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- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
inequality is measured in terms of opportunity or the actual accumulation of varying levels of income and wealth. Inequality is inevitable and perhaps necessary in a free society, according to one line of thought. As Guy Higgins put it,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Action Plan for Racial Equity
individuals who apply,” Rivkin told The Wall Street Journal. “Reducing financial barriers is key. It increases financial aid to families that have historically been unable to accumulate wealth over... View Details
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
2013. Studies documented increases in the gap (or in a few studies, the opposite view) between rich and poor. Headlines, at least in the United States, typically focused on the share of wealth and income View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Jan 2007
- Op-Ed
Learning from Private-Equity Boards
Private-equity boards are typically composed of members with substantial wealth at risk. Private-equity boards know how to structure financial incentives that deter reckless gambling and reward profitable growth. Private-equity boards... View Details
- Profile
Mi Zhou
development is very unbalanced: The Eastern part of China is growing fast, while the West lacks access to education and foreign capital. The rich are accumulating greater wealth and buying political power,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
injections to struggling American banks. The rise of the hedge funds was only a part of the story of the post-1998 reorientation of global finance. Even more important was the growth of sovereign wealth funds, entities created by... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
this literature may not seem obviously related to the asset location literature, they turn out to be tightly linked. Fisher Black and Irwin Tepper established that a firm with access to tax-deferred accumulation in a defined benefit... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
Editor's note: How does an organization hold on to its wealth of accumulated knowledge when the knowledge-holders depart? It's a very real dilemma made even more critical as Baby Boomers begin their mass... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
years—developing a gut reaction that a particular candidate, while spectacular on paper, isn't a good fit for his portfolio company. At the end of the day, as Leonard and Swap argue in their new book, Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business Wisdom,... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
transaction prices and bank deposits — that carry stiff penalties if violated. What are the attitudes overseas about U.S. enforcement efforts? The perception is widespread in developing and transitional economies that the West, including the United States, is not... View Details
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
FarriHarvard Business School Case 310-090 In late January 2009, Thomas Fekete, managing director at Barclays Wealth in London, redeemed the most illiquid positions in the so-called Wealth Absolute Return... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
throughout the glove, thousands of educators have accumulated an impressive wealth of individual wisdom. Unfortunately for the field, we rarely talk to each other, and surprisingly little gets shared.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
ten times larger than what it was in 1980. While the sums involved are clearly staggering, the compensation packages that provide this wealth are poorly understood, according to HBS associate professor Brian J. Hall. Often, Hall believes,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
something might be done to foster the creation of wealth (and jobs) in Mexico through the removal of structural barriers that inhibit entrepreneurial behavior. However, before action might be taken to correct the problems created by... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
transfer of wealth from public investors to the hands of business leaders, corporate insiders, and financial intermediaries." Headlines remind us of very large payouts to CEOs, regardless of their performance. (In fact, it could be... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
funds offer a level of professional investment management capability and skills once reserved for institutions or wealthy individuals. They provide a strong incentive to save and invest and have been a great source of wealth View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
management capability and skills once reserved for institutions or wealthy individuals. They provide a strong incentive to save and invest and have been a great source of wealth accumulation for individuals.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
Buchanan (MBA 2000) has witnessed the truth observed by Andrew Carnegie and Warren Buffett alike that it can be more difficult to give wealth away wisely than to accumulate it in the first place. Buchanan’s... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
Hurtado, a social psychologist who is Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Women are still at a disadvantage compared to white men when it comes to pay, so these education gains haven’t led to an... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
the potential to create a virtuous cycle in health care delivery with many winners. Areas of excellence will lead to accumulating greater experience, which will result in increasing efficiency and gathering better information on results... View Details