Race And Ethnicity - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2021 (Revised October 2021)
Case

Tesla's Uncertain Fate as EV Race Accelerates

By: David Collis and Haisley Wert

By September 2021, Tesla had a staggering market cap of $755 billion. As the leader of the automobile industry, Tesla’s worth surpassed that of the six largest runner-ups combined, including Toyota, Volkswagen, BYD, Daimler, Great Wall Motors, and General Motors. As... View Details

Keywords: Electric Vehicles; Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Valuation; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Auto Industry

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May 2023
Teaching Note

Tesla’s Uncertain Fate as EV Race Accelerates

By: David Collis

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 722-368. The case describes the strategic position of Tesla in 2021. While the firm has been successful in driving adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) globally and has a huge market share in the segment, it faces an impending tsunami of... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Competition; Business Growth and Maturation; Success; Adoption; Auto Industry

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2018
Race & 21st century economy: Access, investments and institution-building

The Persistent Problem of the Color Line: Researching Race in the 21st Century

August 2022 (Revised May 2023)
Case

Rooted in Roxbury: Race and Equity in the Boston Cannabis Industry

By: Joshua D. Coval, Richard S. Ruback and Christopher Diak

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15 Apr 2020
News

‘Pretty Catastrophic’ Month for Retailers, and Now a Race to Survive

2023
Working Paper

The Limits of Algorithmic Measures of Race in Studies of Outcome Disparities

By: David S. Scharfstein and Sergey Chernenko

We show that the use of algorithms to predict race has significant limitations in measuring and understanding the sources of racial disparities in finance, economics, and other contexts. First, we derive theoretically the direction and magnitude of measurement bias in... View Details

Keywords: Racial Disparity; Paycheck Protection Program; Measurement Error; AI and Machine Learning; Race; Measurement and Metrics; Equality and Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Forecasting and Prediction; Outcome or Result

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June 2007
Article

Competitive Crowding and Risk Taking in a Tournament: Evidence from NASCAR Racing

Keywords: Competition; Risk and Uncertainty; Entertainment; Information; Sports Industry

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1989
Chapter

The Influence of Race on Career Dynamics

By: D. A. Thomas and Clayton P. Alderfer

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Race

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26 Apr 2018
Video

2018 G&WS: Elena Richards Presents "Why Are We Talking About Race at Work?"

11 Feb 2021
Video

What’s Race Got to Do With Diversity: Stephanie Creary

2013
Chapter

Prescriptions and Punishments for Working Moms: How Race and Work Status Affect Judgments of Mothers

By: Amy Cuddy and Elizabeth Baily Wolf

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2005
Working Paper

Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race

By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk

The main arguments in favor of and against nominal and indexed debt are the incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against unforeseen shocks. We model and calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium... View Details

Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Taxation; Risk and Uncertainty; Inflation and Deflation; System Shocks; Developing Countries and Economies; Mathematical Methods

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December 2004
Article

Politics Meets Marketing In America's Presidential Race

By: John A. Quelch and Katherine E. Jocz

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Historical research on the race between education and technology has focused on the West but barely touched upon ‘the rest’. A new occupational wage database for 50 African and... View Details