Disparities - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

organization ended up hiring a mix of social workers, sociologists, anthropologists, bankers, and economists. The idea was that these seasoned employees would complement each other with their disparate backgrounds, after training them to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

minority borrowers,” they write. The findings also imply there may be similar disparities with other types of borrowing, such as small business loans, Sunderam says. However, there’s less data available to dig into that slice of the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

04 Jan 2012
What Do You Think?

Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

productivity flourishes where income disparity exists to a greater extent." Susan Rushworth offered "food for thought" in citing research that led her to conclude that "the faster the economy grew (as measured by GDP),... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

structure of the firm, especially its organizational boundaries and property rights. Although these tools involve disparate bodies of knowledge, they must be used in tandem to achieve maximum effect. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

Ann Moore (HBS MBA '78)—called it, "the sisterhood of the traveling pantsuit." The anniversary has become a focal point for the School's efforts over the past few years to address its gender disparities head-on. Women now make... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

28 May 2012
Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

not force the disparate CSR programs into their business strategies. Instead, the goal should be to "bring discipline and structure to the many fragmented components. [The] components will in some cases support the core strategy and in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Apr 2019
What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

Wildebeest added: “There is a good case to be made that deficits from loose monetary policy are the actual cause of the ever-widening income disparity in the US and nearly every major economy.” (JohnfrmClevelnd reminded Wildebeest that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together

from one another's disparate experiences. "I think this carries over to venture-funded startups, in which having a diversity of venture capitalists around the table is actually critical to their success," Gompers says. "Take two people... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

08 Sep 2015
First Look

September 8, 2015

and women alike rated power as one of the main consequences of professional advancement. Our findings reveal that men and women have different perceptions of what the experience of holding a high-level position will be like, with meaningful implications for the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

with which they can be used. Cheap labor is not really cheap if workers are unproductive. Input costs can be overshadowed by logistical costs, delays, and inefficiencies. There are hidden costs of outsourcing. The most obvious is the cost of management and coordination... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Jul 2024
Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

they realize the disparity between the CEO’s chosen direction and their expectations, which can lead to a permanent breach. When Omar Ishrak became the first outsider CEO of Medtronic in 2011, the board gave him a clear mandate: to revive... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

about what you are communicating. You also need to work hard to shrink the psychological distance through language. When you have disparity in terms of fluency levels in English, you have to make sure fluent speakers are dialing down to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

governmental direct intervention and the role of the state as entrepreneur. Why, for example, was public ownership of infrastructure businesses common to so many European countries by the late 1940s when they had recently come out of such View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

measures of environmentalism. The team homed in on California primarily because it was (and is) the state with the largest number of municipal green-building policies. But the state also sports a wide range of environmental diversity among its private citizens. The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

“COVID-19 is especially deadly for people with underlying conditions, including those related to poor diet, like obesity and diabetes. That is exacerbating existing health disparities with deep roots in food apartheid.” Gardeneers had to... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

21 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 21, 2006

that future work should develop more precise and context-specific theories to help guide research and practice in disparate task and industry domains. Working paper not available. Why Do Firms Hold So Much Cash? A Tax-Based Explanation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

Liberté, égalité, Sororité Groysberg plans to tackle boardroom gender disparity in How Star Women Succeed. "We'll start by asking why do we want to have a diverse board," he says. "Is it about fairness? Is it about better decision-making?... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

basically the same things, which forced the two firms to compete for suppliers. 87 Ford and GM also had disparate styles and software, which made it very difficult for suppliers to streamline their systems. To solve these problems, Ford,... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

update to the (A) case by illustrating how charter school management organization Uncommon Schools responded to the disparity in its students’ 2013 standardized test results. In 2015, CEO Brett Peiser and his management team decided to... View Details

06 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

operations. And through Arbitrage, they exploit disparities between national or regional markets, often by locating different parts of the supply chain in different places—for instance, call centers in India, factories in China, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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