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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Status and Mortality: Is There a Whitehall Effect in the United States?

By: Tom Nicholas
Do white collar workers with lower social status in the occupational hierarchy die younger? The influential Whitehall studies of British civil servants identified a strong inverse relationship between employment rank and mortality, but we do not know if this effect... View Details
Keywords: Mortality; Status; Socioeconomic Determinants Of Health
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  • November 2021
  • Article

The Effects of Retirement on Sense of Purpose in Life: Crisis or Opportunity?

By: Ayse Yemiscigil, Nattavudh Powdthavee and Ashley V. Whillans
Does retirement lead to an existential crisis or present an opportunity to experience a renewed sense of purpose in life? Prior research has documented a negative association between retirement and sense of purpose in life, suggesting that retirement could lead people... View Details
Keywords: Aging; Meaning; Socioeconomic Status; Life Experiences; Retirement; Well-being
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  • 28 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)

The week of February 27 to March 3 is the inaugural Socioeconomic Inclusion (SEI) Week. HBS will be participating in events that highlight and celebrate socioeconomic diversity and inclusion on campus. This... View Details
  • Article

We Have a Rare Opportunity to Create a Stronger, More Equitable Society

By: Shai Davidai, Martin Day, Daniela Goya-Tocchetto, Oliver Hauser, Jon M. Jachimowicz, M. Usman Mirza, Nailya Ordabayeva, L. Taylor Phillips, Barnabas Szaszi and Stephanie Tepper
Income inequality in the United States was at historic levels before the coronavirus hit. Now, as the disease—and the social and economic implications it brings—spread across the country, it is likely to create even deeper fissures between the poor and rich. View Details
Keywords: Socioeconomic Status; Coronavirus; Inequality; Work; Income; Equality and Inequality; Health Pandemics; Gender; Money; Policy; Race; Society
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  • September 2013
  • Article

Status Boundary Enforcement and the Categorization of Black-White Biracials

By: Arnold K. Ho, Jim Sidanius, Amy J.C. Cuddy and Mahzarin R. Banaji
Individuals who qualify equally for membership in more than one racial group are not judged as belonging equally to both of their parent groups, but instead are seen as belonging more to their lower status parent group. Why? The present paper begins to establish the... View Details
Keywords: Hypodescent; Social Dominance Orientation; Intergroup Threat; Hierarchy Maintenance; Equality and Inequality; Race; Rank and Position; Attitudes; Identity
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  • 11 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020)

implication for fostering more inclusion around socioeconomic status in terms of what inequality looks like after people leave HBS. If students from lower income backgrounds are not able to access the full... View Details
  • Article

Race/Ethnicity and Patient Confidence to Self-manage Cardiovascular Disease

BACKGROUND: Minority populations bear a disproportionate burden of chronic disease, due to higher disease prevalence and greater morbidity and mortality. Recent research has shown that several factors, including confidence to self-manage care, are associated... View Details

Keywords: Ethnicity; Race; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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  • 20 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

demonstrated either busyness (“I have been working non-stop all week!”) or leisure (“Enjoying a long lunch break!”). The researchers then asked some 300 participants to rank Sally’s wealth and importance. On average, busy Sally was seen as having higher social View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 18 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

HBS Students and Alumni Fostering a Supportive Community

students to examine and address socioeconomic inclusion at the School. “Throughout my first year, I was pleased to see an increasing focus on race and gender, but it felt like the socioeconomic background... View Details
  • 20 Jul 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Pursuit of Passion Propagates Privilege

Keywords: by Josephine Tan and Jon M. Jachimowicz
  • 23 Oct 2024
  • HBS Seminar

Rosa Ferrer, University of Pompeu Fabra and BSE

  • 11 Feb 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Peter Belmi, University of Virginia Darden School of Business

  • November 2019
  • Article

A Review of Bundled Payments in Total Joint Replacement

By: Olivia Manickas-Hill, Kevin J. Bozic and Thomas W. Feeley
The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative, developed by the U.S. Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, aims to reduce health care expenditures while maintaining or improving patient outcomes.
Several published reports evaluating the impact... View Details
Keywords: Bundled Payments; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management
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  • 25 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business

Lightcast. The numbers indicate that these athletes’ careers take off five to 10 years after graduation, with the achievement gap widening even more 20–25 years out. While the study didn’t control for socioeconomic View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

What Makes a Good Leader

in business. There has been an explosion of books, articles, instructional tapes, and CD-ROMs aimed at defining, analyzing, and honing the qualities that have raised the likes of Jack Welch, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos to the status of... View Details
Keywords: Management
  • 06 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

change both small and large: improving how operating rooms function, and “instituting changes from an administrative perspective” that would address socioeconomic inequalities. All with the goal of changing how health care is delivered. A... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Fostering a Supportive Community

2020) when they were students to examine and address socioeconomic inclusion at the School. “Throughout my first year, I was pleased to see an increasing focus on race and gender, but it felt like the View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
  • 20 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All

Their findings were published in the May 17, 2016, issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A TEMPORARY STATE OF INEQUALITY Research on inequality usually measures a relatively fixed socioeconomic View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Air Transportation; Sports; Travel
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • News

A View of the Valley

Trust, peeks behind the curtains of Silicon Valley’s tech culture and the fight to the top of the food chain—a story told through lens of a Taiwanese-American family, the Huangs. It’s an unblinking look at some of the Valley’s foibles, from fixations on View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • Web

Application Process | MBA

of your interview invitation nor its format, whether in person or via Zoom, implies anything about the status of your application or affects your candidacy. 3. Post-Interview Reflection Within 24 hours of the interview, candidates are... View Details