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- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
largest private prison operator in the U.S., was considering expansion options. The company's largest customers, federal and state governments, were under economic pressure to reduce the incarceration rate and lower operating costs,...
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- January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Equal Justice Initiative: Mercy, Truth and Dignity
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 the...
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- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
PublicationsCapitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business Authors:Joseph Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2011 Abstract The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
suggests some of the bias in AI could be mitigated by including people from historically marginalized communities in its design. “The people who will really, really know how tools are being used are refugees or incarcerated people or...
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- 29 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022)
designing interventions to increase vaccination levels for specific populations. I am helping reach vulnerable groups such as older immigrant adults, incarcerated adults, and home health workers, using focus groups and other market...
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- 22 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance
Employers looking to fill critical job vacancies may want to turn to a largely untapped pool of willing workers: people with criminal records. Employers are often wary of hiring workers with past convictions, leading to double-digit unemployment rates for formerly...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation...
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- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
neighborhoods. Communities with flourishing illicit cannabis markets suffer a host of associated problems, including high incarceration rates (often exacerbated by prosecutorial bias), violence as the primary means of dispute resolution...
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by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- Web
Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity
brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans–has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still, it is a difficult subject to talk about. How do you tell your roommate her jokes are racist? Why did your sister-in-law take...
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- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process....
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by Joseph B. Fuller
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
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...
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Margie Kelley
- Web
Christine Murnane Archives | Social Enterprise
a NYC nonprofit to address problems of mass incarceration and instituti... INITIATIVES focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone.
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- 23 Aug 2017
- News
Developing Leaders Behind Bars
Pelican Bay maximum security state prison and asked me to come along to document the event. What were your goals going into the prison? My objective as a photographer was to help humanize these incarcerated entrepreneurs-in-training and...
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Robert Bochnak
- Web
Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
critical infrastructure projects and help bu... Life After Rikers: HBS Alumni Volunteers Complete Project Aimed at Reducing Recidivism in NYC Christine Murnane 11 Jul 2019 HBS alumni partnered with a NYC nonprofit to address problems of mass View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Saying “Race” Out Loud: Leading Conversations on Diversity in HBS Classrooms
the riskiness of hiring formerly incarcerated people,” says one faculty member as “Jack,” a white male. “While I think offering a second chance is admirable, I don't entirely agree that this is a workforce that should be prioritized." In...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
critical issues such as racism in business technologies, inclusion in organizations, bias in legal policies, and the effect of incarceration on employment and entrepreneurship,” says Debora Spar, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
companies from Germany dealt with the incarceration of thousands of their German national employees in India during World War I and World War II in her recent working paper, Countering Political Risk in Colonial India: German...
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- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
poverty, (3) the Pew Hispanic Center estimated that male illegal immigrants aged 18 to 64 had a very high 92 percent labor force participation rate in 2004, (4) rates of incarceration for immigrants are lower than for native-born...
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by Jim Heskett
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Diversifying HBS's Case Collection
dean for Culture and Community at HBS and Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing, are available for free. These materials and a free PDF of another written case, “Race and Mass Incarceration in the United States,” coauthored by...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5
Goldfields April 8, 2020: Kenya April 15, 2020: Economic Inequality April 22, 2020: US Mass Incarceration April 29, 2020: Detroit: on the Right Track? May 2020: Murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Ahmaud Arbery These are cases...
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