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- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
you’re sampling from a biased set, even if you have a thousand, a million, ten million samples, your sample is still going to be biased. There’s no amount that you can use to... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
have a better chance of making it to the executive level than slower-moving colleagues. Although the data examined in Thomas and Gabarro's samples show that this model holds true for whites, it didn't work at all for people of color. Why?... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
cheating at 13 percent. None of the colleges saw more than four scandals during the sample period, yet 76 percent experienced at least one scandal during that time. Many of these scandals received little media attention, and in those... View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
proposes that team reflexivity-a deliberate process of discussing team goals, processes, or outcomes-can function as an antidote to team-level biases and errors in decision making. We build on prior work conceptualizing teams as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
Working PapersThe Performance of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts Authors:Jerry Cao and Josh Lerner Abstract Reverse leveraged buyouts (RLBOs) have received increased public scrutiny but attracted little systematic study. We collect a comprehensive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
working paper, "Modeling Passenger Travel and Delays in the National Air Transportation System," Fearing and coauthors Cynthia Barnhart and Vikrant Vaze of MIT apply statistical techniques to develop a representative sample of... View Details
- 23 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs
new apps and other products, offering feedback to help entrepreneurs refine their ideas. However, there’s a caveat to this feedback: 90 percent of users on Product Hunt are men, according to a recent working paper by a trio of Harvard Business School researchers called... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
environment. Using a unique longitudinal sample of 1,069 leading public firms in 35 countries and 24 industries, I find that the effect of gender diversity on performance varies significantly across countries and industries due to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
to highlight distinctive features of different professions. The goal is to illuminate similarities and differences with implications for future psychological safety research. To do this, the authors review relevant literature and present analyses of large data View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
shortcuts and heuristics, and therefore they're susceptible to biases and mistakes. The implication is that if maybe they thought more, they'd do better. "And then there's this whole stream of research about ways in which you should... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
insulates the board from pressures by biased or uninformed shareholders. Whether stronger governance improves retain/replace decisions depends on which of these effects dominates. We use our theoretical framework to assess the effect of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
have built national or global organizations that have achieved social impact. This focus on success stories has led to a skewed view of social entrepreneurship as nothing more or less than a field of huge, realized dreams. “A big weakness of the existing qualitative... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
and negative economic growth are experienced, with losses having more than twice as much impact on individual happiness as compared to equivalent gains. We use Gallup World Poll data drawn from 151 countries, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
options across thirteen studies involving diverse samples (executives, law/business/medical students, adults) and contexts (public policy, business, medicine). These distortions appear to primarily reflect decision View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Feb 2005
- What Do You Think?
If You Blink, Will You Miss?
object, or in addressing a situation under examination. To "thin slice" is to be able to decide quickly based on, among other things, a small sample of information and the suppression of subtle and slowly-developed biases. In... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
by managers facing intertemporal decisions. We assess the association between different types of performance measures and the time horizon of business unit managers who have profit responsibility. Our results, based on a sample of 105... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
less-than-proportional votes as shareholdings increase), balanced the relative voting power of small and large investors. In companies with such provisions the concentration of ownership and control is shown to have been significantly lower than in the average company.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
products are developed. This article introduces a fundamental tension between incentives and improvement in the provision of feedback. Using a sample of 4,294 commercial logo design tournaments, I show that feedback reduces participation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
source software ("OSS"). What drives companies with large, proprietary software portfolios to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in OSS? We approach this question by grouping a sample of OSS projects into clusters and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
our sample alone. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51757 September 30, 2016 Arthroplasty Today Variation in the Cost of Care for Primary Total Knee Arthroplasties By: Haas, Derek A., and Robert S. Kaplan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne