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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Capitalism, Slavery, and the Legacy of Cesare Beccaria

By: Sophus A. Reinert
The Milanese Marquis Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) dedicated his life first to theorizing a more just and equal society grounded in individual rights, anchored in secular political economy rather than in religious dogma, then to realizing this bold vision... View Details
Keywords: Slavery; Racism; Capitalism; History; Society
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    Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop

    It is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Adam Neumann, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family. But we rarely think about the many people who supported their unethical or criminal behavior. In each case there was a supporting cast of... View Details
    • 07 Jul 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

    natural gas that were burdened with highly inefficient delivery systems. In time, the company supported his basic concept with EnronOnline, a Web-based trading platform that instantly became the world's largest e-commerce system in 1999.... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Innate Brute Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-Based Taxation

    By: Matthew C. Weinzierl
    U.S. survey respondents' views on distributive justice are shown to differ in two specific, related ways from what is conventionally assumed in modern optimal tax research. A large share of respondents, and in some cases a large majority, resist the full equalization... View Details
    Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Attitudes; Taxation; Theory; United States
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    • 24 Sep 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Do We Tax?

    fixing this gap. For 40 years, economists have drawn from the well of Utilitarian theory—which has the goal of maximizing overall well-being in society—to help design tax systems in the United States and around the world. Although the... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services
    • Article

    Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Innate Brute Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-based Taxation

    By: Matthew C. Weinzierl
    U.S. survey respondents' views on distributive justice differ in two specific, related ways from what is conventionally assumed in modern optimal tax research. When expressing their preferences over allocations in stylized, hypothetical scenarios meant to isolate key... View Details
    Keywords: Optimal Taxation; Welfarism; Luck; Benefit-based Taxation; Taxation; Equality and Inequality; Attitudes
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    HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research

    three working Americans with criminal records from the economy? In a case study, Paul Gompers explores the challenges a social justice startup encounters in helping the formerly incarcerated, as well as... View Details
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    Browse All Articles, Research, & Case Studies - HBS Working Knowledge

    businesses afford to exclude the roughly one in three working Americans with criminal records from the economy? In a case study, Paul Gompers explores the challenges a social justice startup encounters in... View Details
    • 19 Jul 2016
    • First Look

    July 19, 2016

    in press Journal of Systems and Software Technical Debt and System Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Defect-related Activity By: MacCormack, Alan, and Daniel J. Sturtevant Abstract—Technical debt is... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Curriculum - Case Method Project

    wish to use it.] Coverage: 1877 – 1880; post-bellum South; rise of segregated public schools; jury system; race and racism in the criminal justice system; federalism; U.S. Supreme Court; Rives v. Virginia;... View Details
    • 14 Nov 2017
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

    through three examples: the design of medical residency matching programs, a scrip system to allocate food donations to food banks, and the recent "Incentive Auction" that reallocated wireless spectrum from television broadcasters to... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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    Lifelong Learning - Alumni

    Program) 458 01 Mar 2024 HBS Alumni Bulletin Leading Businesses in a Web3 World How will the next generation of the internet empower users, disrupt industries, and enable ownership of digital assets? 377 01 Mar 2024 HBS Alumni Bulletin On the Radar An early warning... View Details
    • 02 Nov 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Gillian Hadfield, University of California, Gould School of Law

    • 10 Oct 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?

    states (the data excludes Texas) for 1956 through 1980. They use the information to create a database—the first time that such records have been systemically collected for this part US for the years covered by the study, they note. “One... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 21 Dec 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

    funds, Pozen writes with authority and unusual clarity about complex issues in Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System (John Wiley & Sons). Roger Thompson: How does the government figure out which financial institutions... View Details
    Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
    • 14 Jun 2023
    • Op-Ed

    Every Company Should Have These Leaders—or Develop Them if They Don't

    We’ve long known that organizations require so-called flexible leaders to respond to rapid market fluctuations; the last couple of years have only emphasized that necessity. The environment we operate in—shaped by the pandemic, social View Details
    Keywords: by Hise Gibson
    • 16 Oct 2023
    • HBS Case

    Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

    systemic and equitable changes in how they hire and promote from within. “It’s not simply about recruiting and getting people into the role. How are you going to give them sponsorship, give them mentorship?” says Hill, who coauthored the... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation
    • 04 Mar 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

    When US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in 2020, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Edward Chang noticed something interesting: To fill the vacancy, then-President Donald Trump replaced Ginsburg with another woman,... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 27 Apr 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

    on the United States, killing nearly 3,000 people with four hijacked airliners—and throwing the FBI’s structure and identity into question. Since its founding in 1908, the organization had focused primarily on solving domestic crimes and bringing View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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    Information Technology | About

    the Resources and your continued adherence to applicable law, this policy, and other HBS and Harvard University policies. Various forms of computer misconduct are prohibited by federal and state law and are therefore subject to criminal... View Details