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  • October 2014
  • Article

The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: Normative Diversity and a Role for Equal Sacrifice

By: Matthew Weinzierl
A prominent assumption in modern optimal tax research is that the objective of taxation is Utilitarian. I present new survey evidence that most people disagree with this assumption, preferring tax policies based at least in part on a classic alternative objective: the... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Theory
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  • 04 Dec 2018
  • News

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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 12 May 2014
  • News

Noam Wasserman | Not all founders are equal

  • 07 Jun 2024
  • Video

Latin American Businesses Acting on Advancing Economic Equality

  • 18 Feb 2015
  • News

Steve Grossman, Michael Porter team up on income inequality

  • 18 Oct 2016
  • News

How unequal should America be? Take this inequality quiz.

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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
  • 24 Sep 2016
  • News

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

  • 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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  • 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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  • Research Summary

'Optimal Incentive Contracts under Inequity Aversion' (with Achim Wambach) ), 2005

We analyze the Moral Hazard problem, assuming that the agent is inequity averse. Our results differ from conventional contract theory and are more in line with empirical findings than these standard results. Our key findings are: Inequity aversion alters the structure... View Details
  • 19 Oct 2010
  • News

The curious politics of income inequality

  • 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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  • April 2019
  • Case

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement (Abridged)

By: Julie Battilana, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Michael Norris
In 2018, New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof and his wife, former Times writer Sheryl WuDunn (HBS ’86) who worked in finance, were planning for their next book. The couple’s earlier books had given rise to social movements around gender equity and poverty issues.... View Details
Keywords: Social Movement; Gender Equality; Writing; Social Issues; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Poverty; Books; Change; Leadership
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