Inequalities - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2013
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Leveraging Female Talent

directors. I was the only man. When I joined a table for a meal, the conversation died—and when I left, it picked up again. I mentioned what had happened when I gave my presentation. The response? That happens to us every single day. I had always understood View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

15 Jun 2021
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The Value of Difficult Conversations

Great Conversation In the virtual classroom, Ratajczak steered the conversation away from past harms to the Black community to the current issues that stem from them. He wondered how payments could address modern inequities and if such... View Details

Keywords: April White; Tulsa Massacre

26 Jan 2021
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Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response

health care, inequities in female-specific disease areas, and the role of FemTech startups in disrupting women's health care and empowering women. Linda Greub (MBA 1987) Stasia Obremskey (MBA 1987) Alice Zheng (MBA 2014) Linda Greub (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2008
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India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"

poverty by the country’s growing economy, Palaniappan Chidambaram (MBA ’68), India’s finance minister, predicted in a speech at HBS in October. However, India remains a land of vexing contrasts and contradictions, with enormous inequities... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Jun 2006
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The Baby Business

who can’t do it are at a real disadvantage, especially if they’re poor. We have to decide whether that’s an inequity that we as a society should accept. You’ve written about the business of stem cells, which is also emotion-driven to a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Health, Social Assistance

07 Sep 2021
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Embracing Activism for Social Change

“We spoke to folks in California and Texas, asking questions about coalition building, data collection, evaluation, stakeholder management, and community engagement,” she says. “This was at a time when COVID-19 was exposing a big range of underlying health View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Mar 2025
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Alumni and Faculty Books

using strategies that increased their experience capital. Leaders and companies must do more to address gender inequalities in the workplace. But you don’t have to wait. The Broken Rung is your guide for moving up the career ladder and... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn

children for modern American startup success—lost $10 billion between January and October of 2020. There’s also been huge social and political pushback against some of the tech giants, who are under fire for exacerbating issues of View Details

02 Sep 2021
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Back to School

are some of the Department of Education’s priorities once school is back in session? Secretary Cardona always says if the outcome of all our effort is to go back to where we were, that will be a failure. There were so many inequities and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

13 Apr 2022
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New School

Waldron says. “We were having a crisis in education before the pandemic, in terms of disparities in kids’ learning gains.” Now, after two years of disrupted learning in many places, those inequities are even more apparent, and progress is... View Details

22 Jul 2021
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Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women

reimagining women’s health to include a range of conditions and investing in new products to address the inequities that women face in the health care system. The FemHealth team is currently raising its first fund. “It is an honor to be... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

28 Jul 2010
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Real-World Economics

Keywords: Professor Alvin Roth; algorithms; matching systems; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

something lasting,” said Josh Kraft, who is president of Kraft Family Philanthropies. The fund has raised nearly $30 million to support community groups and coalitions that fight racism and racial inequity in Massachusetts. Among its core... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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In the Zone

the organization’s top leadership role in the midst of a pandemic came with unexpected challenges, which included overseeing the launch of a hybrid teaching model in two of HCZ’s charter schools, implementing safety protocols, and addressing the sweeping View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; nonprofit management; urban development; leadership; public education; Educational Services

19 Jan 2017
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Finding Purpose in Profit

to adopt that corporate structure. [Her change of focus was the theme of a September 2014 TEDxBoulder talk, “The Joy of Less.”] “So many of our society’s inequalities are unfortunate outgrowths of capitalism,” Coupounas says today. “The... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; B corporations

01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit

wealth inequality in the United States in recent decades, Summers said that in any society, equitable income distribution goes to the heart of a society’s legitimacy, fairness, and opportunity for its citizens. In the United States, he... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

15 Jun 2021
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The Path Ahead

challenges and opportunities that the School faces—and the priorities that will guide his leadership. Inequality and racism are among the most serious problems in today's societies. How does Dean Datar plan to address these issues by... View Details

05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale

rural Chinese. Just addressing that problem—finding ways that farmers in the country’s poorer provinces can achieve a standard of living equal to a high-tech worker in Hangzhou—is a daunting task. This increasing unease about economic View Details