Publications

19 Apr 2021
News

Supplier Diversity Programs Are Failing Black-Owned Businesses

September 2020
Teaching Note

Mary Guerrero and the Advancement of Latinx Talent: Developing an Employee Resource Group at a Top Tier Bank (A) and (B)

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Amy Hernandez Turcios

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 321-017 and 321-018. View Details

Keywords: Latinx; Bank; Latin America; Representation; Scale; Inclusion; Coalition; Resources; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Ethnicity; Banks and Banking; Leadership

Purchase

01 Jun 2020
News

Life’s Work: An Interview with Megan Rapinoe

Keywords: racial equality; discrimination; LGBTQ issues

05 May 2020
News

African American Inequality in the United States

Keywords: Janice Hammond, A. Kamau Massey, Mayra A. Garza; racial equality

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

Keywords: Isolation; Segregation; Mobility; Education; Demographics; Equality and Inequality; Labor

Article

From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration

By: Vasiliki Fouka, Soumyajit Mazumder and Marco Tabellini

How does the arrival of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration. Between 1915 and 1930, 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to Northern... View Details

Keywords: Assimilation; Great Migration; Group Identity; Immigration; Race; History; United States

Purchase

April 2017
Article

Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Benjamin Edelman, Michael Luca and Daniel Svirsky

In an experiment on Airbnb, we find that applications from guests with distinctively African-American names are 16% less likely to be accepted relative to identical guests with distinctively White names. Discrimination occurs among landlords of all sizes, including... View Details

Keywords: Discrimination; Field Experiment; Bias; Airbnb; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Accommodations Industry

Article

Organization of Information and the Detection of Gender Discrimination

By: C. Rutte, T. Diekmann, J. Polzer, F. Crosby and D. Messick

Keywords: Information; Groups and Teams; Gender

2004
Book

Clearing the Hurdles: Women Building High-Growth Businesses

By: Candida G. Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene and Myra M. Hart

Keywords: Gender; Growth and Development; Business Ventures

2002
Article

The Diana Project: Women Business Owners & Equity Capital: The Myths Dispelled.

By: Candida G. Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene and Myra M. Hart

Keywords: Ownership; Gender; Capital; Equity

21 Sep 2021
News

Why JPMorgan Chase Is Committed to Improving Racial Equity in Banking

01 Jul 2021
News

Do Your DE&I Efforts Consider Age, Class, and Lived Experience?

12 Oct 2020
News

How Mothers WFH Are Negotiating What’s Normal

01 Mar 2009
News

Antarctic Adventure

Photo OP: The penguins didn’t seem to mind being the center of attention when 21 HBS alumni and friends ventured ashore during a ten-day trip to Antarctica in early December. The School’s Alumni Travel Program heads to Tanzania and Rwanda in late August. Get details at... View Details

Keywords: Antarctica

01 Dec 2001
News

MBAs by the Numbers

The MBA Program recently released statistics on its newest recruits, the Class of 2003, and job placement information for graduates of the Class of 2001. This year's incoming class of 895 students, selected from an applicant pool of 8,893, reflects the growing number... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2004
News

Himalayan Journey

Visions of Bhutan: October 2004 Bhutan photo gallery Prayer flags fluttering gently in the wind; crystalline alpine air; monks’ robes in glowing red; and everywhere warm faces, people smiling, children waving. This is the remote Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, Land of the... View Details

Keywords: Janet Sanders; Hospitality

2021
Working Paper

Who Do We Invent for? Patents by Women Focus More on Women's Health, but Few Women Get to Invent

By: Rembrand Koning, Sampsa Samila and John-Paul Ferguson

Has the increase in female medical researchers led to more medical advances for women? In this paper, we investigate if the gender of inventors shapes their types of inventions. Using data on the universe of U.S. biomedical patents, we find that patents with women... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Biomedical Research; Innovation and Invention; Diversity; Gender; Research; Health; United States

06 Nov 2020
News

Signal Boost

organizations in western Michigan, sprang up when the area—once largely white—began to undergo a significant demographic change. Latino migrants and immigrants began to move into the area for agricultural jobs. “LEDA, initially, was... View Details

1 Jan 1991
Conference Presentation

Gender Difference: What Difference Does it Make?

By: R. J. Ely

Keywords: Gender