Wealth - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

distributions of income and wealth have grown more unequal, and rates of socioeconomic mobility have declined. Millions of households have had to work longer hours, add additional income earners, and devote more effort to succeed on the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

mainstream media attention on their research on wealth inequality, including this YouTube video, which has received more than 19 million views. But, Norton says, it took nearly 10 years for the media to pay attention to the line of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

the different dimensions of family wealth? Why is material wealth a blessing for some and burden for others? How can philanthropy help raise healthy, happy, and productive family members? These and other questions will be explored as we... View Details

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

reason to trust each other. Without trust, many transactions will never materialize. A crucial feature of any platform is enabling and creating a trust environment allowing independent parties to feel comfortable that they’re not putting their business, operation, or... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

new book, Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads. Employing a wealth of interviews and quantitative data, their book takes the first comprehensive approach in decades to examine the evolving MBA marketplace and its threats... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

Research Summary

Research Thrust

By: Rakesh Khurana

I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details

2015
Report

Growth & Shared Prosperity

By: Karen G. Mills

In June 2015, nearly 75 experienced leaders from across business, government, labor, academia, and media gathered at Harvard Business School to discuss a topic of increasing concern in America: How can our nation continue to remain competitive while also providing a... View Details

Keywords: Shared Prosperity; Wealth

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November – December 2010
Article

Robin Hood under the Hood: Wealth-based Discrimination in Illicit Customer Help

By: F. Gino and L. Pierce

Keywords: Wealth; Customers

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September 2008
Article

Where Oil-Rich Nations Are Placing Their Bets

By: Rawi Abdelal, Ayesha Khan and Tarun Khanna

Keywords: Wealth; Energy

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April 1989 (Revised April 1990)
Case

Hunger in the Sudan

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Poverty; Sudan

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2015
Report

The Challenge of Shared Prosperity: Findings of Harvard Business School's 2015 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness

By: Jan Rivkin, Karen G. Mills and Michael E. Porter

In the 2015 survey on U.S. competitiveness, HBS alumni weigh in on the current state and future trajectory of U.S. competitiveness as well as the structural strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. business environment. In addition, alumni delve deeper into two aspects of... View Details

Keywords: Competitiveness; U.S. Competitiveness; Shared Prosperity; Wealth; Competition; United States

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01 Jun 2011
News

America the Unequal

Percent of Wealth Owned: Actual U.S. wealth distribution compared with Estimated and Ideal distributions reported by respondents in a national survey. The “4th” and “Bottom” groups are so small that they are... View Details

Keywords: income disparity; class mobility

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Sovereign funds

Where can I find information on sovereign funds? In Capital IQ: Mouse over Screening and click on All Idea Generation Screens. In the grey box at the top, click on Companies and then scroll down the new results menu below and select Sovereign View Details