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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
As the Future Catches You
wealth disparity between the richest and the poorest nations will soon be 1,000:1. In an age of super-technologies, knowledge will be key and will enable tiny, well-educated nations to prosper while the economies of much larger,... View Details
- 13 Jun 2013
- News
Learning Curve
help as many people as I can in my lifetime. The greatest social issue we have in the United States is the disparity in children's education. If you don't get a good education, it's extremely unlikely that you're going to reach your... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
Island has led to several ventures involving conservation easements that create economic value from open-space preservation. As chairman since 2013 of the New York Landmarks Conservancy, Zuckerberg looks for ways to bridge the sometimes View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
INK: Big News for Small Business
a whole set of new concerns. Who owns your data? If the algorithm has bad information about you, do you get to fix it? Does the regulator get to look at the algorithm? What if it leads to discrimination and creates disparate impact? If we... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Managing Family Assets
encourage bad behavior. Another part may be that the transfer of knowledge somehow implies the transfer of power, and many people don’t like to give up power. How do you get disparate family members to agree on a wealth management... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Bridging the Gap
Illustration by Chris Gash Long before “COVID-19” became a household word with grave implications, the education sector faced enormous challenges. Opportunity and achievement gaps marginalizing students of color and those from low-income families, funding View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997) “Everyone deserves a fair start regardless of their zip code,” says Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997). Reforming that start is what motivates her. “The effects of income disparity start early in our society, and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- Portrait Project
Foluke Otudeko
the best that I can be in all the roles of my life: a great wife, mum, daughter, sister, friend, employee, employer and citizen. I ask the world I ask you .to close your eyes and see Africa one day making beautiful music. No longer a cacophony of View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
Working in Tech 4Dev
include the location of relief supplies after earthquakes, pothole sightings in municipalities, or reports of violence, genocide, and bombings in areas as disparate as Syria, Congo, and Gaza. The model of “crowdsourced activism” is a... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias
Every year, specially chosen committees help the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) decide how to allocate massive—totaling more than $24 billion in 2014—competitive federal grants for medical research. But the evaluators on the various committees come from View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Pursuing a passion
really intriguing,” Amabile continues. “Frans found that highly creative individuals often have degrees in widely disparate disciplines, were raised in two or more cultures or countries, or have work experience in a couple of unrelated... View Details
- Web
Just Digital Future - Race, Gender & Equity
chart a course toward a digital world that works for everyone. Our 10-episode listening tour brings scholars, practitioners, and activists into conversation about disparities in technology and the tech sector. The articles below share the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work
Indian workers, they are about a third of the wage that American workers get for exactly the same jobs. What seems to be happening is that employers are setting the wage in a way that takes into account the conditions remote workers are also facing in their local... 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
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Driven
creates an opportunity to weave together disparate threads of scholarship. A fascinating outcome of this broad intellectual overview, Driven provides a new way to look at the unseen forces that guide the choices we make every day in our... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
prosperity that has been generated by the functioning of market capitalism. Across the board, however, the primary concern was that the way the system currently functioned was associated with a great disparity of wealth and income in many... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- Profile
Patrick Connolly
thereafter. More than mere functional expertise and ability, however, HBS has imbued me with a more finely honed ability to see the big picture in the face of a great deal of disparate (and often conflicting) information and uncertainty.... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Power of Entrepreneurship
started IGNIA because of the power of entrepreneurship to really bring change into an economy, into a country, into a business community. “Especially in a country like this, the disparities are so big. We have easy access to quality... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
between fields can be as large as fourfold, according to the study. The survey “provides quantitative evidence that highlights disparities in how the pandemic has affected the scientific workforce,” the researchers write. [div... View Details
- 03 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund
racial disparities in the US. Racial injustice has historically presented itself in many forms—including practices such as slavery, redlining, white-only or white-preferred employment quotas—and has led to stark economic inequity and... View Details