Publications

January–February 2019
Article

Who Loses When a Team Wins? Better Performance Increases Racial Bias

By: Letian Zhang

Although it is well known that organizational and team performance influences strategic decision-making, little is known about its impact on ascriptive inequality. This study proposes a performance effect on racial bias: higher team performance reduces managers’... View Details

Keywords: Discrimination; Race And Ethnicity; Performance Feedback; NBA; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Ethnicity; Performance; Sports

16 Dec 2022
News

Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

28 Jan 2014
News

Harvard Study Suggests Racial Bias In Airbnb Rentals

January 2001
Book Review

Taking the Bias out of Bean Counting

By: Max Bazerman and G. Loewenstein

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Accounting

31 May 2018
News

Starbucks’ racial bias training has another goal

05 Nov 2019
News

News Analysis: Gender bias turned out to be a wonderful indicator of WeWork’s incompetence

15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

nonprofits led by people of color had been building for some time. “We’ve known that less than 2 percent of funding from the nation’s largest philanthropies is specifically targeted to the Black community,” notes Thomas. “The NCF is working to reverse this View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

02 Aug 2021
Blog Post

ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY

philanthropies is specifically targeted to the Black community,” notes Thomas. “The NCF is working to reverse this bias by backing organizations led by people from communities of color who include the voices of community members in their... View Details

Article

Information or Opinion? Media Bias as Product Differentiation

By: Bharat Anand, Rafael Di Tella and Alexander Galetovic

Keywords: Information; Media; Prejudice and Bias; Product

05 Jul 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Analyst Disagreement, Forecast Bias and Stock Returns

Keywords: by Anna Scherbina; Financial Services

September 29, 2023
Article

Eliminating Algorithmic Bias Is Just the Beginning of Equitable AI

By: Simon Friis and James Riley

When it comes to artificial intelligence and inequality, algorithmic bias rightly receives a lot of attention. But it’s just one way that AI can lead to inequitable outcomes. To truly create equitable AI, we need to consider three forces through which it might make... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Prejudice and Bias; Equality and Inequality

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2018
Working Paper

Ideological Bias and Trust in Information Sources

By: Matthew Gentzkow, Michael B. Wong and Allen T Zhang

24 May 2011
News

June 2011: Racial Bias Pervades Health Care

Forthcoming
Article

Human Bias in the Oversight of Firms: Evidence from Workplace Safety Violations

By: Jonas Heese, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos and Andreya Pérez Silva

We study the effects of mood as a source of human bias on regulators’ oversight and enforcement decisions. We use weather at facilities at the time of an OSHA inspection to proxy for the OSHA compliance officers’ mood. We find that during periods of good mood due to... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Happiness; Working Conditions; Safety

March 2013
Article

The Client Is King: Do Mutual Fund Relationships Bias Analyst Recommendations?

By: Michael Firth, Chen Lin, Ping Liu and Yuhai Xuan

This paper investigates whether the business relations between mutual funds and brokerage firms influence sell-side analyst recommendations. Using a unique data set that discloses brokerage firms' commission income derived from each mutual fund client as well as the... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Funds