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Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni

Gender & Equity Initiative! Discover how cutting-edge research is shaping practices, empowering leaders, and advancing equity by tackling gender, race, and other inequalities in business and society... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Touche. Research Team Clarence Harley Research Associate Clarence Harley is a Research Associate on Managing the Future of Work and U.S. Competitiveness projects. He has broad research interests in economic mobility, inequality of... View Details

24 May 2021
Op-Ed

Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?

COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu; Fashion

29 Jul 2021
Blog Post

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

obstacles have on health inequities has solidified my desire to work at the intersection of medicine and public health as a both a practicing physician and policymaker. Healthcare has the potential to function as a great equalizer, but... View Details

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Events - Business History

Development of Chinese Capitalism” Pat Giersch, Wellesley 3:30 - 5:00 PM, via Zoom Nov 15 15 Nov 2021 Business History Seminar: Global Business and Society “The Age of Reaction: Democracy and Inequality in the Thought of William Graham... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

society. For the full listing, click here . Capitalism and the State (CATS) (Fall 2024) Debora L. Spar Capitalism today is under attack, criticized from many quarters as being the source of societal ills that range from inequality and... View Details

13 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

benefit society: asset stripping, short-term profit at the expense of workers, and long-term stability. “There are certainly a lot of concerns around whether these kind of transactions are indeed fomenting inequality by getting rid of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

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Gender & Race in Organizations Research Group - Race, Gender & Equity

Shirtz is a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. Her research broadly examines organizational culture, social identity, and View Details

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

political economy. Thomas Piketty locates the roots of growing inequality in the economic returns to capital and stresses the political stakes of distributive justice. “If democracy is someday to regain control of capitalism,” he writes,... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

September 2017 (Revised March 2019)
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Henry Kissinger: Negotiating Black Majority Rule in Rhodesia (A)

By: James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. Green

In 1976, a growing crisis in Southern Africa drew the attention of United States Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. White Rhodesian leader Ian Smith's refusal to accede to black majority rule threatened to widen into a regional conflict involving apartheid South... View Details

Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Race; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Participants; Government and Politics; Africa; United States

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21 Nov 2023
Cold Call Podcast

Cold Call: Building a More Equitable Culture at Delta Air Lines

Keywords: Re: Linda A. Hill; Air Transportation

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Gender Changes the Negotiation

inequities over time. Awareness of the factors that create gender-related advantages and disadvantages can help you mitigate their consequences—and promote a more egalitarian workplace. How Ambiguity Affects Negotiation At Park's firm, a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina W. Pradel, Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn

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6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees - Recruiting

professionals who aspire to advance to senior leadership positions typically adopt the strategy of remaining silent about race and inequality to avoid being labeled “agitators.” In a 2017 study by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and colleagues, 78... View Details

13 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

create an opportunity for executives to reshape their management ranks by advancing women and people of color, allowing companies to address racial inequities and build more diverse workforces, Zhang says. Zhang’s study, Shaking Things... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

08 Mar 2022
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Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

truly diverse curriculum and ensure that business education includes everyone. Tackling the systems at the root of inequality Long before there were women protagonists in the classroom, the HBS Women’s Student Association brought female... View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

28 Mar 2023
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The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation

that are dangerous being released to the public.” You Might Also Like: Can Amazon Remake Health Care? Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape? A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity Feedback or ideas... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Pharmaceutical

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

spread such efforts, YALP is slowly but surely beginning to see on-the-ground results of the partnerships and innovation it’s designed to foster. In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, phrases like income inequality and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

15 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax

result is an economy that's become profoundly unequal and families that are more insecure The combined trends of increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American Dream, our way of life, and what we... View Details

Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl

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Resources - Advancing Racial Equity

Creary, Wharton Events We are committed to convening events that discuss diversity and inclusion, and work toward advancing racial equality. Race, Gender & Equity Initiative The Race, Gender & Equity Initiative catalyzes and translates cutting-edge research to... View Details

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