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- 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
- 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
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
case considers the challenges of entering the fiercely competitive retirement market, introduces students to the large literature on the behavioral biases of individual investors, and asks students to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- Portrait Project
Alyza Keshavjee
peace. I wonder, will I ever know what life could be like otherwise? Jaded by war and inhibited by cultural barriers, Parwadah lacks the empowerment she needs to succeed and become self-sufficient. View Details
- Profile
Adil Seetal
the one-dimensional idea of leadership as, "Jack Welch rallying his troops. There's no one solution or leadership style that fits everything. The intriguing thing about our cases is that each one brings different qualities to the fore. Leadership is about... 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 06 Jul 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?
(personal and individual) biases and all becomes 'rational' again for management purposes." Ron Palmer observed that the discussion "adds weight to the ideas that we... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 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
2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
director of Centre for Leadership, Ethics, and Diversity (LEAD). His research ranges from micro-level investigations of the psychological and physiological processes that underlie unconscious bias—to more... View Details
- Web
An Educated Investment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
transitioning to a career in community-based global development, traveling to Latin America, Africa, and South Africa. When she returned to India, she was struck once again by the biased attitudes 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
- 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
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
issue of media conglomerates, Tumulty says, "I don't worry too much about corporate ownership creating biased reporting or editorial pressure, but I do have concerns about the drive for bottom-line profitability. That's caused the closing... View Details