges and opportunities faced by women leaders of color, and how do we address them?
    Robin Ely

    Leading Race Work in Business Schools

    Robin Ely, Tony Mayo, Laura Morgan Roberts
    Leading Race Work in Business Schools convened scholars from top business schools to identify ways in which business schools could lead the work of racial equity and inclusion through engagement with various learning modes.
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