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Hiring Discrimination Against Black Americans Hasn’t Declined in 25 Years

Harvard Business Review

Polling data shows that many believe these lingering conflicts represent the actions of a few bad apples and aren’t in sync with the larger trend toward systemic racial equality. Are these beliefs accurate? What do we know about long-term trends in racial discrimination? At first glance, our findings seem to contradict other trends.

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The 4 Dimensions of Digital Trust, Charted Across 42 Countries

Harvard Business Review

This friction has many causes — some are infrastructural or because of poor design and functionality; some are systemic, such as regulatory or legal requirements or identification and data security measures; and some are because of uncertainty between parties to the transaction. This translates into different ways to measure trust.

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A Working from Home Experiment Shows High Performers Like It Better

Harvard Business Review

Both home- and office-based employees worked the same shift period, in their same work groups, under the same managers as before, and logged on to the same computer system, with the same equipment, and the same work-order flow. The only difference between the two groups was the location where they worked.