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  • September 2016
  • Article

Whitened Résumés: Race and Self-Presentation in the Labor Market

By: Sonia K. Kang, K. A. DeCelles, András Tilcsik and Sora Jun
Using interviews, a laboratory experiment, and a résumé audit study, we examine racial minorities’ attempts to avoid anticipated discrimination in labor markets by concealing or downplaying racial cues in job applications, a practice known as "résumé whitening."... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Job Search; Race
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Kang, Sonia K., K. A. DeCelles, András Tilcsik, and Sora Jun. "Whitened Résumés: Race and Self-Presentation in the Labor Market." Administrative Science Quarterly 61, no. 3 (September 2016): 469–502.

    Jeffrey T. Polzer

    Jeff Polzer is the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He studies how people collaborate in teams and across organizational networks to accomplish their individual and collective... View Details

    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    Can Implicit Regulation Change Financial Market Behavior? Evidence from Spitzer's Attack on Market Timers

    By: Charles C.Y. Wang
    This paper explores a natural experiment setup from the 2003-2004 mutual fund scandals to evaluate the effectiveness of implicit regulation on financial markets behavior. On average, buy-and-hold investors lost 218 basis points annually from 1998 to 2002 to market... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Markets; Market Timing; United States
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    Wang, Charles C.Y. "Can Implicit Regulation Change Financial Market Behavior? Evidence from Spitzer's Attack on Market Timers." Working Paper, 2012.
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Adding Value Through Venture Capital in Latin America and the Caribbean

    By: Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, James Tighe and Susana Garcia-Robles
    Venture capital (VC) investment has long been recognized as an engine for economic growth and development. Unlike bank loans, where the entrepreneur receives money and is left alone as long as the payments arrive on the pre-arranged schedule, venture capital... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Value; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Latin America; West Indies
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    Lerner, Josh, Ann Leamon, James Tighe, and Susana Garcia-Robles. "Adding Value Through Venture Capital in Latin America and the Caribbean." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-024, October 2014.
    • 06 Sep 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Excess Burden of Government Indecision

    Keywords: by Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff & Luis M. Viceira

      Peter Tufano

      Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

      Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; credit card; education industry; energy; federal government; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; microfinance; mining; nonprofit industry; oil & gas; petroleum; real estate; retail financial services; state government; utilities; video games

        Teresa M. Amabile

        Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. Originally educated and employed as a chemist, Teresa received her Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University. Her current research investigates how people approach and... View Details

        • February 2001 (Revised February 2002)
        • Background Note

        Leader's (Dis)Advantage, The

        Provides a rigorous description of the economic dynamics that may produce inherent advantages for large and/or first-mover firms within an industry, as well as those factors that may result in disadvantages for such leading firms. The leader advantages discussed... View Details
        Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Semiconductor Industry
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        Coughlan, Peter J. "Leader's (Dis)Advantage, The." Harvard Business School Background Note 701-084, February 2001. (Revised February 2002.)
        • July 2020 (Revised January 2021)
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        Pattern Brands

        By: Sunil Gupta, Elie Ofek and Julia Kelley
        In March 2020, direct-to-consumer (DTC) company Pattern Brands needed to decide how to allocate resources across its different brands. Pattern Co-Founders Nick Ling and Emmett Shine hoped to avoid the pitfalls faced by some DTC companies—such as inability to scale and... View Details
        Keywords: Direct-to-consumer; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Business Model; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Business Strategy; Diversification; Competitive Advantage; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
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        Gupta, Sunil, Elie Ofek, and Julia Kelley. "Pattern Brands." Harvard Business School Case 521-009, July 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
        • 2021
        • Article

        Don't Get It or Don't Spread It: Comparing Self-interested versus Prosocial Motivations for COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors

        By: Jillian J. Jordan, Erez Yoeli and David Rand
        COVID-19 prevention behaviors may be seen as self-interested or prosocial. Using American samples from MTurk and Prolific (total n = 6,850), we investigated which framing is more effective—and motivation is stronger—for fostering prevention behavior intentions. We... View Details
        Keywords: COVID-19; Prevention; Prosocial Motivation; Health Pandemics; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives
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        Jordan, Jillian J., Erez Yoeli, and David Rand. "Don't Get It or Don't Spread It: Comparing Self-interested versus Prosocial Motivations for COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors." Art. 20222. Scientific Reports 11 (2021).
        • 31 Jan 2007
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        Behavioral Decision Research, Legislation, and Society: Three Cases

        Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
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        Competitive Transformation of Latin American Firms

        Rogelio Oliva and Fernando Suárez (UAI, Chile) are studing the competitive transformation of Latin American firms. The significant change that Latin economies have undergone in the last decade has had a profound impact on business firms. In fact, a new breed of Latin... View Details

          Do Networks Help People To Manage Poverty?

          Social support networks can provide much-needed emotional, material, and financial help for people living in poverty, yet little is known about how social capital is created and augmented within such networks. Further, these networks can be eroded by sustained... View Details

          • 09 May 2013
          • Working Paper Summaries

          Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

          Keywords: by Aaron Chatterji, Edward Glaeser & William Kerr

            Nitin Nohria

            Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.

            As Dean, building on... View Details

            Keywords: accounting industry; arts; biotechnology; emerging market private equity; energy; executive search; financial services; green technology; health care; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; infrastructure industry; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; manufacturing; oil & gas; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; professional services
            • 24 Sep 2020
            • Research & Ideas

            Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

            Are financial crises predictable? Former United States Federal Reserve Chair Ben S. Bernanke has had his doubts. Economics can show policymakers “precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong,” he told Princeton University... View Details
            Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
            • March 2024
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            Human Capital Affects Religious Identity: Causal Evidence from Kenya

            By: Livia Alfonsi, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Edward Miguel
            We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a longitudinal dataset monitoring the religious history of more than 5,000 Kenyans over 20 years, in tandem with a randomized experiment (deworming) that... View Details
            Keywords: Religion; Human Capital; Developing Countries and Economies; Welfare; Kenya
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            Alfonsi, Livia, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, and Edward Miguel. "Human Capital Affects Religious Identity: Causal Evidence from Kenya." Art. 103215. Journal of Development Economics 167 (March 2024).

              Michael Beer

              MICHAEL BEER

              Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

              • 2025
              • Working Paper

              Threat and Assimilation: Evidence from Refugees in Germany

              By: Philipp Jaschke, Sulin Sardoschau and Marco Tabellini
              This paper studies the effects of local threat on the cultural assimilation and economic integration of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We use representative survey data and... View Details
              Keywords: Assimilation; Threat Hypothesis; Migration; Cultural Change; Refugees; Culture; Identity; Germany
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              Jaschke, Philipp, Sulin Sardoschau, and Marco Tabellini. "Threat and Assimilation: Evidence from Refugees in Germany." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-043, December 2021. (Revised January 2025. Revise and resubmit at the Economic Journal. Also available from NBER, and featured on Le Monde.)
              • 2013
              • Article

              Boardroom Centrality and Firm Performance

              By: David F. Larcker, Eric C. So and Charles C.Y. Wang
              Firms with central or well-connected boards of directors earn superior risk-adjusted stock returns. Initiating a long position in the most central firms and a short position in the least central firms earns an average risk-adjusted return of 4.68% per year. Firms with... View Details
              Keywords: Networks; Governing and Advisory Boards; Forecasting and Prediction; Performance
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              Larcker, David F., Eric C. So, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Boardroom Centrality and Firm Performance." Journal of Accounting & Economics 55, nos. 2-3 (April–May 2013): 225–250.
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