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- 02 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving
respects. “Many conventional restaurants have become cloud kitchens by necessity.” Now, like so many things, the pandemic is accelerating existing trends. Online delivery sales have soared, and, while previously heavily biased toward... View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
Carnegie Mellon University. This difference in the monthly occupancy rate “suggests that Airbnb guests may be systematically biased against renting from Black hosts,” the researchers write. Based on detailed neighborhood and city data... View Details
- 14 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’
multipurpose rice cooker that featured a revolutionary design. Research into extreme consumers doesn't have to stand in opposition to traditional research methods. In fact, it can be a valuable complement. "I get a lot of pushback from people who say this is a View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors
Individuals, of course, should examine their own biases and attempt to improve their investment decisions. But this is easier said than done. Much of this so-called irrational behavior is adaptive. Baker notes that our View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Blog
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
generate content that perpetuates existing biases. When we train these models at scale based on existing data, if the underlying data included biased information, the result is also likely to include that bias unless we intervene. One... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Info Reflexivity in Credit Markets By: Robin Greenwood , Samuel G. Hanson & Lawrence Jin APR 2019 Reflexivity is the idea that investors’ biased beliefs affect market outcomes, and that market outcomes in turn affect investors’ beliefs.... View Details
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6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees - Recruiting
Insights & Advice 16 Oct 2019 6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees Dina Gerdeman Author HBS Team tag All Industries All Locations Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging Recruiting Advice Recruiting Strategies To support black employees, business... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
bias and moderate its ill effects. Only then can we be assured of the reliability of the financial reports issued by public companies and ratified by professional accountants. Professional accountants might seem immune to such biases... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
experience. The case highlights the issues and procedures related to defining the project strategy: organizing senior management approvals and support for creating a "heavyweight" team; aligning the disparate perspectives, interests, and View Details
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AASU50 - Alumni
50th Anniversary Keynote Speech, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Can AI Combat Biases Against Women and People of Color? (Barry Libert presentation) Entrepreneurial Action & The Case for Optimism (Bill Sahlman presentation) Founders of African... View Details
- 22 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance
reluctance has hit Black Americans particularly hard since they have seen historically higher arrest rates, often fueled by racial discrimination, research shows. But it might be a good time to rethink those hiring practices and the View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 08 Feb 2023
- Op-Ed
Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears
biases and blind spots—leaders must acknowledge that and companies must be vigilant about understanding shifts in thinking. Research by Harvard psychology professor Mahzarin Banaji and post-doctoral fellow Tessa Charlesworth found that... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
- Web
Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
chances of raising capital Get an insider view into the venture capital (VC) process Develop an awareness of the systemic biases and ethical considerations in the startup ecosystem Who Will Benefit Founder Startup Employee Investor... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women
National Institutes of Health that spurred more women to become scientists and discouraged biases among men in the field, Koning says. While male inventors far outnumber women inventors, biomedical patents secured by women rose from 6... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
race on people’s behavior. Performance, too, is tricky to gauge objectively. “Most workplaces have a rough measure of productivity, but that is usually biased itself.” The NBA, however, obsessively tracks every action of every player,... View Details
- 05 May 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Ethical Can We Be?
Sports Are Played and Games Are Won. It was biased judgment on the part of supposedly unbiased referees and umpires. They hypothesize that the cause is a natural tendency to avoid excessive booing by the home team crowd, particularly in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity
American health care system—and in Just Medicine Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise from unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients. Caring for Equality: A... View Details
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
personal and professional changes to foster more positive connections among racial groups—interactions that studies have shown have the potential to reduce biased behaviors. "Awareness alone is not going to change the world. It's about... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 03 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator
and Bazerman observe, negotiation geniuses are made, not born. Excerpt from Negotiation Genius What appears to be genius actually reflects careful preparation, an understanding of the conceptual framework of negotiation, insight into how one can avoid the errors and... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
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Brandon Tieu
hold opposing views prompts us to reassess our own biases and uncover our blind spots. Moreover, hearing a range of stories and arguments expands our awareness of a much wider range of leadership styles. By mapping our strengths to these... View Details