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  • 25 May 2021
  • Research & Ideas

White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

fluctuations. Zhang and her coauthors were curious whether the algorithm might help reduce racial inequalities by optimizing nightly rates for both white and Black hosts, so everyone could benefit financially. Narrowing Airbnb’s racial income View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations
  • 14 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

was often predictable. The concept of talking to extreme consumers was developed to push students out of their comfort zone. "There is an enormous gap between chatting with your friends and chatting with people on the streets in Vietnam,"... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 06 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

Many employees fall into a rut. They do their jobs and respond to challenges in a set way to deliver stable results. But consistency can give way to performance gaps between a company’s high achievers and its weakest links. Fortunately,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 2009
  • Other Unpublished Work

Singapore Competitiveness Report

By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Ashish Lall and Boon Siong Neo

The 2009 Singapore Competitiveness Report, the first in this new series of regular assessments by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, provides data and analysis to inform the discussions on the impact of the crisis... View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Policy; Competitive Strategy; Singapore
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  • 18 Nov 2022
  • HBS Case

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

Make Venture Capital Accessible for Black Founders: An Entrepreneur’s Dilemma A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive What Does It Take to Close the Opportunity Gap in America’s Labor Market? Feedback or... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 06 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Four Strategies for Making Concessions

the purchase of a house and that a wide gap exists between your initial offer and the seller's asking price. You are willing to increase your offer by a maximum of $40,000. You will be more effective if you make two smaller concessions,... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
  • 13 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Gender Changes the Negotiation

positions in high-ambiguity industries work for thirty-five years and receive a 3 percent raise per year, the earnings gap grows to more than $600,000 over the course of a career—or $1.5 million, if those extra earnings are saved at 5... View Details
Keywords: by Dina W. Pradel, Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn
  • 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
  • 04 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

new research. In fact, social bonding among men may account for more than a third of the gender gap in promotions, according to the working paper The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap. “I’m not surprised the old boys’ club... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 May 2011
  • HBS Case

QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off

to begin to address the income inequality gap and offer some measure of stability to employees who don't always enjoy that quality in their work lives." View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 08 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

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

but that gap triples during periods of high public anxiety over immigration in the United States. “When there is the greatest anxiety, we see this funding shortfall.” Banks have historically rejected loan applications from Black, Asian,... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • November – December 2008
  • Article

Chief Risk Officers at Crunch Time: Compliance Champions or Business Partners?

By: Anette Mikes

Risk management departments in financial institutions have been undergoing major transformations. New regulatory requirements have raised the bar on compliance, and expanded the remit of risk management significantly. The compliance imperative requires banks to... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Managerial Roles; Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships
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  • 30 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

the United States and India adopted cell phone technology in the 1980s. However, the difference in per capita income between those nations remains huge: in 2011, the United States had a per capita GDP of around $48,000, while India's was the equivalent of US$3,600. So... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

mobility, and decision-making power, among other factors) rose to the point that the gap between the two groups of women (constrained and unconstrained) was essentially closed. “We are not making these women ultra-liberals,” Rigol says of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 15 Jul 2019
  • Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

disproportionate stock price hit to an earnings miss reflects that informational problem. The promise of private equity involves solving that gap between owners and managers. Buybacks must be interpreted in that context as either... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

says it'll only fund organizations that can demonstrate they do good work to improve educational outcomes for at-risk youth, it sounds reasonable enough," he continues. "But if the foundation picks only those organizations that are able to show results, it may end up... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 16 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

competitors rather than potential partners. The people who were suffering were the visually impaired. There was huge duplication of services in some areas, large gaps in others, and a waste of resources. "Peacock raised the capacity... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Apr 2022
  • Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

employees perceive its shortcomings and leaders. This exercise helps spot gaps between an organization’s stated and lived values. For example, the leaders of a so-called "people-first business" would quickly realize they’re not achieving... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose

By: Malcolm S. Salter
In this paper, I address how the ascendance of the theory of shareholder value maximization into the central consciousness of public corporations and its canonization as the only legitimate expression of corporate purpose has contributed to both a widening breach... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Justice; Corporate Purpose; Shareholder Value Maximization; Ethical Reciprocity; Economic Systems; Business Ventures; Mission and Purpose; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • 06 Dec 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

from the US the ‘largest home market’ advantage, allowing them to subsidize pricing globally. I guarantee that Tencent, Alibaba and others will fill the gap left by a misguided break up.” David de Weese added, “It is not at all clear that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

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