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- 01 Mar 2023
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Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Faculty Research Online
Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution In his new book, Seven Strategy Questions, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Robert Simons explains how managers can identify holes in their planning processes View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
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Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
they arrive at their decisions, and where biases may enter the process,” says Professor Karim Lakhani. The working paper “Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? Field Experimental Evidence from Scientific Peer...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2018
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Research Is the Foundation
heuristics used by early-stage investors in high-potential ventures,” says Professor Ramana Nanda, who serves as the project’s co-director with finance professors Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner. The work...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias
Every year, specially chosen committees help the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) decide how to allocate massive—totaling more than $24 billion in 2014—competitive federal grants for medical research. But the evaluators on the various committees come from...
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Erin Peterson
- 01 Sep 2004
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Books
biases that make predictable what otherwise so commonly emerge as surprises in business and society. They outline six danger signals that suggest when a predictable surprise may be imminent View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
individual action, against which individual biases can be lessened and competing interests balanced. At BP, the overriding concern was economic efficiency. What was not considered, argue the authors, were...
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- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
efficiently; and Watson was to translate all that into outcomes that reduced morbidity. The reality is that subtle biases or a lack of full information lead doctors to the wrong decision, which in turn leads...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2020
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Lesson Plans
which will help erode the stigma that still exists around online education. In addition, the way that hiring managers perceive online education will change. We tend to be biased toward what we know, and a...
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Jen Mele
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Releases
common errors or biases in decision-making and ideas for overcoming or avoiding them. "Smart Choices should be relevant and accessible to all MBAs," says Raiffa, adding a bit...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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BOOK: You Can't Enlarge the Pie
psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, argue that too many government decisions and initiatives are shaped by psychological biases and unproductive thinking...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
in the hearts of consumers more quickly than camcorders, personal computers, or cell phones. In the Palm, Dubinsky and her colleagues created a sleek, portable tool that can be “synced” with a desktop computer to store information such as...
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- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
bit about each one of them? Amy Jen Su: Leader A and leader B was a heuristic that I created to try to describe what people were describing to me out in the trenches. Leader A is the part of all of...
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- 13 Jun 2017
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Finding Common Ground
and nonprofit activists to think beyond their biases and preconceived notions of each other. “If you think about how a business makes its money, it does so by specializing,” he...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2005
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Predictable Surprises
political biases in preventing leaders from recognizing and acting on warning signs of impending disasters. Could you give an example of each? In the book, we talk about the cognitive View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
convening of students and alumni from around the world who are excited about health care.” Gaglani: “Many left a great impression on me. I am biased though, since a few HBS professors View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
Health-care reform has a different meaning for Augustus White (AMP 94, 1984) than the definition you might get from a policy wonk: His reform would ensure equality of medical treatment, no matter the color of your skin, gender, or sexual preference. White is the Ellen...
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- 10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
Janet Kraus doesn’t wear a hoodie. She doesn’t live in Silicon Valley. She doesn’t write code. And she isn’t, perhaps most significantly, a straight, white, 20-something man. “I have built tech-enabled businesses,” says the HBS...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand
mentored person. We all benefit from having mentors, but they are especially important for women starting businesses or pursuing careers in organizations that have male-created cultures. A good mentor can help women understand and...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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Shattering Glass
understand that there are biases in hiring and are trying to address that, so these young women often don’t perceive the obstacles at first. But once they start working and go...
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