Equality And Inequality - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Nov 2020
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The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

leader. This is Allegra Jordan (MBA 1995). There's a lot of terrible things in the world and a lot of pain. This is very true. But it's equally true that there's quite a lot of marvelous in the world. I'm... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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The Path Ahead

challenges and opportunities that the School faces—and the priorities that will guide his leadership. Inequality and racism are among the most serious problems in today's... View Details

22 Nov 2017
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How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team

pretty incredible ride. We're kind of littered with best place to work awards which we certainly celebrate and appreciate. But we're as equally celebrating a young 32-year-old that goes View Details

01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It

innovations of the last 75 years, as well as some thoughts about the coming decades.* * Total responses from MBAs and Executive Education participants who graduated in or before 1975 and those who graduated... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

01 Jun 2015
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Screen Grab

providers should support equal access to all content and applications (such as data-heavy files of online video) regardless of the source or how much bandwidth it requires. Instead, industry executives... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

The commercial real estate business was in a shambles fifteen years ago, but just look at it now. After a complete rehab, the industry has become the darling of investors eager for alternatives to lackluster stocks and bonds. But will the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

01 Dec 2004
News

Retirement's Changing Face

the ABTI-American University in Nigeria to offer advice on fostering entrepreneurship.) During his travels, Adams found himself wishing he could stay more connected with friends and business contacts who were View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

expected to achieve. You might conclude, therefore, that the two spans should be equally wide or narrow. As the adage goes, authority should match responsibility. But in high-performing organizations, many people are held to broad... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

City of Boston Mayor’s Office, Harlem Children’s Zone, Equal Justice Initiative, Mercy Corps, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Leadership Fellows Press Release 2024–2025 Leadership Fellows Audrey... View Details

17 Jan 2019
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

music producer and drummer whose mission is to elevate and celebrate the female voice. I produce music that tackles issues of modern gender equality today, View Details

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

had no equipment to produce a product. After making several significant sales, we purchased equipment in both cities and were up and running. After two years, my partner persuaded me to introduce another... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

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Program Policies - HBS Online

(3) is regarded as having such an impairment. What are accommodations? Accommodations are adjustments and modifications that provide participants with disabilities equal access to courses View Details

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

versus strangers) might affect their approach to splitting the equity (both the equality of the split and the timing of the split) and how the split might affect both the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

01 Dec 2019
News

John McArthur

faculty and staff. One employee who was seriously injured in a car accident was astonished to receive a visit from McArthur in the hospital even before his family could get there. “While part of this was about managing an institution, it... View Details

Keywords: Dean

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Print View - Course Catalog

Content and Objectives Capitalism today is under attack, criticized from many quarters as being the source of societal ills that range from inequality and systemic racism to... View Details

19 Jun 2017
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Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

calibrating the algorithm so that even if they're trained on a non-diverse set, they will spit out equal outcomes for men and women, for people of different ethnic backgrounds. So that was reassuring. But... View Details

13 Sep 2019
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Hollywood Ending

sense of parity with intention, particularly in the hiring-intensive early months. It’s equal part culture choice and strategy: “I think most of the other entrants in this space were either media companies... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

13 Feb 2020
News

Not Throwing Away My Shot

equal is the law of the land. So those are the constraints in this entrepreneur's life. He's the grandson of a slave, son of a teamster. And we don't know much about his early life, but sometime by the... View Details

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