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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) work is in the headlines seemingly every day—about communities, campuses, court cases, and politics. It’s been nearly four years since HBS undertook the Advancing Racial Equity Action Plan, and a lot has happened in the interim. We talked with Angela Crispi, executive dean for administration; Terrill Drake, chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer; and Kristin Mugford, senior lecturer and senior associate dean for culture and community, about the work continuing on the HBS campus, its role at the School and more broadly, and why it’s still an important focus.

Joel Pimentel Alves likes to be actively involved in many pursuits—artistic, academic, and professional—as a supportive background player. He has been working with the Doctoral Program for nearly a year, and is finding that it fits that bill perfectly. We asked Joel about his role, his path to higher education administration, and why his experience as a first-generation student is important to his work.

As part of the Harvard Business School elective course Managing Human Capital, Edward W. Conard Associate Professor Ethan Bernstein is joined by jazz musician Frank Barrett (author of Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz and a professor at Case Western Reserve’s Weatherhead School of Management) to illuminate a new way of thinking about organizational structure: How jazz improvisation and the “provocative competence” it elicits serves as a model for the type of collaboration needed for companies to succeed.