Equity Analytics
- Fall 22 (B)
- Winter 22 (A)
Equity Analytics --- Greater sensitivity to societal inequality, combined with an increasingly diverse workforce, has led many organizations to review their business practices for disparities in opportunity and/or outcomes for employees, customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders. This course addresses the need for "Equity Analysts" who can utilize analytical frameworks to identify "differential treatment" and "disparate impact" using real-world data from various contexts. In the classroom or via video, case protagonists and other industry experts will share their real-world experiences with documenting and addressing inequity. By the end of the course, students will be 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. [Note that "equity" in this course refers to notions of fairness and not, as in finance, ownership of a company.]