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- May 2021
- Article
Ideology and Composition Among an Online Crowd: Evidence From Wikipedians
By: Shane Greenstein, Grace Gu and Feng Zhu
Online communities bring together participants from diverse backgrounds and often face challenges in aggregating their opinions. We infer lessons from the experience of individual contributors to Wikipedia articles about U.S. politics. We identify two factors that...
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Keywords:
User Segregation;
Online Community;
Contested Knowledge;
Collective Intelligence;
Ideology;
Bias;
Wikipedia;
Knowledge Sharing;
Perspective;
Government and Politics
Greenstein, Shane, Grace Gu, and Feng Zhu. "Ideology and Composition Among an Online Crowd: Evidence From Wikipedians." Management Science 67, no. 5 (May 2021): 3067–3086.
- Spring 2016
- Article
The Billion Prices Project: Using Online Prices for Inflation Measurement and Research
By: Alberto Cavallo and Roberto Rigobon
New data-gathering techniques, often referred to as “Big Data” have the potential to improve statistics and empirical research in economics. In this paper we describe our work with online data at the Billion Prices Project at MIT and discuss key lessons for both...
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Keywords:
Billion Prices Project;
Online Scraped Data;
Online Price Index;
Economics;
Research;
Price;
Analytics and Data Science
Cavallo, Alberto, and Roberto Rigobon. "The Billion Prices Project: Using Online Prices for Inflation Measurement and Research." Journal of Economic Perspectives 30, no. 2 (Spring 2016): 151–178.
Trung Nguyen
Trung Nguyen is an assistant professor of business administration in the Accounting & Management Unit. She teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum.
Professor Nguyen’s research interests include financial... View Details
Don’t Focus on the Most Expressive Face in the Audience
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...
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- January 2004
- Background Note
Why Developers Don't Understand Why Consumers Don't Buy
Looks at the psychological biases developers bring to the new product development process. Identifies three reasons why developers may do a poor job of identifying the demand for an innovative, new concept or product: (1) the self-selection bias, (2) differing initial...
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- 28 Sep 2017
- News
Why Venture Capitalists Aren’t Funding The Businesses We Need
- 26 Apr 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Assessing the Quality of Quality Assessment: The Role of Scheduling
- 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...
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Goldenberg, Amit, and Erika Weisz. "Don't Focus on the Most Expressive Face in the Audience." Harvard Business Review (website) (November 30, 2020).
- December 2014
- Article
Team Reflexivity as an Antidote to Team Information Processing Failures
By: M. C. Schippers, A. C. Edmondson and M. A. West
This article proposes that team reflexivity—a deliberate process of discussing team goals, processes, or outcomes—can function as an antidote to team-level biases and errors in decision making. We build on prior work conceptualizing teams as information-processing...
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Keywords:
Team Reflexivity;
Team Information-processesing Failures;
Team Regulatory Processes;
Team Learning;
Groups and Teams;
Knowledge Management
Schippers, M. C., A. C. Edmondson, and M. A. West. "Team Reflexivity as an Antidote to Team Information Processing Failures." Small Group Research 45, no. 6 (December 2014): 731–769.
- 2019
- Chapter
Behavioral Economics and Health-Care Markets
By: Amitabh Chandra, Benjamin Handel and Joshua Schwartzstein
This chapter summarizes research in behavioral health economics, focusing on insurance markets and product markets in health care. We argue that the prevalence of choice difficulties and biases leading to mistakes in these markets establish a special place for them in...
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Keywords:
Behavioral Economics;
Consumer Behavior;
Economics;
Health Care and Treatment;
Insurance;
Markets
Chandra, Amitabh, Benjamin Handel, and Joshua Schwartzstein. "Behavioral Economics and Health-Care Markets." Chap. 6 in Handbook of Behavioral Economics: Foundations and Applications 2, edited by B. Douglas Bernheim, Stefano DellaVigna, and David Laibson, 459–502. Amsterdam: Elsevier/North-Holland, 2019.
- TeachingInterests
Behavioral Economics and Applications in Markets (Econ 970, Spring 2013 and 2014)
Second-year undergraduate course introducing students to academic research in the field of behavioral economics. The course covers key models of time-inconsistent preferences, overconfidence, social preferences, and projection bias. The students are introduced to...
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- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Sep 2014
- Career Events
Returning to Work After a Break
As a "relauncher" herself, Carol Cohen (MBA 1985) understands the challenges of returning to work after multi-year career breaks. She has also engaged with hundreds of hiring managers to understand their biases and the risk they associate with hiring people who are...
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- 28 Aug 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
How Can Decision Making Be Improved?
- April 3, 2024
- Article
How Automakers Can Address Resistance to Self-Driving Cars
By: Stuti Agarwal, Julian De Freitas and Carey K. Morewedge
Research involving multiple experiments found that consumers have biased views of their driving abilities relative to those of other drivers and automated vehicles. These findings have implications for the adoption of partly or fully automated vehicles, which one day...
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Keywords:
Technology Adoption;
Consumer Behavior;
Government Legislation;
Prejudice and Bias;
Auto Industry;
Technology Industry
Agarwal, Stuti, Julian De Freitas, and Carey K. Morewedge. "How Automakers Can Address Resistance to Self-Driving Cars." Harvard Business Review (website) (April 3, 2024).
Samuel G. Hanson
Samuel G. Hanson is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics department. He teaches Finance 1... View Details
- Article
A Fair Game? Racial Bias and Repeated Interaction between NBA Coaches and Players
By: Letian Zhang
There is strong evidence of racial bias in organizations but little understanding of how it changes with repeated interaction. This study proposes that repeated interaction has the potential to reduce racial bias, but its moderating effects are limited to the treatment...
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Keywords:
Discrimination;
Bias;
Interaction;
NBA;
Prejudice and Bias;
Race;
Equality and Inequality;
Interpersonal Communication;
Sports
Zhang, Letian. "A Fair Game? Racial Bias and Repeated Interaction between NBA Coaches and Players." Administrative Science Quarterly 62, no. 4 (December 2017): 603–625.
- September 2023
- Exercise
Irrationality in Action: Decision-Making Exercise
By: Alison Wood Brooks, Michael I. Norton and Oliver Hauser
This teaching exercise highlights the obstacle of biases in decision-making, allowing students to generate examples of potentially poor decision-making rooted in abundant and unwanted bias. This exercise has two parts: a pre-class, online survey in which students...
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Brooks, Alison Wood, Michael I. Norton, and Oliver Hauser. "Irrationality in Action: Decision-Making Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 924-007, September 2023.
- 23 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs
Before launching new products, entrepreneurs are often filled with doubt: Will their ideas successfully take off in the marketplace—or will they fall flat? To cut down on uncertainty, creators can post their inventions on platforms such as Product Hunt, where early...
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by Michael Blanding