Bias - Publications - Faculty & Research

2023
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Provable Detection of Propagating Sampling Bias in Prediction Models

By: Pavan Ravishankar, Qingyu Mo, Edward McFowland III and Daniel B. Neill

With an increased focus on incorporating fairness in machine learning models, it becomes imperative not only to assess and mitigate bias at each stage of the machine learning pipeline but also to understand the downstream impacts of bias across stages. Here we consider... View Details

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10 May 2016
Video

2016 G&WS: Kieran Snyder Presents “Measuring Unconscious Bias in Text”

28 Feb 2022
News

How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels

14 Dec 2016
Book

Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Job Ads

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

31 Oct 2013
News

Home Bias Hurts Institutional Investors

18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

If it's one lesson the individual investor learned the hard way from the collapse of Enron, it is that the recommendations of Wall Street stock analysts can be influenced by much more than purely objective research. Just look at the large number of analysts who kept... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

21 Aug 2013
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Educate Everyone About Second-Generation Gender Bias

12 Dec 2015
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Racial bias in everything: Airbnb edition

20 Jan 2021
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Unconscious Bias in Retail and Marketing

09 Aug 2022
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A Lesson from Google: Can AI Bias be Monitored Internally?

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Analyst Disagreement, Forecast Bias and Stock Returns

We present evidence of inefficient information processing in equity markets by documenting that biases in analysts' earnings forecasts are reflected in stock prices. In particular, investors fail to account for analysts' tendency to withhold negative views and to issue... View Details

08 Aug 2013
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Study finds online ratings vulnerable to bias

05 Jun 2018
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Did The Starbucks Racial Bias Training Work?

01 Oct 2019
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The bias that can cause catastrophe

16 Nov 2016
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The best ways to combat bias

January–February 2019
Article

Who Loses When a Team Wins? Better Performance Increases Racial Bias

By: Letian Zhang

Although it is well known that organizational and team performance influences strategic decision-making, little is known about its impact on ascriptive inequality. This study proposes a performance effect on racial bias: higher team performance reduces managers’... View Details

Keywords: Discrimination; Race And Ethnicity; Performance Feedback; NBA; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Ethnicity; Performance; Sports

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01 Mar 2016
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Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias

specialized expertise to the process—which some worry might create subject-area bias in the decision-making process and affect the quality of research. Assistant Professor Danielle Li takes a mathematical approach to examining this issue... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

19 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech

In late August, the Apple Card debuted with a minimalist look and completely “no fee” model, creating a frenzy of anticipation. Millions signed up to be alerted for the release. Designed to boost traffic to its slow-to-be-adopted Apple Pay system and increase consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

18 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

algorithm generates fair outcomes. As the algorithm sorts through information to optimize its objective, BEAT detects and eliminates bias at key points in the training process. For instance, BEAT could help a car service charge surge... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

07 Mar 2023
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