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- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
research agenda for the future." But the choice to study South Korea first was methodical. The researchers deliberately sought out a country in which the decision to hire a woman would be truly opportunistic-one where there was...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
corporate 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
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...
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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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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Cynthia King Vance (MBA 1985), director, Advanced Strategies, New York, New York Follow your instincts. Looking back, the decisions I made along the way make more sense now than they did back then. There are common threads that reflected...
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- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
about baseball and race, he's explored questions such as how much money motivates ministers, and how much financial journalists affect the stock market. "I am interested in what motivates people," he says, "and what causes them to make the View Details
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
undertaking. The data are all publicly available, and have been for decades; it was just a question of looking at the data in such a way as to test whether the structure of the Executive Board led to systematically biased allocations of...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Abstract Existing performance metrics utilized by the PGA TOUR have biases towards specific styles of play, which make relative player comparisons challenging. Our goal is to evaluate golfers in a way that eliminates these View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
Working PapersValuation when Cash Flow Forecasts Are Biased Author:Richard S. Ruback Abstract This paper focuses adaptations to the discount cash flow (DCF) method when valuing forecasted cash flows that are View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s decision to enter the retirement market with their new "Dimensional Managed DC" product, a complete retirement solution that aimed to provide investors with what they really wanted: the same...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
in a sequential way—one individual, then another, and so on—you dramatically increase the likelihood that you're going to end up with discriminatory hiring practices. You're more likely to let your biases take over and to use stereotypes...
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- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Evidence on Attitudes, Behavior, and Cognitive Biases By: Carpena, Fenella, Shawn A. Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Abstract—This paper uses a large-scale field experiment in India to study attitudinal, behavioral, and cognitive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
large traditional retailers. Nickell, DeHart, and Kalmikoff were now faced with making a decision about a potentially lucrative offer from a major retailer offering to carry large volumes of select Threadless t-shirts in its retail...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
online communities segregate into separate conversations when contributing to contestable knowledge involving controversial, subjective, and unverifiable topics? We analyze the contributors of biased and slanted content in Wikipedia...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
from consumers shopping at the more popular store. Second, the intermediary may have an incentive to degrade the quality of search even further when its design decision influences the prices charged by stores. By altering the composition...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
customers, and the variables involved in designing an optimal credit card. Concludes with a consideration of the decisions the CRM team had to make in designing the project, including whether to use conjoint analysis or implement a mini...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
barred People already consume tabloid newspapers, racist propaganda, biased news broadcasts, and pornography willingly. Let them at least know how the general public categorizes such materials Everyone benefits from such a system. Viewers...
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- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
Working PapersNo Harm, No Foul: The Outcome Bias in Ethical Judgments (revised) Authors:Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We present three studies demonstrating that outcome information biases ethical judgments...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Fabio Consoli Whatever your summer plans might look like this year—whether you’re traveling to a faraway beach or enjoying downtime much closer to home—nothing has the power to transport us quite like a good book. We...
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- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
and TripAdvisor contain hundreds of millions of consumer reviews; online marketplaces also rely on reputation systems to facilitate trust between strangers. Economists help companies design reputation systems, “focusing on understanding the systematic View Details