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- February 2015 (Revised August 2019)
- Case
Equality of Opportunity and Outcome in the U.S.
By: Matthew Weinzierl and Alastair Su
Equality of opportunity is endorsed universally even though, or more likely because, it can mean such different things to different people. What definition of equality of opportunity ought to figure into policy decisions? How close, or far, is the United States from...
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Keywords:
Equality Of Opportunity;
Justice;
Opportunities;
Equality and Inequality;
Policy;
United States
Weinzierl, Matthew, and Alastair Su. "Equality of Opportunity and Outcome in the U.S." Harvard Business School Case 715-028, February 2015. (Revised August 2019.)
- Research Summary
Moral Reasoning & Experimental Political Philosophy
In this work, we demonstrate a new and morally significant effect on judgment and decision-making. This research is inspired by the work of John Rawls, widely regarded as the most important political philosopher of the 20th Century. Here we apply the central...
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- 2019
- Working Paper
Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose
In this paper, I address how the ascendance of the theory of shareholder value maximization into the central consciousness of public corporations and its canonization as the only legitimate expression of corporate purpose has contributed to both a widening breach...
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Keywords:
Capitalism;
Justice;
Corporate Purpose;
Shareholder Value Maximization;
Ethical Reciprocity;
Economic Systems;
Business Ventures;
Mission and Purpose;
Ethics;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Salter, Malcolm S. "Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-104, April 2019.
- January 2021
- Article
Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Mitigates Self-Serving Bias in Resource Allocation During the COVID-19 Crisis
By: Karen Huang, Regan Bernhard, Netta Barak-Corren, Max Bazerman and Joshua D. Greene
The COVID-19 crisis has forced healthcare professionals to make tragic decisions concerning which patients to save. Furthermore, the COVID-19 crisis has foregrounded the influence of self-serving bias in debates on how to allocate scarce resources. A utilitarian...
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Keywords:
Self-serving Bias;
Procedural Justice;
Bioethics;
COVID-19;
Fairness;
Health Pandemics;
Resource Allocation;
Decision Making
Huang, Karen, Regan Bernhard, Netta Barak-Corren, Max Bazerman, and Joshua D. Greene. "Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Mitigates Self-Serving Bias in Resource Allocation During the COVID-19 Crisis." Judgment and Decision Making 16, no. 1 (January 2021): 1–19.
- March 2021 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
Blue Meridian Partners (A): Scaling for Impact
In 2018, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation in a bold move transferred all its assets to a fund pooled with other General Partners and Limited Partners, called Blue Meridian Partners, to focus substantial long range investments in a few carefully chosen nonprofits.The...
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Keywords:
Venture Philanthropy;
Scaling;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Social Justice;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Venture Capital;
Business Model;
Social Issues;
Poverty;
Values and Beliefs;
Decisions;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Investment Portfolio
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Blue Meridian Partners (A): Scaling for Impact." Harvard Business School Case 521-090, March 2021. (Revised November 2022.)
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
In late February, Harvard Business School professor Bill Sahlman spoke with two former MBA students, Scott Randall ('87) and Glen Meakem ('91), to discuss their perspectives on organizing markets in a new and evolving economy and what...
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- January–February 2023
- Article
Triadic Advocacy Work
By: Summer R. Jackson and Katherine C. Kellogg
Scholars of street-level bureaucracy and institutional research focus primarily on the relationships between advocates and their larger bureaucratic and social systems, assuming that advocates have little need to satisfy their beneficiaries. We find otherwise in our...
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Keywords:
Occupations And Professions;
Ethnography;
Power And Politics;
Work And Organizations;
Advocacy;
Public Management;
Justice
Jackson, Summer R., and Katherine C. Kellogg. "Triadic Advocacy Work." Organization Science 34, no. 1 (January–February 2023): 456–483.
- 14 Mar 2007
- Op-Ed
Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity
Fifty-three years ago, Judge Harold Medina dismissed charges brought by the Justice Department against seventeen leading investment banks. A case built up over a decade of investigations and almost three...
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- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
amendment meant to broaden the scope and accessibility of democracy called for the creation of directly elected local councils at the district, intermediate, and village levels, and mandated that one-third of all council seats be filled View Details
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by Maggie Starvish
- 17 Jul 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Why Do We Redistribute So Much but Tag So Little? The Principle of Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation
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by Matthew Weinzierl
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
and healthy innovation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54851 in press Management Science Procedural Justice and the Risks of Consumer Voting By: Kim, Tami, Leslie John, Todd Rogers, and Michael I. Norton...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
Delta employees—which was considered a bold action by a high-profile CEO, Hill says. That summer he went on a “listening and learning tour,” holding in-house sessions with Delta’s Black workers and meetings with numerous national racial...
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- 04 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness
When US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in 2020, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Edward Chang noticed something interesting: To fill the vacancy, then-President Donald Trump replaced Ginsburg with another woman,...
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by Michael Blanding
- 10 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?
nobody was aware that they existed in such a systematic way.” The authors also digitized official voter registration rolls held by the Atlanta-based Southern Regional Council’s Voter Education Project. Other information came from the US...
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by Rachel Layne
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
street-to-prison cycle that had ravaged his youth. He had passed a high school equivalency test and had earned a college degree, and by that point could envision a bright future as a budding accountant at Arthur Andersen, the firm he...
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- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
empower the people they're leading Frei: First, you have to learn how to unleash the potential of one person. And that's what we describe in the chapter we call “Love,” because we think it’s the utmost expression of love to help someone achieve their greatest...
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by Kristen Senz
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
accessing valuable resources primarily controlled by White people, according to the study, Structuring Local Environments to Avoid Diversity: Anxiety Drives Whites’ Geographical and Institutional Self-Segregation Preferences, which will...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
iStock In the 1992 film Glengarry Glen Ross, an executive played by Alec Baldwin presents a unique motivational scheme to a trio of down-on-their-luck real estate salesmen. There will be a new contest, he...
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- 22 Jan 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Competing Ad Auctions
- 2017
- Working Paper
Peer Effects on the United States Supreme Court
By: Matthew Lilley, Richard Holden and Michael Keane
Using data on essentially every US Supreme Court decision since 1946, we estimate a model of peer effects on the Court. We consider both the impact of justice ideology and justice votes on the votes of their peers. To identify these peer effects we use two instruments....
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Keywords:
Supreme Court;
Peer Effects;
Voting Behavior;
Legal System;
Courts and Trials;
Voting;
Behavior
Lilley, Matthew, Richard Holden, and Michael Keane. "Peer Effects on the United States Supreme Court." Working Paper, February 2017.