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05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5

Concealment: The Roots of Dishonest Behavior How Moral Flexibility Constrains Our Moral Compass By: Gino, F. Abstract—Cheating, fraud, deception, uncooperative actions, and many other forms of unethical behavior are among the greatest View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad

another party's, they interpret data to favor that party. Attachment breeds bias. Approval. An audit ultimately endorses or rejects the client's accounting—in other words, it assesses the judgments that someone in the client firm has... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore; Accounting; Financial Services

May–June 2024
Article

Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez

Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Gender; Training; Recruitment; Personal Development and Career

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20 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting the Marketing Mix Right

individual-level choice behavior to be recovered from the data," according to the researchers. The team tested the new model by looking at the marketing of prescription drugs, namely, statins, used to lower cholesterol levels in people at risk for cardiovascular... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

thoughtfully and purposefully. Every founder should read it—and take the time to digest its rich data and lessons." In this excerpt from Chapter 9, Wasserman discusses the advantages and disadvantages of a common but risky practice... View Details

Keywords: by Noam Wasserman

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

of our clients who saw how we managed to overcome the crisis.” —Antonio Madero, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Sanluis Corporation (a leading Mexico-based automotive parts maker) Silverthorne: Was this focus on reputation development pushed by leaders? Did they View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

only have to use more data in their selling activities, but there's more cross-functional coordination required. "Improving sales productivity ... affects growth, civic discourse, and the lives of millions of people." If a buyer has a... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

17 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups

points, assists, fouls, and minutes played. And because players frequently change teams, it’s easy to compare how a player fares when playing for different coaches. For a paper Zhang published on the topic last year in Administrative Science Quarterly, Zhang downloaded... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

technology so it could be useful to Western Union's most profitable real-time long-distance data customers. When an existing firm tries to insert a product or service with disruptive potential into its processes, what comes out the other... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

individuals. In response to the recent scandals, politicians and government officials have stepped in to pass new laws and create new regulations, while prominent persons on Wall Street and elsewhere in the business community have issued... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

17 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

personal caregiving obligations is an approach employers almost entirely overlook as a mechanism for maximizing employee productivity and minimizing turnover,” the authors write in the study, which was released Wednesday. With almost... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

relationships when it instead primarily encourages newcomers to express their personal identities. In a field experiment carried out in a large business process outsourcing company, we found that initial socialization focused on View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

25 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

one study, more than half of all doctors in the US report feeling at least one symptom of burnout: emotional exhaustion, a feeling of detachment, or a diminished sense of personal accomplishment—twice the rate of the general working... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

initial interviews, however, we kept hearing the same concern: "Thank goodness you folks are doing this. All of us collectively need to take a hard look at the state of business education." Srikant Datar: With that prompting, we expanded our efforts. We collected... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

04 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs

to stars when they change jobs. Equity analysts are an ideal population to study: Their performance is objectively measured every year, there is a lot of demographic and organizational data on them and their employers, and many things are... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

04 Nov 2015
What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

across a number of countries is a small sample. Although gender and financial data are straightforward, they are not always easy to obtain with complete accuracy. And, like many studies, these correlate gender diversity with financial... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?

Editor’s note: Concerns about data falsification and fabrication in a study conducted by Francesca Gino as part of this article have been shared by Harvard Business School with the publishing journal’s editor, along with a request that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting

04 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

began gathering demographic information on individual VCs to better understand if their gender or race influenced a firm’s performance. “It was a real guerilla research effort,” he says. Starting with commercial data on 14,000 VC... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services

20 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

1980s, the band members' journey to sustain and enhance their identity in the next two decades, and the ongoing commitment to balancing their music careers, fame, personal lives, and—in the case of three of the musicians, their Christian... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

29 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

economists dispel any uncertainty about whether it’s a tenable career path—the data suggest that there might be more economists hired in tech companies than in policy schools in recent years. To lure an economist As competition for talent... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education

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