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- 20 Nov 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Impact Evaluation Methods in Public Economics: A Brief Introduction to Randomized Evaluations and Comparison with Other Methods
- 18 Jun 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Evaluating the Impact of SA 8000 Certification
- January 1982
- Article
A Negativity Bias in Interpersonal Evaluation
By: T. M. Amabile and A. H. Glazebrook
Two studies were conducted to demonstrate a bias toward negativity in evaluations of persons or their work in particular social circumstances. In Study 1, subjects evaluated materials written by peers. Those working under conditions that placed them in low status... View Details
Keywords: Social Psychology; Status and Position; Prejudice and Bias; Performance Evaluation; Situation or Environment; Perception; Attitudes
Amabile, T. M., and A. H. Glazebrook. "A Negativity Bias in Interpersonal Evaluation." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 18 (January 1982): 1–22.
- 2012
- Working Paper
When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation
By: Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen and Max H. Bazerman
We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in hiring, promotion, and job assignments: an "evaluation nudge," in which people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. Evaluators are more likely to focus on individual... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Behavior; Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Performance Evaluation; Gender
Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max H. Bazerman. "When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-083, March 2012.
- February 1979
- Article
Effects of External Evaluation on Artistic Creativity
By: T. M. Amabile
Examined the conditions under which the imposition of an extrinsic constraint upon performance of an activity can lead to decrements in creativity. 95 female undergraduates worked on an art activity either with or without the expectation of external evaluation. In... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Social Psychology; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Situation or Environment
Amabile, T. M. "Effects of External Evaluation on Artistic Creativity." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 37, no. 2 (February 1979): 221–233.
- August 2023
- Case
Partners Capital: Evaluating Fund Performance
By: Luis M. Viceira and Ryan Gilland
Viceira, Luis M., and Ryan Gilland. "Partners Capital: Evaluating Fund Performance." Harvard Business School Case 224-017, August 2023.
- April 2006
- Teaching Note
Drilling South: Petrobras Evaluates Pecom
By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs
Keywords: Energy Industry
- 2022
- Article
Data Poisoning Attacks on Off-Policy Evaluation Methods
By: Elita Lobo, Harvineet Singh, Marek Petrik, Cynthia Rudin and Himabindu Lakkaraju
Off-policy Evaluation (OPE) methods are a crucial tool for evaluating policies in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, where exploration is often infeasible, unethical, or expensive. However, the extent to which such methods can be trusted under adversarial threats... View Details
Lobo, Elita, Harvineet Singh, Marek Petrik, Cynthia Rudin, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "Data Poisoning Attacks on Off-Policy Evaluation Methods." Proceedings of the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 38th (2022): 1264–1274.
- October 2000 (Revised March 2003)
- Case
Merck & Company: Evaluating a Drug Licensing Opportunity
By: Richard S. Ruback and David B Krieger
This explores the valuation of an opportunity to license a compound before it enters clinical trials. Describes Merck's decision tree evaluation process is presented. Information required to evaluate a specific licensing opportunity is provided, including the costs of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Opportunities; Valuation; Outcome or Result; Pharmaceutical Industry
Ruback, Richard S., and David B Krieger. "Merck & Company: Evaluating a Drug Licensing Opportunity." Harvard Business School Case 201-023, October 2000. (Revised March 2003.)
- February 1998 (Revised October 1998)
- Case
Firmwide 360-degree Performance Evaluation Process at Morgan Stanley, The
Describes Morgan Stanley's firmwide, 360-degree performance evaluation process. Evaluation forms are included as exhibits. View Details
Burton, M. Diane. "Firmwide 360-degree Performance Evaluation Process at Morgan Stanley, The." Harvard Business School Case 498-053, February 1998. (Revised October 1998.)
- March 1983
- Article
Brilliant but Cruel: Perceptions of Negative Evaluators
By: T. M. Amabile
Using edited excerpts from actual negative and positive book reviews, this research examined the hypothesis that negative evaluators of intellectual products will be perceived as more intelligent than positive evaluators. The results strongly supported the hypothesis.... View Details
Keywords: Social Psychology; Situation or Environment; Performance Evaluation; Perception; Status and Position; Attitudes; Prejudice and Bias; Power and Influence
Amabile, T. M. "Brilliant but Cruel: Perceptions of Negative Evaluators." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 19 (March 1983): 146–156. (Reprinted in: E. Aronson (Ed.) (1984), Readings about the social animal (3rd. ed.). San Francisco: Freeman.)
- 2022
- Article
OpenXAI: Towards a Transparent Evaluation of Model Explanations
By: Chirag Agarwal, Satyapriya Krishna, Eshika Saxena, Martin Pawelczyk, Nari Johnson, Isha Puri, Marinka Zitnik and Himabindu Lakkaraju
While several types of post hoc explanation methods have been proposed in recent literature, there is very little work on systematically benchmarking these methods. Here, we introduce OpenXAI, a comprehensive and extensible opensource framework for evaluating and... View Details
Agarwal, Chirag, Satyapriya Krishna, Eshika Saxena, Martin Pawelczyk, Nari Johnson, Isha Puri, Marinka Zitnik, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "OpenXAI: Towards a Transparent Evaluation of Model Explanations." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) (2022).
- 2022
- Article
Towards Robust Off-Policy Evaluation via Human Inputs
By: Harvineet Singh, Shalmali Joshi, Finale Doshi-Velez and Himabindu Lakkaraju
Off-policy Evaluation (OPE) methods are crucial tools for evaluating policies in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, where direct deployment is often infeasible, unethical, or expensive. When deployment environments are expected to undergo changes (that is, dataset... View Details
Singh, Harvineet, Shalmali Joshi, Finale Doshi-Velez, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "Towards Robust Off-Policy Evaluation via Human Inputs." Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (2022): 686–699.
- May 1973
- Article
Evaluating Alternatives and Alternative Values
By: R. M. Kanter and L. Zurcher
Keywords: Values and Beliefs
Kanter, R. M., and L. Zurcher. "Evaluating Alternatives and Alternative Values." Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 9 (May 1973): 381–97.
- March 1985
- Exercise
Introduction to Investment Evaluation Techniques
Glauber, Robert R. "Introduction to Investment Evaluation Techniques." Harvard Business School Exercise 285-115, March 1985.
- March 2004
- Supplement
Drilling South: Petrobras Evaluates Pecom
By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs
- June 1985
- Background Note
Recognition and Evaluation of Contingencies
By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty
Hawkins, David F. "Recognition and Evaluation of Contingencies." Harvard Business School Background Note 185-163, June 1985.
- February 2006 (Revised November 2006)
- Background Note
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Details and Evaluation
By: Susan L. Kulp and David Lane
Presents details related to Sarbanes-Oxley, with special emphasis on Section 404. View Details
Kulp, Susan L., and David Lane. "The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Details and Evaluation." Harvard Business School Background Note 106-040, February 2006. (Revised November 2006.)
- November 1977
- Case
Evaluation of Controllership Effectiveness at ITT
Sathe, Vijay V. "Evaluation of Controllership Effectiveness at ITT." Harvard Business School Case 478-022, November 1977.