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- 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
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
psychological biases and errors that reduce the accuracy of human perception, sense making, estimation, and attribution.1 These can hinder the human ability to analyze failure effectively. People tend to be more comfortable attending to... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- Profile
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
- Web
Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Conference Best Paper Prize for "Machine Learning and Human Capital: Experimental Evidence on How Domain-Specific Expertise Can Mitigate Biased Predictions." Amy C. Edmondson : Winner of the 2019 Distinguished Scholar Award from the... 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
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
available (searching for the lost key at night under the street light where the light is better), limiting options to what's placed in front of us, biases regarding information or its sources, undue trust in a complex system whether or... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
exports by increasing the private profitability of exporting but do not raise productivity of any individual activities can still raise prosperity as long as they drive structural change biased towards higher (in the context of the... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
started by engineers who know exactly what they’re doing, but many are biased in the areas of which they are most familiar, even if that is the suboptimal choice for their current products. I’ve seen products built with .NET simply... View Details
- 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 biases to think that people who... View Details
- 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. Integration. Create opportunities... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 24 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors
Should people share their identities? The researchers believe the current research shows that women and minorities can benefit by putting their identities front and center, rather than waiting for unconscious biases to creep in,... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 13 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
A View from the Horizon
barriers and biases that stand in the way. I’m proud to say that M&T is laying the groundwork for this with a four-point approach that includes access to education, access to capital, development programs, and diversity in our... View Details
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
concept of “maximal sustainable yield”—that is, the amount of goodness that a person can achieve over time without depleting their ability to do good in the future. He argues that mistakes and biases in our thinking keep us from realizing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
University. Also won Second Place in 2003 and 2010. Joshua D. Coval : Winner of the 2005 Smith Breeden Prize for Best Paper in the Journal of Finance for "Do Behavioral Biases Affect Prices?" (with Tyler Shumway, February 2005). Josh... View Details
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
stakeholders in an inclusive, not exclusive, way?" Q: How would you tap into the voice of the under-represented? Rangan: "Market" by itself, the word, the connotation, is a little biased toward saying, "I am marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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 strategic View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
and the Role of Communication” in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. The study looked at how individual self-serving biases can blur the judgment of decision-makers, who underestimate their inability to be... View Details
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
environment, it's both strange and liberating," says Frei. The atmosphere allowed for an unusual amount of introspection and reflection on the cases they discussed. Schulman recalled robust discussion between HLS and HBS students about ethics and values, where... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 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 benefits from such a system. Viewers... View Details