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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

becomes first state to ban employers from asking candidates about past salaries in an effort to combat pay inequality, resulting in 20 states doing the same An Act to Establish Pay Equity 2018 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act... View Details

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News & Commentary - Advancing Racial Equity

News & Commentary From the Dean One-Year Action Plan Update Re: Srikant Datar, Terrill Drake, Jan Hammond & Brian Kenny 23 SEP 2021 Dean Srikant Datar discusses the School’s Advancing Racial Equity action plan at the one-year... View Details

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Title IX & Gender Equity University Title IX Policy & Procedures Harvard’s University-wide Title IX policy and procedures guide efforts to prevent and respond to sexual harassment – including sexual violence – related to sex, sexual... View Details

04 Aug 2020
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How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In mid-June, weeks after protests against racial injustice spread globally, the Leadership Now Project—founded in 2017 by HBS alumni to fix American democracy—released the Business for Racial View Details

February 2018
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Omar Simmons: Franchising and Private Equity

By: Steven Rogers and Alyssa Haywoode

Teaching Note for HBS No. 318-055. View Details

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What's Behind the Private Equity Boom?

27 Jan 2021
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Taking a Stand on Racial Equity

31 Dec 2020
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Gender Equity Is Not Zero Sum

Aug 2021
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Intervening to Advance Equity in Tech

By: R. Ely, Sanaz Mobasseri and Wiliam Kahn

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Caveat Emptor in Real Estate Equities

By: Samuel Hayes and Leonard M. Harlan

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Dishonesty in the Name of Equity

By: F. Gino and L. Pierce

Keywords: Ethics

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11 Dec 2017
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What equity means to your career and company

19 May 2011
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Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail

agreed, sharing the story of a woman whose luggage was lost on the eve of her husband's funeral. Staff at a local Nordstrom store responded by staying open so she could purchase a few outfits, and her family has been loyal to the retailer ever since. "Empathy can be... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

July 2023
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Takahashi-Alexander Revisited: Modeling Private Equity Portfolio Outcomes Using Historical Simulations

By: Dawson Beutler, Alex Billias, Sam Holt, Josh Lerner and TzuHwan Seet

In 2001, Dean Takahashi and Seth Alexander of the Yale University Investments Office developed a deterministic model for estimating future cash flows and valuations for the Yale endowment’s private equity portfolio. Their model, which is simple and intuitive, is still... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Portfolio; Analytics and Data Science

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Developing the Plan - Advancing Racial Equity

Action Plan Developing the Plan One-Year Action Plan Update Re: Srikant Datar, Terrill Drake, Jan Hammond & Brian Kenny 23 SEP 2021 Dean Srikant Datar discusses the School’s Advancing Racial Equity action plan at the one-year... View Details

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The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity

By: Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner

We examine twenty years of direct private equity investments by seven large institutions. These direct investments perform better than public market indices, especially buyout investments and those made in the 1990s. Outperformance by the direct investments, however,... View Details

Keywords: Financial Intermediation; Direct Investment; Co-investment; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Financial Markets

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10 Aug 2020
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HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice

The HBS Social Enterprise Initiative aims to educate, support, and inspire leaders to tackle society’s toughest challenges and make a difference in the world. We are committed to the fight for racial justice and to promoting diversity and View Details

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BEA Associates: Enhanced Equity Index Funds

By: Andre F. Perold

BEA's enhanced index fund product uses derivatives and cash market securities to find the most efficient way to "track an index." The considerations involve transaction costs, custodial fees, withholding taxes on dividends, and fees from securities lending. In this... View Details

Keywords: Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Investment Portfolio; Management; Investment Banking; Competitive Advantage; Cost Management

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