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  • 03 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 3, 2015

may vary across research settings. Our results illustrate how researchers can use our framework to critically evaluate and compare a growing body of ERPs. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48124 Expertise vs. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2004
  • Article

Rational Overoptimism (and Other Biases)

By: Eric J. Van den Steen
Rational agents with differing priors tend to be overoptimistic about their chances of success. In particular, an agent who tries to choose the action that is most likely to succeed, is more likely to choose an action of which he overestimated, rather than... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Decision Choices and Conditions; Performance Expectations; Outcome or Result; Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Failure; Success; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Personal Characteristics; Values and Beliefs; Ethics
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  • October 2013
  • Article

The Costs of Favoritism: Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?

By: Axel Dreher, Stephan Klasen, James Vreeland and Eric Werker
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects... View Details
Keywords: World Bank; Aid Effectiveness; Political Influence; United Nations Security Council; International Finance; Prejudice and Bias; Outcome or Result; Projects; Government and Politics; Power and Influence
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  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Tried and Tested

lot of fantastic complementarities between fieldwork and lab work. Zoë’s projects have all of this rich complexity from the field, where you can see beautiful things like long-term outcomes and high stakes. But I also think her job is... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • 20 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews

resumes than candidates who reveal their race—and this discriminatory practice is just as strong for businesses that claim to value diversity as those that don’t. These research findings should provide a startling wakeup call for business executives: A View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 14 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

Unless men embrace their role in eliminating gender bias and barriers, organizations and institutions will never leverage the value that women bring to the workplace. “Most positions of power are still held by men,” says Colleen Ammerman,... View Details
  • 19 Jun 2017
  • News

Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

entrepreneurs being altruistic or salespeople being inattentive and impulsive, that I think are more-- they're more aha moments for us. Morrell: One of the issues that pymetrics looks to correct is bias in hiring. What have you learned... View Details
  • 20 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All

research shows health outcomes are poorer in impoverished neighborhoods that border wealthier areas. In terms of the haves, people aware of their higher status tend to be more selfish, entitled, and scornful, creating a psychological... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Air Transportation; Sports; Travel
  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

biased forecasts for potential future employers are more likely to face favorable career outcomes and bank executives appear to profit from the analysts' bias since the bias is... View Details
  • 11 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

patients with laryngeal cleft seen between 2008 and 2013 at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Pediatric Aerodigestive Center. Retrospective chart review was performed to identify clinic utilization by patients as well as patient diet View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

duopoly rather than to remain a monopolist. Bias in Search Results?: Diagnosis and Response Author:Benjamin Edelman Publication:The Indian Journal of Law and Technology 7 (2011) Abstract I explore allegations of search engine bias,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

fees. My heuristic for these types of engagements is to assess whether they are performing a part-time role you’d otherwise fill with a full-time employee (FTE) if you could find them. These engagements should be time-boxed and outcomes... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

evidence that boards appoint overly optimistic analysts who exhibit little skill in evaluating the firm itself, other firms within the firm's industry, or even other firms in general. The magnitude of the optimistic bias is large: 82.0%... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

spreading that skill set through the organization can solve more and bigger problems," Tucker says. "They're not going to get better by picking the right problem. They're going to get better by becoming better problem-solvers." Decision View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
  • 08 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 8, 2015

high-level positions in organizations. While a great deal of research has provided evidence that bias and discrimination give rise to and perpetuate this gender disparity, in the current research, we explore another explanation: men and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

accelerate progress: Put patients at the center of care, create choice, stop rewarding volume, standardize value-based methods of payment, and make data on outcomes transparent. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Sixty Years of the Voting Rights Act: Progress and Pitfalls

By: Andrea Bernini, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini and Cecilia Testa
We review the literature on the effects of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), which removed formal restrictions to Black political participation. After a brief description of racial discrimination suffered by Black Americans since Reconstruction, we introduce the... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Equality and Inequality; Race; Political Elections; Voting; Policy; Outcome or Result; Government Legislation
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  • 12 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

negotiate and compromise, Lees says. “If you are a legislator, you are thinking no one across the aisle or in my own tribe will support compromise, but that’s in fact wrong. Both sides might be okay with compromise, but no one’s willing to propose it because of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Nov 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

top-level management from outside is a natural outcome of the belief that almost any of our competitors has better people than we do." And Lowell Kuehn posited that "the outsider is all promise, while the insider is a known... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 08 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

  Working PapersNo Harm, No Foul: The Outcome Bias in Ethical Judgments (revised) Authors:Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We present three studies demonstrating that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace