income inequality - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2008
News

An American Odyssey

known as ‘reparations,’ ” he explains. “But I approach this with realistic expectations as policy analysis, not a cause. I’m attempting to correctly understand chronic racial inequality by putting it in a historical context and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance

01 Jun 2006
News

CEO Compensation Troubles

increase in pay of senior executives and superstars in other fields has been a major source of the rising inequality of wages in the United States. Rising income inequality is... View Details

Keywords: Jay W. Lorsch; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

prosperity that has been generated by the functioning of market capitalism. Across the board, however, the primary concern was that the way the system currently functioned was associated with a great disparity of wealth and income in many... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

February 9, 2016
Article

How a 10-Year-Old Boy Gave 13,000 Young Adults the Chance to Get Ahead

By: Gerald Chertavian

Keywords: Opportunities; Nonprofit Organizations; Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Competency and Skills; Income

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01 Sep 2008
News

Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?

disparity of wealth and income in many countries and across regions. In turn, they thought these gaps could lead to populist politics that would adversely affect the conduct of capitalism. A second major concern was that our productive... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2023
News

An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders

large amount of debt. MAKING DREAMS ATTAINABLE READ MORE STORIES MAKING DREAMS ATTAINABLE READ MORE STORIES “There are countless big problems that we have to solve in the world, from income inequality to... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

11 May 2021
Blog Post

Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020)

implication for fostering more inclusion around socioeconomic status in terms of what inequality looks like after people leave HBS. If students from lower income backgrounds are not able to access the full... View Details

May 2024
Article

Refugees Are Hosted in Highly Vulnerable Communities

By: C. Austin Davis, Paula Lopez-Peña, A. Mushfiq Mobarak and Jaya Y. Wen

Low- and middle-income nations host 76 percent of the world's refugees. This study uses original data to explore within-country spatial variability in refugee-hosting responsibilities. We find that hosting responsibilities for the displaced Rohingya people in... View Details

Keywords: Refugees; Political Elections; Equality and Inequality; Immigration; Developing Countries and Economies; Income

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15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

hard—urgent calls for a long-overdue racial reckoning are inspiring innovative approaches to exposing and ending structural inequities in business and society. Two new ventures led by HBS alumni are leveraging the power of philanthropy in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

19 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

inequality affects behaviour towards the rich and poor. In Experiment 1, participants who became aware that wealthy individuals donated a smaller percentage of their income switched from rewarding the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Aug 2021
Blog Post

ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY

racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in the midst of a pandemic that has hit communities of color hard—urgent calls for a long-overdue racial reckoning are inspiring innovative approaches to exposing and... View Details

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

instrumental variables approach exploiting an historical shift in innovation activity during World War II to show that this relationship could be causal. Finally, we document a U-shaped relationship between top income View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) has been named the first recipient of the Harvard Business School (HBS) RISE (Recognizing Individuals Seeking Equity) Career Fellow, with his income supplemented for one year following graduation so he can... View Details

13 Jul 2022
Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

What if the way we work could be a catalyst for solving huge problems like inequality and climate change? In the new book Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy, Harvard Business School Professor Julie Battilana and a... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

frictions play a first-order role in determining market prices. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49425 Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Brute Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-Based... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Apr 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

effects on productivity, (5) Job design that allows employees to have control over their work is conducive to lower stress levels and better health outcomes (for example, the higher one rises in an organization, the lower the risk of cardiovascular problems), and (6)... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Dec 2005
What Do You Think?

Is Growth Good?

violence of all sorts is poverty—not absolute poverty, but inequality between the classes. If growth brings more economic equality into a society, then yes, growth is good." Pruthul Patel writes, "Growth is life. Without growth... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

nations, among them Germany, Japan, and Sweden. This note provides background on aspects of economic inequality. It begins by describing both income inequality and wealth inequality, providing an explanation... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

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HBS - Financials | From the CFO

of its faculty, staff, and students as it leaned into its mission of educating leaders who make a difference in the world. Faced with the most significant disruption to the MBA Program since World War II, the School's leadership—including outgoing Dean Nitin Nohria and... View Details

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