Publications

Abstract: In an experiment on Airbnb, we find that applications from guests with distinctively African American names are 16 percent less likely to be accepted relative to identical guests with distinctively white names. Discrimination occurs among landlords of... View Details

April 2017
Article

Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Benjamin Edelman, Michael Luca and Daniel Svirsky

In an experiment on Airbnb, we find that applications from guests with distinctively African-American names are 16% less likely to be accepted relative to identical guests with distinctively White names. Discrimination occurs among landlords of all sizes, including... View Details

Keywords: Discrimination; Field Experiment; Bias; Airbnb; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Accommodations Industry

2009
Article

Expertise Utilization in Accounting & Consulting Teams: The Effects of Shared Representations

By: Heidi K. Gardner

Why are some teams more effective than others in using their members' knowledge? This paper identifies shared representations as a critical moderator of effective knowledge utilization in teams, revealing how and when teams appropriately draw on their members'... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Groups and Teams; Performance Effectiveness

27 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)

workforce is, says a recent paper by Harvard Business School researchers. Even when a company’s numbers aren’t ideal, their transparency sends the message that they’re trying to change, the HBS authors write. “There’s definitely a sunshine effect where, when a company... View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta

12 May 2015
News

Bill Gates, Andy Grove and Steve Jobs: The Strategies They Shared

19 Jun 2013
Other Presentation

Strategy and Shared Value: Innovation and Growth in an Era of Constrained Resources

By: Michael E. Porter

The ideas drawn from "Creating Shared Value" (Harvard Business Review, Jan 2011) and "Competing by Saving Lives" (FSG, 2012). View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Netherlands

Forthcoming
Article

What's My Employee Worth? The Effects of Salary Benchmarking

By: Zoë B. Cullen, Shengwu Li and Ricardo Perez-Truglia

While U.S. legislation prohibits employers from sharing information about their employees’ compensation with each other, companies are still allowed to acquire and use more aggregated data provided by third parties. Most medium and large firms report using this type... View Details

Keywords: Information Sharing; Wages; Policy; Compensation and Benefits

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 10 Nov 2015
Webinars: Trending@HBS

Prospects for Shared Prosperity: Findings from the 2015 Alumni Survey on U.S. Competitiveness

Americas leading companies are thriving, but the prosperity they are producing is not being shared broadly among U.S. citizens. Professor Jan Rivkin will present the results of HBSs effort to gauge alumni opinions. View Details

Web

Shared Value Measurement - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases Emerging Topics Emerging Topics Shared Value... View Details

Nov 2015
Audio

Prospects for Shared Prosperity: Findings from the 2015 Alumni Survey on U.S. Competitiveness

America’s leading companies are thriving, but the prosperity they are producing is not being shared broadly among U.S. citizens. Jan W. Rivkin presents the results of effort to gauge HBS alumni opinions on two topics: Economic outcomes... View Details

14 Jan 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Engineering Serendipity: The Role of Cognitive Similarity in Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Production

Keywords: by Jacqueline N. Lane, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani

Article

The Interplay Between Sharing Behavior and Beliefs About Others in Children During Dictator Games

By: Hernando Santamaría-García, María Luz González-Gadea, Rafael Di Tella, Agustín Ibáñez and Mariano Sigman

Previous studies in adults demonstrated that beliefs and sharing decisions in social scenarios are closely related. However, to date, little is known about the development of this relationship in children. By using a modified dictator game, we assessed sharing behavior... View Details

Keywords: Dictator Game; Altruism; Generosity; Development; Conveniently Upset; Behavior; Values and Beliefs; Perception; Decision Making

17 Oct 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure

Keywords: by Nuno Gil & Carliss Y. Baldwin

June 21, 2017
Article

A New Approach to Safely Sharing Cancer Patients' Data

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Kathryn E. Giusti

2019
Chapter

Agent Pricing in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from Airbnb

By: Jun Li, Antonio Moreno and Dennis Zhang

Article

Quantile Evaluation, Sensitivity to Bracketing, and Sharing Business Payoffs

By: Y. Grushka-Cockayne, K. C. Lichtendahl, V.R.R. Jose and R.L. Winkler

From forecasting competitions to conditional value-at-risk requirements, the use of multiple quantile assessments is growing in practice. To evaluate them, we use a rule from the general class of proper scoring rules for a forecaster’s multiple quantiles of a single... View Details

Keywords: Forecast; Aggregation; Operations; Forecasting and Prediction; Mathematical Methods

Purchase

Article

Market Structure, Oligopoly and the Stability of Market Shares

By: R. E. Caves and M. E. Porter

Keywords: Markets; Price; Economics