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What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?

are especially effective at encouraging change. Avoid being complacent. Even the organizations most dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion still have some work to do. Be on the lookout for gender disparities in how employees are... View Details

02 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

more money in their pockets. Other factors that contribute to income disparity are more based in societal issues or on how companies go about their business. For example, large companies may pay more for a similar job than a smaller firm;... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

02 Aug 2012
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The Rich Get Richer: Enabling Conditions for Knowledge Use in Organizational Work Teams

Keywords: by Melissa A. Valentine, Bradley R. Staats & Amy C. Edmondson

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

within these multiunit firms—despite operating under the same brand, management, systems, processes, and organizational structures—exhibit significant disparities in revenue and productivity. Jorge’s research has focused on three main... View Details

29 Aug 2022
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Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

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... View Details

Keywords: by Jon M. Jachimowicz, Kristin Blesch, and Oliver P. Hauser

29 Jul 2021
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Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022)

were for individuals living only a few subway stops apart. These disparities only became heightened during COVID-19. By the end of this summer, I am hoping that through our efforts, we achieve significantly higher vaccination rates in... View Details

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Dennis Campbell, Srikant Datar, and Susan Kulp (2015). Ethan C. Rouen : Winner of the 2018 Best Dissertation Award from the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association for "Rethinking Measurement of Pay View Details

04 May 2015
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Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

wisely." For knowledge-intensive companies, the findings highlight the need for enterprise software that addresses the disparate aspects of problem-solving. "Another organizational response would be to design communications... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services

28 Jan 2008
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Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

no question that people by and large move from rural to urban areas in search of better economic conditions. In India, most social and economic indicators show that life is better in the cities than in rural areas, on average, even given the fact that there is wide... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences - Health Care

evaluates the productivity, pricing and innovation in health care, medical malpractice, and racial disparities in health care. Featured Research 28 Nov 2017 Blavatnik Fellow Creates Virtual Brain Biopsy Software August 2018 Review of... View Details

25 Jun 2013
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Publications 2006 pub Leviathan Evolving: New Varieties of State Capitalism in Brazil and Beyond By: Musacchio, Aldo, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—In this book we describe the transformation of state capitalism from a model in which governments owned and ran... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

16 Feb 2010
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The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

necessarily lead to a collaborative environment, a hallmark of systemic integration. That requires the lever of cooperation—the alignment of goals. When members of disparate or competing silos cooperate around a common set of goals, they... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products

28 Jul 2020
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Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

"More broadly, evidence points to disparities on both sides of the market—both African American guests and hosts face discrimination." After the research was made public, policymakers took note. Users began to push back. The... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

philanthropist Aidyn Rakhimbayev, IQanat sought to address the stark disparity between academic resources in urban and rural parts of the country. The foundation developed mentorship programs and built a flagship school which admitted 100... View Details

09 Mar 2023
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Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary

to do everything twice as well. In addition, John Rice’s (MBA 1992) experience as a Black professional led him to create Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a national non-profit organization that fights racial and economic View Details

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Informing Brand Marketing Practice

Susan M. Fournier is involved with several projects relating more generally to brand managment issues. These include boardroom-level projects (with Professors Thomas Madden and Franke Fehle of the University of South Carolina, and sponsored by Interbrand) on the... View Details

15 Oct 2020
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IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

found a wide disparity among IT jobs themselves. A computer and information research scientist’s wage in 2018 was 90 percent higher than a computer support specialist, the IT occupation with the lowest median wage. If there are exceptions... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology

March 2024
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Differences in Care Team Response to Patient Portal Messages by Patient Race and Ethnicity

By: Mitchell Tang, Rebecca Mishuris, Lily Payvandi and Ariel Dora Stern

Importance: The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with substantial growth in patient portal messaging. Higher message volumes have largely persisted, reflecting a new normal. Prior work has documented lower message use by patients who belong to minoritized racial... View Details

Keywords: Health Pandemics; Technology Adoption; Prejudice and Bias; Equality and Inequality; Communication Technology; Race; Ethnicity; Health Industry

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13 Jul 2020
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Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

disparities that exist in our society already. I mean, the fact of the matter is this educational one we just talked about in terms of access to broadband and hardware. But you look at the disparities. I mean, the African American... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

28 Feb 2023
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Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

likely to quit in the first year of the program. Black students were also more likely to drop out than white students. Some of the disparity may have to do with Black students being less likely to apply for apprenticeships in fields like... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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