income disparity - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Aug 2010
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Income Inequality and Financial Crises

19 Aug 2013
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Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

01 Jun 2011
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America the Unequal

whether different forms of wealth redistribution — for example, raising the minimum wage, or longer-term interventions like reducing disparities in education — are less likely to evoke heated opposition and perhaps increase advocacy for... View Details

Keywords: income disparity; class mobility

22 Sep 2014
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Why We Should Teach Entrepreneurship to Disadvantaged Students

Keywords: entrepreneurship; Nonprofit; disadvantaged youth; income disparity

11 Jan 2012
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Business the solution to social inequities

10 Sep 2010
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How to Handle CEO Pay Before Dodd-Frank Hits

01 Apr 2014
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Is The Invisible Hand Of The Market Choking Democracy?

01 Jan 2007
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

explains. At least once a month Zobel gathers the CEOs of Ayala's disparate businesses for informal brainstorming sessions. "We're constantly looking for synergies. There's excitement in collectively creating something bigger than what... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

and economic inequity that deny so many Black people safe, healthy, and attractive housing. And with multiple studies showing income inequality at its worst since the Roaring Twenties, cities around the country facing a lack of affordable... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

01 Sep 2008
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Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?

disparity of wealth and income in many countries and across regions. In turn, they thought these gaps could lead to populist politics that would adversely affect the conduct of capitalism. A second major... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

18 Aug 2014
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Closing the Education Gap

Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997) “Everyone deserves a fair start regardless of their zip code,” says Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997). Reforming that start is what motivates her. “The effects of income disparity... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 2024
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Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

can veer from routine memos to unexpected management questions to high-stakes strategy development. They wanted to know if GPT-4 could guide entrepreneurs through these disparate tasks. To answer this question, they made the tool... View Details

Keywords: April White

09 Mar 2021
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Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic

During COVID-19 and Beyond. Closures of schools and other learning spaces have had an impact on 94 percent of the world’s student population; for low and lower-middle income countries, the impact has been up to 99 percent. As a result,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

07 Sep 2021
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Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

Afya Pamoja cofounders Patrick Anyanga, Robert Smith, Dr. Helga Mutasingwa, and Simon DeBere at the company’s office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In Tanzania, women are 100 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than women in high View Details

Keywords: April White

18 Nov 2020
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Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar

some time networking. Webinar Tackles Race and Mass Incarceration Using Case Method Nearly 2.3 million individuals are currently locked up in U.S. prisons, jails, and detention centers. Of these, 60% are Black or Latinx. Why the mass incarceration, and why such View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2007
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Daniel Vasella

the test as he methodically refashioned the two old-line chemical companies with disparate corporate cultures into a single entity focused on health care and powered by an innovative approach to R&D. Today, Novartis is one of the world’s... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; multinational pharmaceutical company; prescription drugs; vaccines; Medicare; generics business; Health, Social Assistance

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

brown-led nonprofits closely tied to the people and problems in under-resourced Massachusetts communities. Shell, a managing director at Bain Capital, says George Floyd’s brutal killing, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a pandemic that “has blown View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

of all Black engineers attended an HBCU. There's 101 HBCUs today, and there's 300,000 students attending HBCUs, 70 percent of those students receive Pell Grants, which is for people who come from households with $25,000 or less of annual View Details

05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale

capital for midsized companies. Because capital raising is controlled by the state, it tends to go to state-owned enterprises. That is a big problem for a lot of privately owned businesses and has created the shadow banking sector. What is your view of the wide View Details