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  • 27 Apr 2023
  • Cold Call Podcast

Equity Bank CEO James Mwangi: Transforming Lives with Access to Credit

Keywords: Re: Caroline M. Elkins; Banking; Financial Services
  • Research Summary

Managing Multiple Identities at Work

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan
Peoples’ work identities, which are often a deep source of meaning for them, may conflict with or complement cultural, familial, or personal identities they value. A central focus of Professor Ramarajan’s work is understanding, on the individual level, how these... View Details
  • 2015
  • Book

MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads; shipping delays on clogged railways; and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent flyer,... View Details
Keywords: United States; Railroad History; Airlines; Airline Industry; Air Transportation; Passenger Transportation; Cities; Urban Planning; Freighting; Change; Leadership; Public Policy; Change Leadership; Public Finance; Infrastructure; Policy; Technological Innovation; Change Management; Leading Change; Urban Development; Project Finance; Entrepreneurship; City; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Shipping Industry; Rail Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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  • 13 Apr 2016
  • Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

Many male business leaders have the right intentions when it comes to tackling the sticky issue of gender inequality in the workplace. But try as they might to be more sensitive and inclusive with their language, men are quite simply... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • September 2022
  • Case

HPP: Tapping the Netherlands’ Potential

By: Brian Trelstad and Idelès Kaandorp
Stichting Het Potentieel Pakken (HPP) was launched to solve a systemic problem in the Dutch Labor Market: gender inequity that was leading to a large number of women to work part-time in fields that were in desperately short supply of labor, like health care, child... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Grants; Scaling And Growth; Nonprofit Organizations; Opportunities; Gender; Income; Employment; Health Care and Treatment; Human Capital; Mission and Purpose; Motivation and Incentives; Growth and Development Strategy; Employment Industry; Health Industry; Education Industry; Consulting Industry; Europe; Netherlands
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  • Article

Bargaining with Imperfect Enforcement

By: Lucy White and Mark Williams
The game-theoretic bargaining literature insists on non-cooperative bargaining procedure but allows 'cooperative' implementation of agreements. The effect of this is to allow free-reign of bargaining power with no check upon it. In reality, courts cannot... View Details
Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Body of Literature; Contracts; Motivation and Incentives; Code Law; Game Theory
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  • 17 May 2016
  • First Look

May 17, 2016

in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Flying into a Rage: Physical and Situational Inequality on Airplanes Predict Air Rage By: DeCelles, K.A., and Michael I. Norton Abstract—We posit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 15, 2016

creates a "fiscal risk management" motive: incremental spending that occurs when total government spending is already high is particularly unattractive. A first key insight is that the government's need to manage fiscal risk frequently limits its capacity for managing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2018
  • Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

“And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. So, I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the... View Details
  • March 8, 2022
  • Article

Women Can’t Go Back to the Pre-Pandemic Status Quo

By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
Survey data collected in 2018 and 2019 from Harvard Business School graduates revealed that for women—and especially women of color—well-being at work was suffering long before the pandemic. While 17% of all respondents said that they often or very often experienced... View Details
Keywords: Women; Burnout; Gender; Race; Resignation and Termination; Well-being; Employees
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  • June 2024
  • Article

Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms

By: Mohammad Akbarpour, Piotr Dworczak and Scott Duke Kominers
Many scarce public resources are allocated at below-market-clearing prices, and sometimes for free. Such "non-market" mechanisms sacrifice some surplus, yet they can potentially improve equity. We develop a model of mechanism design with redistributive concerns. Agents... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Welfare; Mathematical Methods; Market Design; Cost vs Benefits
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  • July 2001
  • Case

Paula Evans and the Redesign of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (A)

By: Linda A. Hill, Kristin Doughty and Ellen Pruyne
Paula Evans is in her second year as principal of the only high school in Cambridge, MA. Her mandate when she arrived was to redesign the high school so that long-standing inequities in academic achievement rates across race and socioeconomic class were removed. In her... View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Strategy; Secondary Education; Restructuring; Leadership; Conflict Management; Education Industry; Cambridge
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    MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead

    Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays on clogged railways, and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent... View Details

    • 08 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

    levels,” Zhang says. “But especially younger generations are increasingly concerned with other elements in the workplace, and they are even willing to sacrifice wages for these other amenities.” Black employees get fewer workplace perks For his study, “Racial View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
    • Case

    Equal Justice Initiative: Mercy, Truth and Dignity

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Gerald Chertavian and Brittany Logan
    In 1989, the Equal Justice Initiative was established as a non-profit, public interest law firm by Harvard Law School graduate, Bryan Stevenson.

    EJI provides legal assistance to condemned prisoners, people wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced, children in... View Details
    Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Nonprofit Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Issues; Race
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    • January 2024
    • Article

    A Cost Model for a Low Threshold Clinic Treating Opioid Use Disorder

    By: Sarah E. Wakeman, Elizabeth Powell, Syed Shehab, Grace Herman, Laura Kehoe and Robert S. Kaplan
    The US fee-for-service payment system under-reimburses clinics offering access to comprehensive treatments for opioid use disorder (OUD). The funding shortfall limits a clinic’s ability to expand and improve access, especially for socially marginalized patients with... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Equality and Inequality; Health Industry
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    • 21 Aug 2023
    • Book

    You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance

    grit is going to overcome structural inequality and the lack of growth in real wages. Each of these pieces has made stability harder to achieve individually and collectively.” One of the more telling indicators of the shift in how... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • May 19, 2021
    • Article

    Measuring the Impact of #MeToo on Gender Equity in Hollywood

    By: Hong Luo and Laurina Zhang
    The #MeToo movement has brought issues of sexual harassment and gender inequities to the forefront around the world. But how much of a tangible impact has it had on the experiences of women in the workplace? In this piece, the authors discuss their research that... View Details
    Keywords: #MeToo Movement; Gender Equity; Creative Industries; Impact; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Film Entertainment; Social Issues
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    • September–October 2024
    • Article

    Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday

    By: Jasmina Chauvin, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tommy Pan Fang
    This paper examines the effects of temporal distance generated by time zone separation on communication in geographically distributed organizations. We build on prior research, which highlights time zone separation as a significant challenge, but argue that employees... View Details
    Keywords: Communication; Employees; Behavior; Equality and Inequality
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    • 05 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding

    important,” he says. “But I think it’s increasingly going to be the social skills, the cognitive skills, the ability to learn things and the ability to adapt that are going to be more important.” For example, Zhang says, more important... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand