Prejudice and Bias - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Arielle Anderson

Everyone wants to be seen and accepted. I had gone through life feeling either overlooked and invisible or misunderstood and rejected. Setbacks in childhood left me feeling... View Details

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The launch of ChatGPT seems to have reignited doomsday fears about artificial intelligence (AI) replacing workers en masse. Are these fears prescient or overblown? A recent survey shows 62 percent of Americans think AI will majorly impact work View Details

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

many small and often family-owned firms whose stories are hard to reconstruct. The industry as a whole is well known to be secretive—after all, its foundations rest heavily on mystique. And then there is the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

30 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

prompt engineering,” Brand says. “I think there’s a lot that future researchers could do to iterate and get us a little bit closer to real-world studies.” You Might Also Like: Is AI Coming for Your Job? Why Confronting Racism in AI... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

frustration and a path to burnout that is all too common in today’s workplace, says Robert Simons, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “Today’s jobs are expanding in terms of what is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

must have a bias for action. TEM teaches you how to decompose such complex situations, identify critical choices confronting the enterprise, and make high-risk/high reward decisions with limited data.... View Details

08 Mar 2024
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History of the HBS Women's Student Association

advocating for key administrative changes that have profoundly impacted the academic and social environment for women at HBS. One notable achievement includes the introduction of scribes in classrooms, a strategic move aimed at minimizing... View Details

04 Nov 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Do We Chase Stars?

evolved in management by gender bias with skills and talents so alien to their male counterparts that they are uniquely powerful in an information world?" Other questions come to mind. Do we continue to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

collect data or change their policies, so caregivers’ work performance deteriorates and bias against caregivers continues. How can a company break that cycle? More companies need to develop a “care culture”... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

30 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

deliberate on important decisions. Masking the gender of applicants for tech jobs before deciding whether they should be interviewed can remove bias from the process. And when selecting employees for a task,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Feb 2013
What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

but it is all too easy to fill in the 'facts' after history takes place, and then very difficult to duplicate in another arena." Gerald Nanninga added " capitalism has a bias for making money Hence, one... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

A New Healthcare Model at Royal Philips Show Hide Details Concepts Overcoming Developer and User Bias Strategies for Communicating Value Managing an Innovation Culture Featured Exercises Stakeholder... View Details

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

between the board’s conservative Republicans, who perceived a liberal bias in the curriculum, and its more moderate Republicans and Democrats. For three days, the board held... View Details

Keywords: April White

04 May 2021
Blog Post

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

history of prejudice that these attitudes stem from. But he also demonstrated the U.S.’s ongoing need for purposeful and inclusive leadership, and I hope to spend my career... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics

Max Bazerman and Mike Luca (Image by John Ritter) What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max Bazerman’s work focuses on... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

02 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize

but there was no real research focused on it.” Unexplained death figures vary widely The level of underreporting varied significantly from one country to the next, the research team outlined in a recent article in the Journal of Economics View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

don’t like that worker, so you are biased consciously or unconsciously against him,” says Gallani. Whether or not that bias exists, humans’ natural tendency to look for someone else to blame often makes employees believe that View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

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Gender & Race in Organizations Research Group - Race, Gender & Equity

inequality in the workplace. Tiffany Smith Tiffany Smith is a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. Her research explores... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Solara Solara provides an on-demand solar irrigation service to Indian farmers, increasing their access to affordable, reliable, and clean irrigation. Team: Rea Savla, MBA 2024; Vishesh Mehta Play Elisa: Grand Prize Winner 2024 New... View Details

09 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

In today's global work environment, it's a given that companies need culturally diverse teams to succeed. Both scientific studies and common sense tell us that having people with different viewpoints onboard increases the creativity that... View Details