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- 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
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Turning Point: One Step at a Time
was true: Either the admissions committee was biased toward athletes, or these activities were things that could be accomplished by any human who dedicated herself to the task. In other words, I discovered the difference between the... View Details
Keywords: Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- 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 View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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 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 View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 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
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
widely used? Merton: One answer is, simply, that it filled a need. It wasn't intellectual interest that made people want to apply it. In the 1970s, profit margins to options dealers were driven down, competition was going up, and options... View Details
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Strategy for Entrepreneurs - Course Catalog
startup ideas—is challenging. Signals are biased and noisy. Designing experiments is non-trivial, and running tests is expensive. Failure is hard to admit View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
Image by John Ritter Companies can spend millions curating their social media presence—with sometimes famously funny results, like the Twitter accounts for Wendy’s and Denny’s—but how relevant is that to revenues? Here, Associate... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
pass as human; others point to biases and microaggressions in computer-generated speech. Google Maps for ethical leaders Badaracco worries that leaders are caught up in the hype about what machines could do... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
How to Approach Your Equity Compensation
both make mistakes and have many cognitive biases around investing. Some of the most common mistakes – particularly for those at public companies – include: Holding onto Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) for too... View Details
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Lessons from the 2025 Race, Gender & Equity at Work Symposium - Blog: RGE Report
transformative hope? How to foster transformative hope Ground your knowledge in the context of the changes you seek. This means considering the biases of your own education and inquiry, especially when... View Details
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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
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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
- 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
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
micro-theorists in economics call biased risk-evaluation?...[It's one in which the bias prevails that you] attach 'gain' to a probabilistic assessment and you trigger action; attach 'loss' to it, you get... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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... View Details
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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
More broadly, why does the startup ecosystem contain so many market failures that lead to biases and inequities – particularly in terms of access to capital for female entrepreneurs 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... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
bit about each one of them? Amy Jen Su: Leader A and leader B was a heuristic that I created to try to describe what people were describing to me out in the trenches. Leader A is the part of all of... View Details