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  • October 2013
  • Article

Barriers to Completion of Patient Reported Outcome Measures

By: Elizabeth H. Schamber, Steven K. Takemoto, Kate Eresian Chenek and Kevin J. Bozic
Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs) are commonly used in total joint arthroplasty (TJA) to assess surgical outcomes. However certain patient populations may be underrepresented due to lower survey completion rates. The purpose of this study is to evaluate... View Details
Keywords: Patient Reported Outcome Measures; PROM; Total Joint Arthroplasty; Hip; Knee; Electronic Survey; Equality and Inequality; Demographics; Surveys; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Demographically Biased Technological Change

By: Victor Manuel Bennett, John-Paul Ferguson, Masoomeh Kalantari and Rembrand Koning
Who gets the jobs that automation creates? A consensus has begun to emerge that said technologies complement rather than substitute for labor. However, they also shift the demand for specific types of skills and other worker competencies. Such shifts imply unequal... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Employment; Equality and Inequality; Demographics
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  • August, 2022
  • Article

Changing Ingroup Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the United States

By: Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
How do social group boundaries evolve? Does the appearance of a new outgroup change the ingroup's perceptions of other outgroups? We introduce a conceptual framework of context-dependent categorization, in which exposure to one minority leads to recategorization of... View Details
Keywords: In-group-out-group Relations; Ingroup-outgroup Relations; Immigration; Race; Relationships; United States
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Changing Ingroup Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the U.S.

By: Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
How do social group boundaries evolve? Does the appearance of a new outgroup change the ingroup's perceptions of other outgroups? We introduce a conceptual framework of context-dependent categorization, in which exposure to one minority leads to recategorization of... View Details
Keywords: In-group-out-group Relations; Immigration; Race; Attitudes; Boundaries; Prejudice and Bias
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  • May 2024 (Revised July 2024)
  • Case

Lowe’s: Improving the Total Home Strategy

By: Elie Ofek, K. Shelette Stewart and Alicia Dadlani
In 2023, Marvin Ellison, CEO of Lowe’s, contemplated enhancements to the company’s Total Home Strategy to accelerate performance and grow market share. In the last five years since becoming CEO, Ellison had championed a turnaround of the company, completing a... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; E-commerce; Competition; Brands and Branding; Business Strategy; Retail Industry
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  • March 2004 (Revised March 2005)
  • Case

Oscar de la Renta

By: Bharat N. Anand, Elizabeth Lea Carpenter and Samhita Patwardhan Jayanti
Over three decades, Oscar de la Renta (ODLR) had established itself as one of the premier luxury brands in America. Its mainstay business had always been producing and marketing high-priced, couture/ready-to-wear luxury goods. Now, in September 2003, it faced a series... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Borrowing and Debt; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Production; Family Ownership; Luxury; Competition; Diversification; Expansion; United States
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Diversity in Innovation

By: Paul A. Gompers and Sophie Q. Wang
In this paper we document the patterns of labor market participation by women and ethnic minorities in venture capital firms and as founders of venture capital-backed startups. We show that from 1990-2016 women have been less than 10% of the entrepreneurial and venture... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Gender; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital
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  • 31 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

capital labor pool, Hispanics have been around 2%, and African Americans have been less than 1%. This is despite the fact that all three groups have much higher representation in education programs that lead to careers in these sectors as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

rankings for these environmental factors with the racial makeup of various firms. When he did, Zhang found that Asian employees scored highest on work environment, followed by White and Hispanic employees, who ranked about the same,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Dec 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

Keywords: by William R. Kerr
  • 31 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why the Largest Minority Group Faces the Most Hate—and How to Push Back

the proportion of Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans is quickly outpacing African Americans, meaning that Asian Americans may eventually become the largest nonwhite group. “If there are political or economic incentives, the majority... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • March 2024
  • Article

Differences in Care Team Response to Patient Portal Messages by Patient Race and Ethnicity

By: Mitchell Tang, Rebecca Mishuris, Lily Payvandi and Ariel Dora Stern
Importance: The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with substantial growth in patient portal messaging. Higher message volumes have largely persisted, reflecting a new normal. Prior work has documented lower message use by patients who belong to minoritized racial... View Details
Keywords: Health Pandemics; Technology Adoption; Prejudice and Bias; Equality and Inequality; Communication Technology; Race; Ethnicity; Health Industry
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  • 05 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Are Virtual Tours Still Worth It in Real Estate? Evidence from 75,000 Home Sales

of Black and Hispanic residents, a metric they think could be important since listings in these neighborhoods tend to feature fewer photos with lower aesthetic quality and more often are handled by smaller firms. Location, location,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Real Estate
  • 04 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

number dropped to 45 percent. The researchers also found that judges were replaced by someone from the same specific demographic group. “It’s also a specific race matching—a Black judge is not more likely to be replaced by a Hispanic or... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 30 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

to an inquiry? Researchers analyzed more than 57,000 message threads between patients and physician teams at Boston Medical Center and found that white patients were more likely to receive answers from their attending physicians, while Black and View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health
  • 12 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

bookings drop by an estimated 12 percent in the time period studied compared to white, Black, or Hispanic hosts—just one way that Asians experienced broad discrimination after the pandemic’s origins in China were politicized, finds a new... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Technology; Travel
  • 09 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

instruction, putting them significantly behind Hispanics (21 percent) and whites (38 percent). With significantly less support than white children, Black students go on to complete four-year programs at public institutions at a slower... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg
  • 04 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

school degrees over the same period. Ethnic minority representation was even lower, with Hispanics and African Americans representing around 2 percent and at 1 percent respectively over the same period. “We really saw how powerful the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

Blacks. My concern is Hispanics which wield significantly more economic buying power, land ownership It seems to me that everywhere I look Hispanics are being left out.”), and more systematic mentoring... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

literature. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-058.pdf Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout? Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Joel Waldfogel Abstract Since the dawn of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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