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- May 2021
- Case
Megan Ming Francis: Leadership and Racial Injustice
By: Francesca Gino and Frances X. Frei
In this multimedia case, Megan Ming Francis, a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington (UW) and a visiting professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the roots of racial injustice and the need for change. Through... View Details
Keywords: Racial Injustice; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership
Gino, Francesca, and Frances X. Frei. "Megan Ming Francis: Leadership and Racial Injustice." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 921-701, May 2021.
- July–August 2013
- Article
The Costs of Racial 'Color Blindness'
By: Michael I. Norton and Evan P. Apfelbaum
The article looks at research on people's attitudes and behaviors with respect to noticing and referring to a person's race. It explains the 2013 study, in which participants played a "Guess Who?" style game of asking yes-or-no questions about a group of faces... View Details
Norton, Michael I., and Evan P. Apfelbaum. "The Costs of Racial 'Color Blindness'." Harvard Business Review 91, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2013): 22.
- March 2007
- Article
Gender Effects and Stock Market Reactions to the Announcement of Top Executive Appointments
This study uses Kanter's token status theory to link announcements of top executives to shareholder reactions, highlighting possible gender effects. Using a sample of top executive announcements from 1990 to 2000, our results show that investor reactions to the... View Details
- 2016
- Hidden Processes
A conversation with Lisa Lahey at the 2016 Gender & Work Symposium: Talking the Walk
- 2017
- Gender Conformity & Nonconformity
Making Trans Visible With Technology
- 25 May 2023
- News
3 Strategies for Making Better, More Informed Decisions
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
new job. In other words, is there a self-selection bias in studies of the effects of job on a person's chemical makeup? As Stephanie Smith put it, "Perhaps it's a case of either the hormones and natural adaptability of the person... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Our Top 5 Blog Posts of 2020
virtual experience requires plans to onboard, train, and develop impactful work for students to take on during this abnormal time. 2. Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting The importance of naming and addressing institutional... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Kill Groupthink
and your organization. Escape the bubble. With more than 90 percent of our information-gathering happening online these days, we are subject to more and more confirmation bias in the information we consume. The result is de facto tunnel... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal
program that helps female CEOs learn how to raise venture capital financing. Guilty pleasure: Grey’s Anatomy. “Shonda Rhimes introduced two black characters in that show who became foundational to the storyline; I’ve learned TV is one of the best ways to begin to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- November 2007
- Case
Differences at Work: Ben (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
During a casual conversation one of Ben's professional colleagues unexpectedly makes an anti-Semitic remark. What should Ben do? View Details
Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Ben (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-012, November 2007.
- January 2023
- Article
Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights
By: Alvaro Calderon, Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized... View Details
Keywords: Civil Rights; Great Migration; History; Race; Rights; Prejudice and Bias; Government Legislation
Calderon, Alvaro, Vasiliki Fouka, and Marco Tabellini. "Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights." Review of Economic Studies 90, no. 1 (January 2023): 165–200. (Available also from VOX, Broadstreet, and VOX EU.)
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
successful economic development moment for Europe and Western countries. Poorer countries have had a much more difficult time, and lots of voices emerged with lots of disorder. We’ve been trained to understand that bias on the left or... View Details
- 31 Oct 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers
be done? It is also said that unconscious bias is rampant, as shown by immediate associations on word tests, say of men with work or women with children. But this is actually “statistical discrimination”–playing the odds about typical... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 02 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?
management control.” These comments help shape an interesting question about whether employees bring a renter’s bias to the job or whether that bias is fostered by leadership, incentives and compensation... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
entrepreneurs being altruistic or salespeople being inattentive and impulsive, that I think are more-- they're more aha moments for us. Morrell: One of the issues that pymetrics looks to correct is bias in hiring. What have you learned... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Origin Story: Ricky Cordova (MS/MBA 2025)
at Brooke High School in Boston.” Must read: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, by Caroline Criado Perez Must eat: “Tucson has so many unique dishes. One is called a Sonoran hot dog. It’s a hot dog wrapped in bacon,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- September 2024 (Revised March 2025)
- Case
Burn the Gondolas? Venice, the Ghetto, and the Seasons of Capitalism
By: Sophus A. Reinert, Charlotte Robertson and Robert Fredona
This case uses the history of Venice—from the driving of the first pylons in the lagoon to the abdication of the city’s last doge, across the ages of Marco Polo and Vivaldi—to explore the invention and global diffusion of capitalism, as well as the cyclical rise and... View Details
Reinert, Sophus A., Charlotte Robertson, and Robert Fredona. "Burn the Gondolas? Venice, the Ghetto, and the Seasons of Capitalism." Harvard Business School Case 725-006, September 2024. (Revised March 2025.)
- 2022
- Chapter
Redirecting Rawlsian Reasoning Toward the Greater Good
By: Joshua D. Greene, Karen Huang and Max Bazerman
In A Theory of Justice, John Rawls employed the ‘veil of Ignorance’ as a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial thinking. By imagining the choices of decision-makers who are blind to biasing information, one might see more clearly the organizing... View Details
Greene, Joshua D., Karen Huang, and Max Bazerman. "Redirecting Rawlsian Reasoning Toward the Greater Good." Chap. 15 in The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology, edited by Manuel Vargas and John M. Doris, 246–261. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2022.