Participation Bias - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

are often frustrated by a lack of results. That's because they haven't addressed the fundamental identity shift involved in coming to see oneself, and to be seen by others, as a leader. Research shows, the authors write, that the subtle "second generation"... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2022
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Politics at Work

By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Valdemar Pinho Neto and Edoardo Teso

We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002–2019 period, we first document the presence of political... View Details

Keywords: Private Sector; Employees; Prejudice and Bias; Brazil

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

Module 4 Adjusting Journal Entries Understand complex accounting transactions and how they relate to accounting principles and recognize the impact of judgment and bias on financial statements and accounting practices. Highlights... View Details

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Processes (31) Management Skills (20) Management Style (16) Management Succession (5) Management Systems (4) Management Teams (52) Management (353) Managerial Roles (6) Market Design (7) Market Entry and Exit (6) Market Participation (1)... View Details

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

self-insight. Consequently, spontaneous thoughts potently influence judgment. A series of experiments provides evidence supporting two hypotheses. First, we hypothesize that the more a thought is perceived to be spontaneous, the more it is perceived to provide... View Details

25 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

cognitive trust, meanwhile, had no correlation with cultural metacognition. In order to put these findings to a further test, the team designed a third, more hands-on experiment involving 236 undergraduates. First, each participant was... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Past Programs - Crossover Into Business

early to get ready for life outside basketball. ” Lance Thomas NBA Player Apply Past Participants Kellyn Acosta MLS Steven Adams NBA Kristie Ahn WTA Kayla Alexander WNBA Al-Farouq Aminu NBA Calvin Anderson NFL Henry Anderson NFL Ciara... View Details

2025
Working Paper

Discrimination, Rejection, and Job Search

By: Anne Boring, Katherine Coffman, Dylan Glover and María José González-Fuentes

We investigate how candidates’ willingness to apply responds to (potential) discrimination and rejection using a simulated labor market. Past work has shown that “blinding” job applications reduces discrimination and increases the rate at which women are hired. Our... View Details

Keywords: Job Search; Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Demographics

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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

your team or organization’s strategy. "This course is excellent for executives and managers who constantly grapple with finding new ways to make their work impactful and useful for their target audience.” Cebisa Ncube Design Thinking and Innovation View Details

19 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 19

fundamentals are significantly lower only in low precision countries. Publisher's link: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1160416 Working Papers Path-Breakers: How Does Women's Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success? By: Bhalotra,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

at people's scores in a game, and guess how well they would do in the subsequent round. "We wanted to see if we could eliminate the bias by providing people with full information," Gino says. But even when subjects were told... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Secino; Education; Employment

27 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?

professionals. In the first experiment, an online simulation, Kirgios, Chang, and Milkman asked 491 women to imagine that they were interns who needed to choose a department to join at a theoretical company. Participants browsed the... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

critical job we "hire" employers to do for us—make progress in our lives and careers—and how divorced that progress has become from the progression organizations offer. Participants will leave this "working on material" session (as... View Details

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

their wages increased rates of female labor force participation and decreased negative perceptions around women working outside the home. “What we found is counterintuitive,” says Rigol, noting that traditional economic models assume that... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

30 Jul 2018
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Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

predict that they will act ethically at the bargaining table. 2. Participating in the negotiation: During this action phase when negotiators are at the table, making decisions about offers, agreements, and concessions, the “want self”... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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 contentious open meetings, arguing issues centuries old—Were the... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2023
News

The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics

What are you doing, and how are you training these people who are creating these disasters? MORE Hear Professor Luca discuss how platform companies like Airbnb can reduce bias online in this episode of Cold Call. MORE: Hear Professor Luca... View Details

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

09 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

study, he asked a group of online participants to list the important people in their social networks, noting their cultural backgrounds and whether they liked each other. Then he asked them to do a word association exercise that compared... View Details