Author

Laura Huang

MBA Class of 1954 Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School

lhuang@hbs.edu

@LauraHuangLA

Articles

PNAS

Physician-patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns

Introduction Prior research has documented that sharing demographic characteristics increases a sense of understanding or empathy between two people. This in-group bias has been found to influence the decisions made by leadership teams, inspection enforcers, teachers, and judges to favor those with shared racial or gender traits (further exasperated by white racial power). Greenwood, Hardeman,…

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