Americanization - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jun 2022
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The Case for Mindful Cursing

08 May 2020
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Should U.S. Policymakers Force Banks to Waive Overdraft Fees During the Crisis?

26 Mar 2020
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Bloom or bust: One industry’s struggle with coronavirus

13 Mar 2020
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Q&A with Karen Mills: Former SBA head says the coronavirus pandemic is situation critical for U.S. small businesses

2014
Article

Unequality: Who Gets What and Why It Matters

By: Michael I. Norton

Who should get what, and what are the consequences? Economic inequality in the United States has been rising for decades, yet only recently have behavioral scientists explored two central questions surrounding the optimal level of inequality. First, what are the... View Details

Keywords: Inequality; Ethics; Productivity; Gambling; Equality and Inequality; Fairness; Income; Performance Productivity; United States

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January 2014
Teaching Note

Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Malone

The case includes law, business, and public health perspectives on an African American leader's social entrepreneurship and leadership in other social movements. Later in his life, Dr. Benjamin Hooks championed the eradication of lead poisoning. Prior to that Hooks... View Details

Keywords: Leading Change; Health Disorders; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; United States

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May 2021
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Career at a Crossroads? (B)

By: James K. Sebenius and Alex Green

A career professional at a major consumer goods company, Kym Lew Nelson is hoping to negotiate a promotion to vice president, which would make her one of the senior-most African American women in the organization. But when Nelson’s white German boss arrives in the... View Details

Keywords: Culture; Negotiation; Race; Gender; Organizational Culture; Prejudice and Bias

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03 Jan 2022
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Making Healthy Practices Habitual

30 Jun 2021
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Back to the Office? The Future of Remote and Hybrid Work, with Tsedal Neeley, PhD

03 Apr 2019
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Disrupting the Single-Use Plastic Economy

11 Mar 2021
Blog Post

A Year as Co-Presidents: Q+A with AASU's Bukie Adebo (MBA 2021) and Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)

or normal term for African American Student Union (AASU) Co-Presidents Bukie Adebo (MBA 2021) and Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021). We talked to the two second-year students about how 2020 affected their term, highlights from their time as... View Details

23 Jul 2013
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Taking the Measure of Detroit

26 Sep 2011
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Dose of Humility With a Harvard MBA

03 Dec 2019
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What Is The Future Of Work In The Tradable Sector?

27 Jan 2019
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How Employers Can Help Caregivers For A Win-Win

24 Mar 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism? Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

2021
Working Paper

The Great Unequalizer: Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States

By: Marcella Alsan, Amitabh Chandra and Kosali I. Simon

We measure inequities from the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality and hospitalizations in the United States during the early months of the outbreak. We discuss challenges in measuring health outcomes and health inequality, some of which are specific to COVID-19 and others... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Health Inequality; Health Pandemics; Demographics; Equality and Inequality

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