Prejudice and Bias - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Dec 2015
News

Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy

Earlier this year, HBS professors Benjamin Edelman and Michael Luca, working with doctoral student Dan Svirsky sent 6,400 rental requests to Airbnb hosts in five cities using distinctly white or distinctly African-American names. In the... View Details

13 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 13

PublicationsHigher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value Authors:Michael Beer, Russel A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren Publication:Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

one's ability to generate novel ideas for innovative new businesses is a function of one's behaviors that trigger cognitive processes to produce novel business ideas. We also posit that innovative entrepreneurs are less susceptible to the status quo View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2025
News

Origin Story: Ricky Cordova (MS/MBA 2025)

South of the border: “Both sides of my family are from northern Mexico; my mom’s side is from Hermosillo, Sonora, just a four- or five-hour drive from Tucson.” On the beat: “I was captain of the drumline in my high school marching band View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

15 Jun 2021
News

Diversifying HBS's Case Collection

and institute more comprehensive data collection,” says Carin-Isabel Knoop, executive director of HBS’s CRG. “Our team has developed implicit bias training for case writers, View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

improvement in operating performance aggravates the impact of internal disruptions but not external disruptions. By taking advantage of an exogenous policy shock regarding corporate disclosure rules, we also find that managers show systematic View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

28 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews

information on sites such as Yelp, eBay, and TripAdvisor. The framework relies on an algorithm set up to tackle bias inherent in reviews by taking into account reviewers who vary in accuracy, stringency,... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Food & Beverage

15 Jun 2021
News

Advancing Racial Equity

Illustration by Jon Krause The murder of George Floyd and others in 2020 and the racial justice movement across the United States sparked the recognition that Harvard Business School needed to clearly reject... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

@Soldiers Field

told the Burden crowd. The HBS Student Association—headed by its first female copresidents, Libby Leffler and LaToya Marc (both MBA 2017)—offered an unconscious bias training session facilitated by Harvard’s... View Details

01 Jun 2021
News

5 Behavioral Biases That Trip Up Remote Managers

16 Sep 2022
News

3 Workplace Biases that Derail Mid-Career Women

16 Jul 2020
Blog Post

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

Women make up more than half of the labor force in the United States and earn almost 60 percent of advanced degrees, yet they bring home less pay and fill fewer seats in the C-suite than men, particularly in male-dominated professions like finance and technology. This... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Creating Change

(HBS Archives Photographs: Student Life) In 1970, there were no female members of the Harvard Club of New York City, and women entered the club through a separate entrance. Alumna Roslyn Payne (MBA 1970) and... View Details

Keywords: April White

11 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

automated, where there are lots of basic numbers that are going to determine the decision,” Sunderam says. “With something like small business lending, it's much less automated and much more bespoke, it's natural to think that these... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

12 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

negotiate and compromise, Lees says. “If you are a legislator, you are thinking no one across the aisle or in my own tribe will support compromise, but that’s in fact wrong. Both sides might be okay with compromise, but no one’s willing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2012
News

WSA Speakers Kick Off W50

feminists, Spar suggested, addressed the more obvious policy issues within the system; the remaining, largely cultural issues are much subtler, and more difficult to address. "Because young women can do anything, they think that they have... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Predictable Surprises

Administration at HBS and is also formally affiliated with Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Psychology Department, Center on the Environment, and Program on Negotiation. Predictable Surprises (HBS... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Alumni Books

transplant, or a joint replacement in the United States, here's the key to getting the very best medical care: be a straight, white, middle-class male. White, a pioneering black surgeon, and his coauthor make sense of the unconscious... View Details

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