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- 19 Nov 2019
- News
Lessons from IBM in Nazi Germany
- 16 May 2017
- News
Women May Find Management Positions Less Desirable
- 24 Jun 2016
- News
Is It Safe for CEOs to Voice Strong Political Opinions?
- 31 Jan 2017
- News
CEOs Face Off Against Trump (or Not)
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
Max Bazerman and Mike Luca (Image by John Ritter) What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max Bazerman’s work focuses on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
minorities; we were stressed-out students. Life is not fair. To include opportunities for minorities to openly share their pain with discrimination could add something to organizational cases, but such a discussion would not be insightful... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
“A National System of Income Supplementation”
Richard America’s analysis of the crippling legacy of racial discrimination in the United States was underscored by a study released last summer. In the wake of a spate of riots in urban America in the 1960s, a federal government... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
increasing your female managers leads to higher profitability over time.” — HBS associate professor JORDAN SIEGEL describing his research results from countries that traditionally discriminate against women. (HBS Working Knowledge,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
real market would permit Americans to buy health insurance for themselves, not from a shopper like an HMO. Americans are rejecting what they view as the unfair tactics that HMOs use to keep their costs down: discrimination against... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
of their own significant involvement with those programs. Robert Haas (MBA '68) of Levi Strauss: ending racial discrimination in the community is a business imperative. (photograph by Jamie Tanaka) Robert Haas (MBA '68) of Levi Strauss:... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
50 or 60 years ago. Discrimination used to be perfectly legal; it wasn’t until the 1980s that the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defined and prohibited sexual harassment in the workplace. We certainly have made progress on the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
not hesitant to use the words discriminated against. When only 2.3 percent of venture-backed founders are women, when only 1.5 percent are LatinX, when only 1 percent are Black founders—clearly there’s neglect, ignoring, and View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- News
On Balance
Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) has encountered gender discrimination in the workplace. “I think it’d be hard to find a woman in any workplace who didn’t have personal experiences of it,” she says. As director of Australia’s Workplace Gender... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Ellen Pao (MBA 1998)
groups that don’t fit the VC mold. There is no magic set of experiences that makes you a great venture capitalist. I filed a gender discrimination suit against Kleiner Perkins because I had tried everything else. It seemed like a lawsuit... View Details
Keywords: April White; photo by Eric Millette
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
INK: Big News for Small Business
a whole set of new concerns. Who owns your data? If the algorithm has bad information about you, do you get to fix it? Does the regulator get to look at the algorithm? What if it leads to discrimination and creates disparate impact? If we... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
project reveals that anxiety reduces self-confidence and tends to increase a reliance on others’ advice. Unfortunately, anxiety also reduces the ability to discriminate between good and bad counsel. So it’s best to take a deep breath,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
An Advocate for Women's Equality
the armed forces came at this time. On the policy side, Nixon's Labor Department enforced new requirements for contractors to hire and promote women; conducted compliance reviews of universities; and gave the Equal Opportunity Commission enforcement powers to pursue... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
alleviate that concern? Yes. GINA protects Americans against discrimination as a result of their genetic information. It’s a critically important step on the path to realizing the promise of personalized medicine. It will take some time... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Over 50 and Job Hunting?
Age discrimination is a serious concern among executives who contemplate career moves after age 50. In one recent survey, nearly three out of four managers with an average age of 50 said they believed age would be a barrier in their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Just Breathe
Just as you might take ibuprofen to ease a fever, mindfulness can help settle awareness in the midst of challenging situations—whether at home, at work, or in any setting where people of color experience racism. That’s the premise of Black People Breathe: A Mindfulness... View Details