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  • 05 Dec 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How The 2016 Presidential Candidates Misled Us With Truthful Statements

"Paltering" is the active use of truthful statements to influence a target’s beliefs by giving a false or distorted impression. It can pervade all kinds of personal interactions, from romantic relationships... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

neoclassical business cycle model with heterogeneous firms and risky debt. To generate the size of spread increases observed during 2008-9, the model requires only disappointment of overoptimistic beliefs rather than large negative... View Details
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Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity

practicing medicine today. Black & Blue penetrates the physician’s private sphere where racial fantasies and misinformation distort diagnoses and treatments. Doctors have always absorbed the racial stereotypes and folkloric View Details
  • 29 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

capitalism to allow its corporate managers to set up an accounting system that distorts the market—potentially leading to corporate scandals or an economic crash—and undermines capitalism itself. Rather, in these "thin"... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

and others dismissing it as little more than a hiccup-or even celebrating it as a favorable development-in the progress of American capitalism. Despite numerous claims in popular venues that high inequality has slowed growth, precipitated financial instability, and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

concerns occur whenever employees take into account the impact of their current actions on their future career. In essence, whenever the internal and/or external labor market observes a performance measure that helps revise its beliefs... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 12 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

Even as polarized political discussion appears to have frozen the possibility of compromise, new research suggests that divided sides can come together on many issues to make decisions. “Our research finds that inaccurate beliefs really... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets

the new Trump administration appears set to intervene extensively with corporate decision making? Responsibility Panel Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao Founder of MphasiS, explains his belief that the Indian government should... View Details
  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

material exchange in labor relations). Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16621 Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Ricardo... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

make sense for me to pursue?’” Coffman has recently co-written an article in the American Economic Review as well as two working papers, all aimed at studying men’s and women’s beliefs about their own abilities. What she found, in... View Details
  • 06 Dec 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?

prescriptions were few. The diagnoses ranged from "blatant procrastination and fear" (Nishant Miglani) to the triumph of "wishful thinking" (Edward Hare) to "the bias of hope over experience" and the belief... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 08 Feb 2018
  • Op-Ed

What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan

those who claim them, while cuts to mortgage interest and state and local tax deductions can be seen as efforts to get the government out of the business of distorting prices. “Discussing values gives the country the opportunity to choose... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
  • 26 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

judgment. But you want your judgment, as much as possible, to be sequestered from things that can really distort it.” Be collaborative. Badaracco advocates for a holistic view of AI. “If it’s heavily marketing- or technology-oriented,... View Details
Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Auto; Technology
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions

people’s decisions, our false perceptions can also distort our opinions about others in general. In this case, the more important Clinton voters thought immigration policy was to Trump voters, the more negatively they viewed Trump voters... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

at Harvard Business School. “Political polarization can create distortions within the economy,” says Kempf, one of the coauthors of the new review. “Partisanship seems to be a really important determinant of many decisions made by... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 08 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model of disaster prevention, supported by case studies and preliminary empirics to explain why some governments prepare well for disasters and others do not. We show how the presence of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

shared with the other titans in this book a belief in the future. Watson had two decades of business experience by the time he became chief executive of Computing-Tabulating-Recording (C-T-R) in 1914. The situation he faced was not... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 22, 2016

beliefs about a group depend on the characteristics of the reference group. Because stereotypes emphasize differences, they cause belief distortions, particularly when groups are similar. In line with our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

Abstract—People demonstrate an impressive ability to self-deceive, distorting misbehavior to reflect positively on themselves—for example, by cheating on a test and believing that their inflated performance reflects their true ability.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

desire for a product when sweatshop labor is present. Furthermore, we present evidence for a mediated moderation where beliefs about sweatshop labor use moderates the impact of desirability on purchase intention, and moral disengagement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace