Incarceration - Publications - Faculty & Research

August 2011 (Revised October 2015)
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Boardroom Battle Behind Bars: Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings—A Corporate Governance Drama

By: William C. Kirby and Tracy Yuen Manty

Despite widespread news of the incarceration of Gome Electronics' CEO, Huang Guangyu, Bain Capital felt they carefully undertook due diligence before making a significant investment in the company. The venture capital firm was confident that it and the current... View Details

Keywords: China; Legal Aspects Of Business; Corruption; Risk; Corporate Governance; Crime and Corruption; Power and Influence; Risk Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Venture Capital; Ethics; Governing and Advisory Boards; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Values and Beliefs; Private Equity; China

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January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
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Equal Justice Initiative: Mercy, Truth and Dignity

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Gerald Chertavian and Brittany Logan

In 1989, the Equal Justice Initiative was established as a non-profit, public interest law firm by Harvard Law School graduate, Bryan Stevenson.

EJI provides legal assistance to condemned prisoners, people wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced, children in... View Details

Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Nonprofit Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Issues; Race

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21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

largest private prison operator in the U.S., was considering expansion options. The company's largest customers, federal and state governments, were under economic pressure to reduce the incarceration rate and lower operating costs,... View Details

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HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers How can formerly incarcerated people reintegrate into society if few companies will hire... View Details

12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

PublicationsCapitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business Authors:Joseph Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2011 Abstract The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Popular Browse All Articles About Us Newsletter Sign-Up RSS Page 1 of 5,369 Results 12 Nov 2024 HBS Case Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers by Avery Forman How can formerly incarcerated people... View Details

07 Mar 2023
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ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

suggests some of the bias in AI could be mitigated by including people from historically marginalized communities in its design. “The people who will really, really know how tools are being used are refugees or incarcerated people or... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology

29 Jul 2021
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Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022)

The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. This summer, we are connecting with some of our 59 Social... View Details

22 Apr 2022
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Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

Employers looking to fill critical job vacancies may want to turn to a largely untapped pool of willing workers: people with criminal records. Employers are often wary of hiring workers with past convictions, leading to double-digit unemployment rates for formerly... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

01 Mar 2024
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The War Within

Many communities view mental health disorders as a symbol of weakness, and older generations distrust the psychiatric system with cause. Prior to 1991, the Soviets used it as a suppressive tool, diagnosing dissidents with mental illness and View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

17 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

neighborhoods. Communities with flourishing illicit cannabis markets suffer a host of associated problems, including high incarceration rates (often exacerbated by prosecutorial bias), violence as the primary means of dispute resolution... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

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Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar

some time networking. Webinar Tackles Race and Mass Incarceration Using Case Method Nearly 2.3 million individuals are currently locked up in U.S. prisons, jails, and detention centers. Of these, 60% are Black or Latinx. Why the mass... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Christine Murnane Archives | Social Enterprise

a NYC nonprofit to address problems of mass incarceration and instituti... INITIATIVES focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details

23 Aug 2017
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Developing Leaders Behind Bars

Pelican Bay maximum security state prison and asked me to come along to document the event. What were your goals going into the prison? My objective as a photographer was to help humanize these incarcerated entrepreneurs-in-training and... View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

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NYC Christine Murnane 11 Jul 2019 HBS alumni partnered with a NYC nonprofit to address problems of mass incarceration and instituti... SEI25 Series: Pato Bichara (MBA 2015), CEO, Collective Academy Pato Bichara 20 Jun 2019 This post is... View Details

11 Jun 2021
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Saying “Race” Out Loud: Leading Conversations on Diversity in HBS Classrooms

the riskiness of hiring formerly incarcerated people,” says one faculty member as “Jack,” a white male. “While I think offering a second chance is admirable, I don't entirely agree that this is a workforce that should be prioritized." In... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research

critical issues such as racism in business technologies, inclusion in organizations, bias in legal policies, and the effect of incarceration on employment and entrepreneurship,” says Debora Spar, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

15 Jun 2020
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Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5

Goldfields April 8, 2020: Kenya April 15, 2020: Economic Inequality April 22, 2020: US Mass Incarceration April 29, 2020: Detroit: on the Right Track? May 2020: Murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Ahmaud Arbery These are cases... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Diversifying HBS's Case Collection

dean for Culture and Community at HBS and Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing, are available for free. These materials and a free PDF of another written case, “Race and Mass Incarceration in the United States,” coauthored by... View Details