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- 26 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates
When companies try to hire employees from specific ethnic or racial backgrounds to meet their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, an uncomfortable feeling often creeps into the process. Particularly among well-intentioned white... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
treated fairly within their larger organizations. “These surveys should be broken down by demographic categories, including race and gender, to identify certain populations that have a lower engagement or sense of commitment to the organization,” Roberts suggests. 4.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men
branch manager or executive roles within a firm, women and men were held to the same standards and punished in comparable ways. The researchers observed the same phenomenon with racial minorities, with African-American men punished more... View Details
- 03 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers
their daily activities and practicing intentionality when budgeting their time. “Ask yourself: ‘Am I doing a task for a reason related to impression management, and is it that important?’” she says. You Might Also Like: How Racial View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
Economy ; Airbnb ; Image Feature Extraction ; Machine Learning ; Facial Expressions ; Prejudice and Bias ; Nonverbal Communication ; E-commerce ; Consumer Behavior ; Perception Citation Read Now Related Zhang, Shunyuan, Elizabeth... View Details
- Web
2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
economic inequality, driving environmental destruction, and sustaining systems of racial injustice. Join Professor Debora Spar and a panel of fellow alumni for a discussion about where business and society interact and occasionally... View Details
- 26 Apr 2022
- Book
What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose
he also took action, closing all Starbucks stores to provide training to employees on racial bias and inclusion. Looking back, Johnson says that moment in Philadelphia gave him the opportunity to reaffirm... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 17 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women
immigrants. “Us vs. them” rhetoric framed diversity as an impediment to American greatness, and—consistent with historical racial and socioeconomic fractures—global trade and immigration, the increasing presence of white women and people... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
exploring ways to leverage social media to have a positive social impact. You Might Also Like: Why We Still Need Twitter: How Social Media Holds Companies Accountable Addressing Racial Discrimination on Airbnb When Design Enables... View Details
- 26 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews
Misconduct? How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives The Yelp Factor: Are... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
gender or racial minority might feel pressure to fill stereotypical roles or represent their entire group. “It was unexpected to us that people would even be willing to put themselves in these situations,” says Chang, noting the vast... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 09 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
harassment or racial discrimination—in which coworkers' morale or performance suffers even when they are not the direct targets of abuse. He coined a term for the phenomenon, "ambient cultural disharmony," which he discusses in depth in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
systemic biases in the startup ecosystem and assess a business model’s impact on society . Highlights Bailey Richardson, former Instagram Community Team Member (2012-2014) Show Hide Details Concepts Gender Bias in Startupland View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
and can help uncover the racial bias in algorithms used by social media platforms, which may have coded rules that alter which faces are seen by users. A. Chyei Vinluan, Postdoctoral Fellow of Business... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
For one thing, Black hosts were underrepresented in the data that was used to train the algorithm. What’s more, says Zhang, societal bias may result in different demand curves for Black-owned properties versus white-owned ones. Renters... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Diversifying HBS's Case Collection
and inclusion, write cases that feature the full array of protagonists and issues, and thereby help students, educators, and practitioners understand pathways toward equity. We have a long way to go, but I feel we now have momentum.” MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT:... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
collects data about the outcome of an algorithm within a particular context, and then assesses its impact on its users. The platform studies facial and emotion recognition and can help uncover the racial View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
superiority or inferiority of a given race (Gannon, 2016; Goodman, 2003; Kolbert, 2017), the color line persists as an enduring social issue in the United States. Over 150 years post-emancipation, the wealth gap between blacks and Americans of other View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
domestic firms in part due to a deliberate governmental bias against private local firms, mainly in the 1960s and 1970s, he continued, so foreign firms held a more substantial relative advantage. But in Taiwan, the government provided a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club
here. What on earth is going on? Brian Sykes (MBA 2020) and Paul Ampofo (MBA 2020) THE PROBLEM The combination of systematic bias and outright prejudice have played a huge role in preventing underrepresented founders and investors from... View Details