Racial Wealth Gap - Publications - Faculty & Research

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HBS - The year in Review

perhaps cannot—address societal challenges ranging from financial inclusion to climate change. The inaugural cohort of BiGS Visiting Fellows joined the School in fall 2022 to work with HBS faculty members on specific research projects—in FY23, related to View Details

06 Aug 2013
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Costs of Racial 'Color Blindness' By: Norton, Michael I., and Evan P. Apfelbaum Abstract—The article looks at research on people's attitudes and behaviors with respect to noticing and referring to a person's race. It explains the 2013... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

respond to health and wealth gaps, ethnic tensions and cultural conflicts, or climate crises, whether as entrepreneurs in startups, seasoned business leaders, or concerned citizens and parents. The session included lessons on what can... View Details

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Skydeck - Alumni

improve Black representation in their ranks What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic Joro founder Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018) on the power of collective action How Business Can Advance Racial Equity Executive Lisa Lewin... View Details

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

perennial topic for writers on capitalism, from Progressive historians who argued that elites used the advantages of wealth to skew political structures in their favor to consensus historians who found more widespread support for a... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

09 Mar 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

way to contribute to solutions at the legislative level. I fundamentally believe the yet-to-be-uncovered solutions to the issues I care about most, like racial justice, lie at the nexus of business innovation and legal knowledge. How have... View Details

September 2021
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Posse Foundation: Developing Strong Leaders from Diverse Backgrounds

By: John J-H Kim, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley

Founded in 1989, Posse Foundation was a nonprofit organization with a mission of developing future leaders who reflected the U.S.’s rich diversity. The organization ran a selective, localized admissions process in 10 U.S. cities to identify outstanding students with... View Details

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02 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

savings to drive growth. What actually results, however, is something of a surprise, according to a new study. Corporate tax cuts end up widening the income gap between those at the top of the pay scale and those at the bottom, and they... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

03 May 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the First HBS African-American Mother-Daughter Duo

encouraged risk taking, and empowered me to use passion as my compass. Entrepreneurship is one of the most successful ways to not only build wealth for your community, but also to close the many gaps that... View Details

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Migration Fear Is High By: John (Jianqui) Bai, William R. Kerr , Chi Wan and Alptug Yorulmaz We study funding gaps on Kickstarter across multiple ethnic groups from 2009 to 2021. Scaling the concept of View Details

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

Governance (ESG) increasingly guides investment management and corporate agendas nowadays, public reactions to firms' ESG performance remain under-studied. This paper fills this gap by investigating whether the public picks up firms' ESG... View Details

22 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

employers ultimately benefits society and business simultaneously, says Cullen. “It’s helping to close the racial gap in hiring in the US,” she says. Meanwhile, businesses gain by filling critical job... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

06 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

people who always ask, "What's in it for me?" Their moral compass is guided primarily by the accumulation of wealth and power, all else be damned. Bernie Madoff, now in prison, is a poster boy for the Opportunists. While Madoff... View Details

Keywords: by Mitch Maidique

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

and economic inequity that deny so many Black people safe, healthy, and attractive housing. And with multiple studies showing income inequality at its worst since the Roaring Twenties, cities around the country facing a lack of affordable housing, and the View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

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AASU50 - Alumni

Awarded W.E.B. Du Bois Medals Invocation, by Laura Morgan Roberts Spheres of Influence: A Portrait of Black MBA Program Alumni (HBS Research Findings) Spheres of Influence: A Portrait of Black MBA Program Alumni (Tony Mayo and Laura Morgan Roberts presentation) The... View Details

08 May 2023
Research & Ideas

How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

but that gap triples during periods of high public anxiety over immigration in the United States. “When there is the greatest anxiety, we see this funding shortfall.” Banks have historically rejected loan applications from Black, Asian,... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Amir Kermani & Kaveh Majlesi JULY 2020 What is the causal impact of changes in stock market wealth on households’ consumption? Using Swedish data on households’ stock holdings, the authors find that unrealized capital gains lead to a... View Details

28 Mar 2012
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Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

sectors of a developed economy cannot. He says, "jobs that create wealth are the absolute foundation for any economy this excludes most of the 'non-tradable' (largely personal service) jobs." While manufacturing jobs are among the most... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

08 Feb 2021
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How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

toward racial equity more recently, he began to feel uncomfortable helping only people who were bold enough to ask for this favor. After all, while social science research shows most people do not actively harm members of other racial,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

exclusion." But there were problems. The racial divide and income disparities in this highly segregated region left many women and people of color with few ways to find resources and support. This was coupled with an outmoded image of... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

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