Equality and Inequality - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next

something my parents use." Under her tenure, Godrej has been reinventing and relaunching products that millions of Indians use—inexpensive insect repellent—and aspire to buy—hair dyes and car aerosol. Nisa's... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

01 Jun 2008
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You Only Thought You Were Republican

if it is not growing, on a sustained basis, faster than the economy as a whole. But when Reagan took office, the debt equaled 30 percent of our GDP versus 60 percent today. This despite Clinton/Gore leaving us with (in Bush’s words)... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias; national debt; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Government

01 Jun 2023
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Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

Blanchard House, which produces podcasts, and Miller manages the impact fund for Twilio, a cloud communications company. “Rumi Spice is in a good place. We’ve been able to maintain a stable supply chain, even with the Taliban in power,”... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Oct 1997
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Graduate's Gift Honors HBS Friend

In a spontaneous act of friendship, Nathaniel de Rothschild (MBA '71) recently made a generous gift to the School in the name of his longtime friend and HBS classmate Franklin R. Anderson (MBA '71). To give special recognition to the gift... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Jan 2002
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Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)

Zehnder utters these words with considerable passion, since he created the unique corporate culture in which these qualities are so fundamental. In 1976, as Egon Zehnder International continued to grow and prosper, he decided to give up... View Details

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

Business leaders around the world are currently focused on the discussions and negotiations taking place at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12. The outcome of these international... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

and economic inequity that deny so many Black people safe, healthy, and attractive housing. And with multiple studies showing income View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

01 Oct 1996
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Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)

about changing both how people think and how they behave," says Porter. "I'm pleased when my work is used by other academicians. But I feel equally satisfied when people tell me my ideas made a difference in... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

08 Oct 2020
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JPMorgan Chase Commits $30 Billion to Advance Racial Equity

America’s history,” Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon (MBA 1982) said in a release. “We can do more and do better to break down systems that have propagated racism and widespread... View Details

15 May 2018
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Spreading the Safety Net

Photo via LinkedIn Photo via LinkedIn In a May 6, 2018, op-ed in the New York Times, Rent the Runway co-founder and CEO Jennifer Hyman (MBA 2009) discussed the reasoning behind her recent decision to View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Supporting Women in Leadership

Gisel and Omid Kordestani Attending the W50 Summit at Harvard Business School last spring was an eye-opening experience for Gisel Kordestani, who until then hadn't fully realized that despite the enormous strides women at HBS have made in... View Details

Keywords: W50

01 Jun 2011
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America the Unequal

percent of the wealth — and the bottom 40 percent virtually none — could guarantee equal opportunity for all its citizens. My colleagues and I are now exploring whether... View Details

Keywords: income disparity; class mobility

01 Dec 2020
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Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness

and map those across organizations and interests. Venture outside your tribe. Giving time or money in service of those who share a common trait or identity with us—whether religion, ethnicity, nationality,... View Details

18 Aug 2014
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Closing the Education Gap

their names, and there were kids who actually couldn’t. One child, who was almost four, kept saying his name was Corky, which it wasn’t. These are children who have been paid so little attention that they don’t even know their names.”... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 2006
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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 of Companies and Enterprises

09 Mar 2021
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Bridging the Gap

limited student access to technology, and lack of family support and essential services all have had an impact on the world’s children and those who are trying to teach them.... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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The Business of Babies

said Spar. Pricing inequities (90 percent of couples conceive for free), inconsistent insurance coverage for fertility treatments, and ambiguous legislation around property and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

09 Mar 2021
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Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges

administrators. While the coursework through the CSML program provided the structure and rationale for highly effective leadership, the access to a cadre of exceptional leaders from across the world was View Details