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  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

growth without undermining the progress achieved in reducing inequality and poverty. Can the Brazilian government reverse inequality and grow at the same time? What development strategy should Lula follow in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Oct 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

equilibrium of poverty.” (As a side note, one problem with Galbraith’s argument is that “labor exports” often involve people with the best education and skills, producing a brain drain. The result could well be greater inequality among... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 21 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 21, 2010

continued collaboration. Building a Better America—One Wealth Quintile at a Time Authors:Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely Publication:Perspectives on Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Disagreements about the optimal level of wealth View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5

Goldfields April 8, 2020: Kenya April 15, 2020: Economic Inequality April 22, 2020: US Mass Incarceration April 29, 2020: Detroit: on the Right Track? May 2020: Murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Ahmaud Arbery These are cases... View Details
  • 26 Jan 2021
  • News

Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response

health care, inequities in female-specific disease areas, and the role of FemTech startups in disrupting women's health care and empowering women. Linda Greub (MBA 1987) Stasia Obremskey (MBA 1987) Alice Zheng (MBA 2014) Linda Greub (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 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
  • 22 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

Murphy, and Jorg L. Spenkuch Abstract—We develop a model of intergenerational resource transmission that emphasizes the link between cross-sectional inequality and intergenerational mobility. By drawing on first principles of human... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • January 2008 (Revised January 2010)
  • Case

iBasis, Inc.

By: Andrew Wasynczuk, Katherine Dowd and Nicole Kravec
iBasis examines the development of a long-term relationship between equipment manufacturer Cisco and start-up iBasis, a voice-over-internet wholesaler. Questions arise for iBasis founders as to how best to build a beneficial relationship with the much larger partner.... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Intellectual Property; Value Creation; Equality and Inequality; Partners and Partnerships; Business Growth and Maturation; Price Bubble; Trust; Business Startups; Manufacturing Industry; Communications Industry; Web Services Industry
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

The Limits of Algorithmic Measures of Race in Studies of Outcome Disparities

By: David S. Scharfstein and Sergey Chernenko
We show that the use of algorithms to predict race has significant limitations in measuring and understanding the sources of racial disparities in finance, economics, and other contexts. First, we derive theoretically the direction and magnitude of measurement bias in... View Details
Keywords: Racial Disparity; Paycheck Protection Program; Measurement Error; AI and Machine Learning; Race; Measurement and Metrics; Equality and Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Forecasting and Prediction; Outcome or Result
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  • 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
  • March–April 2021
  • Article

Network-biased Technical Change: How Information Management Tools Overcome Some Biases but Exacerbate Others.

By: Gerald C. Kane and Lynn Wu
Organizations have long sought to improve employee performance by managing knowledge more effectively. In this paper, we test whether the adoption of digital tools for expertise search and access within an organization, often referred to as a support to an... View Details
Keywords: Digital Tools; Social Media; Social Networks; Transactive Memory Systems; Augmented Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Technology Adoption; Knowledge Management; Performance Improvement; Power and Influence; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • 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
  • March 2012
  • Article

The Incentive Bubble

By: Mihir Desai
The past three decades have seen American capitalism quietly transformed by a single, powerful idea—that financial markets are a suitable tool for measuring performance and structuring compensation. Stock instruments for managers, high-powered incentive contracts for... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Financial Markets; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Governance; Equality and Inequality; Human Capital; United States
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  • January 2001 (Revised May 2001)
  • Background Note

State, The

By: Rawi E. Abdelal
Surveys approaches to understanding the state; highlights the relationships between the state, order, and property; and offers an analytical framework for how states vary from place to place and over time. View Details
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Governance Compliance; Framework; Economic Sectors; Policy; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Entrepreneurship; Development Economics; Equality and Inequality
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  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

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
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 26 Jul 2022
  • Blog Post

Driving Change in Education-to-Employment

where C-suites are led by Black, Latinx, and other historically marginalized groups. As a mentor of mine, Caroline Hill, has said, “Systems of inequity have been designed by people, and they can be redesigned.” What are your goals for... View Details
  • 05 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Our Godrej Site Visit

2% of their net profits every year on CSR initiatives within certain categories (2). We were impressed by this mandate and the corresponding magnitude requirement, particularly in a context with such wide inequality between the top and... View Details