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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...
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- 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...
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Steenburgh, Thomas J., and Andrew Ainslie. "Substitution Patterns of the Random Coefficients Logit." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-053, January 2010.
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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...
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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
- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Rising Star in Finance Award presented at the Rising Stars Conference, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University. Josh Lerner: Winner of the 2014 Award for Academic Excellence and Alternative Investment Research from the Chartered...
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- 25 Oct 2016
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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...
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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...
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- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict
life.’ But when you actually talk to people about their opinions, almost nobody actually talks like that.” Lees' and Cikara’s experiments found most people are much less negative than the stereotypes we harbor about the other group. For each experiment, the researchers...
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by Michael Blanding
- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation - Recruiting
remote work. More education and awareness are needed so that individuals are conscious of what factors are skewing their evaluation of “professionalism” or “culture fit" versus focusing on the pertinent qualifications and skills that will determine success. Another way...
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Racial Equity Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
facial and emotion recognition 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. Jamillah Williams Associate Professor of Law,...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 31 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing
the hottest areas of academic research. The interest was fully on display at the 12th Open and User Innovation Workshop, held July 28-30 at HBS. Some 80 presentations about current research were presented to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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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...
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- 13 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors
heart attack. Of those, between 1,500 to 3,000 fewer women may have died if their doctor had been female, Laura Huang, a study co-author and Harvard Business School associate professor, said in an interview. The research mirrors bias...
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- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
worried about the ascendance of China, while firms in Taiwan and Hong Kong have reaped enormous benefits from Chinese economic expansion, according to Huang. He presented his new research proposal to an audience of faculty and doctoral...
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by Martha Lagace