Inequality - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled

learning and better leverage the skills of teachers and other adults in schools to provide coaching, targeted teaching, and social and emotional development support. The current situation has highlighted inequity in educational resources.... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; online learning; Educational Services

22 Feb 2022
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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

14 Jan 2022
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Embracing Activism for Social Change

in California and Texas, asking questions about coalition building, data collection, evaluation, stakeholder management, and community engagement,” she says. “This was at a time when COVID-19 was exposing a big range of underlying health View Details

01 Mar 2008
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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

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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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April 2020 (Revised July 2020)
Case

Unrest in Chile

By: Vincent Pons, William Mullins, John Masko, Annelena Lobb and Rafael Di Tella

In 2020, Chileans would head to the ballot box to decide their country’s future. Many international observers credited Chile’s decades of neoliberal governance with turning the country into Latin America’s “Tiger,” a prosperous, diversified economy on its way to... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Macroeconomics; Economy; Political Elections; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Equality and Inequality; System Shocks; Chile; Latin America

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16 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

economic inequality worrisome. They see that US corporations are skittish about making investments in a time of uncertainty about government policy, taxes, and regulations. They hear too many American CEOs talk about choosing to postpone... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria

15 Jun 2021
News

Diversifying HBS's Case Collection

“The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations,” coauthored by Mihir Desai, the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance [see related story]. A PDF of this written case, as well as of the note “African American Inequality in the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

October 1998 (Revised September 1999)
Case

Brazil Confronts an Interdependent World

By: George C. Lodge and Cate Reavis

Discusses the politics of change and how Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, elected in 1994, has fought to promote systemic change in Brazil. While his Real Plan has stabilized inflation and attracted foreign investment, the nation's deficit continues to... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Government and Politics; Inflation and Deflation; Foreign Direct Investment; Equality and Inequality; Change; Social Issues; Public Administration Industry; Brazil

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17 Nov 2022
News

Blockchain for Good

principally in investment banking, but today notes that fundamental inequities in the world of finance—which the prosperous can navigate with ease are nearly impossible for those who are not wealthy—always nagged at her. Disillusioned,... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

25 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

opportunity,” he said. Rohan Bajaj (MBA 2026)Rohan was born in Delhi, raised in Canada, and attended medical school at Johns Hopkins. “Having my life experience split across three vastly different healthcare systems, it has been clear to me that healthcare View Details

12 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

industries may split apart. Untapped Potential in the Study of Negotiation and Gender Inequality in Organizations Authors:Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn Periodical:Academy of Management Annals, Vol. 2, Psychology Press,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

02 May 2018
Blog Post

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

Individual pay transparency would eliminate a source of distraction (Srishti Mehra) and "would do more to eliminate gender and racial pay inequity than any other action," according to Miki Saxon. Will Quandt added that "the... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

03 Jun 2021
Blog Post

HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund

racial disparities in the US. Racial injustice has historically presented itself in many forms—including practices such as slavery, redlining, white-only or white-preferred employment quotas—and has led to stark economic inequity and... View Details

18 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Embracing Activism for Social Change

“We spoke to folks in California and Texas, asking questions about coalition building, data collection, evaluation, stakeholder management, and community engagement,” she says. “This was at a time when COVID-19 was exposing a big range of underlying health View Details

12 Jan 2016
First Look

January 12, 2016

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50304 October 2015 Health Affairs Exposure to Harmful Workplace Practices Could Account for Inequality in Life Spans Across Different Demographic Groups By: Goh, Joel, Jeffrey Pfeffer,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

August 2018
Case

Christine Lagarde (C): Managing the IMF

By: Julie Battilana and Carin-Isabel Knoop

This case covers the career of Christine Lagarde from 2011 to 2018 as she takes the helm of a troubled multilateral organization during a time of deepening economic turmoil. As the first female leader of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and as a non-economist,... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Change Management; Global Range; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Climate Change

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