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    Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-job Inequality

    In this article, we examine a case of task segregation—when a group of workers is disproportionately allocated, relative to other groups, to spend more time on specific tasks in a given job—and argue that such segregation is a potential mechanism for generating... View Details
    • 04 Dec 2018
    • Podcast

    Larry Summers: Urban-rural inequality and the importance of work

    Examining the realities of rural America, Larry Summers concludes that the problem is not just one of providing people with incomes—it’s about the very basic human connection between work and satisfaction. Speaking with Bill, Summers advocates “employer subsidies” to... View Details
    • January 2023
    • Article

    Inequality Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa from Precolonial Times to the Present

    By: Ewout Frankema, Michiel de Haas and Marlous van Waijenburg
    While current levels of economic inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa receive ample attention from academics and policymakers, we know little about the long-run evolution of inequality in the region. Even the new and influential ‘global inequality literature’ that is... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Inequalty; Equality and Inequality; History; Africa
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    • 12 May 2014
    • News

    Noam Wasserman | Not all founders are equal

    • 18 Feb 2015
    • News

    Steve Grossman, Michael Porter team up on income inequality

    • 25 Mar 2024
    • Blog Post

    DC Alumni and BEI Present Talk on Inequality and Climate Change

    Society, and Audrey Choi (MBA 2004), the Former Chief Sustainability Officer at Morgan Stanley. The chat, titled Inequality and Climate Change: Implications for Business Policy... View Details
    • November 2020 (Revised February 2022)
    • Case

    CommonSpirit Health: Integrating a Merger of Equals

    By: Robert S. Huckman, Hise Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
    Soon after closing the 2019 merger of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health to create CommonSpirit Health, Lloyd Dean and Kevin Lofton-–jointly appointed to the role of CEO—must make several operational and strategic decisions related to the integration... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care Delivery; Hospital; Merger; Merger Integration; Hospital Mergers; Health Information Technology; CEOs; Health Care and Treatment; Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Leadership; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Choices and Conditions; Governance; Information Technology; Health Industry; United States
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    • 18 Oct 2007 - 19 Oct 2007
    • Keynote Speech

    Future Work on Diversity and Equal Opportunities: Experiences from the U.S.

    By: R. Ely
    Keywords: Diversity; Opportunities; United States
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    • 16 Sep 2014
    • News

    Harvard Study Warns Business Community Of Economic Inequality Risks

    • September 2019 (Revised December 2022)
    • Background Note

    African American Inequality in the United States

    By: Janice H. Hammond, A. Kamau Massey and Mayra G. Garza
    This note describes how historical and on-going policies and practices that discriminate against African Americans led to present-day inequality. Topics include slavery, segregation, Jim Crow laws, “black codes,” and policies and practices relating to criminal justice,... View Details
    Keywords: African Americans; Justice; Slavery; Discrimination; Race; Equality and Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Policy; History; United States
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    • 27 Jul 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Gender Inequality in Research Productivity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Keywords: by Ruomeng Cui, Hao Ding, and Feng Zhu
    • May 2020
    • Teaching Note

    Income Inequality and the CEO Pay Ratio at TJX Cos

    By: Ethan Rouen
    Teaching Note for HBS No. 120-063. View Details
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    • Article

    Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Innate Brute Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-based Taxation

    By: Matthew C. Weinzierl
    U.S. survey respondents' views on distributive justice differ in two specific, related ways from what is conventionally assumed in modern optimal tax research. When expressing their preferences over allocations in stylized, hypothetical scenarios meant to isolate key... View Details
    Keywords: Optimal Taxation; Welfarism; Luck; Benefit-based Taxation; Taxation; Equality and Inequality; Attitudes
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    • 18 Oct 2016
    • News

    How unequal should America be? Take this inequality quiz.

    • 19 Aug 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

    public outrage and protests, as well as a fair amount of handwringing on the part of politicians. What's less clear is how this rising level of inequality has affected the nation. Researchers have tried to... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 19 Oct 2010
    • News

    The curious politics of income inequality

    • October 2024
    • Article

    Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective

    By: Sanaz Mobasseri, William A. Kahn and Robin J. Ely
    This paper uses systems psychodynamic concepts to develop theory about the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. organizations and to inform an approach for disrupting it. We treat White men as the dominant group and Black people as the archetypal subordinate group... View Details
    Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Organizational Culture; Gender; Power and Influence; Employees; Attitudes
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    • 24 Sep 2016
    • News

    Popular acceptance of inequality due to brute luck and support for classical benefit-based taxation

    • 2014
    • Article

    Unequality: Who Gets What and Why It Matters

    By: Michael I. Norton
    Who should get what, and what are the consequences? Economic inequality in the United States has been rising for decades, yet only recently have behavioral scientists explored two central questions surrounding the optimal level of inequality. First, what are the... View Details
    Keywords: Inequality; Ethics; Productivity; Gambling; Equality and Inequality; Fairness; Income; Performance Productivity; United States
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    • 09 May 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal

    Most of the companies I've studied don't pay a whole lot of attention to the way they grant options. Their directors and executives assume that the important thing is just to have a plan in place; the details are trivial. As a result,... View Details
    Keywords: by Brian Hall