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17 Feb 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

home for restaurants, art, and culture at night. And more and more, tech businesses are locating here. “This is a place where the effects of inequality appear to be heightened and most palpable” In doing so, however, technology workers... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

26 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

balance between capitalism and democracy, the book includes chapters on the theory and history of these systems that challenge the assumption that their spread will bring about a convergence of incomes either among countries or within them. View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Racial Equity Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

Racial Equity Fellows The BiGS Racial Equity Visiting Fellows are scholarly researchers who focus on issues of race, diversity, inclusion, and inequality. Their work deepens our understanding of inequality and influences practice to build... View Details

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

core size of 34%, and architecture flow through of 64%. These findings suggest that the method could be effective in uncovering the hidden structure of an enterprise application architecture. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45024 View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

September 2, 2014
Article

Development of In-Group Favoritism in Children's Third-Party Punishment of Selfishness

By: Jillian J. Jordan, Katherine McAuliffe and Felix Warneken

When enforcing norms for cooperative behavior, human adults sometimes exhibit in-group bias. For example, third-party observers punish selfish behaviors committed by out-group members more harshly than similar behaviors committed by in-group members. Although evidence... View Details

Keywords: Ontogeny; Cooperation; Equality and Inequality

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01 Jun 2006
News

CEO Compensation Troubles

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: Jay W. Lorsch; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

Portrait Project

Ashiana Jivraj

effect of the large inequities prevalent globally. Poor oral health can cause quickly spreading illnesses, heart disease, and further world hunger in many nations. The problems I want to solve are bigger than the millimeters I am trained... View Details

January 2022
Background Note

Native American Incarceration

By: Reshmaan Hussam, Sophus A. Reinert and Jordan Naylor

In the early twenty-first century the Native American populations of the United States continued to live with the legacy of colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and cultural destruction. Although other minority groups had increasingly been able to make their voices heard,... View Details

Keywords: Colonialism; Incarceration; Social Issues; Race; Equality and Inequality; History

July 2020 (Revised October 2020)
Case

Valentina Tereshkova: Conquering Space

By: Boris Groysberg and Annelena Lobb

On June 13, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova of the USSR became the first woman to fly in space on Vostok 6. Soviet leaders publicly espoused gender equity, but also sent Tereshkova on her mission in order to be the first country to send a woman to space, a milestone they... View Details

Keywords: Gender Equity; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Personal Development and Career; Aerospace Industry; Soviet Union; United States

February 2015 (Revised August 2019)
Case

Equality of Opportunity and Outcome in the U.S.

By: Matthew Weinzierl and Alastair Su

Equality of opportunity is endorsed universally even though, or more likely because, it can mean such different things to different people. What definition of equality of opportunity ought to figure into policy decisions? How close, or far, is the United States from... View Details

Keywords: Equality Of Opportunity; Justice; Opportunities; Equality and Inequality; Policy; United States

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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Addressing Structural Inequality Panel: Lunch and panel discussion: Communicating through Media Sarah Cliffe , Harvard Business Review Maria Konnikova , The New Yorker Amy Cuddy , Harvard Business School Flash Talks: Approaches &... View Details

25 Apr 2016
News

Just Rewards

own pay rise, Darrington launched Pro Business Against Greed, an organization fighting inequity in corporate compensation models. “I am a believer in capitalism,” he says proudly, “and I also believe that big bonuses breed bad behavior.”... View Details

18 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative

produced by HBS faculty. What are the Race, Gender & Equity Initiative’s goals? Gender and other forms of inequality present pressing business challenges, and we bring the unique strengths of HBS as a research and teaching institution... View Details

Portrait Project

Valerie Galinskaya

appreciation of my family's sacrifice and resolve to provide me the opportunity for a brighter future. I know that opportunity is a privilege, and I intend to treat it as one. I want to prove that the "American Dream" is alive,and help tackle the View Details

Portrait Project

Peter Tynan

all share the same dream for a happy life. I am saddened that not all those watching the sunset will have their dreams fulfilled – because of deep poverty, conflict, inequality and all levels of struggle to get through the day. There are... View Details

January 19, 2021
Article

How to Be a 'Glass-Shattering' Organization

By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

Advancing gender equality is certainly desirable, but may not seem vital during this turbulent time — yet that assumption couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, losing sight of gender equity right now is likely to put you at a real disadvantage when the pandemic... View Details

Keywords: Gender Equity; Gender Inclusivity; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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March 2002
Case

Women and Power: Stories From Around the Globe

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Alexis Lefort and Nicole Nasser

This case uses vignettes and statistics of the broader issue discussed in each vignette to explore some of the ways in which gender is played out in the struggle for power and control. Disenfranchised groups--those not allowed access to critical resources--have little... View Details

Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Gender; Power and Influence

2018
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Organizational Remedies for Discrimination

By: R. Ely and A. Feldberg

Laws now exist to protect employees from blatant forms of discrimination in hiring and promotion, but workplace discrimination persists in latent forms. These “second-generation” forms of bias arise in workplace structures, practices, and patterns of interaction that... View Details

Keywords: Discrimination; Prejudice and Bias; Equality and Inequality

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