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- 24 Jun 2016
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Is It Safe for CEOs to Voice Strong Political Opinions?
- 31 Jan 2017
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CEOs Face Off Against Trump (or Not)
- 16 May 2017
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Women May Find Management Positions Less Desirable
- 01 Sep 2023
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The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
ended up discriminating against particular groups of guests. That gives us fascinating insights about how something seemingly innocuous like web design has enormous potential to lead users in either a positive or negative direction. For...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Ink: The Three-Step Startup
For the last two decades in his classroom at Brown University, Danny Warshay (MBA 1994) has been using a structured approach to teach entrepreneurship—what he calls “see, solve, scale.” But roles reversed when his students pointed out that the executive director of...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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3-Minute Briefing: Ellen Pao (MBA 1998)
groups that don’t fit the VC mold. There is no magic set of experiences that makes you a great venture capitalist. I filed a gender discrimination suit against Kleiner Perkins because I had tried everything else. It seemed like a lawsuit...
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April White; photo by Eric Millette
- 01 Dec 2012
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An Advocate for Women's Equality
the armed forces came at this time. On the policy side, Nixon's Labor Department enforced new requirements for contractors to hire and promote women; conducted compliance reviews of universities; and gave the Equal Opportunity Commission enforcement powers to pursue...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Lesson Plans
millions of college seniors who were forced to finish their degrees online will be entering the workforce. A lot will say, “Hey, that wasn’t so bad. I was able to learn some things.” Many will likely find online learning was better in some ways than the in-person...
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Jen Mele
- 01 Mar 2011
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On the Outside at HBS
role models for all students. Another positive step would be for HBS to facilitate more open classroom dialogue during case studies, not just in the context of LEAD or LCA but also in TOM and Finance, to create opportunities for minorities to openly share their...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Just Breathe
survive and thrive with the help of these techniques. Talk about the physical toll of racism in the workplace and what that looked like for you. Studies show that discrimination and racism are linked to higher rates of high blood pressure...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Beyond Accommodation
established NIB). “We exist to create good, enabling work environments of choice for blind people,” he explains. “They have an extraordinarily high unemployment rate, ranging from 65 percent to 75 percent. There’s a lot of discrimination...
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- 01 Jan 2002
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Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
markets in developed nations. But by the mid-1980s, the Yangs decided the time had come to differentiate themselves. They would concentrate on quality and meeting the needs of the most discriminating designers and retailers in areas such...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Is AI OK?
techniques to analyze that data and build an algorithm that successfully predicted job fit while minimizing bias—matching candidates to the right jobs based on their traits and aptitudes, for example, without discriminating on the basis...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Patrick Moreton
discrimination and product bundling. After graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar, he worked as a Charles M. Williams Research Fellow at the School from 1991 to 1993, writing more than a dozen cases on finance, business ethics, and...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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A New Approach to Contact Tracing
diseases, including HIV, Ebola, and COVID-19. Weiss points out that contact tracing and exposure notification have raised privacy and discrimination concerns for as long as they have been used. These worries have come to the fore as...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Tried and Tested
also a lot to be optimistic about. Just 20 years ago, the economics literature was in a mode of documenting gender differences, whether it was about discrimination or the different outcomes for men and women. But more recently we’ve...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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INK: Big News for Small Business
a whole set of new concerns. Who owns your data? If the algorithm has bad information about you, do you get to fix it? Does the regulator get to look at the algorithm? What if it leads to discrimination and creates disparate impact? If we...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2011
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Letters to the Editor
minorities; we were stressed-out students. Life is not fair. To include opportunities for minorities to openly share their pain with discrimination could add something to organizational cases, but such a discussion would not be insightful...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Over 50 and Job Hunting?
Age discrimination is a serious concern among executives who contemplate career moves after age 50. In one recent survey, nearly three out of four managers with an average age of 50 said they believed age would be a barrier in their...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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“A National System of Income Supplementation”
Richard America’s analysis of the crippling legacy of racial discrimination in the United States was underscored by a study released last summer. In the wake of a spate of riots in urban America in the 1960s, a federal government...
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