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28 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

Having uncovered the scope of discrimination taking place against Black guests and hosts on Airbnb, researcher Michael Luca and his colleagues put together a toolkit to aid managers in recognizing and mitigating discrimination on online... View Details

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

22 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

reluctance has hit Black Americans particularly hard since they have seen historically higher arrest rates, often fueled by racial discrimination, research shows. But it might be a good time to rethink those hiring practices and the... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

18 Nov 2022
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

in a business environment awakening to equity and inclusion. One of the first Black portfolio managers, Eddie Brown, founded the eponymous firm in 1983. It was only the second Black-founded investment firm in the US. Its performance in... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

13 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

world of diet beverages. For years, Coca-Cola tried and failed to entice men to consume Diet Coke, its popular (among women) zero-calorie cola, packaged in a striking white can. But then the company introduced the zero-calorie cola Coke Zero, packaged in a View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto

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By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang

Launching Technology Ventures
Launching Technology Ventures (LTV) is designed for students who are actively working on their own startups or who will work at early-stage startups. The course material is, in particular, focused on new businesses in the... View Details

27 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?

Women and Black professionals are more willing to join a team that’s predominantly male or white if it helps them stand out in hyper-competitive situations, despite the potential psychological toll of being a “token,” new research says.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

10 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

at work and why it matters. Gazette: Though everyone can find it hard to feel comfortable in their own skin, especially at work, you say the idea behind this course came out of the challenges that Black people, as well as other... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

08 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles

Koning was talking about such studies with colleagues Ines Black and Sharique Hasan from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, however, something about that model didn’t seem right. “It really didn’t jibe with how a lot of people... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

30 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay

workers living in areas where diversity issues are more salient, as measured by per-capita Black Lives Matter protests. The results were not affected by variations in the education and gender of participants, suggesting that diversity... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

and to attend on scholarship. “It was always very clear that I was different,” Wallace told me, not just because his family was poor but because he was also one of the few Black students. Talk to Wallace for more than a few minutes, and... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

18 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?

Effects on the Design of Executive Compensation Contracts. The answer could help to explain why CEO salaries tend to be very high across the board. “There’s always been this black box surrounding what happens in the boardroom,” says... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consulting

23 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

Midwesterner raised on a dairy farm, and Roy Whitcomb Riley, a Black Southerner, settled in Los Angeles shortly before their son’s birth, in 1981, after traveling the world for 18 years. They lived in Mid City, whose economic and racial... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

24 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

Those changes are likely to be as big as any of those mentioned above. Related Reading: Dear Internet: You Are Extraordinary, But Not Exceptional Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction Quantifying the Economic... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology

17 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups

percent Latino and 0.6 percent Asian). When it comes to NBA coaches, however, the exact opposite is true: there are six black head coaches among 30 teams, or just 20 percent of the league. Research by Harvard Business School Assistant... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

28 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

work of auditors is basically a black box. Even though investors are the ones who most benefit from the auditors’ work, they don’t get to see how it takes place. And that is why they need to rely on these somewhat blunt tools of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

24 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors

requesting career advice. The councilors received identical email queries except for two differences. Sometimes, the student requesting help was a white male student; other times, the student was a white female, Black male, View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

06 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

citizens," in the words of Howard Gardner's recent book, Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed, who watch out not only for numero uno but for the wider public as well. There is no better example of what it really takes to be a Transcendent than the first View Details

Keywords: by Mitch Maidique

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

fund managers will know exactly what caused an investment to be a success or a failure. From the point of view of most investors, including the banks that claim expertise when they intermediate investors' money, invested funds go into a View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

March 2024
Article

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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08 May 2023
Research & Ideas

How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

By contrast, while Black entrepreneurs had lower success rates overall in raising money, support did not fluctuate as dramatically with the ups and downs of the Migration Fear Index. The paper finds that even during periods of low... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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