Equality And Inequality - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

all else equal (similar market sites, launch date, and number of employees) separated sites were much more likely to innovate and gain traction in the market. Obviously,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

17 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

not all equal in facing these threats. While some retailers will manage through this revolution, many will perish. The old strategy of containing shrink and growing incremental store traffic two percent per... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

03 Apr 2006
What Do You Think?

Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

until such time that disparity between the haves (U.S., Europe, etc.,) and the have-nots is significantly bridged." One theme common to several of these comments is that globalization (and the outsourcing it promotes) will turn out... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Apr 2017
What Do You Think?

How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?

SUMMING UP: Investment in Human Infrastructure: Not Whether But How? Few dispute the notion that a significant US investment in human infrastructure is warranted and timely, although there were significant differences of opinion about how... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Construction

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

and destroyed much of the country's infrastructure, Mozambique presented formidable risks as a project site. The cost of the plant, which was approximately equal to the country's gross domestic product, made... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

31 Oct 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers

inequity inevitable. For example, an often-cited research finding is that woman can be viewed as competent or as likeable–but not both. True or not, believing it increases FOSO, as competent women face pressures, depending on their life... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

25 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

and over 20 million individual transactions, I examine consumption patterns for obscure and hit products. Specifically, I study whether the interest in popular "hit" View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

That approach is obviously critical to an understanding of how businesses work, but equally important, as Professor Koehn has indicated, are the human beings who make the decisions that create and sustain... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

08 Mar 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Successful Negotiation

discussions—be it fairness or competition—strongly influences the equality of payoffs even in complex, full-information multiparty bargaining. Research in this working paper by HBS professor Kathleen L. McGinn View Details

Keywords: by Staff

20 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

question to Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian Zhang, who studies organizational theory and strategy with a focus on social inequalities and status hierarchies.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 19, 2006

Abstract Are the doors of access open equally for all in business? Are talent and hard work really enough to make it to the top? As much as we would like to believe in the American meritocracy, an elusive... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 May 2018
HBS Case

How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

company executives debating how to set the price for its latest innovation, the Richard Lange Jumping Seconds watch. The CEO, head of production, and head of product development all had an equal say in... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion

06 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?

Mandarin Yung Wing, trusted by both China and the West to catalyze change. There are certainly influential Chinese, equally comfortable in the United States and China today,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 May 2019
What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

mentality that made and created Silicon Valley. Hate it or admire it—it’s a place where its accomplishments equaled its hubris.” This suggests another ingredient that may have been important in tempering the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

05 Jul 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?

Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

01 Jun 2021
What Do You Think?

Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?

show COVID-19’s impact on women’s employment,” March 8, 2021, McKinsey, mckinsey.com. Summing up last month's column CEO activism triggered a debate among those responding to last month’s column, with about equal support against View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

Marketing is important in campaigning. It is equally important in governing. In 2008, Barack Obama won the presidency with an uplifting call for hope and change. He leveraged online media to attract... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

BOP," Kash Rangan says. "Yes, economies, and with them, the middle classes in emerging countries, have grown. But inequality within countries has also grown. Globalization has not really hurt those... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

13 Jul 2022
Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

What if the way we work could be a catalyst for solving huge problems like inequality and climate change? In the new book Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy, Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

19 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers

make you feel less safe by making you conscious of just how much you are giving away? A new working paper finds that it’s more likely to be the latter. “Even if a privacy policy is meant to be assuaging, it can prime you to think about privacy, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

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