• December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
• Teaching Note

The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou

How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Judgments; Race; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Loss; Motivation and Incentives; Perspective; Prejudice and Bias; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Welfare; Tulsa; Oklahoma; United States

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Desai, Mihir A., and Suzanne Antoniou. "The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 221-044, December 2020. (Revised February 2021.)

• 2010
• Working Paper

Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions

By: Lisa L. Shu and Max Bazerman

We explore interventions at the individual level and focus on recognized cognitive barriers from behavioral decision-making literature. In particular, we highlight three cognitive barriers that impede sound individual decision making that have particular relevance to... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Consumer Behavior; Environmental Sustainability; Cognition and Thinking; Prejudice and Bias

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Shu, Lisa L., and Max Bazerman. "Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-046, November 2010.

• 2006
• Chapter

Stereotype Content and Relative Group Status Across Cultures

By: S.T. Fiske and A.J.C. Cuddy

Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Prejudice and Bias; Status and Position; Groups and Teams

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Fiske, S.T., and A.J.C. Cuddy. "Stereotype Content and Relative Group Status Across Cultures." In Social Comparison Processes and Levels of Analysis: Understanding Culture, Intergroup Relations and Cognition, edited by S. Guimond, 249–263. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

• Summer 2016
• Article

Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View

By: Shane Greenstein and Feng Zhu

The diffusion of the Internet and digital technologies has enabled many organizations to use the open-content production model to produce and disseminate knowledge. While several prior studies have shown that the open-content production model can lead to high-quality... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Internet and the Web; Balance and Stability; Operations; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Dissemination

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Greenstein, Shane, and Feng Zhu. "Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View." Information Systems Research 27, no. 3 (September 2016): 618–635.

• 2024
• Working Paper

Priors, Experiments, Learning and Persuasion in (Bayesian) Entrepreneurial Finance

By: Ramana Nanda

At the heart of entrepreneurial finance lies a persuasion challenge: regardless of the strength of an entrepreneur’s belief in the potential of their idea, they typically need to convince investors to provide the financial capital required for its... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Business Startups; Communication Intention and Meaning; Prejudice and Bias

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Nanda, Ramana. "Priors, Experiments, Learning and Persuasion in (Bayesian) Entrepreneurial Finance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-020, October 2024.

• 29 Jan 2019
• First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

initial public offerings to longitudinal data on employment composition from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. We construct a set of comparable firms by looking at companies that filed and then withdrew a plan for an IPO. To... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

• Web

Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

Influence Approach Show Hide Details Concepts Understanding Universal Human Needs Earning Other People’s Trust Understanding Influence Styles Analyzing and Developing Your Influence Approach Building Trust & Influencing Others Featured... View Details

• May 2014
• Article

Group Membership Alters the Threshold for Mind Perception: The Role of Social Identity, Collective Identification, and Intergroup Threat

By: Leor M. Hackel, Christine E. Looser and Jay J. Van Bavel

Human faces are used as cues to the presence of social agents, and the ability to detect minds and mental states in others occupies a central role in social interaction. In the current research, we present evidence that the human propensity for mind perception is bound... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Identity; Personal Characteristics; Cognition and Thinking

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Hackel, Leor M., Christine E. Looser, and Jay J. Van Bavel. "Group Membership Alters the Threshold for Mind Perception: The Role of Social Identity, Collective Identification, and Intergroup Threat." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 52 (May 2014): 15–23.

• June 1994 (Revised March 1995)
• Case

Kurt Landgraf and Du Pont Merck Pharmaceutical Co. (A)

Kurt Landgraf, newly named CEO of Du Pont Merck Pharmaceutical Co., addresses complaints of discrimination from African-American scientists in R&D during significant downsizing and dramatic changes within the pharmaceutical industry. View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Race Characteristics; Gender Characteristics; Diversity Characteristics; Conflict and Resolution; Pharmaceutical Industry

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Gentile, Mary C., and Sarah Gant. "Kurt Landgraf and Du Pont Merck Pharmaceutical Co. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 394-202, June 1994. (Revised March 1995.)

• Forthcoming
• Chapter

Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions

By: Lisa L. Shu and Max Bazerman

Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Prejudice and Bias; Environmental Sustainability

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Shu, Lisa L., and Max Bazerman. "Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions." In The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment, edited by Pratima Bansal and Andrew J. Hoffman. Oxford University Press, 2012.

• November 1995 (Revised October 1996)
• Background Note

Expectations and Stereotypes: How Do They Affect the Deal?

By: Kathleen L. McGinn

Designed to provide students with a basic insight into recognizing the productive and destructive aspects of expectations and stereotypes, and their consequent effects on negotiation. View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Acquisition; Management; Negotiation Deal; Performance Expectations; Prejudice and Bias

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McGinn, Kathleen L. "Expectations and Stereotypes: How Do They Affect the Deal?" Harvard Business School Background Note 396-167, November 1995. (Revised October 1996.)

• 1993
• Chapter

Mentoring and Irrationality: The Role of Racial Taboos

By: D. A. Thomas

Keywords: Training; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Perception

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Thomas, D. A. "Mentoring and Irrationality: The Role of Racial Taboos." In The Psychodynamics of Organizations, edited by L. Hirschorn and C. K. Barnett. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993.

• 17 Jun 2002
• Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

domestic firms in part due to a deliberate governmental bias against private local firms, mainly in the 1960s and 1970s, he continued, so foreign firms held a more substantial relative advantage. But in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

• 07 Feb 2022
• Research & Ideas

Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

algorithms can lead to unintended bias that harms certain employees and customers, and the company’s reputation (a bias story can go viral on... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards