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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Workplace Segregation Between College and Non-college Workers

By: Francis Dillon, Edward L. Glaeser and William Kerr
We measure the level and growth of education segregation in American workplaces from 2000 to 2020. American workplaces show an educational segregation, measured by the degree to which the establishment has mostly workers of similar education levels, that is... View Details
Keywords: Isolation; Segregation; Mobility; Learning; Human Capital; Competency and Skills; Demographics
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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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  • 25 Apr 2018
  • News

We May Have Given Ourselves Too Much Credit for Easing Racial Segregation in the Workplace

  • June 2018
  • Article

Firm Turnover and the Return of Racial Establishment Segregation

By: John-Paul Ferguson and Rembrand Koning
Racial segregation between American workplaces is greater today than it was a generation ago. This increase has happened alongside the declines in within-establishment occupational segregation on which most prior research has focused. We examine more than 40 years of... View Details
Keywords: Firm Entry; Stratification; Segregration; Entrepreneurship; Business Ventures; Employees; Diversity; Race; Segmentation; United States
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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
    • June 2016
    • Article

    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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    • 30 Sep 2019
    • Book

    6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

    Gerdeman is senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: PeopleImages] Related Reading Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 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... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 27 Sep 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know

    out from under you.” Related Reading: Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation Collaborating Across Cultures What... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage; Apparel & Accessories
    • September 2021
    • Article

    Shaking Things Up: Disruptive Events and Inequality

    By: Letian Zhang
    This paper develops a theory of how disruptive events could reduce racial and gender inequality in organizations. Despite pressure from regulators and advocates, racial and gender inequality in the workplace remains high. I theorize that because such inequality is... View Details
    Keywords: Inequality; Equality and Inequality; Diversity; Race; Gender; Restructuring; Mergers and Acquisitions; Disruption
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    • 13 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

    1900. So he grew up in a country where segregation in the South, he grew up in the South where segregation was acceptable, where lynching was acceptable. And the thing that he taught me more than anything... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical
    • July 2021
    • Article

    Structuring Local Environments to Avoid Diversity: Anxiety Drives Whites' Geographical and Institutional Self-Segregation Preferences

    By: Eric Anicich, Jon M. Jachimowicz, Merrick Osborne and L. Taylor Phillips
    The current research explores how local racial diversity affects Whites’ efforts to structure their local communities to avoid incidental intergroup contact. In two experimental studies (N=509; Studies 1a-b), we consider Whites’ choices to structure a fictional,... View Details
    Keywords: Segregration; Structural/institutional Racism; Organizational Exclusion; Diversity; Race; Organizations; Local Range; Prejudice and Bias
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    • 19 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

    microcosm for the future of media and information. Muhammad Ali: A Case Study in Purpose-Driven Decision Making Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., rose from a poor family in segregated Louisville, Kentucky, to international... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • 11 Feb 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One

    case to challenge segregated busing?" So there's a lot of preparatory work and a lot of careful work afterwards. Quiet leadership is not really the flip side. If you look behind lots of great heroic leaders, you find them doing lots... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 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
    • 01 Oct 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

    Political polarization has seeped so deeply into US society that it shapes who Americans befriend, date, and marry, where they live, raise their families, and retire—and how they run their businesses. A recent paper illustrates how the partisan divide permeates... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
    • 31 Jul 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

    History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein, which describes the complicity of the federal government in redlining policies that confined Black people in segregated neighborhoods... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing
    • 12 Jul 2020
    • Book

    The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

    of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein, which describes the complicity of the federal government in redlining policies that confined Black people in segregated neighborhoods with low... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 11 Apr 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

    chick” and said she performed surgery “like a girl.” Jurors ultimately awarded her $168 million, the largest judgment for a single victim of workplace harassment in United States history. Years later, sexual harassment remains a problem... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 15 Dec 2024
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books

    since the Civil War era brought with him to Washington like-minded men who quickly set to work segregating the federal government. Wilson’s own sympathy for Jim Crow and states’ rights animated his years-long hostility to the Susan B.... View Details
    Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information