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- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
moment,” points of stickiness, drop off, etc. They also won’t have the biases you likely bring to the table and can look at the numbers objectively. Investors can be helpful with developing your company... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
individual action, against which individual biases can be lessened and competing interests balanced. At BP, the overriding concern was economic efficiency. What was not considered, argue the authors, were... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
We Are: A Temporal Explanation Authors:A.E. Tenbrunsel, K.A. Diekmann, K.A. Wade-Benzoni, and M.H. Bazerman Publication:In Research in Organizational Behavior, edited by B. M. Staw and Arthur P. Brief, in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Credit: Steven Zimmerman/Wikipedia Commons Google software engineer James Damore’s ten-page manifesto excoriating his employer for its diversity initiatives incited a major controversy in August about affirmative action View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
“grown up,” lived, and worked with people of other backgrounds. These people are less likely to have the hidden biases that lead to a lack of diversity in hiring and employee... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
2013 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Gender and Work: Challenging Conventional Wisdom Gender and Work: Challenging Conventional Wisdom 28 FEB–01 MAR 2013 Home Videos Agenda Feb 28 Thursday, February 28, 2013 Panel StereoTypes Toni Schmader ,... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
insulates the board from pressures by biased or uninformed shareholders. Whether stronger governance improves retain/replace decisions depends on which of these effects dominates. We use our theoretical framework to assess the effect of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
political biases in preventing leaders from recognizing and acting on warning signs of impending disasters. Could you give an example of each? In the book, we talk about the cognitive View Details
- Student-Profile
Anastassia Fedyk
am trying to better understand how psychological biases affect decision-making in organizations and financial markets. I have been long interested in optimal incentive design for employees subject to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
which will help erode the stigma that still exists around online education. In addition, the way that hiring managers perceive online education will change. We tend to be biased toward what we know, and a... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- Profile
Rakhi Mehra
because it "gives you all-around skills that help you respond to opportunities and challenges as they emerge." "I couldn't anticipate how fascinating the case method is," Rakhi says. "I came with my own 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... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
Health-care reform has a different meaning for Augustus White (AMP 94, 1984) than the definition you might get from a policy wonk: His reform would ensure equality of medical treatment, no matter the color of your skin, gender, or sexual preference. White is the Ellen... View Details
- Student-Profile
Ta-Wei "David" Huang
assumptions about how firms target interventions. David has identified systematic biases in the traditional approach and is seeking to find a better way to address the issues by combining causal inference,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Releases
common errors or biases in decision-making and ideas for overcoming or avoiding them. "Smart Choices should be relevant and accessible to all MBAs," says Raiffa, adding a bit... View Details
- Web
2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
processes that underlie unconscious bias—to more macro-level examinations how biases impact organizational diversity, leadership representation, and social justice. For example, his research on the “Teddy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
want a risk taker; you want someone who can identify and mitigate risk. You don’t always want someone who is optimistic. “If you’re optimistic and 17, that’s very different than if you’re 40 View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
pass as human; others point to biases and microaggressions in computer-generated speech. Google Maps for ethical leaders Badaracco worries that leaders are caught up in the hype about what machines could do... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
problem: Your genetic proclivities are not biasing you toward happiness.” “Your dreams are liars. Here’s the problem: Your genetic proclivities are not biasing you toward happiness.” The big problem that... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
understand that there are biases in hiring and are trying to address that, so these young women often don’t perceive the obstacles at first. But once they start working and go... View Details