Equal Access - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

commercial bank with 4,500 branches across India. Pre-COVID, the bank had no organizational or technological measures in place to enable work from remote locations. Only 30 to 40 users (mostly senior managers) had access to the bank’s... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

11 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and Erik J. Mayer and Ruidi Huang of Southern Methodist University. Closing the gap between white and minority loan officers may help change that pattern, the researchers find. That has big implications for minority View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

06 Mar 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?

workplace—starting with job listings. What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?James Heskett's readers question the meaning of "gender equality" and ponder ways to give women View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

to prove that a new medication’s benefits merit a higher price if cheaper, similar drugs are available. The process rewards companies whose drugs are more novel or help patients more, while forcing manufacturers of equally or less... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

17 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Why Global Brands Work

appeal. Think Coca-Cola and Disney. 2. A focus on a single product category. Think Nokia and Intel. 3. The company name is the brand name. All marketing dollars are concentrated on that one brand. Think GE and IBM. 4. Access to the global... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Auto

21 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

financial reform legislation, the gap in small business credit data was recognized and a specific provision was included to allow for more credible monitoring for small business access to bank credit. Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

establishing the range of issues under consideration. This includes identifying the specific interests and accessibility needs of various stakeholders, especially marginalized groups, and planning the outreach necessary for their... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

10 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

inequality in the workplace. In particular, the book makes clear how organizational roles and structures shape unequal access to opportunities, resources, and advancement. In a wide-ranging conversation, Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson... View Details

Keywords: by Robin J. Ely

02 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?

help—those who face most problems interacting in the offline world, or those who generally have little trouble meeting people? Does the Web serve to equalize access to potential relationships, or does it... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

05 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

show that individuals narrowly bracket their equity concerns. Across four experiments including 1,600 subjects, individuals equalize components of payoffs rather than overall payoffs. When earnings are comprised of “small tokens" worth 1... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

Not allowing establishment of private educational institutions on equal footing with public institutions. The best educational institutions in the world are private and I am proud to be a faculty in one of them. Rehiring public sector... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

30 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”

Regardless of the degree to which we feel leaders are made rather than born, the concept of the crucible of leadership raises a number of questions for us, some of which are posed by the authors of Geeks and Geezers. If crucibles of leadership are so important, do men... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Nov 2014
Op-Ed

A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform

fumbled near the goal line. In May, the Senate Banking Committee approved the legislation on a 13-9 vote, but could not garner sufficient support from either side of the aisle to warrant consideration from the full Senate. For many Democrats, the legislation did not go... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas Retsinas & Rob Couch; Construction; Real Estate

28 May 2007
Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

What happens when a person owns property? Aside from the well-established financial benefits of equity and potential access to credit, there is the equally strong pull of the American Dream and everything it... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Oct 2020
What Do You Think?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

place responsibility for such things as the rule of law, property rights, the environment, and the more equal distribution of wealth in the hands of those guiding for-profit public corporations. That’s the role of public servants. As he... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

While many characteristics that mark a successful entrepreneur are gender blind, being a woman does make a difference, and recognizing and utilizing those differences is an equally important quality to cultivate when building a new... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

05 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis

financing—multinational firms with access to foreign capital, for example—recovered more quickly than companies reliant on local financing. Companies may do well to consider that fact as they position themselves to weather the next... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking

10 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

dangerous to share," John says. Creepy Questions Specifically, John and two colleagues from Carnegie Mellon set out to study a common contradictory attitude toward Internet privacy. On the one hand, studies show that Americans are wary of companies having View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

Are there certain characteristics that all leaders possess? Could Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton be equally successful today running another company? Harvard Business School's Leadership Initiative is attempting to answer these and other... View Details