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  • August 29, 2022
  • Other Article

Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, K. Blesch and Oliver P. Hauser
Income inequality is on the rise in many countries around the world, according to the United Nations. What’s more, disparities in global income were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with some countries facing greater economic losses than others. Policymakers... View Details
Keywords: Income Inequality; Gini Coefficient; COVID-19 Pandemic; Government Administration; Equality and Inequality; Health Pandemics; Measurement and Metrics
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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

Accounting & Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students July 3, 2025 Article A New Framework for Reducing Healthcare Disparities By: Susanna Gallani , Mary Lynch Witkowski, Lidia M. V.... View Details
  • July 2024
  • Article

Mass General Brigham’s Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement System: A Decade of Learnings

By: Jason B. Liu, Robert S. Kaplan, David W. Bates, Mario O. Edelen, Rachel C. Sisodia and Andrea L. Pusic
This article describes the strategies that leaders at the Mass General Brigham (MGB) health system have used in launching a standardized patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) collection program in 2012, a major step in the value-based transformation of health care.... View Details
Keywords: Patient-reported Outcomes; Value Based Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Transformation; Outcome or Result; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Improvement; Health Industry
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  • 06 Aug 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Buy Local? The Geography of Successful and Unsuccessful Venture Capital Expansion

Keywords: by Henry Chen, Paul A. Gompers, Anna Kovner & Josh Lerner
  • 11 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Spatial Diffusion of Technology

Keywords: by Diego A. Comin, Mikhail Dmitriev & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
  • Research Summary

Managing Multiple Identities at Work

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan
Peoples’ work identities, which are often a deep source of meaning for them, may conflict with or complement cultural, familial, or personal identities they value. A central focus of Professor Ramarajan’s work is understanding, on the individual level, how these... View Details

    Empire of Cotton

    The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
     
    Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the... View Details
    • Research Summary

    On the Origins of Brokerage in Intraorganizational Networks

    While we have ample empirical evidence linking brokerage in intraorganizational social networks to both individual and firm-level benefits, we know little about its origins. Prior research describes correlations between rough demographic categories and network... View Details
    • May 2025
    • Case

    IQanat: Empowering Rural Youth in Kazakhstan

    By: Boris Groysberg and Maxim Pike Harrell
    In June 2025, IQanat CEO Aliya Salikova considered scaling opportunities for the foundation, which provided educational opportunities for children from rural regions of Kazakhstan. Established by Kazakhstani businessman and philanthropist Aidyn Rakhimbayev, IQanat... View Details
    Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Rural Scope; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Equality and Inequality; Education Industry; Central Asia; Kazakhstan
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    • October 6, 2015
    • Article

    Compared to Men, Women View Professional Advancement as Equally Attainable, but Less Desirable

    By: Francesca Gino, Caroline Ashley Wilmuth and Alison Wood Brooks
    Women are underrepresented in most high-level positions in organizations. While a great deal of research has provided evidence that bias and discrimination give rise to and perpetuate this gender disparity, in the current research, we explore another explanation: men... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Gender
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    • October 2022
    • Case

    Afrigen Biologics: Vaccines for the Global South

    By: Debora L. Spar and Julia Comeau
    The majority of vaccines used on the continent of Africa (99%) are produced offshore. This makes African nations reliant on the West for major health care needs, a problem which was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Afrigen Biologics (in partnership with the WHO)... View Details
    Keywords: Vaccination; Vaccine; mRNA; COVID; COVID-19; Inequity; Hub-and-spoke; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Production; Social Issues; Business and Government Relations; South Africa; Africa
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    • 27 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)

    diversity data—even if it shows a disparity in the representation of employees of color—doesn’t hurt consumer attitudes toward a company. And, when the numbers show that a company’s workforce is relatively diverse, consumers feel even... View Details
    Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
    • Web

    Marketing - Faculty & Research

    for the 2022 John D. C. Little Award. They study the effect of Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm on the racial disparity in the daily revenue earned by Airbnb hosts. Their empirical strategy exploits Airbnb’s introduction of the algorithm... View Details
    • November 2019
    • Article

    When and Why Defaults Influence Decisions: A Meta-analysis of Default Effects

    By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Shannon Duncan, Elke U. Weber and Eric J. Johnson
    When people make decisions with a pre-selected choice option—a “default”—they are more likely to select that option. Because defaults are easy to implement, they constitute one of the most widely employed tools in the choice architecture toolbox. However, to decide... View Details
    Keywords: Choice Architecture; Defaults; Default Effects; Decision Making; Behavior; Analysis
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    • 20 Nov 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: November 20

    pay between different-state managers increased by less relative to same-state managers after the rule change. Taken together, our findings suggest that peer comparison decreases pay disparity within firms and that principals face a... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 03 Mar 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    How Firm Strategies Influence the Architecture of Transaction Networks

    Keywords: by Jianxi Luo, Daniel E. Whitney, Carliss Y. Baldwin & Christopher L. Magee
    • Web

    Research - Global

    help them keep their babies and stabilize... July 3, 2025 Article Harvard Business Review Digital Articles A New Framework for Reducing Healthcare Disparities By: Susanna Gallani , Mary Lynch Witkowski, Lidia M. V. R. Moura and Katie... View Details
    • 03 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact

    A new study of startups sharing a coworking space offers a new wrinkle in the debate over work-from-anywhere: Proximity matters, especially close proximity, to spread knowledge between disparate enterprises. “The more different the... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • 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... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 09 Dec 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Does Management Matter in Schools?

    Keywords: by Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun & John Van Reenen; Education