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Strategy for Entrepreneurs - Course Catalog
startup ideas—is challenging. Signals are biased and noisy. Designing experiments is non-trivial, and running tests is expensive. Failure is hard to admit and learn from. Getting to and listening to feedback is challenging. The ideas with... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
iPhoto For businesses and other organizations seeking to overcome roadblocks to sustainability over the last few decades, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
countless studies have shown that résumé reviewers often exhibit bias—consciously or unconsciously—against women and minorities, Pymetrics’s matches arrive without any demographic data. “And there are no known gender or ethnic biases in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 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
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Turning Point: One Step at a Time
was true: Either the admissions committee was biased toward athletes, or these activities were things that could be accomplished by any human who dedicated herself to the task. In other words, I discovered the difference between the... View Details
Keywords: Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- 16 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part
help communities of color.” One of the issues ARF plans to help tackle is recruiting, hiring, and supporting diverse workforces. Kevin noted, “It’s not just giving money or looking at active injustices, it’s considering the implicit View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 26 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
How to Approach Your Equity Compensation
both make mistakes and have many cognitive biases around investing. Some of the most common mistakes – particularly for those at public companies – include: Holding onto Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) for too long. Some employees... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
efficiently; and Watson was to translate all that into outcomes that reduced morbidity. The reality is that subtle biases or a lack of full information lead doctors to the wrong decision, which in turn leads to bad health outcomes,... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
actually been marked by steady decreases in concentration since World War II. Executives, they write, "need to break free of the biases that lead them to pursue larger and larger cross-border deals. There are better, more profitable... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
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Lessons from the 2025 Race, Gender & Equity at Work Symposium - Blog: RGE Report
transformative hope? How to foster transformative hope Ground your knowledge in the context of the changes you seek. This means considering the biases of your own education and inquiry, especially when working outside of the Eurocentric... View Details
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
micro-theorists in economics call biased risk-evaluation?...[It's one in which the bias prevails that you] attach 'gain' to a probabilistic assessment and you trigger action; attach 'loss' to it, you get inaction." Pallavi Marathe... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
Women and the MBA: 6 Important Aspects of the HBS Program
gender-driven biases at school and in the workplace. She is an incredibly accomplished woman across disciplines and teaches at three separate Harvard programs (she’s also a Pulitzer Prize winner!).” 3. You’ll encounter female... View Details
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
random coefficients logit leads a researcher to very different conclusions about individuals' tastes depending on how alternatives are presented in the choice set. In turn, these biased parameter estimates affect counterfactual... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
credible prospect of an attractive return on the assets required to create and expand the model. . . . Implications The biases introduced by an established business model can cut two ways. First, as noted earlier, they can mask the... View Details
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
that, in practice, many users don’t trust platforms to do the right thing, often thinking of them as biased actors. When social media companies publish their policies completely, bad actors could more easily circumvent and exploit their... View Details
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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
More broadly, why does the startup ecosystem contain so many market failures that lead to biases and inequities – particularly in terms of access to capital for female entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs of color? 6. Financing and Exits. What... View Details
- 13 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part
help communities of color.” One of the issues ARF plans to help tackle is recruiting, hiring, and supporting diverse workforces. Kevin noted, “It’s not just giving money or looking at active injustices, it’s considering the implicit View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
for example? Are they talking about labor practices? Are they talking about cost? What are the issues on their minds? You can even use that minute-by-minute information to create a dynamic map. The caveat is that you might get a biased... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
corporate finance research. But due to the complexities of patent data collection and the changing spatial and industry composition of innovative firms, biases may be introduced. We highlight several patent-level View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne