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  • 17 May 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews

resumes than candidates who reveal their race—and this discriminatory practice is just as strong for businesses that claim to value diversity as those that don’t. These research findings should provide a startling wakeup call for business executives: A View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/Bookentry_Main.lasso?id=4045 Colorblindness and Diversity: Conflicting Goals in Decisions Influenced by Race Authors:Michael I. Norton, Joseph A. Vandello, Andrew Biga, and John M. Darley Periodical:Social Cognition (in press) View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Insufficiently Justified Disparate Impact: A New Criterion for Subgroup Fairness

By: Neil Menghani, Edward McFowland III and Daniel B. Neill
In this paper, we develop a new criterion, "insufficiently justified disparate impact" (IJDI), for assessing whether recommendations (binarized predictions) made by an algorithmic decision support tool are fair. Our novel, utility-based IJDI criterion evaluates false... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Forecasting and Prediction; Prejudice and Bias
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Menghani, Neil, Edward McFowland III, and Daniel B. Neill. "Insufficiently Justified Disparate Impact: A New Criterion for Subgroup Fairness." Working Paper, June 2023.
  • 23 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Face Value: Do Certain Physical Features Help People Get Ahead?

matters and well-applied filters, makeup, or hairstyles could optimize the visual aspect of charisma. However, knowing a potential employee’s “charisma score”—a measure the researchers created—could also uncover hidden bias and force... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 31 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why the Largest Minority Group Faces the Most Hate—and How to Push Back

increased violence and negative attitudes toward any group perceived to be the largest minority. “When the minority group becomes larger, the majority group feels more threatened.” The study, published in August in Nature Human Behaviour,... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 16 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Is Your Workplace Biased Against Introverts?

aspects of it,” he says. Checking the passion bias at work The tendency to define passion by how it’s expressed is human nature. But there are steps that employees and managers alike can take to rein in this hidden View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 06 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 6, 2015

themselves and the charity, they respond very similarly to self risk and charity risk. By contrast, when their decisions force tradeoffs between money for themselves and the charity, participants act more averse to charity risk and less averse to self risk. These... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

entrepreneurs are known to raise higher levels of funding than their female counterparts, but the underlying mechanism for this funding disparity remains contested. Drawing upon Regulatory Focus Theory, we propose that the gap originates with a gender View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 8, 2015

high-level positions in organizations. While a great deal of research has provided evidence that bias and discrimination give rise to and perpetuate this gender disparity, in the current research, we explore another explanation: men and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Student Performance - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

content, but also the delivery and timing of comments within the flow of the class discussion. More frequent participation is often a positive factor, although excessive attempts to comment may lead to lower quality contributions and may reflect a View Details
  • 26 Apr 2023
  • In Practice

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

generate content that perpetuates existing biases. When we train these models at scale based on existing data, if the underlying data included biased information, the result is also likely to include that bias unless we intervene. One... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology
  • Research Summary

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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
  • Article

They Are Us? The Mediating Effects of Compatibility-based Trust on the Relationship Between Discrimination and Overall Trust

By: Mariska Kappmeier, Bushra Guenoun and Remaya Campbell
The tragic Christchurch massacre brought the dangers of social ‘othering’ to the forefront of public attention. While the extreme nature of the attack shocked majority and minority groups alike, overt and latent discrimination are common experiences for many minorities... View Details
Keywords: Intergroup Conflict; Discrimination; Trust; Prejudice and Bias; Perception; New Zealand
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Kappmeier, Mariska, Bushra Guenoun, and Remaya Campbell. "They Are Us? The Mediating Effects of Compatibility-based Trust on the Relationship Between Discrimination and Overall Trust." New Zealand Journal of Psychology 48, no. 1 (April 2019): 97–105.
  • 26 Apr 2024
  • HBS Case

Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

progress. In one survey in August 2023, for example, 73 percent of workers identify micromanagement as the biggest “workplace red flag,” saying it leads to negativity and anxiety in the workplace. “If you think about situational... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Meet the Oligarchs: Business Legitimacy, State Capacity and Taxation

By: Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra and Alejandro Lagomarsino
We analyze the role of people’s beliefs about the rich in the determination of public policy in the context of a randomized online survey experiment. A question we study is the desirability of government-private sector meetings, a variable we argue is connected to... View Details
Keywords: Business Legitimacy; State Capacity; Meetings; Taxes; Top 1%; Regulation; Prejudice and Bias; Values and Beliefs; Taxation; Business and Government Relations
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Di Tella, Rafael, Juan Dubra, and Alejandro Lagomarsino. "Meet the Oligarchs: Business Legitimacy, State Capacity and Taxation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-046, December 2016.
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By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
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Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

you feel put upon. The negativity bias is salient in the experience you have going through the day. Take out your gratitude list. Choose gratitude over resentment. By the way, it's way more accurate because... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • 12 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 12, 2016

Calibrating the model to data from the Financial Accounts of the U.S., the optimal capital requirement is around 20%. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51305 Bias in Official Fiscal Forecasts: Can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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