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Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy | HBS Online

generate ideas Identify prompts to improve users’ ability and motivation to engage in a desired behavior Organize information about an innovation concept to identify critical prototyping questions Compare key stakeholders’ resistance and status-quo View Details
  • 07 Mar 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?

Summing Up Many of this month's respondents appear to agree that business management is a profession, but certification will do little to influence its practice. Of course, we may have a bit of a response bias here, since respondents... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

points daily. But it's hard to acquire new customer groups when algorithms have a bias to replicate the tastes on which they are trained. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/919413-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • November 2007
  • Case

Differences at Work: Alex (A)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
At an interview for his dream job, Alex has been asked an inappropriate question by the interviewer. How will Alex handle the situation? Should he accept the position is offered? View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Behavior; Job Interviews; Ethics; Human Resources; Diversity; Power and Influence
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  • 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

innovations might impact—and be impacted by—workers, consumers, organizations, and society. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55845 March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Choice Architects Reveal a View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

majority of aggregate productivity gains, suggesting that ignoring this channel could lead to substantial bias in understanding the nature of gains from multinational production. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2101302... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

are used to evaluate investments creates a systematic bias against successful innovation. The authors recommend alternative methods that can help managers innovate with a much more astute eye for future value. Why Mentoring Matters in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

Several key themes emerged and are discussed in this article. Many of the reasons for failure point to specific process changes that can be used to improve recruitment and prevent failure. Business Archives and Overcoming Survivor Bias... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings by U.S. multinationals. The analysis controls for endogeneity and omitted variable bias by using instruments that identify the firms likely to receive the largest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308035   PublicationsWarmth and Competence as Universal Dimensions of Social Perception: The Stereotype Content Model and the BIAS Map Authors:Amy J.C.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines

design—versus those who merely use the system from time to time. “Understanding patterns of behavior in transport could be super relevant for policymakers,” Ascarza says. You Might Also Like: When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation

By: Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen and Max H. Bazerman
We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in hiring, promotion, and job assignments: an "evaluation nudge," in which people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. Evaluators are more likely to focus on individual... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Behavior; Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Performance Evaluation; Gender
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Valuation When Cash Flow Forecasts Are Biased

By: Richard S. Ruback
This paper focuses adaptations to the discount cash flow (DCF) method when valuing forecasted cash flows that are biased measures of expected cash flows. I imagine a simple setting where the expected cash flows equal the forecasted cash flows plus an omitted downside.... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Performance Expectations; Prejudice and Bias; Valuation
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  • 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

(1) Do contributors display tendencies to contribute to sites with similar or opposing biases and slants? (2) Do contributors learn from experience with extreme or neutral content, and does that experience change the slant and bias of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2025 Commencement Remarks | About

Packard, Microsoft, Samsung, or Toyota, the ability of these organizations to adapt is key to the long-term success they have enjoyed. Why is it difficult for organizations to adapt and change? Besides the bias to maintain the status quo,... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2013
  • News

The Accidental Innovator

anti-learning cultural attitudes—in America and elsewhere—also something Khan Academy can and should try to do? Yes, I think working to change such bias is well within our purview. Interestingly, someone told me there’s a US white... View Details
  • September 2004
  • Article

Rational Overoptimism (and Other Biases)

By: Eric J. Van den Steen
Rational agents with differing priors tend to be overoptimistic about their chances of success. In particular, an agent who tries to choose the action that is most likely to succeed, is more likely to choose an action of which he overestimated, rather than... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Decision Choices and Conditions; Performance Expectations; Outcome or Result; Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Failure; Success; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Personal Characteristics; Values and Beliefs; Ethics
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  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

initial public offerings to longitudinal data on employment composition from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. We construct a set of comparable firms by looking at companies that filed and then withdrew a plan for an IPO. To account for selection View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Jan 2018
  • What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

harassment, especially in the workplace, to our attention. High-profile accusations of gender bias and sexual harassment in Silicon Valley, in the worlds of entertainment, athletics, media, and government drew our attention to the issue.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett