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- 06 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business
For refugees fleeing troubled regions as disparate as Afghanistan and Ukraine, finding meaningful work in the United States is not only key to their own success, but also crucial for businesses navigating labor shortages. New research...
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by Rachel Layne
- 11 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Parents Tell Kids to ‘Work Hard,’ Do They Send the Wrong Message?
ability. "People are struggling to make ends meet around the country, and success is often determined in part by uncontrollable factors." “They explained this disparity by saying the [higher-achieving] group worked harder,” says Whillans,...
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- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
structure of the firm, especially its organizational boundaries and property rights. Although these tools involve disparate bodies of knowledge, they must be used in tandem to achieve maximum effect. Download working paper:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work
preferences contribute to disparities in the workplace. Ultimately, this study aims to extend this line of research to include non-binary individuals, revealing how their beliefs and preferences compare and providing insights for managers...
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by Michael Blanding
- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
White people who host rental properties on Airbnb earn significantly more per year than Black hosts, but a “race blind” pricing algorithm could help close that income gap, new research shows. Black hosts who rely on Airbnb’s algorithm to...
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- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
Second, pay disparity between managers located in different states decreases relative to that of co-located managers. Third, division productivity falls in dispersed firms, with the effect driven by managers at the low end of the wage...
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Anna Secino
- 30 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies
disparity in the wealth of nations, in spite of the fact that technology adoption lags have shortened dramatically in the past few decades. In their paper An Exploration of Technology Diffusion, Comin and fellow researcher Bart Hobijn...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)
headquarters maximize an organization's overall revenues by efficiently (and effectively) monitoring the desires of consumers representing a wide range of ethnicities and income levels, large families and singletons? Much has been written...
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- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
exclusion." But there were problems. The racial divide and income disparities in this highly segregated region left many women and people of color with few ways to find resources and support. This was...
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by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
HBCUs [historically Black colleges and universities] borrow more than students from non-HBCUs because African American families generally have lower assets and incomes that limit their ability to contribute toward college expenses.” Most...
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- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
"In India, we are creating two different societies with a large disparity in income as well as access to knowledge and information." In large part, the comments seemed to reflect reactions to both...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
prosperity that has been generated by the functioning of market capitalism. Across the board, however, the primary concern was that the way the system currently functioned was associated with a great disparity of wealth and View Details
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by Garry Emmons
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
inequality affects behaviour towards the rich and poor. In Experiment 1, participants who became aware that wealthy individuals donated a smaller percentage of their income switched from rewarding the wealthy to rewarding the poor. In...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
needed in the application process, but sometimes also in pushing for consideration and approval. A loan officer’s role may be especially critical for applicants who may not tick all the conventional boxes, like having a robust credit score, proof of assets, and...
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- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
about the Great Divergence, the rise of the income gap between the West and the Rest, and the more recent Great Convergence, which has seen a narrowing of that gap. The literature on the timing and causes of the Great Divergence has...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
compliance function to being a profit center. The ratio of corporate taxes to GDP declined through the late 1990s even during an economic expansion. There has been a growing disconnect between the income reports to capital markets and tax...
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by Ann Cullen
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
system. In France and Germany, the university systems create a lot of inventions but not necessarily innovations. The third difference is the varying tolerance for income disparity across cultures. While...
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by Staff
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
equilibrium, belief in the "American dream" is commonplace, workers exert effort, there are high powered contracts (and income is unequally distributed) and punishments are harsh. Economists who believe that deterrence (rather...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
the exceptions—scale to national size. Schumpeter's cycle apparently does not operate in the social sector. This paper proposes that the disparity arises from the nonprofit sector's historically immature infrastructure and poor mechanisms...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
were the basis of a second proxy. When corporate income taxes decline, investment opportunities of the firms improve—fewer taxes means companies can keep a larger fraction of the profits they generate with their investments. A Surprising...
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by Maggie Starvish