Publications

2003
Book

The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896

By: Sven Beckert

This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of the most powerful group in the nineteenth-century United States: New York City's economic elite. This small and diverse group of Americans accumulated unprecedented economic, social, and political power,... View Details

Keywords: Literacy; Income; Identity; Culture; Economics; Power and Influence

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16 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities

cities—Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, New York, and Washington, DC—to see how hundreds of thousands of street blocks changed over time. By cross-referencing the Streetchange values with other demographic data, including education, income,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Real Estate

19 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

(Italy), demographic and entrepreneurial problems (Japan), or excessive consumption and debt problems (USA). Q: One of the surprises I had in reading the book was your bullishness on Russia. Why the optimism? A: I am bullish on Russia... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 1999
News

Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic

our customer base with traditional marketing cuts, you don't come up with a traditional demographic distribution. The thing that our customers have in common is an attitude: they are confident people who care about how they look. They are... View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

One-on-One with Peter Cuneo

female. We’re very conscious about further broadening the demographic for our comic books and the Marvel business in general. Did you read comic books as a kid? No, not really. I am an individual who does consumer-product turnarounds.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; comic books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

25 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset

coupled with any number of other data sources to perform unique and more detailed analyses on factors like demographic disparities, political alignment, or population density in relation to local COVID-19 policies. What’s next for the... View Details

1982
Article

Correlates of Deficient Consumer Environments: The Case of the Elderly

By: Rohit Deshpandé and S. Krishnan

Although much research attention has been given to the format of consumer information environments, there has been little study of the effects of consumer environments lacking in information. This paper describes an empirical study of elderly consumers functioning in... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Age; Information

January 10, 2022
Article

The Link Between Income, Income Inequality, and Prosocial Behavior Around the World: A Multiverse Approach

By: Lucia Macchia and Ashley V. Whillans

The questions of whether high-income individuals are more prosocial than low-income individuals and whether income inequality moderates this effect have received extensive attention. We shed new light on this topic by analyzing a large-scale dataset with a... View Details

Keywords: Prosocial Behavior; Income Inequality; Behavior; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Income

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2020
Working Paper

Designing, Not Checking, for Policy Robustness: An Example with Optimal Taxation

By: Benjami Lockwood, Afras Y. Sial and Matthew C. Weinzierl

Economists typically check the robustness of their results by comparing them across plausible ranges of parameter values and model structures. A preferable approach to robustness—for the purposes of policymaking and evaluation—is to design policy that takes these... View Details

Keywords: Optimal Taxation; Robust Optimization; Taxation; Income; Policy; Design

Article

Gender, Social Class, and Women's Employment

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Eunsil Oh

People in low-power positions, whether due to gender or class, tend to exhibit other-oriented rather than self-oriented behavior. Women’s experiences at work and at home are shaped by social class, heightening identification with gender for relatively upper class women... View Details

Keywords: Social Class; Women's Employment; Gender; Employment; Status and Position

Article

How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments

By: Ilyana Kuziemko, Michael I. Norton, Emmanuel Saez and Stefanie Stantcheva

We analyze randomized online survey experiments providing interactive, customized information on U.S. income inequality, the link between top income tax rates and economic growth, and the estate tax. The treatment has large effects on views about inequality but only... View Details

Keywords: Income; Taxation; Economic Growth; United States

April 2011 (Revised December 2013)
Case

Boardroom Change in Norway

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Melissa Barton

In 2003, the Norwegian Parliament amended the Public Limited Companies Act in order to achieve greater representation of women on corporate boards. According to the amendment, all state-owned companies and public limited companies were required to have at least 40%... View Details

Keywords: Laws and Statutes; Gender; Corporate Governance; Norway

Educators

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8 Aug 2008 - 13 Aug 2008
Conference Presentation

Cultural Intelligence, Trust and the Sharing of New Ideas in Multicultural Networks

By: Roy Y.J. Chua and M. W. Morris

Keywords: Networks; Trust; Knowledge Sharing; Demographics

January 1982 (Revised May 1983)
Case

CBS Record Co. (A): The Long-Range Industry Forecast

By: Arthur Schleifer Jr.

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Demographics; Music Entertainment; Music Industry

01 Apr 1977
Conference Presentation

Access to Opportunity and Power: Measuring Racism/Sexism inside Organizations

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Power and Influence; Organizational Culture; Demographics