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- 19 Nov 2019
- News
Lessons from IBM in Nazi Germany
- 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)
- 16 May 2017
- News
Women May Find Management Positions Less Desirable
- 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
- 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 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 1998
- News
Africa's Way
1970s," says Andrews, "a number of firms, many headed by HBS alumni, set an example for other companies by eliminating racial discrimination and, in certain cases, by deliberately ignoring discriminatory laws." Andrews notes that several... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
you think got the most mentions? Elon Musk for how innovative he is. Across the board. This really does not discriminate by who voters were. Number two was Warren Buffett. I will tell you, after that, it was shocking. They could barely... 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 Equality Agency, Wooldridge, who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
millions of college seniors who were forced to finish their degrees online will be entering the workforce. A lot will say, “Hey, that wasn’t so bad. I was able to learn some things.” Many will likely find online learning was better in some ways than the in-person... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Just Breathe
survive and thrive with the help of these techniques. Talk about the physical toll of racism in the workplace and what that looked like for you. Studies show that discrimination and racism are linked to higher rates of high blood pressure... View Details
- 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 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
also a lot to be optimistic about. Just 20 years ago, the economics literature was in a mode of documenting gender differences, whether it was about discrimination or the different outcomes for men and women. But more recently we’ve... View Details