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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Meet the Oligarchs: Business Legitimacy, State Capacity and Taxation

By: Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra and Alejandro Lagomarsino
We analyze the role of people’s beliefs about the rich in the determination of public policy in the context of a randomized online survey experiment. A question we study is the desirability of government-private sector meetings, a variable we argue is connected to... View Details
Keywords: Business Legitimacy; State Capacity; Meetings; Taxes; Top 1%; Regulation; Prejudice and Bias; Values and Beliefs; Taxation; Business and Government Relations
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  • 17 Dec 2015
  • News

Don't Focus on Hiring a Superstar. Just Avoid Toxic Workers

  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Employee Ownership and Wealth Inequality: A Path to Reducing Wealth Concentration

By: Thomas Dudley and Ethan Rouen
This paper examines the impact of an economy-wide shift to broad-based employee ownership on wealth concentration in the United States. Relying on government data, we show that if all private firms became 30% employee-owned, the wealth distribution would be profoundly... View Details
Keywords: Wealth Inequality; Employee Ownership; Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Analysis; United States
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  • May 13, 2021
  • Article

The Big Benefits of Employee Ownership

By: Thomas Dudley and Ethan Rouen
Wealth inequality in the U.S. has been increasing for decades: The richest 1% own a majority of all business wealth, and the top 10% own more than 90%. Companies, which have played a vital role in the growth in inequality can also play one in reducing it. One place to... View Details
Keywords: Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Employee Ownership; United States
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    John P. Kotter

    John P. Kotter is internationally known and widely regarded as the foremost speaker on the topics of Leadership and Change.  His is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually achieve successful transformations. The Konosuke... View Details

    • Article

    (Mis)perceptions of Inequality

    By: Oliver P. Hauser and Michael I. Norton
    Inequality is arguably the defining societal issue of the 21st century. The debate over “who gets what’ underlies policy debates ranging from taxation to health care to wages and permeates society at all levels, attracting increasing interest from policymakers,... View Details
    Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Wealth and Poverty; Perception; Society; Policy
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    • Web

    2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

    might do to help? Participants will leave this session with a better understanding of the obstacles at play and some strategies they can employ to build organizations where top talent of any gender can thrive. Reskilling the Workforce... View Details
    • 10 May 2020
    • Blog Post

    Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

    family-starting years, the demographics are slowly shifting. This year, HBS has more student moms than ever before. We now comprise 1% of the student body. When classmates found out I was pregnant, the first question would invariably be,... View Details
    • Portrait Project

    Joshua Jarrett

    I want to always remember the number 6.65 million. That's the number of people in the world who will make less than each of the Harvard Business School graduates this year. $25,000 a year is enough to put you in the top View Details
    • Fast Answer

    Sustainability Resources for HBS MBAs

    Compiled by HBS Business and Environment Initiative and Katie Kross, this list is included as a part of the Sustainability research guide via Baker Library's website.   Section Resources Top News sources (subscription... View Details
    • 22 Jul 2020
    • Blog Post

    Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club

    decades.* Despite increased attention in recent years, the fact remains that Black founders receive a mere 1% of VC funding. For Black women, the numbers are even worse. One reason for this is that general partners at venture capital... View Details
    • 06 Aug 2020
    • Blog Post

    WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB

    decades.* Despite increased attention in recent years, the fact remains that Black founders receive a mere 1% of VC funding. For Black women, the numbers are even worse. One reason for this is that general partners at venture capital... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • Web

    Harvard Business School’s Armed Forces Alumni Association - MBA

    Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
    • 20 Dec 2016
    • First Look

    December 20, 2016

    to State capacity. Survey respondents primed with negative views about business leaders want fewer meetings as well as higher taxes for the top 1% and more regulation. We also study how these effects change... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 04 Aug 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: August 4

    outsourcing and movement of labor, with its social welfare offerings. Reforms implemented during the past two decades drove down unemployment, promoted new company formation, and put the country at or near the top of international polls... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 02 Sep 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: September 3, 2008

    powerhouse, went sour at VW, as a top manager secured key concessions by paying for union leaders' lavish foreign travel and visits to prostitutes. After vitamin prices sagged in the late 1980s, BASF and the Swiss chemical firm... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 29 Aug 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

    level of economic inequality within Western societies is at its highest in almost a century; in the U.S., for example, inequality is at its highest peak since before the Great Depression (3–5). Furthermore, the incomes of the top View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 09 May 2017
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, May 9

    sovereign default induced by legal rulings in the case of Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital. We find that a 10% increase in the probability of default causes a 6% decline in the value of Argentine equities and a 1% depreciation of a... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Aug 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

    Scott Morton, Fiona, Ariel Dora Stern, and Scott Stern Abstract—Biologic drugs (therapeutic proteins or “large-molecule drugs”) represent a substantial and growing share of the U.S. drug market, accounting for less than 1% of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 09 Aug 2016
    • First Look

    August 9, 2016

    anti-predatory laws to instrument for an outward shift in the supply of credit. First, a comparison between counties in the top and bottom deciles of presence of national banks in states with anti-predatory laws suggests that the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne