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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Racial Disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program

By: Sergey Chernenko and David S. Scharfstein
Using a large sample of Florida restaurants, we document significant racial disparities in borrowing through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and investigate the causes of these disparities. Black-owned restaurants are 25% less likely to receive PPP loans.... View Details
Keywords: Discrimination; Paycheck Protection Program; Economic Injury Disaster Loans; Bank Lending; Nonbank Lending; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Prejudice and Bias; Race
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  • 11 Jun 2024
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 23 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Face Value: Do Certain Physical Features Help People Get Ahead?

standards. “We found that, for white people, a dark skin color has a positive correlation with celebrity visual potential. For Black people, the inverse is true,” says Feng. The team is planning follow-up research on race and charisma... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Bollywood, Skin Color and Sexism: The Role of the Film Industry in Emboldening and Contesting Stereotypes in India after Independence

By: Sudev Sheth, Geoffrey Jones and Morgan Spencer
This working paper examines the social impact of the film industry in India during the first four decades after Indian Independence in 1947. It shows that Bollywood, the mainstream cinema in India and the counterpart in scale to Hollywood in the United States, shared... View Details
Keywords: Film Industry; Bollywood; Tamil Cinema; Male Gaze; Social Impact; Stereotypes; Oral History; Film Entertainment; Gender; Race; Personal Characteristics; Prejudice and Bias; Business History; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; India
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  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

gridlock trapping a Formula 1 race car. Blockchain promises to solve this problem. The technology behind bitcoin, blockchain is an open, distributed ledger that records transactions safely, permanently and very efficiently. For instance,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

is not for the fainthearted. Most of us know how to drive—we have the basics—but we recognize we are ill-prepared to race against world-class competitors. While data and digital technologies were once enablers of efficiency and... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
  • 20 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

race biases without knowing that you have these biases, overclaiming credit without meaning to do so, being affected by conflicts of interest, and favoring an in-group—such as universities often do when they give preferential treatment to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 22, 2016

beliefs about a group depend on the characteristics of the reference group. Because stereotypes emphasize differences, they cause belief distortions, particularly when groups are similar. In line with our predictions, beliefs in the lab... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

can amplify bias. Some companies try to address the issue by making sure that their algorithms don’t use data on protected characteristics such as race or gender. Yet, eliminating factors like View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 30 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

system and the patients they care for.” The study’s analyses carefully accounted for the recipient practice of the messages and patient characteristics such as age, ZIP code of residence, health status, insurance provider, and preferred... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health
  • Web

Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Effectiveness (63) Performance Efficiency (6) Performance Evaluation (19) Performance Expectations (6) Performance Improvement (20) Performance Productivity (41) Performance (196) Personal Characteristics (77) Personal Development and... View Details
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

soon becomes self-reinforcing. A spiraling arms race can be created with everyone seeking more and more of a good thing. There seems to never be enough of the good thing—until a crisis breaks up the cycle. Individuals can be expected to... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • 15 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

work gets done—as having anything do to with race or gender. They may notice that it's mostly men who run things, and when a woman is in charge, they may notice this as an anomaly. But few people think about the fact that Western models... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • Web

Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

characteristics at both the senior management and director levels affect corporate philanthropic contributions. We also find that organizational structure constrains the philanthropic influence of board members but not of senior managers,... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

themselves more highly on career-related characteristics like intelligence and competence. More strongly associate leadership with women. Increasing the number of women case protagonists that students encounter is an evidence-based... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
  • 28 Jan 2020
  • Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

innovative new products and services, new commercial ventures, or new approaches that create social impact. These are also the kinds of problems rising leaders care about: climate change, race and gender inequities, education shortfalls,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

in every [Hummer] H2 around here." "I heard a rumor that Porsche was devoting their entire racing budget to the "Cayenne Challenge," an event that pits homemakers from different nations against each other in a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto
  • October 2018 (Revised October 2019)
  • Case

Arlan Hamilton and Backstage Capital

By: Laura Huang and Sarah Mehta
Frustrated by an inability to convince existing venture capital firms to invest in companies led by women, people of color, and LGBT founders, Arlan Hamilton started her own firm, Backstage Capital, in 2015. Hamilton understood the untapped potential of companies run... View Details
Keywords: Black Leadership; LGBTQ; Women; People Of Color; Entrepreneurship; Mission and Purpose; Venture Capital; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Identity; Personal Characteristics; Prejudice and Bias; Social Issues; Diversity; Gender; Race
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  • 23 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together

few key questions: What specific characteristics influence individuals' desire to work together on an investment deal? And given that influence, how does affinity affect investment performance? Do common View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

12 percent less for rentals than nonblack hosts—even when the properties were equivalent in terms of location and quality. How did the researchers find out the race of each host? The same way potential guests do—they looked at the hosts'... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising