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- 28 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
Tackling Inequality: An HBS Independent Project
community organizations. Over our first semester, Vatsala Deora, Sara Gentile, Cait Haught, Shannon Nelson, Shireen Soheili, and I worked with Professors Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Nien-hê Hsieh to sketch a course that would fill that curriculum gap. Recognizing that... View Details
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Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society
Roundtable focuses on regional challenges while exploring the evolving role of business in society. More about Global Leadership Roundtables Europe’s green transition Uncover the impact of industrial policy on American business Explore resources about economic View Details
- March–April 1992
- Article
Debate: A Response to the Business of Equal Opportunity by Reginald Dickerson
By: D. A. Thomas and D. Evans
Keywords: Equality and Inequality
Thomas, D. A., and D. Evans. "Debate: A Response to the Business of Equal Opportunity by Reginald Dickerson." Harvard Business Review 70, no. 2 (March–April 1992).
- 2003
- Article
Choosing Equal Injustice
By: William S. Laufer and Nien-he Hsieh
Keywords: Equality and Inequality
Laufer, William S., and Nien-he Hsieh. "Choosing Equal Injustice." American Journal of Criminal Law 30, no. 3 (2003): 343–361.
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
daughter of Indian immigrants, Aditya was acutely aware of the inequalities that plague the venture capital world, including the less than 3 percent of VC money that goes to all-women founding teams (a number that is even smaller for... View Details
- Web
Just Digital Future - Race, Gender & Equity
Just Digital Future Technology has the potential to build a better world but its applications and uses are often biased and can reinforce systems of inequality. We teamed up with our friends at The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard to unpack the... View Details
- 1979
- Other Unpublished Work
Does Equal Opportunity Mean Equal Results - HBS Technical Note
By: J. Ronald Fox
Keywords: Equality and Inequality
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Bridging the Gap
limited student access to technology, and lack of family support and essential services all have had an impact on the world’s children and those who are trying to teach them. The pandemic has laid bare and even exacerbated inequities in... View Details
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
football stadium, a cruise ship—where people are segmented by rank of some sort. Norton co-authored the study, Physical and Situational Inequality on Airplanes Predicts Air Rage, with Katherine A. DeCelles, an associate professor of... View Details
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
“And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. So, I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the... View Details
- 13 Sep 2006
- Op-Ed
Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do
increase in pay of senior executives and superstars in other fields has been a major source of the rising inequality of wages in the United States. Rising income inequality is political dynamite and damages... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
How to Take Collective Action for Racial and Gender Equity at Work" Stephanie Creary presents "(How) Should I LEAP? Power, Anxiety, and Sociocultural Ideals as Facilitators of Cross-Racial Allyship at Work" Sanaz Mobasseri presents "A Systems-Psychodynamic Approach to... View Details
- Student-Profile
Professor Lumumba Seegars
Lumumba Seegars, assistant professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit, discusses his work studying intergroup inequalities within organizations, how this research helps us understand why even those with great... View Details
- May 2000
- Article
Agricultural Cooperatives in Gujarat, India: Agents of Equity or Differentiation?
By: Alnoor Ebrahim
Ebrahim, Alnoor. "Agricultural Cooperatives in Gujarat, India: Agents of Equity or Differentiation?" Development in Practice 10, no. 2 (May 2000): 178–188.
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
Here’s some bad news and some worse news for women who aspire to the executive suite. The bad news is that there’s a huge gender gap in top corporate positions, both in terms of the number of female executives and how much money they make compared to men. “Our results... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
you might say—about the mechanical effects of an economic policy. We are not very good at thinking about the broader value judgments underneath those decisions. What part does the minimum wage debate play in larger policy discussion about income inequality? We know... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
incomes either among countries or within them. Inequalities of income and power emerge as a major societal issue alongside poverty, and the book develops alternative societal models based upon the degree of View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
tried-and-true pedagogy and gamification. “We want you to get addicted to the course the way you get addicted to a game,” he says. See more from the online-only March Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s exploration of how business and school leaders are addressing View Details
Keywords: April White
- May 2025
- Article
Workplace Segregation Between College and Non-college Workers
By: Francis Dillon, Edward L. Glaeser and William Kerr
We measure the level and growth of education segregation in American workplaces from 2000 to 2020.
American workplaces show an educational segregation, measured by the degree to which the establishment
has mostly workers of similar education levels, that is... View Details
Dillon, Francis, Edward L. Glaeser, and William Kerr. "Workplace Segregation Between College and Non-college Workers." AEA Papers and Proceedings 115 (May 2025): 139–145.
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money
corporations, and fake transactions. The practice bolsters international crime and terrorism and contributes to global inequality and poverty, he writes. A guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a senior fellow at the Center for... View Details