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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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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  • September 2021
  • Comment

Commentary on ‘2019 Academic Marketing Climate Survey: Motivation, Results and Recommendations', by Jeff Galak and Barbara E. Kahn

By: John A. Deighton
This paper reflects on the conclusions of a survey by Galak and Kahn on the climate experienced by faculty of all genders and ethnicities in the marketing departments of US business schools. View Details
Keywords: Gender; Equality and Inequality; Organizational Culture
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  • Portrait Project

Rod Norman

inequality are linked in communities around the world. Working as an international banker has given me a greater appreciation for the ability of capital, public/private-sector partnerships, and sound legal infrastructures to help solve... View Details
  • 02 Dec 2017
  • News

The Lines That Divide America

Photo via The Atlantic Photo via The Atlantic In a new article in The Atlantic, Dean Nitin Nohria draws parallels between standing in a waiting line and the current sense of unfairness and inequality being experienced by many Americans.... View Details
Keywords: Nitin Nohria
  • Web

2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

University of Massachusetts Boston Mobilizing Privileged Allies to Address Inequalities Rae Johnson , Pacifica Graduate Institute The Embodiment of Courage Mario Small , Harvard University On Power, Ambiguity, and Mentoring in the... View Details
  • 28 May 2014
  • News

Leveling the Playing Field for all Learners

has been an inequity in terms of preparing for college. By working with us to create not just a free tool—that’s ‘hey, if you can’t afford the fancy stuff, here’s the free one’-- but making the best thing that also happens to be free, I... 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
  • Web

2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

those women who still define the master's house as their only source of support.” Our intent is to turn a critical eye toward current ideas about how to eradicate inequality and, in the process, to engender new ones. Even as many... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Demographically Biased Technological Change

By: Victor Manuel Bennett, John-Paul Ferguson, Masoomeh Kalantari and Rembrand Koning
Who gets the jobs that automation creates? A consensus has begun to emerge that said technologies complement rather than substitute for labor. However, they also shift the demand for specific types of skills and other worker competencies. Such shifts imply unequal... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Employment; Equality and Inequality; Demographics
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  • July 2023
  • Article

The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap

By: Zoë B. Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Offices are social places. Employees and managers take breaks together and talk about family and hobbies. In this study, we show that employees’ social interactions with their managers can be advantageous for their careers, and that this phenomenon contributes to the... View Details
Keywords: Career; Promotions; Social Interactions; Networking; Interpersonal Communication; Familiarity; Equality and Inequality; Gender
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  • March 2022
  • Teaching Note

Inclusive Innovation at Mass General Brigham

By: Katherine Coffman and Olivia Hull
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 921-006, “Inclusive Innovation at Mass General Brigham." This case invites students to explore the individual and structural factors that lead to an under-representation of women in male-dominated domains, and to think critically about... View Details
Keywords: Inclusion; Gender Gap; Gender Inclusivity; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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  • 12 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them

Black patients and their doctors may be more open to new medications if drug trials included more Black people, new research shows. Currently, Black Americans represent just 5 percent of drug trial participants. Nearly three-quarters of doctors surveyed in a new study... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Pharmaceutical; Health
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Advancing the Mission

Growing up in India as the children of government workers, Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019) and Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) had an innate sense of the inequalities and problems facing their country and an optimism to want to do something about them.... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

For African farmers looking to escape poverty, honey brings sweet success

for exemplary service, Keshavjee says, “I’d like to play my small part in reducing the inequalities of income on this new-frontier continent. I’d like to inspire youthful entrepreneurs and the creation of social enterprises.” Keshavjee... View Details
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

theory of domain-contingent inequality aversion to explain this finding: we argue that workers view salary and equity as two domains and are more inequality averse in the equity domain. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2023
  • White Paper

Unlocking Economic Prosperity: Career Navigation in a Time of Rapid Change

By: Joseph B. Fuller, Kerry McKittrick, Sherry Seibel, Cole Wilson, Vasundhara Dash and Ali Epstein
Keywords: Wages; Personal Development and Career; Equality and Inequality
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  • 27 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey

cheaper goods could be tighter than those of makers of high-priced goods from the same category, adding pressure to raise prices as supply costs increased. But when inflation decreased, “the relative prices of cheaper options remained permanently higher, even though... View Details
Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua
  • Web

Capitalism and the State (CATS) - Course Catalog

Objectives Capitalism today is under attack, criticized from many quarters as being the source of societal ills that range from inequality and systemic racism to climate change and labor market disruption. The goal of CATS is both to... View Details