equality - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 May 2024
Research & Ideas

What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year

As more than 50 countries hold elections in 2024, far-right politicians and policies look poised to gain ground, continuing a years-long trend evident in Europe, the United States, and South America. These movements often stoke grievances about international trade,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Nov 2017
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What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?

measures all metrics. Hard and soft.”), Steve Braje (“You’re better off showing the value of increasing customer loyalty and focusing on that.”), and “bean counter” (operate by means of a balanced triangle “with equal sides for the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Banking

17 Aug 2012
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Dividends as Reference Points: A Behavioral Signaling Approach

Keywords: by Malcolm Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler

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Making Markets Work: An Executive Education Program for Africa

By: Debora L. Spar

In the last decades of the 20th century economic growth was distributed unevenly across the world. While some countries experienced sustained and unprecedented prosperity, others fell further and further behind. This widening gap was particularly evident in Africa,... View Details

2014
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Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure

By: Nuno Gil and Carliss Y. Baldwin

This study empirically investigates the relationship between design structure and organization structure in the context of new infrastructure development projects. Our research setting is a capital program to develop new school buildings in the city of Manchester, UK.... View Details

Keywords: Design; Buildings and Facilities; Education

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26 Aug 2002
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High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

into action. As Cyrus the Great once said, leaders must balance the need for "diversity in counsel, unity in command." To accomplish this, leaders must insure that each participant has a fair and equal opportunity to voice their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto

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Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

education, health care, equal opportunity Rule of Law: Property rights, personal security, and due process Political Institutions: Stable and effective political and governmental organizations and processes Endowments, including natural... View Details

19 Jun 2014
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Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts

Keywords: by Ethan R. Mollick & Ramana Nanda

16 Jul 2013
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Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory BioPharma Case

Keywords: by Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack & David Dreyfus

27 Feb 2013
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In Strange Company: The Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms

Keywords: by Mariana Pargendler, Aldo Musacchio & Sergio G. Lazzarini; Banking; Financial Services

20 Jan 2012
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

2020
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Climate Change Is Going to Transform Where and How We Build

By: John D. Macomber

As fires, floods, and droughts increasingly threaten homes, businesses, and other institutions, climate risk has become financial risk. This implies that homeowners and investors have been making location decisions without properly pricing the cost of potential peril,... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Housing; Mortgages; Geographic Location; Real Estate Industry

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Dominant theories of state formation and nation-building lean heavily on the classic European tale of the simultaneous development of a ‘fiscal state’ and a ‘nation state’. However, this Euro-centered narrative does not factor in that more than two-thirds of the... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

was as if I had two degrees, one from the street and one from college, and both were equally valuable,” he says. “In prison, you have to observe your surroundings because you always have to be aware of what is going on around you. It’s... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories

27 Jun 2016
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These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

productivity, with the United States, Germany, and Sweden at the top; Southern Europe countries in the middle; and emerging economies such as China, India, Brazil, and Africa at the bottom. What was equally striking to Sadun, however, was... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Jun 2008
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Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases

retail price points. Weaker brands risk private label and generic substitution. Clearly, not all marketers are equally affected by price inflation. Commodities like gasoline, where the manufacturer adds little value before the product... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

15 May 2015
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Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom

says to us is that not only are you helping your family economically—and helping yourself professionally and emotionally if you have a job you love—but you're also helping your kids. So I think for both mothers and for fathers, working both inside and outside the home... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

Equality and Inequality ; Education Industry ; Central Asia ; Kazakhstan Citation Educators Purchase Related Groysberg, Boris, and Maxim Pike Harrell. "IQanat: Empowering Rural Youth in Kazakhstan." Harvard Business School Case 425-077,... View Details

04 Oct 2010
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Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees

known as a "fixer." Both types of leaders, the extraverts and the introverts, can be equally successful or ineffectual, but with different groups of employees. “Often the leaders end up doing a lot of the talking and not... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

November 2009 (Revised March 2013)
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Miles Everson at PricewaterhouseCoopers

By: Robert G. Eccles and David Lane

Miles Everson, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), is the Global Engagement Partner (GEP) for a large U.S. financial institution and about to take over this role for a much larger global financial institution. The GEP role is a critical one at PwC. GEPs have... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Customer Relationship Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Managerial Roles; Consulting Industry

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