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  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

An American Odyssey

known as ‘reparations,’ ” he explains. “But I approach this with realistic expectations as policy analysis, not a cause. I’m attempting to correctly understand chronic racial inequality by putting it in a historical context and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

The Well-Healed Athlete

neuroscience research and social justice and economic inequality initiatives, among other areas. To establish the Alliance’s research agenda, Wu Tsai began meeting with leading experts in a variety of disciplines in the fall of 2019.... View Details
Keywords: April White; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade
  • 20 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

written by Harvard Business School faculty—along with links to the full text of those papers. Here are the five most downloaded working papers of 2018: Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality While corporate tax cuts increase... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2022
  • News

A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions

poverty line. “And you don’t really think twice about the amount of inequality there might be just 10 minutes from where you live.” The team made some quick determinations: “Doing food drives once in a while is not going to really make a... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Trade Off

trade and capital flows created a world that looked in many ways like ours. Yet even in the early 20th century, there remained tensions of increasing inequality and wage competition in a context of ruthless international rivalry.... View Details
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

risks. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45672 Mums the Word! Cross-national Effects of Maternal Employment on Gender Inequalities at Work and at Home By: McGinn, Kathleen L., Mayra Ruiz Castro, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5

inequalities present in the workplace. Also, let’s not forget that minorities can be penalized for promoting diversity. The burden should not solely fall on Black people to solve a problem that they didn’t create. You, too, can hold your... View Details
  • 10 Apr 2025
  • Blog Post

IFC India 2025: SELCO - Decentralized Renewable Energy to Develop While Decarbonizing

Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Kate Aitken

who seek a better life and promised that education and hard work would ensure future success. In the America of my childhood, openness and opportunity were inextricably linked. Today that link feels broken. Economic inequality has driven... View Details
  • 02 Nov 2021
  • News

The Road to Racial Equity

CEO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a national nonprofit that fights racial and economic inequities by empowering the next generation of leaders. Since 2002, MLT has been working with high-achieving Black, Latinx, and Native... View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez
Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details
Keywords: STEM; Selection and Staffing; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Training; Equality and Inequality; Competency and Skills
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Mortgage Prepayment, Race, and Monetary Policy

By: Kristopher Gerardi, Paul Willen and David Hao Zhang
Over the period 2005 to 2015, Black borrowers paid more than 40 basis points higher mortgage interest rates than Non-Hispanic white borrowers. We show that the main reason is that Non-Hispanic white borrowers are much more likely to exploit periods of falling interest... View Details
Keywords: Mortgages; Consumer Behavior; Race; Ethnicity; Equality and Inequality; Policy; United States
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  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Government, Business and Making China an Educational Powerhouse Since the 1980s

By: Geoffrey Jones, Yuan Jia-Zheng, Yuhai Wu and Qianru Wang
This article examines how China successfully built a highly competent K-12 education system since the 1980s achieving high literacy rates, broad basic education and gender equality. It argues that this success was driven by a strategy of blending public and private... View Details
Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Secondary Education; Literacy; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Business and Government Relations; Policy; Education Industry; China
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  • February 9, 2016
  • Article

How a 10-Year-Old Boy Gave 13,000 Young Adults the Chance to Get Ahead

By: Gerald Chertavian
Keywords: Opportunities; Nonprofit Organizations; Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Competency and Skills; Income
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  • March 2008
  • Teaching Note

Brazil Under Lula: Off the Yellow BRIC Road (TN)

By: Aldo Musacchio
Teaching Note for [707031]. View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Programs; Problems and Challenges; Equality and Inequality; Poverty; Growth and Development Strategy; Brazil; India; Russia; China
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  • 18 Aug 2021
  • News

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

something lasting,” said Josh Kraft, who is president of Kraft Family Philanthropies. The fund has raised nearly $30 million to support community groups and coalitions that fight racism and racial inequity in Massachusetts. Among its core... View Details
  • 13 Apr 2022
  • News

New School

Waldron says. “We were having a crisis in education before the pandemic, in terms of disparities in kids’ learning gains.” Now, after two years of disrupted learning in many places, those inequities are even more apparent, and progress is... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Alumni Books

transplant, or a joint replacement in the United States, here's the key to getting the very best medical care: be a straight, white, middle-class male. White, a pioneering black surgeon, and his coauthor make sense of the unconscious bias that riddles medical treatment... View Details
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Walking the Talk in Multiparty Bargaining: An Experimental Investigation

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Katherine L Milkman and Markus Noth
We study the framing effects of communication in multiparty bargaining. Communication has been shown to be more truthful and revealing than predicted in equilibrium. Because talk is preference-revealing, it may effectively frame bargaining around a logic of fairness or... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Competition; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Types; Fairness; Interpersonal Communication; Game Theory; Cooperation
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Corrigendum to 'Resource-Monotonicity for House Allocation Problems'

By: Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and Lars Ehlers

Ehlers and Klaus (2003) study so-called house allocation problems and claim to characterize all rules satisfying efficiency, independence of irrelevant objects, and resource-monotonicity on two preference domains (Ehlers and Klaus, 2003, Theorem 1).... View Details

Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Resource Allocation
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