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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Industrial Change, the Boundary of the Firm, and Racial Employment Segregation

By: John-Paul Ferguson and Rembrand Koning
Racial employment segregation between large workplaces in America has grown over the last generation. We know little about how changes in patterns of employment by economic sector have contributed to this growth, though. While there are many stylized narratives about... View Details
Keywords: Workplace Segregation; Firm Boundaries; Organizations; Employees; Segmentation; Race; Change; United States
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  • 03 Nov 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Ideological Segregation among Online Collaborators: Evidence from Wikipedians

Keywords: by Shane Greenstein, Yuan Gu, and Feng Zhu
  • 2023
  • Article

On the Impact of Actionable Explanations on Social Segregation

By: Ruijiang Gao and Himabindu Lakkaraju
As predictive models seep into several real-world applications, it has become critical to ensure that individuals who are negatively impacted by the outcomes of these models are provided with a means for recourse. To this end, there has been a growing body of research... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; AI and Machine Learning; Outcome or Result
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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Causes and Extent of Increasing Partisan Segregation in the U.S. – Evidence from Migration Patterns of 212 Million Voters

By: Jacob R. Brown, Enrico Cantoni, Vincent Pons and Emilie Sartre
Using data on the residential location and migration for every voter in U.S. states recording partisan registration between 2008–2020, we find that residential segregation between Democrats and Republicans has increased year over year at all geographic levels, from... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Political Elections; Geographic Location; Demographics
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  • August 30, 2022
  • Article

School Choice Increases Racial Segregation Even When Parents Do Not Care About Race

By: Kalinda Ukanwa, Aziza C. Jones and Broderick L. Turner Jr.
This research examines how school choice impacts school segregation. Specifically, this work demonstrates that even if parents do not take the racial demographics of schools into account, preference differences between Black and White parents for other school... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Race; Policy; Early Childhood Education; Middle School Education; Secondary Education
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

The Structure of Board Committees

By: Kevin D. Chen and Andy Wu
We document and analyze board committee structures utilizing a novel dataset containing full board committee membership for over 6,000 firms. Board committees provide benefits (specialization, efficiency, and accountability benefits) and costs (information... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Board Committees; Specialization; Accountability; Information Segregation; Overloaded Directors; Multi-commitee Directors; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Accounting; Corporate Governance
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    Do Experts or Collective Intelligence Write with More Bias?

    Co-authored by Feng Zhu

    Which source of information contains greater bias and slant-text written by an expert or that constructed via collective intelligence? Do the costs of acquiring, storing, displaying, and revising information shape those... View Details
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Spatial Mobility, Economic Opportunity, and Crime

    By: Gaurav Khanna, Carlos Medina, Anant Nyshadham, Daniel Ramos-Menchelli, Jorge Tamayo and Audrey Tiew
    Neighborhoods are strong determinants of both economic opportunity and criminal activity. Does improving connectedness between segregated and unequal parts of a city predominantly import opportunity or export crime? We use a spatial general equilibrium framework to... View Details
    Keywords: Urban Development; Transportation Networks; Crime and Corruption; Transportation Industry; Medellín; Colombia; South America
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    • November 2017 (Revised September 2020)
    • Supplement

    Miami's Tech Future (C): Reaching Another Miami

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
    The effects of Miami’s startup scene have not reached many “left-behind” lower-income Black communities, which are disproportionately affected by problems such as segregation and racial discrimination, lack of transportation access, crime, education quality, government... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Change; Transformation; Progress; Scaling; Startup; Community Engagement; Community Impact; Community Relations; Future; Income Inequality; Business; Change Management; Business Startups; Information Technology; Diversity; Race; Equality and Inequality; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Miami; Florida
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    • September 2020
    • Teaching Note

    Miami's Tech Future (C): Reaching Another Miami

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
    The effects of Miami’s startup scene have not reached many “left-behind” lower-income Black communities, which are disproportionately affected by problems such as segregation and racial discrimination, lack of transportation access, crime, education quality, government... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Change; Transformation; Progress; Community; Scaling; Income Inequality; Racism; Community Impact; Community Relations; Change Management; Business Startups; Information Technology; Diversity; Race; Equality and Inequality; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Miami; Florida
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Sex Selection and the Indian Marriage Market

    By: Reshmaan N. Hussam
    I consider the widespread phenomenon of sex ratios skewed by parental preference. Edlund (1999) proposes that if parents prefer sons and permit only women to marry up in social class, sexes will segregate by wealth in equilibrium. Using data on 30,000 Indian children,... View Details
    Keywords: Sex Selection; Marriage Market; Bargaining Power; Gender; Information Technology; Household; Outcome or Result; India
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    • Research Summary

    Current working papers

    Organizational restructuring: the influence of formal and informal structure on tie formation. This paper considers how changes in formal structure and a key element of informal structure – the embeddedness of employee... View Details

    • 27 Feb 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

    Review Firm Turnover and the Return of Racial Establishment Segregation By: Ferguson, John-Paul, and Rembrand Koning Abstract—Racial segregation between American workplaces is greater today than it was a... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 30 Nov 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Soroush Saghafian, Assistant Professor of Public Policy - Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University

    • Web

    Curriculum - Case Method Project

    Confederation—including debt, contraction of trade, recession, inflation, and Shays’ Rebellion—and how those problems informed key features of the U.S. Constitution. Coverage: 1763 – 1787; American Revolution; Articles of Confederation;... View Details
    • Web

    Case Method Teaching - Case Method Project

    atmosphere. A “case” is a short narrative document – a story – that presents a particular challenge facing an individual or organization. Each case reflects the information available to decision-makers at the time, and builds to a... View Details
    • 23 Apr 2024
    • In Practice

    Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

    With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 30 Sep 2019
    • Book

    6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

    but also through informal get-togethers. For instance, employees at one consulting company started a book club that focused on black writers and coordinated visits to African American museums and historical sites. And when American... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 09 Jun 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

    and organizations at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Challenging segregation at work and home The study comes at a time when cries for racial justice have grown in the United States, and Jachimowicz says it should be a... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
    • 03 May 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'

    turns out that the people who created the internet, primarily White men, didn’t classify or tag themselves as anything. This means that when you ask the AI system – which uses information up to the year 2020—to show an image of a white... View Details
    Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis