Disparities - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault

his passion for media. Meanwhile, Kenneth was completing his first year as an Investor at General Catalyst. Both were excited about building careers in industries they loved while utilizing their unique skills and interests. Then, as the world looked on at the... View Details

19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

reflect persistent disparities based on race, gender, age, and educational attainment. Coming out of the crisis, providing more workers with pathways to economic stability will depend in large part on forging stronger connections between... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

19 Jan 2022
Blog Post

From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business

business. I had often felt that my interests were non-traditional and I had sometimes doubted how I could carve out a path that would fit these disparate parts together, but HBS showed me how much opportunity is out there. For one,... View Details

07 Oct 2020
Blog Post

7 Coming Out Stories from the HBS PRIDE Club

the world. Not everyone welcomed the news, but the struggle to find acceptance wasn’t my burden to carry any more. Things changed as I got older and realized I wasn't alone. Being gay is more than a shared identity, it is a community whose bonds are built on seemingly... View Details

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

who had such disparate beliefs. "But in the end I'm glad, because I think that the principles we discuss in this book are broadly applicable to people's lives. I hope that we've been able to frame them in a way that is accessible to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

exclusion." But there were problems. The racial divide and income disparities in this highly segregated region left many women and people of color with few ways to find resources and support. This was coupled with an outmoded image of... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

09 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

$4,000; the average white family has net worth of $140,000. A lot of that has to do with disparities in employment that exist, which have their origins in the education system.” College degrees have gained even more importance in a... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

study highlights two vastly disparate companies—Coca-Cola and McKesson—that sought patents within the same technology class. The companies proposed devices that used carousel-like storage systems to dispense beverages and medical... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

companies have budgets in the first place is to help coordinate the disparate parts of their businesses. By openly sharing accurate information and basing decisions on a common set of numbers, the thinking goes, you ensure harmonious... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

four, so you then have to go engage, ideally, with the top one or two in each of those markets in order to distribute your product.” The disparate nature of the market is why the league is run as a series of games in different locations,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

06 Sep 2019
Blog Post

The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

the health, educational, and racial disparities exacerbated by poverty. “All the things you don’t associate with a Harvard Med student, I have seen and lived through,” he says, telling of close family members who have struggled with... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

racial disparities in wealth and income. And because homeownership is one of the principal ways in which families build wealth, housing, race, and economic inequality are all intertwined. It is no accident, for instance, that data from... View Details

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

Person Page

Course Development

By: Debora L. Spar

Managing International Trade and Investment

Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details

Profile

Michael Farias

situations." Becoming involved in issues of access and efficiencies Michael turned his interests into action, becoming one of the organizers behind the student-run website improvehealthcare.org, an outlet dedicated to exploring quality, access, and View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Ensuring success through education

Educating a nation of children is Hüsnü Özyeğin’s (MBA 1969) investment in Turkey’s future. The successful self-made businessman and philanthropist is focused on eliminating disparities in education. He has founded dozens of schools and... View Details

Portrait Project

Matthew Naunheim

hand. I, too, have begun to leave scars on the people and things I care about. In health care, the wounds are many, and they need fixing: An elderly Haitian immigrant without insurance. A smoker with throat cancer who refuses to quit. A country that permits racial... View Details

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Mar 2016
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How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network

many firms who have few direct incentives to cooperate. The adaptation conundrum arises because commercial technologies generate value in disparate circumstances. To succeed on a large scale, the technology needs to spread into new... View Details

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An Educated Investment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

transitioning to a career in community-based global development, traveling to Latin America, Africa, and South Africa. When she returned to India, she was struck once again by the biased attitudes and disparities around education access... View Details

13 May 2013
News

Lori W. Samuels & Theodore R. Samuels II, MBA 1981

president of the Capital Guardian Trust Company based in Los Angeles. “The i-lab represents the potential and the long-run nexus of creativity, ability, and aspiration across the University. It unites people with a disparate array of... View Details

Portrait Project

Adzmel Adznan

kerisik, we need it for this rendang!” Grandma’s gravelly voice reminds us that we are not, in fact, mere spectators but apprentices who will one day learn the recipe and take over this tradition. With that sensory renaissance, I marvel at how these View Details

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