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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Politics at Work

By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Valdemar Pinho Neto and Edoardo Teso
We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002–2019 period, we first document the presence of political... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Employees; Prejudice and Bias; Brazil
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide

By: Jordan I. Siegel, Lynn Pyun and B.Y. Cheon
The organizational theory of the multinational firm holds that foreignness is a liability, and specifically that lack of embeddedness in host-country social networks is a source of competitive disadvantage; meanwhile the literature on labor market discrimination... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Human Capital; Selection and Staffing; Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Advantage; Markets; Profit; Gender; South Korea
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  • 26 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

iStock In the 1992 film Glengarry Glen Ross, an executive played by Alec Baldwin presents a unique motivational scheme to a trio of down-on-their-luck real estate salesmen. There will be a new contest, he tells them, to see who can bring... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing
  • 02 Mar 2016
  • News

David Moss is Rewriting History

between the board’s conservative Republicans, who perceived a liberal bias in the curriculum, and its more moderate Republicans and Democrats. For three days, the board held contentious open meetings, arguing issues centuries old—Were the... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • Web

Faculty - Private Capital Project

studies the subtle signals and cues that often impact the behavioral perceptions of investors, which can lead to implicit bias in the investing process. William R. Kerr Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business... View Details
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Substitution Patterns of the Random Coefficients Logit

By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Andrew Ainslie
Previous research suggests that the random coefficients logit is a highly flexible model that overcomes the problems of the homogeneous logit by allowing for differences in tastes across individuals. The purpose of this paper is to show that this is not true. We prove... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Mathematical Methods; Behavior; Prejudice and Bias
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  • 08 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

History of the HBS Women's Student Association

advocating for key administrative changes that have profoundly impacted the academic and social environment for women at HBS. One notable achievement includes the introduction of scribes in classrooms, a strategic move aimed at minimizing professor View Details
  • Blog

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

generate content that perpetuates existing biases. When we train these models at scale based on existing data, if the underlying data included biased information, the result is also likely to include that bias unless we intervene. One... View Details
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

History Review (forthcoming) Abstract This article uses the records of nineteenth-century Scottish banks in an attempt to understand investor behaviour in the early British capital market. It presents four main findings, some of which do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Bollywood, Skin Color and Sexism: The Role of the Film Industry in Emboldening and Contesting Stereotypes in India after Independence

By: Sudev Sheth, Geoffrey Jones and Morgan Spencer
This working paper examines the social impact of the film industry in India during the first four decades after Indian Independence in 1947. It shows that Bollywood, the mainstream cinema in India and the counterpart in scale to Hollywood in the United States, shared... View Details
Keywords: Film Industry; Bollywood; Tamil Cinema; Male Gaze; Social Impact; Stereotypes; Oral History; Film Entertainment; Gender; Race; Personal Characteristics; Prejudice and Bias; Business History; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; India
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  • 25 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 25, 2016

enhanced creativity and reduced intergroup bias. In contrast, the present work uncovers a potential downside of foreign experiences: increased immoral behavior. We propose that broad foreign experiences (i.e., experiences in multiple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

buy or sell stock. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/07/what-good-are-shareholders/ar/1 Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival amid Political and Civil Violence Authors:Shon R. Hiatt and Wesley Sine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

anything as monumental as a multimillion-dollar feature film. Those kind of decisions are usually left instead to a small group of experienced experts. The Black List presents an interesting hybrid, says Luo—because its contributors are... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

votes receive relatively little media attention yet may foster investor risk perceptions. This research presents a multifaceted view of activists and their tactics and suggests that this approach in examining activists and their tactics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

time: from a logic of bias (women presented as victims of unequal treatment), to a logic of underrepresentation (women presented as stuck at lower levels of organizations), to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • 14 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation

that will determine success. Another way unconscious bias can present itself is in the delivery of recruiting materials. For example, video-based events that aren’t accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation - Recruiting

present itself is in the delivery of recruiting materials. For example, video-based events that aren’t accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing candidates may unintentionally indicate a company’s bias against... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research

critical issues such as racism in business technologies, inclusion in organizations, bias in legal policies, and the effect of incarceration on employment and entrepreneurship,” says Debora Spar, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Where Innovation Rules

Kiva Systems Intuit Angie’s List Rakuten athenahealth Pandora Bloomingdale's and Gilt Groupe Social Finance Innovation is the real business of Harvard Business School. It begins with the School’s bias toward action, as embodied in its... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg;Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Educational Services; Management
  • Web

2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

2015 Gender and Work Symposium: Research to Change the World Presentation Erin Hennes Erin Hennes speaks at 2015 Gender and Work Symposium: Research to Change the World Erin Hennes speaks at 2015 Gender and Work Symposium: Research to... View Details