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    SystemRemove System →

    New research on systems from Harvard Business School faculty on issues including systems architecture and modularity.
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    • 31 Jan 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

    by Rachel Layne

    Many college graduates will accept lower salaries for roles that have the potential to give back to society, says research by Letian Zhang. Could trading pay for altruism help shrink the income gap?

    • 03 Jan 2023
    • Book

    Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

    by Pamela Reynolds

    Power dynamics tied up with race and gender underlie almost every workplace interaction, says Tina Opie. In her book Shared Sisterhood, she offers three practical steps for dismantling workplace inequities that hold back innovation.

    • 12 Dec 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them

    by Scott Van Voorhis

    Diversifying clinical trials could build trust in new treatments among Black people and their physicians. Research by Joshua Schwartzstein, Marcella Alsan, and colleagues probes the ripple effects of underrepresentation in testing, and offers a call to action for drugmakers.

    • 31 Oct 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Why the Largest Minority Group Faces the Most Hate—and How to Push Back

    by Pamela Reynolds

    A community's biggest minority group endures the most discrimination from a majority who fears losing status, says research by Marco Tabellini and colleagues. Findings from 20 years of crime and demographic data could help policymakers improve race relations.

    • 11 Oct 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

    by Rachel Layne

    If banks hire more minority loan officers, more people of color might tap into a crucial means of wealth building: buying a home. Research by Adi Sunderam comes on the heels of a real estate frenzy that has mostly benefited white Americans.

    • 29 Aug 2022
    • Op-Ed

    Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

    by Jon M. Jachimowicz, Kristin Blesch, and Oliver P. Hauser

    Policymakers trying to shrink the income gap have long relied on a statistical benchmark to guide decisions. But taking a broader view of inequality might lead to better solutions, say Jon Jachimowicz and colleagues.

    • 15 Aug 2022
    • Book

    University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

    by Dina Gerdeman

    Which universities will step into the void as American colleges decline? In the book Empires of Ideas, William Kirby explores how the history of higher education in the US, China, and Germany might shape its future.

    • 14 Sep 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Digital Labor Market Inequality and the Decline of IT Exceptionalism

    by Ruiqing Cao and Shane Greenstein

    The experience in five cities accounts for almost all the wage inequality in IT wages in the US between 2000 and 2018. Overall that brought IT wages closer to STEM wages.

    • 27 Jul 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Gender Inequality in Research Productivity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    by Ruomeng Cui, Hao Ding, and Feng Zhu

    Analysis of data from the largest open-access repositories for social science in the world finds that female researchers’ productivity significantly dropped relative to that of male researchers as a result of the lockdown in the United States.

    • 18 Jun 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

    by Rachel Layne

    Phone or flour? People with lower incomes are judged more harshly for what they choose to buy, say Serena F. Hagerty and Kate Barasz. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 01 Jun 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Spreading the Health: Americans' Estimated and Ideal Distributions of Death and Health(care)

    by Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton

    Across varying political ideologies and income levels, Americans both underestimate the current extent of inequality of mortality and healthcare, and prefer each to be more equally distributed.

    • 21 Apr 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Changing In-group Boundaries: The Role of New Immigrant Waves in the US

    by Vasiliki Fouka, Shom Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini

    How do new immigrants affect natives’ views of other minority groups? This work studies the evolution of group boundaries in the United States and indicates that whites living in states receiving more Mexican immigrants recategorize blacks as in-group members, because of the inflow of a new, “affectively” more distant group.

    • 23 Mar 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

    by Michael Blanding

    Rather than chilling innovation, product accidents may provide companies an unexpected opportunity to develop new technologies desired by consumers, according to Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 30 Jul 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    ‘Organizing’, ‘Innovating’, and ‘Managing’ in Complexity Space

    by Michael C. Moldoveanu

    This paper explores organizational complexity by proposing a two-dimensional framework to help us understand organizational coping mechanisms and failure modes. The framework makes it possible to ask new questions about organizational adaptations to complexity that investigate its underlying structure and dynamics.

    • 25 Feb 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

    by Dina Gerdeman

    Researchers believe gender stereotypes hold women back in the workplace. Katherine Coffman's research adds a new twist: They can even cause women to question their own abilities. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 17 Oct 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Quantile Forecasts of Product Life Cycles Using Exponential Smoothing

    by Xiaojia Guo, Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr., and Yael Grushka-Cockayne

    Many important business decisions rely on a manager’s forecast of a product or service’s life cycle. One of the most widely used forecasting techniques is exponential smoothing models. This paper introduces a model suitable for large-scale forecasting environments where key operational decisions depend on quantile forecasts.

    • 08 Oct 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

    by Rachel Layne

    Learning what your co-worker earns can make you less productive, but knowing your manager's paycheck can motivate you to work harder. Research by Zoë Cullen. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 10 Sep 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

    by Robin J. Ely

    Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s Men and Women of the Corporation inspired and informed a generation of scholars studying gender, status, and power. Robin J. Ely interviews Kanter about her groundbreaking research and why it remains relevant today. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 02 Jul 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

    by Roberta Holland

    New research by Ethan Rouen and colleagues suggests that corporate tax cuts contribute to income inequality. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 06 Jun 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Complex Disclosure

    by Ginger Zhe Jin, Michael Luca, and Daniel Martin

    This study shows that companies looking to hide unfavorable information might strategically be making contract terms unnecessarily complex, harming consumers and undermining the effectiveness of disclosure. These results highlight a role for regulation that would encourage simpler forms of disclosure.

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