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June 2011
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Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor

By: Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer-Gee

It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable giving because they know little about the persons who receive their help. This concern is particularly acute when making contributions to organizations that serve heterogeneous populations. While we... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Policy; Information; Knowledge Acquisition; Game Theory; Prejudice and Bias; Poverty; Welfare

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21 Oct 2008
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Stereotype Content Model Authors:P. Caprariello, A.J.C. Cuddy, and S.T. Fiske Publication:Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (in press) Abstract The stereotype content model (SCM) posits that social... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 May 2005
What Do You Think?

Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?

Summing Up Consumer generated marketing is a fact of life to which all of us will have to adapt. Adaptation means learning how to use CGM to provide one form of input in fashioning product and marketing decisions. Those are the messages... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

adaptation and argue that organizations suffer inertia when they fail to change as quickly as the environment. Although the tire firms delayed closing redundant capacity, they responded fairly quickly to the introduction of radial tires... View Details

Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

July 2020
Teaching Plan

Girls Who Code

By: Brian Trelstad and Amy Klopfenstein

This teaching plan serves as a supplement to HBS Case No. 320-055, “Girls Who Code.” Founded 2012 by former lawyer Reshma Saujani, Girls Who Code (GWC) offered coding education programs to middle- and high school-aged girls. The organization also sought to alter... View Details

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30 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

African government take a stand against an effective AIDS treatment drug? The inability of government to make wise tradeoffs—give up small losses for much larger gain—has been investigated by HBS professor Max Bazerman and his research... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

April 2025
Case

Giving Up on a Passion: Elizabeth Rowe at the Boston Symphony Orchestra

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon and Alexis Lefort

For 20 years, Elizabeth Rowe was a world-renowned principal flutist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. But in 2024, Rowe decided to leave her position to pursue a new full-time career as a leadership coach. At 50, Rowe was well under the typical retirement age, and,... View Details

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30 Mar 2010
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PublicationsThe Coexistence of Overestimation and Underweighting of Rare Events and the Contingent Recency Effect Authors:Greg Barron and Eldad Yechiam Publication:.Judgment... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 1995
Teaching Note

Note on Valuing Equity Cash Flows (TN)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman

Teaching Note for (9-295-085). View Details

Keywords: Cash Flow; Valuation; Equity; Prejudice and Bias

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15 Mar 2011
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PublicationsDo Strong Fences Make Strong Neighbors? Authors:Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Publication:National Tax Journal 63 (December 2010) Abstract Many features of U.S. tax policy towards multinational firms—including the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 May 2018
Research & Ideas

A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety

are hospitalized, and 3,000 die due to foodborne illnesses, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The research is detailed in the paper “How Scheduling Can View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Service

17 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

address this inherent bias problem by enacting strict and scientific hiring mechanisms. For instance, rather than vetting possible hires via job interviews, Los Andes both... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

28 Oct 2008
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appearance of prejudice during social interaction is to avoid talking about race, or even acknowledging racial difference. Four experiments involving a dyadic task investigated antecedents and consequences... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Aug 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?

supporting the Trump administration is unsustainable and that for many even neutrality will seem difficult or impossible. But that’s just my assessment, which is as likely to be a product of confirmation View Details

Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda

January 2004
Background Note

Why Developers Don't Understand Why Consumers Don't Buy

By: John T. Gourville

Looks at the psychological biases developers bring to the new product development process. Identifies three reasons why developers may do a poor job of identifying the demand for an innovative, new concept or product: (1) the self-selection bias, (2) differing initial... View Details

Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Management; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Product Development; Perspective; Prejudice and Bias

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28 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Meeting China’s Need for Management Education

an impact in a wide range of industries. Q: How has this area changed over the years since your first visit? A: While Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong have always had a strong bias for entrepreneurship View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

31 May 2023
Research & Ideas

With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines

If knowing what customers need is marketing gold, pinpointing exactly when they need it may just be platinum. Services that become part of a customer’s routine may deliver advantages beyond repeat business for a company, Harvard Business School Associate Professor Eva... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation

08 Aug 2006
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just than those that implied consistency and lack of bias. Information about the bias implied by a queue improved perceived procedural justice. The analysis suggests organizational artifacts to be... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

November 2007 (Revised July 2009)
Case

Differences at Work: Martin (A)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon

Martin, a gay man who was not out at his Italian firm, witnesses his division manager deliver a homophobic comment to his boss. He wonders what he should do. View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Behavior; Managerial Roles; Ethics; Gender; Diversity; Power and Influence

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11 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

potential players. But in case he gets stymied with all of them, he should be open to assembling a team that's more offensively oriented. Axiom #2: Be Bold And Quick When the rules of negotiation have changed drastically, should you be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports

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Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor

First Look: October 21, 2008

Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

Girls Who Code

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

Giving Up on a Passion: Elizabeth Rowe at the Boston Symphony Orchestra

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Note on Valuing Equity Cash Flows (TN)

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A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety

How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

First Look: October 28, 2008

Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?

Why Developers Don't Understand Why Consumers Don't Buy

Meeting China’s Need for Management Education

With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines

First Look: August 8, 2006

Differences at Work: Martin (A)

Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

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