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Project Shema partners with Harvard Business School's Antisemitism Working Group

Project Shema

Jan 31, 2025

HBS partnered with Project Shema to provide tailored training for faculty and staff leaders on recognizing and addressing antisemitism, with training for student leaders planned in the future.

Last year, Harvard Business School formed four working groups to help tackle the difficult questions and complex challenges their community and the University were grappling with: What constitutes hate speech and private speech, whether in person or using social media? How can we improve inclusion, including religious inclusion? How do we ensure we create an environment in our classrooms and on our campus that deepens understanding and advances learning? How do we enable faculty, staff, and students to experience HBS as a place of belonging and inclusive excellence, where they can do and be their best?


The Antisemitism Working Group (ASWG) was asked to explore the experience of antisemitism at HBS; evaluate cases and curriculum; understand responses to recent events and lessons learned; and recommend opportunities to educate and engage the community.


Harvard Business School Dean Srikant Datar recently released an update on their progress. In the areas of education on antisemitism, Islamophobia, and anti-Arabism, multiple working groups identified the goal of equipping every member of the community with the understanding and tools needed to identify and combat stereotypes, and to enable them to foster collaboration across religious and political differences. To make progress, faculty, staff, and students must embody self-awareness, curiosity, and humility; by fostering these qualities, individually and collectively, we can take personal responsibility for learning and change.


  • HBS has partnered with external experts, such as Project Shema, to provide tailored training for faculty and staff leaders on recognizing and addressing antisemitism, with training for student leaders planned in the future. Educational efforts also are underway with the Islamic Network Group which focus on combating Islamophobia and anti-Arab bias.

  • Reading and resource lists were compiled and distributed to faculty and staff, providing the history of and background on the origins and manifestations of anti-Arab, Muslim, and Jewish bias.


More details about the efforts of the Antisemitism Working Group, and the full update from Dean Datar can be found here.

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