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- 15 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5
Goldfields April 8, 2020: Kenya April 15, 2020: Economic Inequality April 22, 2020: US Mass Incarceration April 29, 2020: Detroit: on the Right Track? May 2020: Murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and... View Details
- 10 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum
Brewton-Johnson (a Black woman from Atlanta, Georgia) and Austin Boral (a white man from Jericho, New York) share their thoughts on the course. Why was the course so important? Morgan: The course was essential because racism View Details
- 2023
- White Paper
Unlocking Economic Prosperity: Career Navigation in a Time of Rapid Change
By: Joseph B. Fuller, Kerry McKittrick, Sherry Seibel, Cole Wilson, Vasundhara Dash and Ali Epstein
Fuller, Joseph B., Kerry McKittrick, Sherry Seibel, Cole Wilson, Vasundhara Dash, and Ali Epstein. "Unlocking Economic Prosperity: Career Navigation in a Time of Rapid Change." White Paper, Project on Workforce at Harvard, November 2023.
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
continued collaboration. Building a Better America—One Wealth Quintile at a Time Authors:Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely Publication:Perspectives on Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Disagreements about the optimal level of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2006
- Op-Ed
Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do
increase in pay of senior executives and superstars in other fields has been a major source of the rising inequality of wages in the United States. Rising income inequality is... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch
- September 27, 2013
- Other Article
Closing the Opportunity Divide
Chertavian, Gerald. "Closing the Opportunity Divide." White House Blog (September 27, 2013).
- 15 May 2018
- News
Spreading the Safety Net
Photo via LinkedIn Photo via LinkedIn In a May 6, 2018, op-ed in the New York Times, Rent the Runway co-founder and CEO Jennifer Hyman (MBA 2009) discussed the reasoning behind her recent decision to View Details
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
would triple the middle class from 400 million to 1.2 billion people, these business leaders were concerned about the growing inequality of income within many nations, across nations, and across regions.... View Details
- 18 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative
produced by HBS faculty. What are the Race, Gender & Equity Initiative’s goals? Gender and other forms of inequality present pressing business challenges, and we bring the... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
home for restaurants, art, and culture at night. And more and more, tech businesses are locating here. “This is a place where the effects of View Details
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values
that you have reviewed employees at the same job band so there isn’t salary inequality around race and gender,” said Eliason. “Also consider who is being promoted within the organization View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
opportunity,” he said. Rohan Bajaj (MBA 2026)Rohan was born in Delhi, raised in Canada, and attended medical school at Johns Hopkins. “Having my life experience split across three vastly different healthcare systems, it has been clear to... View Details
- 18 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language
different ways of labeling government receipts and payments," says Kotlikoff. "All are equally arbitrary and don't tell you anything about underlying fiscal... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
management practices such as performance-based promotion. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-052.pdf Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Cheers to the American Consumer
electronic gizmos dominate Christmas gift sales, and senior citizens find renewed connectivity with far-flung families by going online. Americans know technology adds value to daily life. These traits apply View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?
and the place where you're doing it, you will be successful. I truly believe that. And so you will open up doors you can't even imagine. But if you let others define what success is…then it's easy to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
explosion of trade and capital flows created a world that looked in many ways like ours. Yet even in the early 20th century, there remained tensions of increasing inequality View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 29 May 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Introduction to the Future of Market Capitalism
trend of rising wealth will continue, a view that is shared by many global business leaders. But recent research conducted by HBS indicates that business leaders harbor many concerns about market capitalism and see critical challenges... View Details
Keywords: Re: Joseph L. Bower
- September 2011 (Revised November 2011)
- Case
Liberté, Égalité, Sororité: How Should France Achieve Boardroom Parité?
By: Boris Groysberg and Hilary Fischer-Groban
The French government is considering mandating a gender quota for corporate boards. Other countries have approached the question of gender equity in corporate governance in various ways; which model might best work for France? View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Governing and Advisory Boards; Gender; Corporate Governance; France
Groysberg, Boris, and Hilary Fischer-Groban. "Liberté, Égalité, Sororité: How Should France Achieve Boardroom Parité?" Harvard Business School Case 412-061, September 2011. (Revised November 2011.)