Equity Analytics

Greater sensitivity to societal inequality and a diversifying population has led many managers to ask if their business practices create disparities in opportunity and/or outcomes for employees, customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders. This course provides students with the analytical skills to answer such questions.

We cover analytical frameworks for identifying “differential treatment” and “disparate impact”, enabling equity analytics with real-world data and custom cases situated in various contexts (e.g., Airbnb, Glassdoor, Hollywood, the NFL, U.S. venture capital). By the end of the course, students are able to (a) analyze inequity in organizations, markets, and industries; (b) infer plausible determinants of such inequities; and (c) design interventions to reduce documented inequities.