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Bias By: Roger Samure, Julian De Freitas and Stefano Puntoni 2025 | Article | Scientific Reports A preregistered audit of 600 images by generative AI across 150 different prompts explores the link between humor and discrimination in... View Details

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Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide

By: Jordan I. Siegel, Lynn Pyun and B.Y. Cheon

The organizational theory of the multinational firm holds that foreignness is a liability, and specifically that lack of embeddedness in host-country social networks is a source of competitive disadvantage; meanwhile the literature on labor market discrimination... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Human Capital; Selection and Staffing; Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Advantage; Markets; Profit; Gender; South Korea

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03 Oct 2023
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Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

Yeah. Yeah. The [INAUDIBLE] Oprah, why don't you start by talking about how this all came to pass? And why you grew interested in Arthur's work? Winfrey: Well, this all came to pass, and I'm not saying this just because you're here, this all came to pass because I was... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

women candidates. This decline is most pronounced in states with entrenched gender bias and in male-headed parties, suggesting an intensification of barriers against women in these areas. Similar results for (mostly male) Muslim... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2020
Working Paper

Do Lenders Still Discriminate? A Robust Approach for Assessing Differences in Menus

By: David Hao Zhang and Paul Willen

We use a new methodology to assess mortgage pricing discrimination by race. We make four main contributions. First, we show that existing estimates of mortgage pricing differences by race can be confounded by a "menu problem," which is the problem associated with... View Details

Keywords: Mortgages; Financing and Loans; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Measurement and Metrics; Banking Industry; United States

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21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

the lives of most White people much worse. Take single-family zoning. Legislating that only single-family homes of a certain size can be built together was a radical experiment that initially aimed to separate Black View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

such as retail pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers, telemedicine, and wireless sensors. Public policy enabled these changes in many ways: allowing access to telemedicine and pharmaceuticals by mail; redefining sites of care, including the View Details

03 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'

creating wealth, but today we know the stories about the systematic bias ingrained in even how home inspectors often assign a lower value to a family’s home with Black family... View Details

Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

many small and often family-owned firms whose stories are hard to reconstruct. The industry as a whole is well known to be secretive—after all, its foundations rest heavily on mystique. And then there is the frequently observed gender View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

home. While both types of visits increased registration, home registration visits had a higher impact than information-only visits, indicating that both information costs and administrative barriers impede registration. View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Bibliography – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter Elton Mayo Human Relations and... View Details

29 Jul 2022
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Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

gained higher levels of education and workforce integration, leading analysts to blame ingrained bias and “occupational sorting” for the difference. Occupational sorting occurs when people select jobs based on their demographics. For... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

25 Oct 2010
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Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market

California families. The result was perhaps a bias toward gaining evidence in support of a predetermined strategy. California is a car culture. Most households undertake a weekly shopping expedition, supplemented with stock-up purchases... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

26 Mar 2018
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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 View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

30 Jul 2018
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Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

that the home is generally in good condition, although the seller knows the furnace conks out with some regularity. A month after the buyer takes ownership, the furnace blows. The seller may still stand by the statement that the house was... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

24 May 2017
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David G. Bradley, MBA 1977

knack for recruiting and retaining the right people. And just as he does in all aspects of his life, he brings his natural bias for information-gathering to the task of hiring. “I don’t believe in 51/49 decisions,” he says. “You want to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

incentivized to work through increased financial access, control, and literacy, Rigol explains, the sight of a woman working outside the home became more common—and the perceived social cost of a working wife decreased, even if a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Algorithmic Bias and Discrimination Associate Professor Ayelet Israeli + More Info – Less Info Digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI) have made an abundance of data and technological tools available to companies. Firms are... View Details

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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

a cultural double standard of unconscious bias that I don’t think is getting enough attention and HBS could help educate future leaders and change our culture.” AGE 48, WHITE, WHOLESALE/RETAIL TRADE, UNITED STATES Composition of Senior... View Details

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