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  • 03 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks

associated with shark footage. In a series of experiments, researchers found that music indeed has the power to influence public perceptions of sharks. Participants who viewed... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Media & Broadcasting
  • 31 Oct 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers

accumulate, perceptions can shift; for example, young boys in California and New Hampshire might believe that only women can become US senators, as they see the pair of female senators in each state. Bias... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • February 2025
  • Article

Seeing the Whole: Configurational Cognition and New Venture Resource Mobilization

By: Goran Calic, François Neville, Santi Furnari and C. S. Richard Chan
Research is scant on how multiple venture attributes combine as “whole packages” of signals (or cognitive configurations) in resource holders’ eyes, shaping a venture’s ability to mobilize resources. Drawing on a Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 1,395 crowdfunding... View Details
Keywords: Crowdfunding; Mission and Purpose; Entrepreneurship; Communication; Perception
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  • September 2021
  • Comment

Commentary on ‘2019 Academic Marketing Climate Survey: Motivation, Results and Recommendations', by Jeff Galak and Barbara E. Kahn

By: John A. Deighton
This paper reflects on the conclusions of a survey by Galak and Kahn on the climate experienced by faculty of all genders and ethnicities in the marketing departments of US business schools. View Details
Keywords: Gender; Equality and Inequality; Organizational Culture
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  • 11 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

Hiring more minority loan officers could help people of color secure significantly more home loans and address one of the biggest factors driving the racial wealth gap, new research finds. In the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Immodest Victims: Victims Who Broadcast Their Victimization Are Seen as Less Morally Virtuous

By: Nathan Dhaliwal, Jillian J. Jordan, Anoushka Kiyawat and Pat Barclay
How do people evaluate victims who advertise their victim status? Because such broadcasting can elicit sympathy and support, we propose that declining to broadcast serves as a costly act of modesty: one is withholding a fact about oneself that could garner resources... View Details
Keywords: Public Opinion; Communication; Perception; Reputation
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  • 17 Mar 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

From Sweetheart to Scapegoat: Brand Selfie-Taking Shapes Consumer Behavior

Keywords: by Reto Hofstetter, Gabriela Kunath, and Leslie K. John
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Faculty Books

incomes either among countries or within them. Inequalities of income and power emerge as a major societal issue alongside poverty, and the book develops alternative societal models based upon the degree... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Corrigendum to 'Resource-Monotonicity for House Allocation Problems'

By: Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and Lars Ehlers

Ehlers and Klaus (2003) study so-called house allocation problems and claim to characterize all rules satisfying efficiency, independence of irrelevant objects, and resource-monotonicity on two preference domains (Ehlers and Klaus, 2003, Theorem 1).... View Details

Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Resource Allocation
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  • 13 Sep 2006
  • Op-Ed

Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do

increase in pay of senior executives and superstars in other fields has been a major source of the rising inequality of wages in the United... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch
  • 09 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?

agencies such as the USDA is to protect public health and safety; based on previous economic theory, however, Hiatt started with a different assumption—the primary goal of an agency is really to protect its own legitimacy. After all, it's... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Biotechnology; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • January 1990 (Revised March 1994)
  • Case

Accountants and Business Advisors, Inc.: City Office

Over the past several years both the share of women receiving accounting degrees and the share of women entering public accounting have risen substantially. However, the number of women holding senior positions, such as partner, remains low. This case provides data on... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Retention; Gender; Accounting Industry
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  • November 30, 2020
  • Editorial

Don't Focus on the Most Expressive Face in the Audience

By: Amit Goldenberg and Erika Weisz
Research has shown that when speaking in front of a group, people’s attention tends to gets stuck on the most emotional faces, causing them to overestimate the group’s average emotional state. In this piece, the authors share two additional findings: First, the larger... View Details
Keywords: Bias; Emotions; Perception
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  • 23 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2025
  • Article

Workplace Segregation Between College and Non-college Workers

By: Francis Dillon, Edward L. Glaeser and William Kerr
We measure the level and growth of education segregation in American workplaces from 2000 to 2020. American workplaces show an educational segregation, measured by the degree to which the establishment has mostly workers of similar education levels, that is... View Details
Keywords: Isolation; Segregation; Mobility; Education; Demographics; Equality and Inequality; Labor
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  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Winter 2020
  • Article

Goodfellows: Men's Role and Reason in the Fight for Gender Equality

By: Debora L. Spar
The essay attempts to make the case for including—even embracing—men in the fight for gender equality. If men believe in equality, then expanding that belief to explicitly include women is not a leap of logic or an act of charity. It is instead a basic extension of a... View Details
Keywords: Gender; Diversity; Equality and Inequality
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  • September 17, 2021
  • Article

AI Can Help Address Inequity—If Companies Earn Users' Trust

By: Shunyuan Zhang, Kannan Srinivasan, Param Singh and Nitin Mehta
While companies may spend a lot of time testing models before launch, many spend too little time considering how they will work in the wild. In particular, they fail to fully consider how rates of adoption can warp developers’ intent. For instance, Airbnb launched a... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Algorithmic Bias; Technological Innovation; Perception; Diversity; Equality and Inequality; Trust; AI and Machine Learning
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  • 28 Sep 2016
  • Blog Post

Tackling Inequality: An HBS Independent Project

challenge of our time, we decided to structure the course around inequality in income, education, race, and gender.  We designed a four-week classroom module that challenged students to understand what the... View Details
  • 10 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective

wildly inaccurate, the psychology of perception systematically leads negotiators to major errors.  Self-Serving Role Bias. People tend unconsciously to interpret information pertaining to their own side in a... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius