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  • 09 Apr 2013
  • HBS Seminar

Andrew Stephen, University of Pittsburgh

    The Uneven Impact of Generative AI on Entrepreneurial Performance

    There is a growing belief that scalable and low-cost AI assistance can improve firm decision-making and economic performance. However, running a business involves a myriad of open-ended problems, making it hard to generalize from recent studies showing that generative... View Details

      Race, Work, and Leadership

      Race, Work, and Leadership is a rare and important compilation of essays that examines how race matters in people’s experience of work and leadership. What does it mean to be black in corporate America today? How are racial dynamics in organizations... View Details

      • 01 Jan 2011
      • News

      Seth Klarman, MBA 1982

      leave to attend HBS was not an easy one. Doing so, however, changed the course of Klarman's life. "HBS teaches you about leadership. It immerses you in a series of real-life business situations. Even now, 30 years later, I draw on my View Details
      • 30 Jun 2014
      • Lessons from the Classroom

      The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations

      Player A gets to keep the balance. But if declined, both players end up with nothing. Rationally, B should take any offer—even as little as $1—that's more than nothing. And yet, whenever this experiment is performed, B consistently... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports
      • 16 Oct 2015
      • Blog Post

      HBS and the Arts

      I am what you may consider an atypical candidate at HBS; I am an art history major in pursuit of an MBA, dedicated to a career path in the arts.      My fascination with art stems from an experience I had in high school. I attended a... View Details
      • 01 Dec 2018
      • News

      In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor

      Cedric Bobo (MBA 2004) was bitten by the business bug at the age of eight, when he visited his mother, who was a secretary at FedEx’s Memphis office. “I was drawn to the creative, all-hands-on-deck energy of the place,” he says. “In 1983, FedEx was reinventing domestic... View Details
      Keywords: Julia Hanna
      • 07 May 2009
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Broadening Focus: Spillovers and the Benefits of Specialization in the Hospital Industry

      Keywords: by Jonathan R. Clark & Robert S. Huckman; Health
      • Research Summary

      Bringing Worlds Together: Cultural Brokerage in Multicultural Teams (Dissertation)

      Multicultural teams are becoming increasingly prevlaent and crucial for organizational success, yet they face many challenges that stem from their cultural differences. How can multicultural teams mitigate the risks of working across... View Details
      Keywords: Cultural Brokerage; Multicultural Teams; Cross-cultural Collaboration; Creativity
      • 2023
      • Working Paper

      The Complexity of Economic Decisions

      By: Xavier Gabaix and Thomas Graeber
      We propose a theory of the complexity of economic decisions. Leveraging a macroeconomic framework of production functions, we conceptualize the mind as a cognitive economy, where a task’s complexity is determined by its composition of cognitive operations. Complexity... View Details
      Keywords: Decisions; Complexity; Perception; Consumer Behavior; Production
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      • 2023
      • Article

      Provable Detection of Propagating Sampling Bias in Prediction Models

      By: Pavan Ravishankar, Qingyu Mo, Edward McFowland III and Daniel B. Neill
      With an increased focus on incorporating fairness in machine learning models, it becomes imperative not only to assess and mitigate bias at each stage of the machine learning pipeline but also to understand the downstream impacts of bias across stages. Here we consider... View Details
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      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      Between Human Dignity and Security: Identifying Citizen and Elite Preferences and Concerns over Refugee Reception

      By: Kristin Fabbe, Eleni Kyrkopoulou and Mara Vidali
      Under what conditions do citizens and elites support the creation of migrant and refugee hosting facilities in their area, and what types of facilities do they prefer? What types of concerns underlay these preferences and how do they differ by ideology and elite... View Details
      Keywords: National Security; Immigration; Refugees; Human Needs; Public Opinion; Greece
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      • December 2022
      • Article

