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- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
daughter of Indian immigrants, Aditya was acutely aware of the inequalities that plague the venture capital world, including the less than 3 percent of VC money that goes to all-women founding teams (a number that is even smaller for... View Details
- 08 Oct 2020
- News
JPMorgan Chase Commits $30 Billion to Advance Racial Equity
America’s history,” Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon (MBA 1982) said in a release. “We can do more and do better to break down systems that have propagated racism and widespread economic inequality, especially for Black and Latinx people. It’s long past time that society... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
“A National System of Income Supplementation”
and economic inequality http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6545/. The so-called Kerner Report, warning that the United States was in danger of becoming two “separate but unequal” societies, recommended federal initiatives to boost education,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
of the World Bank’s scenario for global economic progress out to 2030. While cheered by the prospect of continued economic growth that is expected to triple the middle class from 400 million to 1.2 billion people, the business leaders were disturbed by the growing... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
count. There are many organizations nowadays that know how to count the numbers—but they still have cultures that are not inclusive. In your research, you found that many women in college today don’t see gender inequality as a career... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Bringing women to the boardroom table
Placing female candidates on boards of public and private companies is Beth A. Stewart’s mission as CEO of Trewstar. The search firm addresses the inequity of board representation—only 16 percent of Fortune 500 companies have a woman... View Details
- 28 Feb 2022
- News
Equal Partner
Aditya was acutely aware of the inequalities that plague the venture capital world, including the less than 3 percent of VC money that goes to all-women founding teams (a number that is even smaller for women of color) and the dearth of... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- News
The Road to Racial Equity
CEO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a national nonprofit that fights racial and economic inequities by empowering the next generation of leaders. Since 2002, MLT has been working with high-achieving Black, Latinx, and Native... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
you might say—about the mechanical effects of an economic policy. We are not very good at thinking about the broader value judgments underneath those decisions. What part does the minimum wage debate play in larger policy discussion about income inequality? We know... View Details
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
The Lines That Divide America
Photo via The Atlantic Photo via The Atlantic In a new article in The Atlantic, Dean Nitin Nohria draws parallels between standing in a waiting line and the current sense of unfairness and inequality being experienced by many Americans.... View Details
Keywords: Nitin Nohria
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
incomes either among countries or within them. Inequalities of income and power emerge as a major societal issue alongside poverty, and the book develops alternative societal models based upon the degree of View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Bridging the Gap
limited student access to technology, and lack of family support and essential services all have had an impact on the world’s children and those who are trying to teach them. The pandemic has laid bare and even exacerbated inequities in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
January. “I hope women and men will take it,” he says. —JH Spotlighting Inequality Michael Norton “It’s not only what they don’t know that gets ’em into trouble, it’s what they know for sure that just ain’t so.” This aphorism (with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
America the Unequal
recent nationwide survey, my colleague Dan Ariely and I found that Americans drastically underestimated the level of wealth inequality in the United States, currently at levels not seen since the 1920s — just before the Great Depression.... View Details
- 10 Jan 2013
- News
From Wall Street to Visual Art
faces the boulevard where protests over social and economic inequality began last year. "The dialogue, or lack thereof, created among the heads points to a need for a conversation around the world today, a need for us to reach out to one... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
tried-and-true pedagogy and gamification. “We want you to get addicted to the course the way you get addicted to a game,” he says. See more from the online-only March Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s exploration of how business and school leaders are addressing View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “Our message is don’t take a solo journey. Do what Bonita and I did, team up. And once we team up, we are an unstoppable force.” “Our message is don’t take a solo journey. Do what Bonita and I did, team up.... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
to challenge the inequities that we see? SR: Well, Dan, HBCUs have been in existence since the 1850s. They were created like almost every Black institution was created as a result of Black people being denied opportunities. Black people... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
twenty-five million kids don't go to school. There are too many people dying due to lack of vaccines, and the world is showing an increasing inequity in terms of the distribution of assets and income. The rich are getting richer, and the... View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
(MBA 1992), CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, suggests that we address the issue of wealth inequality by creating “a way for those with no investment assets to participate in the success of capitalism.” His specific plan is... View Details