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Physical and Situational Inequality on Airplanes Predict Air Rage

By: K. A. DeCelles and Michael I. Norton
We posit that the modern airplane is a social microcosm of class-based society, and that the increasing incidence of “air rage” can be understood through the lens of inequality. Research on inequality typically examines the effects of relatively fixed, macrostructural... View Details
Keywords: Physical Inequality; Equality and Inequality; Behavior; Air Transportation; Situation or Environment
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    Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-job Inequality

    In this article, we examine a case of task segregation—when a group of workers is disproportionately allocated, relative to other groups, to spend more time on specific tasks in a given job—and argue that such segregation is a potential mechanism for generating... View Details
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    Health Equity, Schooling Hesitancy, and the Social Determinants of Learning

    By: Meira Levinson, Alan C. Geller, Joseph G. Allen and John D. Macomber
    At least 62 million K-12 students in North America—disproportionately low-income children of color— have been physically out of school for over a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These children are at risk of significant academic, social, mental, and physical harm... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Public Health; Air Quality; Social Determinants Of Health; Schooling Hesitancy; Vaccine Hesitancy; Racial Injustice; Inequity; Inequality; Health Pandemics; Education; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Race; Equality and Inequality
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    Inequality in the Digital Age: A Conversation with Mahzarin Banaji - Blog: RGE Report

    Race, Gender and Equity at Work Race, Gender and Equity at Work Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author HBS Staff Topics Topics Board Diversity RGE Blog Filters Read posts from Author HBS Staff Topics Topics Board Diversity RGE Blog 28 May 2024 View Details
    • June 2016
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    Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-Job Inequality: Women and Men of the Transportation Security Administration

    By: Curtis K. Chan and Michel Anteby
    What could explain inequality within a given job between groups of workers, particularly between women and men? Extant workplace inequality scholarship has largely overlooked as a source for inequality the job’s work content—the actual tasks workers perform. It is... View Details
    Keywords: Inequality; Work; Mechanisms And Processes; Stratification; Labor Process; Qualitative Methods (General); Case Method; Field Research; Equality and Inequality; Working Conditions; Gender; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Air Transportation Industry
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    Women’s health is more than female anatomy and our reproductive system—it’s about unraveling centuries of inequities due to living in a patriarchal healthcare system. - Blog: Health Supplement

    Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical devices/diagnostics Precision Medicine Public Health 18 Jan 2022 Women’s health is more than female anatomy and our reproductive system—it’s about unraveling... View Details
    • September 2019 (Revised December 2019)
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    Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?

    By: William R. Kerr and Carl Kreitzberg
    In late 2018, evidence emerged that many of Google’s temporary help agency workers, vendors, and independent contractors (“TVCs”) were unhappy with the company. TVCs, who reportedly made up 49.95% of Google’s 170,000-person global workforce, had raised concerns of... View Details
    Keywords: Workforce; Independent Contractors; Talent Management; Silicon Valley; Google; Employee Attitude; Employee Compensation; Employee Engagement; Future Of Work; Innovation; Innovation And Strategy; Inequality; Talent Acquisition; Labor; Talent and Talent Management; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Employees; Attitudes; Innovation and Management; Human Resources; Equality and Inequality; Information Technology Industry; United States; San Francisco
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    • 17 May 2016
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    May 17, 2016

    in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Flying into a Rage: Physical and Situational Inequality on Airplanes Predict Air Rage By: DeCelles, K.A., and Michael... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • July 2001
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    Paula Evans and the Redesign of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (A)

    By: Linda A. Hill, Kristin Doughty and Ellen Pruyne
    Paula Evans is in her second year as principal of the only high school in Cambridge, MA. Her mandate when she arrived was to redesign the high school so that long-standing inequities in academic achievement rates across race and socioeconomic class were removed. In her... View Details
    Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Strategy; Secondary Education; Restructuring; Leadership; Conflict Management; Education Industry; Cambridge
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    • 12 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

    iPhoto COVID-19 is having a devastating effect on the emotional, psychological, and social well-being (as well as the physical health) of people around the world. Risk factors for addiction, mental illness, and “deaths of despair” are... View Details
    Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
    • 26 Mar 2013
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    First Look: March 26

    decision-maker, and they are not diminished by the physical separation of employees working in different business units. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2233467 Managers and Market Capitalism By: Henderson, Rebecca, and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Jun 2020
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    Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5

    Goldfields April 8, 2020: Kenya April 15, 2020: Economic Inequality April 22, 2020: US Mass Incarceration April 29, 2020: Detroit: on the Right Track? May 2020: Murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Ahmaud Arbery These are cases... View Details
    • 06 Mar 2007
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    First Look: March 6, 2007

    perform their jobs more safely and effectively. The latter required that workers engage in mutual expressions of vulnerability: they acknowledged their physical limitations, learned from their mistakes, and attended to their own and... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
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    Caste and Entrepreneurship in India

    By: Lakshmi Iyer, Tarun Khanna and Ashutosh Varshney
    It is now widely accepted that the lower castes have risen in Indian politics. Has there been a corresponding change in the economy? Using comprehensive data on enterprise ownership from the Economic Censuses of 1990, 1998, and 2005, we document substantial caste... View Details
    Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Income; Entrepreneurship; Rank and Position; India
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    • 17 Feb 2010
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    First Look: Feb. 17

    http://www.whartonsp.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137044852 Institutions and Inequality in Single Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China Authors:Edmund Malesky, Regina M. Abrami, and Yu Zheng Publication:Comparative... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 10 Oct 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?

    Southern Regional Council. “One of the reasons why no such data had been used before is because nobody was aware that they existed in such a systematic way,” Tabellini says. “And nobody went physically to manually collect and digitize... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 30 Jan 2018
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    January 30, 2018

    feelings of life satisfaction, we explore when, how, and why time and money impact peoples’ anticipated, momentary, and lasting happiness. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53781 November 2017 Journal of Public Economics Popular... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 May 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

    Murphy, and Jorg L. Spenkuch Abstract—We develop a model of intergenerational resource transmission that emphasizes the link between cross-sectional inequality and intergenerational mobility. By drawing on first principles of human... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 03 Mar 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers

    these stores had women store managers. Grocery stores offer fertile ground for research overall: The US grocery industry employed more than 4 million workers in 2019, and the retail trades employed more than 15 percent of the country’s working population in 2018. The... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Retail; Consumer Products
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    Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

    important. The entrepreneur's business proposition and previous experience are regarded as the main criteria for investment decisions. Our research, however, documents other critical criteria that investors use to make these decisions: the gender and View Details