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- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
the strong hardware and manufacturing bias and hierarchical structures of Japan's computer and electronics firms is largely responsible for the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
by advertising revenue. On the other hand, he detected clear bias in the types of companies that the press targets for special scrutiny. For this reason, business people are wise not to underestimate the ability of the press—particularly... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
Bias for Normal Science: Evidence from Randomized Medical Grant Proposal Evaluations Authors:Boudreau, Kevin J., Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani, and Christoph Riedl Abstract Central to any innovation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
is currently running a book club. Dolly’s first book, The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias (HarperCollins, 2018) has received acclaim from Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, Daniel Pink, Billie Jean King, Carol... View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
gain more experience with online DVD rentals, the extent to which they hold should films longer than want films decreases. Our results suggest that present bias has a meaningful impact on choice in the field View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
entry of new female candidates, no change in female or male voter turnout, and no spillover effects to neighboring areas. Further analysis points to a reduction in party bias against women candidates as the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
Tony Deifell
wrote, "you may not notice these cracks. They are a big problem since my walking cane gets stuck." I want to notice all the cracks in my world – the prejudice I still have about cultures I don't understand, the arrogance that I... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
market reallocation and knowledge spillover are significant sources of productivity gain. Ignoring the role of market reallocation can lead to significant bias in understanding the nature of gains from... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
now exist to protect employees from blatant forms of discrimination in hiring and promotion, but workplace discrimination persists in latent forms. These “second-generation” forms of bias arise in workplace... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
this change in attitude is an important contributor to the economic benefit of gender diversity he observed. It’s going to take years to ameliorate unconscious bias and close the gender gap in venture... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
On the Outside at HBS
Rosenbaum: Women students feel a judgmental difference. When I started at HBS in 2006, I was a 24-year-old Jewish Latina who was also enrolled at Harvard Law School. In my brief professional experience, I had already been a successful public-relations consultant View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
high-level positions in organizations. While a great deal of research has provided evidence that bias and discrimination give rise to and perpetuate this gender disparity, in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named
For many entrepreneurs, the inspiration for starting a business is rooted in personal experience. An enterprise is born not just to fill a neglected market niche but a personal need as well. Such is the case with ventures created by HBS graduates, Darren Brehm (MBA... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
offer. Receivers had a strong truth bias, although the majority of senders were truthful, and friends had more of a truth bias than strangers. Receivers were not able to detect deception at a rate above... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
ability of later matching to produce "championship" games. Are Small Investors Naive About Incentives? Authors:Ulrike Malmendier and Devin M. Shanthikumar Periodical:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Security... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
advantage in a world of impatient investors, restive employees, and demanding customers? Do they require leaders who have fewer answers, more questions, and a bias for testing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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The Strategic Case for Diversity in Digital Transformation - Blog: RGE Report
of job displacement and the fairness of the systems themselves. As IBM’s work shows, machine learning models can inherit and amplify human bias if the training data lacks... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
information,” notes Roberto. “This wasn’t just people shuffling paper in Houston. They were monitoring astronauts in space, and the foam strike was one small issue in a complex set of events.” “It’s real information View Details
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
behalf of the firm; others operate independently of these characteristics. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49196 Learning by Thinking: Overcoming the Bias for Action through Reflection. By: Di... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne