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Rewiring the Workplace: Behavioral Economics and the Future of Inclusive Organizations - Blog: RGE Report

both a subfield of economics and a framework through which to look at our society, specifically at the overlap between economic decisions and the psychology of decision-making. It is well-established that human beings are biased thinkers,... 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

16 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 16

discontinuity. This might suggest that financing is not a central input of angel groups. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/KLS-Angels-June2011.pdf Incentive Schemes, Sorting and Behavioral Biases of Employees: Experimental... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2019
News

Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters

they arrive at their decisions, and where biases may enter the process,” says Professor Karim Lakhani. The working paper “Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? Field Experimental Evidence from Scientific Peer Review,” by Lakhani and a group... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Behavioral Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer

Click Here If people made purely rational decisions, life might be much easier for marketers in selling products and services. But few of us are that rational. Instead, our decisions are based on illogical biases such as loss aversion and... View Details

Keywords: by Amelia Kunhardt

12 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Why I Spent this Summer Coding

techniques myself that I grasped how biases can get trained into a neural network unintentionally. Being able to recognize these biases and observe how they take form helps to not only understand the problem... View Details

14 Mar 2023
Blog Post

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

value: Attraction and recruitment. Actively seek candidates outside managers’ networks, and assess the language used to describe jobs and the company. Hiring. Educate managers about the gender biases that influence hiring decisions.... View Details

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2013 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Costs of Inclusion Included but Invisible? The Benefits and Costs of Inclusion Toni Schmader Speaks at the 2013 Gender & Work Symposium The Biases that Bind Us: How Stereotypes Constrain How We Think and Who We Become The View Details

Portrait Project

James Corcoran

long-term? Am I too biased toward an ever-retreating horizon? Let's be honest: My one wild and precious life is subject to the whims of a capricious universe, my rationality bounded, and my information imperfect. But it's OK. Complete... View Details

14 Sep 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

supremacists brought these once-hidden issues back to the forefront of social consciousness. Stereotyping contributes directly to unconscious bias, a subject about which Mahzarin Banaji, chair of Harvard’s psychology department, has written extensively. In... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

14 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 14

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/611069-PDF-ENG Strengths Become Weaknesses: Cognitive Biases in Founder Decision-Making Noam Wasserman and Kyle AndersonHarvard Business School Note 811-068 This note combines vignettes and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 16, 2007

Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler Periodical:Journal of Economic Perspectives (forthcoming) Abstract Real investors and markets are too complicated to be neatly summarized by a few selected biases and trading frictions. The "top-down"... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Tony He

particular, through the case method, I learned how to really listen—to focus my attention on others, to think critically about what’s being said, to probe for assumptions, and to check on my own biases and reactions. I also gained... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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

01 Sep 2005
News

Predictable Surprises

political biases in preventing leaders from recognizing and acting on warning signs of impending disasters. Could you give an example of each? In the book, we talk about the cognitive biases of those... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

31 Aug 2017
Blog Post

Why I Spent This Summer Coding

implementing the techniques myself that I grasped how biases can get trained into a neural network unintentionally. Being able to recognize these biases and observe how they take form helps to not only... View Details

Keywords: Technology

01 Jun 2011
News

Racial Bias Pervades Health Care

The causes for unequal treatment, White tells us, range from outright racism to something more insidious: the unrecognized biases of otherwise broad-minded, highly educated doctors who believe at some unconscious level, for example, that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Health, Social Assistance

Portrait Project

Alyza Keshavjee

peace. I wonder, will I ever know what life could be like otherwise? Jaded by war and inhibited by cultural barriers, Parwadah lacks the empowerment she needs to succeed and become self-sufficient. Biased by the free market and daunted by... View Details

05 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-057.pdf Managing Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply Chain Planning Authors:Rogelio... View Details