      The Task Bind: Explaining Gender Differences in Managerial Tasks and Performance

      By: Alexandra C. Feldberg
      This multi-method study of managers in a grocery chain identifies a novel mechanism by which threats of gender stereotypes undermine women’s ability to be effective managers. I find that women managers face a task bind, a dilemma that managers experience as they try to... View Details
      Keywords: Gender Stereotypes; Gender; Managerial Roles; Performance Expectations
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      Geographic Mobility, Immobility, and Geographic Flexibility—A Review and Agenda for Research on the Changing Geography of Work

      By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
      I review and integrate a wide range of literature that has examined how geographic mobility of high-skilled workers creates value for organizations and individuals. Drawing on this interdisciplinary literature, I document that geographic mobility creates value by... View Details
      Keywords: Geographic Mobility; Frictions; Work-from-anywhere; Employees; Geographic Location; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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      • February 2022
      • Article

      OMG! My Boss Just Friended Me: How Evaluations of Colleagues' Disclosure, Gender, and Rank Shape Personal/Professional Boundary Blurring Online

      By: Nancy Rothbard, Lakshmi Ramarajan, Ariane Ollier-Malaterre and Serenity Lee
      We propose and test a relational boundary-blurring framework, examining how employees’ evaluations of colleagues’ characteristics drive their decisions to connect with colleagues as friends online. We use a multi-method approach across four studies to investigate how... View Details
      Keywords: Self-disclosure; Relationships; Employees; Internet and the Web; Boundaries
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      • April 2021
      • Article

      Work-From-Anywhere: The Productivity Effects of Geographical Flexibility

      By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Cirrus Foroughi and Barbara Larson
      An emerging form of remote work allows employees to work-from-anywhere, so that the worker can choose to live in a preferred geographic location. While traditional work-from-home (WFH) programs offer the worker temporal flexibility, work-from-anywhere (WFA) programs... View Details
      Keywords: Geographic Flexibility; Work-from-anywhere; Remote Work; Telecommuting; Geographic Mobility; USPTO; Employees; Geographic Location; Performance Productivity
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      • August 2, 2016
      • Article

      Uncalculating Cooperation Is Used to Signal Trustworthiness

      By: Jillian J. Jordan, Moshe Hoffman, Martin A. Nowak and David G. Rand
      Humans frequently cooperate without carefully weighing the costs and benefits. As a result, people may wind up cooperating when it is not worthwhile to do so. Why risk making costly mistakes? Here, we present experimental evidence that reputation concerns provide an... View Details
      Keywords: Social Evaluation; Experimental Economics; Moral Psychology; Cooperation; Reputation; Decision Making
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      The Wisdom of Competitive Crowds

      By: Kenneth C. Lichtendahl, Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Phillip E. Pfeifer
      When several individuals are asked to forecast an uncertain quantity, they often face implicit or explicit incentives to be the most accurate. Despite the desire to elicit honest forecasts, such competition induces forecasters to report strategically and nontruthfully.... View Details
      Keywords: Forecast; Forecasting and Prediction
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      • September 2016 (Revised March 2020)
      • Teaching Note

      Fasten: Challenging Uber and Lyft with a New Business Model

      By: Feng Zhu
      Fasten, a new ridesharing start-up in Boston, entered the scene in September 2015 hoping its unique vision of transparency for both driver and passenger and strategy to keep riders' fares low and charge drivers a flat $0.99 fee per ride, as opposed to the 20%–30%... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Transportation; Business Startups; Business Model; Transportation Industry; Boston
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      • June 28, 2011
      • Article

      Using Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination Rates

      By: Katherine L Milkman, John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
      We evaluate the results of a field experiment designed to measure the effect of prompts to form implementation intentions on realized behavioral outcomes. The outcome of interest is influenza vaccination receipt at free on-site clinics offered by a large firm to its... View Details
      Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Nudge; Libertarian Paternalism; Public Health; Flu Shot; Behavior; Consumer Behavior; Health Care and Treatment; Cognition and Thinking
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