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  • 11 Jun 2024
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 02 Nov 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel
  • 21 Jun 2012 - 24 Jun 2012
  • Conference Presentation

Visual Attention to Power Posers: People Avert their Gaze from Nonverbal Displays of Power

By: Elizabeth Baily Wolf
Existing literature suggests that people visually attend more to powerful/high-status people. However, previous studies manipulated target power/status via the target’s role (e.g., CEO or judge vs. mechanic or fry cook) or clothing (e.g., business suit vs. sweat suit).... View Details
Keywords: Nonverbal Communication; Behavior; Rank and Position; Emotions; Power and Influence
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Studying the U.S.-Based Portfolio Companies of U.S. Impact Investors

By: M. Diane Burton, Gurveen Chadha, Shawn A. Cole, Abhishek Dev, Christina Jarymowycz, Leslie Jeng, Laura Kelley, Josh Lerner, Jaime R. Diaz Palacios, Yue (Cynthia) Xu and T. Robert Zochowski
Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the reliance on market-based solutions to social and environmental problems around the world (Barman 2016; Horvath and Powell 2020). The growth of impact investing is a vivid example of this trend and, although there have... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Impact Portfolio Companies; Investment; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Investment Portfolio; Business Ventures; Analytics and Data Science; Performance; United States
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  • May–June 2024
  • Article

Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez
Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Gender; Training; Recruitment; Personal Development and Career
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez
Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details
Keywords: STEM; Selection and Staffing; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Training; Equality and Inequality; Competency and Skills
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  • 26 Apr 2023
  • In Practice

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

example, AI has fundamentally shifted the nature of Wall Street trading. It determines credit scores for existing and potential customers, screens applicants, assists in hiring, responds in real time to queries, and suggests new courses... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

whether EforAll has the capacity to expand, and if so, which new city it should expand to first. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/818007-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 418-020 GROW: Using Artificial Intelligence to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

STEM Needs More Women. Recruiters Often Keep Them Out

and Roberto M. Fernandez, Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. To study how recruiters looked for candidates, the scholars examined initial calls and emails to 166,000 prospects from 2017 to 2019 by an outside recruiting... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 05 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Are Virtual Tours Still Worth It in Real Estate? Evidence from 75,000 Home Sales

processing. They examined each home’s sale price, number of days on the market, and initial price. Then, they screened for 3D virtual tours, which combine images and interactive features to simulate the experience of walking through a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Real Estate
  • 16 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 16

  PublicationsThe World Bank and Democratic Accountability: The Role of Civil Society Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz Publication:Chap. 3 in Building Global Democracy? Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance, edited by Jan Aart Scholte, Cambridge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Aug 2020
  • Book

From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

way we spend our time? Spar: At a minimum, parents should give themselves a break in this COVID moment, when they are trying to juggle their jobs, their parents’ health, and their kids’ screen time. We don’t know exactly how many hours... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

other societies. Celebrity leadership is very different. It looks outside the company to the impact on others—customers and investors. The CEO becomes a star and is sought after by the media like a screen star. Ordinarily it requires good... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 10 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?

If you’ve recently ordered food or coffee on an app, you’re probably familiar with the prompt to tip your barista, delivery driver, or sandwich maker. Or even more commonly, when ordering at a casual dining counter, you’ve been asked to leave a tip on the View Details
Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette
  • 20 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

lacking a remedy to offer. Among innovators: tunnel vision—failing to consider the negative implications of a proposed solution, and impractical elegance—proposing a solution that looks great on a computer screen but is virtually... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

may not be practical for restaurant dining, utilizing transparent screens or other physical barriers to demarcate table separation, limiting the number of individuals at each table, expanding outdoor seating, health and safety training... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

identify which borrowers have high-growth opportunities. Microfinance often operates in environments that are information-scarce, in terms of screening borrowers. Ten years ago, India didn’t have social security numbers, so that is a... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services
  • 27 Jul 2020
  • Book

Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity

your computer screen and take a break from accomplishing task after task. Another suggestion involves simply slowing down physically in order to slow down mentally. One busy executive who managed 1,500 people said when she had meetings... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'

Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis; Financial Services; Mining
  • 13 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

participants' screening effort, their personal assessment of an application's riskiness, and whether the participants decided to issue the loan. At the start of each session, before evaluating the applications, participants were assigned... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

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