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  • 22 Jun 2020
  • News

Restructure Your Organization to Actually Advance Racial Justice

Keywords: racial equality
  • January 4, 2020
  • Article

The 10 Commitments Companies Must Make to Advance Racial Justice

By: Mark R. Kramer
In the wake of George Floyd’s tragic death in Minneapolis, major corporations have been voicing their support for racial justice in the United States. But we are way past the point when words alone suffice. Actions are needed. Corporations can and should make 10... View Details
Keywords: Racial Justice; Racial Equity; Race; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • 20 Jul 2021
  • News

Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights

  • April 2023
  • Article

Racial Inequality in Work Environments

By: Letian Zhang
This article explores racial stratification in work environments. Inequality scholars have long identified racial disparities in wage and occupational attainment, but workers’ careers and well-being are also shaped by elements of their work environment, including firm... View Details
Keywords: Discrimination; Race; Equality and Inequality; Working Conditions; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Culture
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  • 08 Nov 2019
  • News

Getting Over Your Fear of Talking About Diversity

Keywords: racial equality
  • January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
  • Case

Equal Justice Initiative: Mercy, Truth and Dignity

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Gerald Chertavian and Brittany Logan
In 1989, the Equal Justice Initiative was established as a non-profit, public interest law firm by Harvard Law School graduate, Bryan Stevenson.

EJI provides legal assistance to condemned prisoners, people wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced, children in... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Nonprofit Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Issues; Race
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  • September–October 2021
  • Article

Frontiers: Can an AI Algorithm Mitigate Racial Economic Inequality? An Analysis in the Context of Airbnb

By: Shunyuan Zhang, Nitin Mehta, Param Singh and Kannan Srinivasan
We study the effect of Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm on the racial disparity in the daily revenue earned by Airbnb hosts. Our empirical strategy exploits Airbnb’s introduction of the algorithm and its voluntary adoption by hosts as a quasi-natural experiment. Among... View Details
Keywords: Smart Pricing; Pricing Algorithm; Machine Bias; Discrimination; Racial Disparity; Social Inequality; Airbnb Revenue; Revenue; Race; Equality and Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Price; Mathematical Methods; Accommodations Industry
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  • 01 Nov 2019
  • News

Toward a Racially Just Workplace

  • September 2022
  • Article

Regulatory Spillover and Workplace Racial Inequality

By: Letian Zhang
This paper suggests that affirmative action bans in the U.S. public sector may influence racial inequality in the private sector. Since the 1990s, nine states have banned affirmative action practice in public universities and state governments. Though these bans have... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Regulation; Law; Organizational Norm; CEO; Affirmative Action; Organizations; Private Sector; Equality and Inequality; Diversity; Race; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

HBS Addresses Racial Equity

for the work to be done. What are the steps the School is taking to further racial justice–related scholarship that will benefit HBS students and course participants, and the world at large? We recently launched an important component of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Life’s Work: An Interview with Megan Rapinoe

Keywords: racial equality; discrimination; LGBTQ issues
  • 13 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

policies, an issue Norton addresses in a recent working paper, Racial Colorblindness: Emergence, Practice, and Implications, cowritten with Evan P. Apfelbaum of MIT and Samuel R. Sommers of Tufts University. "Though once emblematic of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

    Report on Racial Inclusion in the Boardroom

    While many efforts are underway to add more demographically diverse directors to boards, very few are focused on inclusion—creating an environment where differences are valued, and all members have equal opportunity to exercise influence and move into leadership... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2011
    • News

    Racial Bias Pervades Health Care

    Health-care reform has a different meaning for Augustus White (AMP 94, 1984) than the definition you might get from a policy wonk: His reform would ensure equality of medical treatment, no matter the color of your skin, gender, or sexual... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Health, Social Assistance
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective

    By: Sanaz Mobasseri, William Kahn and Robin Ely
    This paper uses systems psychodynamic concepts to develop a theory about the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. companies, treating White men as the dominant group and Black people as an illustrative subordinate group. We theorize that this persistence is rooted... View Details
    Keywords: Systems Psychodynamics; Organizational Inequality; Masculinity; Equality and Inequality; Race; Gender; Identity; Power and Influence
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    • October 2024
    • Article

    Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective

    By: Sanaz Mobasseri, William A. Kahn and Robin J. Ely
    This paper uses systems psychodynamic concepts to develop theory about the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. organizations and to inform an approach for disrupting it. We treat White men as the dominant group and Black people as the archetypal subordinate group... View Details
    Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Organizational Culture; Gender; Power and Influence; Employees; Attitudes
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care

    By: Amitabh Chandra, Pragya Kakani and Adam Sacarny
    We develop a simple framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use it to study Black and white Medicare patients who are treated for heart attacks—a condition where virtually everyone receives care, hospital care is... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Equality and Inequality; Race; Analysis
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    • September 2020
    • Case

    West Side United: Hospitals Tackle the Racial Health and Wealth Gap

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Paul Stramaglia
    During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. David Ansell, Darlene Hightower, and Ayesho Jaco, leaders of West Side United (WSU), a coalition of Chicago hospitals, community residents, banks, and small businesses conceived in 2016, reviewed progress toward WSU’s goal of ending... View Details
    Keywords: COVID; COVID-19; Hospital; Coalition; Health Pandemics; Race; Health; Wealth and Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Change; Leadership; Chicago
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    • 13 Aug 2021
    • Blog Post

    Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course

    field course offering taught by Professors Archie Jones, Henry McGee, and Jeff Bussgang and developed during the summer of 2020 in partnership with fellow classmates Allie O’Shea, Mickias Hailu, and Shani Carter. This course supported students to explore why View Details
    • 01 Dec 2020
    • News

    Advance Racial Equity in the Office

    Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong Can you name a handful of measurable initiatives that your organization is actively pursuing to address racial inequities? If not, chances are good that... View Details