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- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
managers about the gender biases that influence hiring decisions. Companies should also anonymize resumes, diversify interview panels, and evaluate candidates as a group against a set of defined criteria.... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
them to perform, and they can exercise more of their own individual player preferences. By contrast, when performance is weak, coaches feel more pressure to improve, and so they put aside their internal... View Details
- Research Summary
Overview
My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do Countries Achieve it in an Uncertain World?" held March 29, 2010. Ketels is... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 09 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
better." As Chua has shown in previous research, awareness of our own cultural biases and assumptions can go a long way toward improving creativity in multicultural situations. He speculates that managers... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
of globalization as an irresistible force leveling everything that stands in its way, including national differences, that makes my message important. Based on surveys that I have done, many managers do believe this view, and suffer from... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
Summing Up What Are the Antidotes to Too Much Focus? Individuals and organizations suffer from too much focus much of the time. That was the sense of the majority of responses to this month's column. Respondents didn't stop there. They... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
Gompers recommends first and foremost being aware of one’s own biases that can influence them to hire homogenously. “Most people aren’t bad people, but we have these internal View Details
- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
don’t like that worker, so you are biased consciously or unconsciously against him,” says Gallani. Whether or not that bias exists, humans’ natural tendency to look for someone else to blame often makes employees believe that bias exists.... View Details
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
they do not have a good hiring strategy. For decades, there have been books and articles about building engineering teams. The infamous book The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks should be on every software engineer View Details
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
have worked on" —Max Bazerman A recent collaboration between Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) reveals that you're much less likely to stereotype by gender if you apply an "evaluation nudge"—an... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- Research Summary
The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
barred People already consume tabloid newspapers, racist propaganda, biased news broadcasts, and pornography willingly. Let them at least know how the general public categorizes such materials Everyone... View Details
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
In past issues of this newsletter, we have highlighted a variety of psychological biases that affect negotiators, many of which spring from a reliance on intuition. Of course, negotiators are not always affected by bias; we often think... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 06 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?
fees. My heuristic for these types of engagements is to assess whether they are performing a part-time role you’d otherwise fill with a full-time employee (FTE) if you could find them. These engagements should be time-boxed View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
What are you working on now? A: My colleagues and I have a few other projects ongoing. In one project, we focus on the biases people have when they change employers. In another project, we are trying to... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
then they'll eat better." But behavioral economics suggests that people make mistakes in their thinking. For example, we have self-control problems that can lead us to knowingly "misbehave." Such biases are the bread View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
demonstrate that members who contributed much to the group outcome are actually less satisfied and less interested in future collaborations after considering others' contributions compared with those who contributed little. This was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne