Equality And Inequality - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

colleagues do, and could perform their own analysis on whether they are treating women and minorities fairly within their ranks. While no one committing financial misconduct should go unpunished in the long... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

26 Mar 2014
HBS Seminar

Brian Kahin, MIT

09 Apr 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

used in CEO bonus plans, relatively little attention is paid to the design of the bonus plan or unintended consequences. Equality and Equity in Compensation Why do some firms such as technology startups... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

should at least partially explain rising wage inequality in the United States—a widely documented fact—we find evidence to the contrary,” the authors write. The paper, Digital Labor Market Inequality View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

political economy. Thomas Piketty locates the roots of growing inequality in the economic returns to capital and stresses the political stakes of distributive justice. “If democracy is someday to regain... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

13 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

benefit society: asset stripping, short-term profit at the expense of workers, and long-term stability. “There are certainly a lot of concerns around whether these kind of transactions are indeed fomenting View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

29 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022)

obstacles have on health inequities has solidified my desire to work at the intersection of medicine and public health as a both a practicing physician and policymaker.... View Details

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Summer Fellowships | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Enabling students to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. Students either founding or working for social enterprises (nonprofit, public sector, or for-profit... View Details

13 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

policies, an issue Norton addresses in a recent working paper, Racial Colorblindness: Emergence, Practice, and Implications, cowritten with Evan P. Apfelbaum of MIT and Samuel R. Sommers of Tufts University.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: A Generalized Theory Calibrated to Survey Evidence on Normative Preferences Explains Puzzling Features of Policy

Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl

May 2022 (Revised June 2024)
Case

LOOP: Driving Change in Auto Insurance Pricing

By: Elie Ofek and Alicia Dadlani

John Henry and Carey Anne Nadeau, co-founders and co-CEOs of LOOP, an insurtech startup based in Austin, Texas, were on a mission to modernize the archaic $250 billion automobile insurance market. They sought to create equitably priced insurance by eliminating pricing... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Technological Innovation; Equality and Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Growth and Development Strategy; Customer Relationship Management; Price; Insurance Industry; Financial Services Industry

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

(6) Entertainment (21) Entrepreneurship (290) Environmental Accounting (8) Environmental Sustainability (180) Equality and Inequality (44) Equity (25) Ethics (172) Ethnicity... View Details

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

core size of 34%, and architecture flow through of 64%. These findings suggest that the method could be effective in uncovering the hidden structure of an enterprise application architecture. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

January 2016 (Revised May 2016)
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IKEA in Saudi Arabia (A)

By: Karthik Ramanna, Jérôme Lenhardt and Marc Homsy

A Swedish newspaper reveals that IKEA has erased all images of women from its catalog for Saudi Arabia. The article sparks criticism of IKEA from the Swedish government and its customers in the West. Critics contend that IKEA is not living up to its own commitments to... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Values; Islam; Multinationals; Globalization; Leadership; Equality and Inequality; Multinational Firms and Management; Religion; Organizational Culture; Gender; Consumer Products Industry; Saudi Arabia; Sweden

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21 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Building a Better World: The Harvard Builders Club

unfair partition of the world’s resources, the innovation ecosystem is not diverse and equal enough, and we aim to change that. The Harvard Builders Club is home for ALL who... View Details

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Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

claim. Our intent is to turn a critical eye toward current ideas about how to eradicate inequality and, in the process, to engender new ones. Even as many activists and academics continue to wrestle with... View Details

11 Apr 2016
HBS Seminar

Pian Shu, Harvard Business School

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

targeted, measurable, and sustainable equity improvement. Keywords: Equality and Inequality ; Demographics ; Outcome or Result ; Health Care... View Details

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

Equality and Inequality ; Education Industry ; Central Asia ; Kazakhstan Citation Educators Purchase Related Groysberg, Boris, and Maxim Pike... View Details

04 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

contrast, equally powerful research suggests that clustering can undermine performance by fostering an unproductive imbalance between exploration and exploitation, even for simple tasks." Thus,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services

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