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- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
primarily on rebroadcasting. I also investigate the determinates of press coverage, finding systematic biases in the types of firms and frauds for which articles are published. In general, the press covers firms and frauds that will be of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
example, the media also project solutions: that companies should educate employees about biases and be held legally and reputationally responsible for treating men and women equally. Likewise underrepresentation: When the issue is a lack...
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- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
moment,” points of stickiness, drop off, etc. They also won’t have the biases you likely bring to the table and can look at the numbers objectively. Investors can be helpful with developing your company and product story, as well as speak...
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by Julia Austin
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
biased forecasts for potential future employers are more likely to face favorable career outcomes and bank executives appear to profit from the analysts' bias since the bias is associated with higher levels of insider trading. Our results...
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- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
others. This chapter reviews research on how these biases manifest themselves in the core processes of organizations—that is, how people are hired, compensated, developed, and evaluated—all of which are aspects of organizational life that...
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Sean Silverthorne
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
teaching, Dr. Connell is the Director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Boston University. Peter Glick Peter Glick, PhD is the Henry Merritt Wriston Professor of the Social Sciences at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. His scholarship focuses on...
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
biases and stereotyping. Dr. Glick presented at HBS’s first Gender and Work conference in 2013. As a visiting Professor of Management and Organizations at Northwestern University, he co-designed the Kellogg School of Management’s first...
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- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Business for Racial Equity Pledge that asks people to commit to a list of concrete actions companies can take to begin to fight racism. Organized around the themes of biased policing, electoral disenfranchisement, and economic exclusion,...
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- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
on riskier projects and strategies. But risk management must overcome severe individual and organizational biases that prevent managers and employees from thinking deeply and analytically about their risk exposure. In this paper, we draw...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
reporters relay the news as they are about the news they relay. Throughout his research, Parsons forces us to look beyond the generally perceived wisdom—that umpires are impartial, ministers are nonmaterialistic, and journalists are objective—to discover the hidden...
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- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
increases US investors' equity FPI holdings by 21%, controlling for effects on FDI. This suggests that the residual tax on foreign multinational firm earnings biases capital flows to low corporate tax countries toward FPI. A one standard...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
bonds. Insurance companies have capital requirements tied to the credit ratings of their investments. Conditional on ratings, insurance portfolios are systematically biased toward higher yield, higher CDS bonds. This behavior appears to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
assistance, using natural language processing to analyze word patterns and common themes. This approach helped complement the impressions I carried of these conversations with data—and ensured I wasn't bringing my own biases to my work....
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- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
Biases By: Zhang, Ting, and Max Bazerman Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.sagepub.com/refbooks/Book235986 Working Papers Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? Evidence from Trade Policy By: Alfaro, Laura,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
insulates the board from pressures by biased or uninformed shareholders. Whether stronger governance improves retain/replace decisions depends on which of these effects dominates. We use our theoretical framework to assess the effect of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
arises from behavioral biases and misperceptions of probability distributions. Finally, nonpecuniary taste-based factors may be important in motivating both the decisions to enter into and to persist in entrepreneurship. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
School Case 207-084 Following a successful model in Europe, JP Morgan has introduced a set of five U.S. retail mutual funds with an investment philosophy and marketing strategy grounded in behavioral finance. The asset management group believes that understanding...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
for investing are going to asset managers and portfolio companies that are cognizant of their broader societal impact. April White: There are three topics covered in the pledge: biased policing, ballot access, and economic inclusion....
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
to leverage the human biases that exist to your advantage. But at the same time, in the best-run organizations, you’re going to have managers who do have those weekly conversations and do have a clear progression plan and are very clear...
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- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We argue, from an extensive literature review, that in the vast majority of research settings, biases in alternative expected-return proxies (ERPs) are irrelevant. Therefore, in most settings, the choice...
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Sean Silverthorne