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- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
society, it’s not my problem.’ It is your problem as a leader. You need to take steps to make sure you're contributing to solutions rather than to problems.” You Might Also Like: How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels Gender Bias Complaints... View Details
- 02 May 2025
- Blog Post
How to Work with Search Firms
for recruiters. As a result, they tend to be highly risk averse, favoring candidates referred by trusted sources and profiles that don’t signal urgency or desperation. Find the Right Practice, Not Just the Firm Search firms are structured... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
said they "frequently" tried to gain access to another person's email account, for instance, or faked a sick day at work. "We like people who are honest," concludes John. "It signals trustworthiness, and that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Nov 2019
- What Do You Think?
Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?
commented that, “When a non-compete clause is required it can signal a lack of trust If your ethics are being questioned the time of hire, question the company ethics.” This may help explain why RCD said that, “I have walked away from... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping
e-methanol) by buying 19 massive ships that will be powered on green methanol over the next three years. This sends a signal to suppliers to develop more of the fuel by guaranteeing that they will purchase it. One of our speakers... View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
tried to prevent customers from showrooming. They considered changing the barcodes on products to make them hard to search for online. The company even tried to use signal jammers, like the ones they use to keep prison inmates from using... View Details
- Web
In the News - Creating Emerging Markets
Professor Geoffrey Jones, Flipkart's sale to Walmart didn't signal that founders of the online retail firm were less patriotic than an earlier generation of business leaders. It meant they were driven by different value system. 08 Jun... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Silence Spells Trouble at Work
prevalent in organizations. ... How easy it is for a boss to send a powerful signal that a worker should be quiet. —Leslie A. Perlow Silence often starts when we choose not to confront a difference. Given the dissimilarities in our... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
be designed, it does not ignore the important role that exports play in the growth process. And there is also a significant overlap in terms of the individual policies that are suggested. Exports are an important diagnostic tool that can help View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
there is no wave. If one expends energy efficiently, lives life authentically, and eliminates noise to focus on the signal when it matters, things tend to work out well. And it leaves a ton of time to be on the water, kitesurfing. —Bill... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
Stripped to the waist in a clinic examining room, Mike, a burly white guy in his late 30s, is an illustrated man. His arms, chest, and neck are a tattooed maze of letters, numbers, and designs signaling his allegiance to the Aryan Nation... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
human driving but not others, such as sending a more explicit signal that the AV is about to stop. “The solution is not to make AVs quickly accelerate through a crosswalk, as humans often do,” says De Freitas. More broadly, although... View Details
- 24 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors
identities in their emails, city councilors were about 25 percent more likely to respond to the queries than when they didn’t. In a second study, about 1,200 undergraduate students received a request for research help from “Demarcus Rivers,” a fictitious graduate... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 21 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics
more – we can understand each person’s baseline health, making it easier to detect signals of disease before they fully manifest themselves. It’s a proactive versus reactive approach.” Applying a general management perspective to machine... View Details
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
curate and share knowledge between the corporate and academic worlds better, so that managers don’t have to decipher the ever-expanding corpus of journal articles, Krieger says. “Managers need more than just a search engine for scientific articles; they need maps and... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 28 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)
do,and realizing that you aren’t the only one out there struggling, and accepting that it is who you are,and seeing how far you’ve come. Jerome Fulton, Jr., Class of 2023 Being a first-generation college student is a badge of honor. It View Details
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
opposed to blindly continuing on a path when all the signals in your competitive environment suggest you need to change course. When I've looked more carefully at why companies fail, oftentimes they see a problem but their structure gets... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
next five years. “Imagine if we can go from coast to coast with autonomous trucks in two days.” “Imagine if we can go from coast to coast with autonomous trucks in two days.” TuSimple’s solution fuses camera, radar, lidar, and other sensor View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services