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  • 08 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

Understanding these biases can help managers develop alternative scheduling regimes that reduce bias in quality assessments in domains such as food safety, process quality, occupational safety, working conditions, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2013
  • Chapter

Behavioral Corporate Finance: A Current Survey

By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
We survey the theory and evidence of behavioral corporate finance, which generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational managerial responses to securities mispricing. The... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Theory; Corporate Finance; Financial Management; Investment; Market Timing; Behavioral Finance; Prejudice and Bias; Economics; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

corporate finance research. But due to the complexities of patent data collection and the changing spatial and industry composition of innovative firms, biases may be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

African government take a stand against an effective AIDS treatment drug? The inability of government to make wise tradeoffs—give up small losses for much larger gain—has been investigated by HBS professor Max Bazerman and his research... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • Blog Post

Women and the MBA: 6 Important Aspects of the HBS Program

gender-driven biases at school and in the workplace. She is an incredibly accomplished woman across disciplines and teaches at three separate Harvard programs (she’s also a... View Details
  • Web

Guiding Principles for Conscious and Inclusive Description | Baker Library

descriptions when we become aware of issues or omissions.For materials housed in folders or other items such as photographs and audiovisual materials, staff retain the creators’ own descriptive language, even if it reflects inherent View Details
  • Web

Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

Exercises Analyze your biases and reflect on past decisions to help identify problem areas Consider how employee rights factor into firing decisions Identify three types of fairness in employee-employer... View Details

    Behavioral Corporate Finance: A Survey

    In this chapter, we survey the theory and evidence of behavioral corporate finance, which generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational managerial responses to... View Details

    • 31 Jul 2014
    • News

    A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

    • March 2011 (Revised April 2011)
    • Exercise

    The Future of BioPasteur

    By: Giovanni Gavetti and Francesca Gino
    The purpose of this exercise is to let students experience a few biases that can be deleterious to strategic decision-making. In particular, students are induced to fall into a confirmatory trap, and to experience other biases such as anchoring and sampling bias.... View Details
    Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Decision Choices and Conditions; Outcome or Result; Groups and Teams; Prejudice and Bias; Strategy
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    • 19 Jan 2015
    • News

    Which Has More Bias? Wikipedia or the Encyclopedia Britannica

    • 13 Aug 2024
    • Op-Ed

    Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

    systems that are trained on past behaviors. This could lead to AI scribes being biased toward upcoding, reflecting volume-based revenue maximization incentives. What needs to be done? The promise of AI to improve provider well-being View Details
    Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health
    • March 2011
    • Supplement

    BioPasteur: Instructions for the group discussion

    By: Giovanni Gavetti and Francesca Gino
    The purpose of this exercise is to let students experience a few biases that can be deleterious to strategic decision-making. In particular, students are induced to fall into a confirmatory trap, and to experience other biases such as anchoring and sampling bias.... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Groups and Teams; Prejudice and Bias; Strategy
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    • March 2011
    • Supplement

    The Future of BioPasteur -- Supplement

    By: Giovanni Gavetti and Francesca Gino
    The purpose of this exercise is to let students experience a few biases that can be deleterious to strategic decision-making. In particular, students are induced to fall into a confirmatory trap, and to experience other biases such as anchoring and sampling bias.... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Problems and Challenges; Prejudice and Bias
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    • Web

    Rewiring the Workplace: Behavioral Economics and the Future of Inclusive Organizations - Blog: RGE Report

    architecture framework is a heuristic designed to alleviate the effects of beliefs, biases, and other behaviors that hinder our choices. This framework essentially repackages choices in a way that helps to... View Details

      Ideological Segregation among Online Collaborators: Evidence from Wikipedians

      Do online communities segregate into separate conversations about “contestable knowledge”? We analyze the contributors of biased and slanted content in Wikipedia articles about U.S. politics, and focus on two research questions: (1) Do contributors display... View Details

        Do Experts or Collective Intelligence Write with More Bias?

        Co-authored by Feng Zhu

        Which source of information contains greater bias and slant-text written by an expert or that constructed via collective intelligence? Do the costs of acquiring, storing, displaying, and revising information shape those... View Details
        • 2024
        • Working Paper

        Charting (and Updating) the Path: A Bayesian Perspective on Entrepreneurial Learning

        By: Joshua L. Krieger
        This chapter explores two distinct modes of entrepreneurial learning: assessing venture viability and choosing between alternative development paths. It introduces a framework for decomposing venture viability into technological feasibility, commercial potential and... View Details
        Keywords: Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Learning
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        • June 2013
        • Article

        Opting-in: Participation Bias in Economic Experiments

        By: Robert Slonim, Carmen Wang, Ellen Garbarino and Danielle Merrett
        Assuming individuals rationally decide whether to participate or not to participate in lab experiments, we hypothesize several non-representative biases in the characteristics of lab participants. We test the hypotheses by first collecting survey and experimental data... View Details
        Keywords: Participation Bias; Laboratory Experiments; Prejudice and Bias; Research
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        • 17 May 2018
        • Sharpening Your Skills

        You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.

        audience of the day with the president, believing the last idea he hears is the one most likely to be chosen. If true, the president is no better or worse than most of us in allowing cognitive biases to cloud our thinking. We are, for... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne