Equality and Inequality - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

If it seems like everyone is a manager these days, you may be onto something. Not only is there a profusion of assistant managers, there are also now carpet shampoo and food cart managers, directors of first impressions, assistant bingo... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

but achievements are equally driven by envy, greed, and fear, so emotions surrounding achievement can pull you in very different ways. How your values play in is another component to achievement. What are... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

In this case, the most profitable 40 percent of customers generate 130 percent of annual profits; the middle 55 percent of customers break even, and the least profitable 5 percent of customers incur losses View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

22 Feb 2024
News

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

think I'll just rest on my laurels and see what happens now. I was equally as tenacious about finding the next immunotherapy drug that might come out. And so I think that... View Details

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Davida Bynum

brilliant and humble students from over 35 countries who are equally impressive as they are kind. The connection we have fostered has left an indelible impact on me and I am so... View Details

17 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price

seen a product or price first. The researchers suspected that even if participants were more critical of a product's value in the price primacy condition, the products were equally attractive under both conditions. Most of the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

25 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

explains. Having determined that executives and admissions officers are equally likely to commit these logical fallacies, the researchers turned their attention towards ruling out alternative explanations,... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Secino; Education; Employment

04 Nov 2009
What Do You Think?

What is the Role of Government Vis-à-Vis Capitalism?

capitalism there is a place for government, and economists, in the capitalistic system, but in this case less is more." Gerald Nanninga suggested that we "limit government's role to defining capitalistic criminal activity View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

22 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

Investors and market watchers noted Amazon’s less-than-stellar forays into health care, while privacy advocates raised concerns about Amazon’s access to patient medical data. Still others have voiced hopes Amazon will bring much-needed... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Power of Conversational Leadership

When a company is small, communication among employees is as simple as rolling a desk chair around the room to talk to the president, the admin, or the chief engineer. But as a company grows, communication becomes more difficult. And... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni

Gender & Equity Initiative! Discover how cutting-edge research is shaping practices, empowering leaders, and advancing equity by tackling gender, race, and other inequalities... View Details

03 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'

During his recent standing-room-only seminar about artificial intelligence (AI) and race at Harvard Business School recently, marketing professor Broderick Turner displayed a slide showing several white blob-like characters that resembled... View Details

Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis

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Harshini Chengareddty

female partner at a consulting firm trying to navigate her very successful career alongside equally demanding personal commitments. The conversation we had in class, and for many days after, was one of my... View Details

21 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

give candidates equal access to voters, and monitoring the accuracy of handouts and social media posts that campaigns share. “It’s important to make sure that all campaigns are... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

03 Jul 2015
Blog Post

What is HBS Bridges?

generation: climate change, the future of the internet, and income inequality to name but a few. The gravity of these issues goes without saying, but the real message was clear. We, the Class of 2015, can... View Details

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Christina Byrd

proud of working on Uber’s inaugural fair pay/equal pay analyses – we made sure we were paying men and women, black and white, the same pay for the same performance. I became the go-to View Details

11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

doing that, and waste a lot of money on sales and marketing trying to sell that wrong product," says Tom Eisenmann, a professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

focus away from success equaling economic growth and toward other measures, including the way they value time for individuals. We need to acknowledge the real and significant... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

off by disruptive technologies. Critics often argue that Microsoft can't innovate its way out of a paper bag—instead it has used its monopoly position to stamp out competition and force an industry to bend to its standards. But now comes... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting

Conor Sullivan, Investment Director for the Social Outcomes Fund, and Claudia Cheung, Program Director for the Bridges Outcomes Partnerships, shared their experience as HBS recruiting partners and offered... View Details

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