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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
- 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
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Book Smart
Worldreader was quickly a success story in the global south, amassing more than 2 million users in just five years. Global figures continued to climb but, in the spring of 2020, when schools across the United States were closed due to the pandemic, the organization... 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
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
self-esteem), increasing long-term disparities in incomes, a negative impact on the ability of disadvantaged workers to invest, and an ultimate decline even in economic activity in net job-exporting countries. Some argued that these... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
the proposals. A double-blind process allowed reviewers to see how others had graded the proposal and then offered them the option of changing their scores. About 47 percent of the time, reviewers decided to update their initial scores. More importantly, the study... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
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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
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
disparity of wealth and income in many countries and across regions. In turn, they thought these gaps could lead to populist politics that would adversely affect the conduct of capitalism. A second major concern was that our productive... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund
the two disparate companies into one global leader. As part of this effort, Vasella began sending almost all top managers, himself included, to a customized Executive Education program at HBS that focused on leadership and change.... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 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
- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
Liberté, égalité, Sororité Groysberg plans to tackle boardroom gender disparity in How Star Women Succeed. "We'll start by asking why do we want to have a diverse board," he says. "Is it about fairness? Is it about better decision-making?... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience
Among the 31 works in "Second Show," a recent exhibit of Wib Walling's paintings, one in particular seems to reflect the disparate paths that have brought the artist to this juncture in his life. Titled Self-Portrait, the work is a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leaning In to Gender Equity
organizing the Lean In Community (on Facebook, of course). Some of her advice is useful no matter one's gender, given Sandberg's disparate career stops at Facebook and Google, the Treasury Department, and McKinsey & Company. For example,... View Details
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Why Soft Skills Still Matter in the Age of AI | Working Knowledge
there—and they’re very important.” Racial and gender disparities Education plays a key role in the development of general skills and serves as a base for future specialized skills. But what happens if someone receives an inadequate... View Details
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IT Strategy: Building a Smarter, Scalable Future in the Cloud | Information Technology
experimentation and rapid evolution of IT products and services Simplified exploration and linking of disparate data and services The ability to scale resources dynamically as needed—giving us “just in time” infrastructure Detailed... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Accounting Review Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance By: Rouen, Ethan Abstract—I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman