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Online Dynamic Teaming Course | HBS Online
dynamic teaming is and its importance Build skills to create psychological safety and foster inclusion Recognize and address unconscious, implicit, and affinity bias Improve team decision-making and communication through tested tools... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
we theorize and then test that under conditions of increased workload, individuals may choose to complete easier tasks in order to manage their workload. We label this behavior Task Completion Bias (TCB). Using two years of data from a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
control—which is one of the reasons that they overeat in the first place. In the case of StickK, however, that optimism causes people to set overly ambitious goals, for example, about the amount of weight they can lose. Once they are "on the hook," however, the company... View Details
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
potential players. But in case he gets stymied with all of them, he should be open to assembling a team that's more offensively oriented. Axiom #2: Be Bold And Quick When the rules of negotiation have changed drastically, should you be bold or cautious? As a general... View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
You also want to start when they’re young, with fewer workers, because it’s harder to desegregate a workforce of 1,000 people.” Koning says many firms intent on improving their hiring and promotion pipelines to reduce bias focus mostly on... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
benefit. The area of decision bias has grown as an important lens of analysis in many areas of business, from finance to marketing to negotiations. We also believe that cognitive biases explain why we allow predictable surprises to occur.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
what people say they believe; there are changes in attitudes, but not actual behaviors,” Chang said. “The largest consequence was encouraging junior women to be more proactive in their advancement because they got scared by the existence of gender View Details
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
regulators to industry, and the importance of considering Type I and Type II errors and status quo bias when contemplating whether to evoke the precautionary principle. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
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
- 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 the current research, we explore another explanation: men and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- September 2004
- Article
Rational Overoptimism (and Other Biases)
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
Van den Steen, Eric J. "Rational Overoptimism (and Other Biases)." American Economic Review 94, no. 4 (September 2004): 1141–1151.
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
at the top are typically not close enough to the "voice of the future" to see new opportunities, creating a bias against doing new things. In addition, this process is tied to an annual calendar; obviously, opportunities don't... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 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
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
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
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
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
- 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 chance. Friends were not better at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
working to change such bias is well within our purview. Interestingly, someone told me there’s a US white supremacy group that loves Khan Academy, despite the apparent fact that I am not white. We’ve also heard that in the frontier... View Details
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
people with young kids all have very different expectations. Q: So what started as an aggregation of consumer reviews is now blossoming into much more of a full-service type environment. Is there the potential there for some kind of bias... View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
yet another bias for women to contend with. Publisher's link: https://hbr.org/2014/12/rethink-what-you-know-about-high-achieving-women December 2014 MIT Sloan Management Review The Upside to Large Competitors By: Paharia, Neeru, Anat... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne