Inequalities - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2007
News

Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

allows its 600,000 resellers to sell their unused telecom minutes to smaller customers for a profit. "These kinds of entrepreneurial activities strengthen the social fabric by engaging people as equity partners in their own future," observes Zobel. His dedication to... View Details

21 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

People Trust Business, But Expect CEOs to Drive Social Change

Public trust in business remains relatively unshaken amid economic turbulence and a lingering pandemic, even as faith in the media and government falters, but leaders could do more to address social issues, a new global opinion survey shows. However, not everyone... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

claim. Our intent is to turn a critical eye toward current ideas about how to eradicate inequality and, in the process, to engender new ones. Even as many activists and academics continue to wrestle with whether and how “master’s tools”... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

explore... Addressing Inequities in Education: SE Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025) Amal Tariq 22 Jul 2024 The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore... Advancing Health Equity: SE... View Details

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Projects - Race, Gender & Equity

Harvard explores the intersection of technology and inequality through interviews with researchers, practitioners, and activists, community events, and interactive workshops. Advancing Structural Equality in Law Firms This collaboration... View Details

08 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

leave the company. The researchers made other discoveries as well, which might have something to say about wage inequality and widening pay gaps in corporations. The findings suggest: “Female employees may be able to tolerate being paid... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

10 May 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

impact and to have that impact recognized and rewarded.” "If a manager delivering feedback has already written the employee off, the employee is likely to sense that." Breaking the inequity cycle requires leaders to see talent as... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

(6) Entertainment (21) Entrepreneurship (290) Environmental Accounting (8) Environmental Sustainability (180) Equality and Inequality (44) Equity (25) Ethics (172) Ethnicity (8) Executive Compensation (13) Executive Education (11)... View Details

05 May 2022
HBS Case

College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need

retention practices, notes that the new HBS note comes at a time of ongoing racial reckoning sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, whose death two years ago shined a light on numerous inequities faced by Black Americans,... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

28 Mar 2024
News

Rooms with a View

Alexander Mirza (MBA 1997) has spent two decades in the hospitality industry, opening and growing major hotel brands, including Hilton, Starwood, and Caesars, with locations around the world. And with each new project, Mirza faced the same primary challenge. “It didn’t... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Christina Gandolfo; Hospitality

07 May 2014
What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

prosperity for everyone." David Wittenberg added, "Experience shows that income inequality need not lead to disaster, provided that there are fair means for the poor to achieve their aspirations." Donna succinctly asked,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

presented significant challenges: balancing replicable and standardized “off the shelf” solutions with distributing a “methodology” to enable other institutions to identify their own solutions to inequities in their patient population.... View Details

25 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

helping to shape the future growth of our company, as we focus on wealth-building to dramatically uplift Black and Brown communities and address racial inequities in America.” “Through the RISE Career Fellow program, and with exceptional... View Details

10 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

Minimum Wage Debate Is Really About Social Values

those decisions. Q: What part does the minimum wage debate play in larger policy discussion about income inequality? A: We know that income inequality has been rising dramatically over the past several decades. If rising View Details

Keywords: by April White; Retail; Manufacturing

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Reflections on My First Semester Teaching at HBS - MBA

again this year! You Might Want to Read Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023): Solving Big Problems Through Entrepreneurship Chasing a Dream: My Summer Internship at Chelsea Football Club Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise... View Details

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Faculty & Research - Business History

After the murder of senior generals in the Indonesian army by elements of the country's communist party in 1965, General Suharto orchestrated the mass killing of some half a million leftists and fellow travelers. But his ambitions spanned far beyond perpetrating a...... View Details

09 Apr 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

salaries? Researchers present evidence that workers dislike inequality in equity compensation more than salary compensation because of the perceived scarcity of equity. Subjectivity in Tournaments: Implicit Rewards and Penalties and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Smitha Das (MBA 2018) - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

15 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

should at least partially explain rising wage inequality in the United States—a widely documented fact—we find evidence to the contrary,” the authors write. The paper, Digital Labor Market Inequality and the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology

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Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni

practices, empowering leaders, and advancing equity by tackling gender, race, and other inequalities in business and society https://www.hbs.edu/race-gender-equity/about/Pages/signup.aspx Working Knowledge newsletter Learn about fresh... View Details

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