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- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
experience. The case highlights the issues and procedures related to defining the project strategy: organizing senior management approvals and support for creating a "heavyweight" team; aligning the disparate perspectives, interests, and View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
biases and irrationalities of people seriously and trying to incorporate them into economic models." "My research takes the biases and irrationalities of people seriously and incorporates them into economic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
were less likely to optimize their revenues. “There is no more biased instrument than the human brain.” “There is no more biased instrument than the human brain.” Fixing such problems will also be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
general idea that less was always more when it came to regulation, which, in part, contributed to the crisis. To that end, he calls for a fundamental shift in academic research on the government’s role in the economy. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6575.html. Valuation... 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 and optimistic with experience,” he says. “You can fight those typical View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
they arrive at their decisions, and where biases may enter the process,” says Professor Karim Lakhani. The working paper “Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? Field Experimental Evidence from Scientific Peer Review,” by Lakhani and a group... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 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
- 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 external costs: the potentially... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
countless studies have shown that résumé reviewers often exhibit bias—consciously or unconsciously—against women and minorities, Pymetrics’s matches arrive without any demographic data. “And there are no known gender or ethnic biases in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 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 whimsically, "and to all non-MBAs as well." On Competition by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
for example? Are they talking about labor practices? Are they talking about cost? What are the issues on their minds? You can even use that minute-by-minute information to create a dynamic map. The caveat is that you might get a biased... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 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
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias
over time. Her findings indicate that expert evaluators were indeed biased in favor of projects in their own area, which increased the application’s funding chances by 3.2 percent. But there was an unexpected benefit to their bias.... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 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 lot of hiring managers today had... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
300 applicants and became the largest student-led business plan competition for Black entrepreneurs in the U.S. But as the competition progressed, Foster and Simpson began to identify some biases and frictions in the evaluation and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
first commercial strip development in 1983. Since then we have pursued a strategy that has overcome historical biases and roadblocks to urban reinvestment. How did you contribute to this strategy? I led a comprehensive study that helped... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
biases that make predictable what otherwise so commonly emerge as surprises in business and society. They outline six danger signals that suggest when a predictable surprise may be imminent and provide a systematic framework that leaders... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
in a sequential way—one individual, then another, and so on—you dramatically increase the likelihood that you're going to end up with discriminatory hiring practices. You're more likely to let your biases take over and to use stereotypes... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
and nonprofit activists to think beyond their biases and preconceived notions of each other. “If you think about how a business makes its money, it does so by specializing,” he notes. “Picking your head up and thinking about broader... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli