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- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
well-informed about what will make someone successful, or it could be that they are hiring someone from their hometown”—or any number of other biases that have nothing to do with job performance. To test this, Li View Details
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
where they might be applied. We want to make common academic techniques more accessible to practitioners and to encourage their use in solving real business problems. Q: Many managers continue to use traditional methods for allocating... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
heuristics used by early-stage investors in high-potential ventures,” says Professor Ramana Nanda, who serves as the project’s co-director with finance professors Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner. The work... View Details
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Bazerman Abstract Previously titled "Why We Aren't as Ethical as We Think We Are: A Temporal Explanation. This paper explores the biased perceptions that people hold of their own ethicality. We argue that the temporal trichotomy of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
Abstract We survey the theory and evidence of behavioral corporate finance, which generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing 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... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 22 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club
INSPIRED BY RECENT EVENTS The protests against the unjust murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others since have mobilized the nation to take a stand in support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement... View Details
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
PublicationsChallenges to Business in the Twenty-First Century Authors:Gerald Rosenfeld, Jay W. Lorsch, and Rakesh Khurana, eds. Publication:Cambridge, Mass.: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011 An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
and TripAdvisor contain hundreds of millions of consumer reviews; online marketplaces also rely on reputation systems to facilitate trust between strangers. Economists help companies design reputation systems, “focusing on understanding... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
fixed through better coding or inputs. “There is no more biased instrument than the human brain,” she observes. At HBS, Polli says she witnessed a recruiting process that was rife with bias and bad data.... View Details
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
unfolded, without the usual biases and distortions that come from 20/20 hindsight. The story of how Levy tilled the soil for change provides lessons for any CEO in a turnaround situation. [...] Reinforcing... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
contributors of biased and slanted content in Wikipedia articles about U.S. politics and focus on two research questions: (1) Do contributors display tendencies to contribute... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
demonstrate that members who contributed much to the group outcome are actually less satisfied and less interested in future collaborations after considering others' contributions compared with those who contributed little. This was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
choice models might be improved to better capture the diversity of processes that are postulated to explain how consumers make choices. Some specific challenges include how to capture and parsimoniously describe heterogeneous mixes of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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 View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
business through informal personal networks, Advanced Technology, for example, has established dialogue groups as its core tactic for achieving diversity. These groups give employees a forum in which to examine their biases View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
online communities segregate into separate conversations when contributing to contestable knowledge involving controversial, subjective, and unverifiable topics? We analyze the contributors of biased View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
he said, “The very act of trying to attain gender equality portends to assume that is a positive goal. My concern is not equality but quality. Man or woman, we as individuals and organizations need to rip away all the barriers that lie... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
Publications February 2015 University of Chicago Press Political Standards By: Ramanna, Karthik Abstract—There are certain institutions underlying our modern market-capitalist system that are largely outside the interest and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne