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    Prejudice and BiasRemove Prejudice and Bias →

    New research on prejudice and bias from Harvard Business School faculty on issues including racial discrimination in the sharing economy, politically biased language in Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia, and why investors prefer pitches from male entrepreneurs over those from female entrepreneurs.
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    • 07 Mar 2023
    • HBS Case

    ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

    by Scott Van Voorhis

    Google tried to silence AI bias warnings from ethicist Timnit Gebru. Will a world enamored with OpenAI's ChatGPT be able to confront them? Tsedal Neeley reflects on Gebru's experience in a case study, and offers advice on managing the ethical risks of AI.

    • 21 Feb 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

    by Danielle Kost

    Fellows visiting the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) at Harvard Business School talk about how racism harms everyone and why it’s important to find new ways to support formerly incarcerated people.

    • 31 Jan 2023
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Addressing Racial Discrimination on Airbnb

    Re: Michael Luca

    For years, Airbnb gave hosts extensive discretion to accept or reject a guest after seeing little more than a name and a picture, believing that eliminating anonymity was the best way for the company to build trust. However, the apartment rental platform failed to track or account for the possibility that this could facilitate discrimination. After research published by Professor Michael Luca and others provided evidence that Black hosts received less in rent than hosts of other races and showed signs of discrimination against guests with African American sounding names, the company had to decide what to do. In the case, “Racial Discrimination on Airbnb,” Luca discusses his research and explores the implication for Airbnb and other platform companies. Should they change the design of the platform to reduce discrimination? And what’s the best way to measure the success of any changes?

    • 16 Dec 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

    by Michael Blanding

    Engineers designed "fair-ranking algorithms" to prevent artificial intelligence from marginalizing certain groups. While these tools help, research by Himabindu Lakkaraju finds that they can't completely override the most stubborn source of bias: people.

    • 10 Nov 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Too Nice to Lead? Unpacking the Gender Stereotype That Holds Women Back

    by Shalene Gupta

    People mistakenly assume that women managers are more generous and fair when it comes to giving money, says research by Christine Exley. Could that misperception prevent companies from shrinking the gender pay gap?

    • 31 Oct 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Why the Largest Minority Group Faces the Most Hate—and How to Push Back

    by Pamela Reynolds

    A community's biggest minority group endures the most discrimination from a majority who fears losing status, says research by Marco Tabellini and colleagues. Findings from 20 years of crime and demographic data could help policymakers improve race relations.

    • 18 Oct 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

    by Rachel Layne

    Even when companies actively try to prevent it, bias can sway algorithms and skew decision-making. Ayelet Israeli and Eva Ascarza offer a new approach to make artificial intelligence more accurate.

    • 20 Oct 2020
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Steps to Help You Get Out of Your Own Way

    by Sean Silverthorne

    These research-based tips will help you slow down, fight the fog, and improve both your home life and work life. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 24 Aug 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    When Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? The Role of Negative Information in Expert Evaluations for Novel Projects

    by Jacqueline N. Lane, Misha Teplitskiy, Gary Gray, Hardeep Ranu, Michael Menietti, Eva C. Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani

    Evaluators of early-stage scientific proposals tend to systematically focus on the weaknesses of proposed work rather than its strengths, according to evidence from two field experiments.

    • 02 Aug 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Discrimination, Disenfranchisement and African American WWII Military Enlistment

    by Nancy Qian and Marco Tabellini

    The United States entered World War II during one of the worst periods of racial discrimination in post-Civil War history. This paper examines the social costs of this discrimination, with clear implications for policymakers: Requiring equal contributions from citizens means treating citizens equally.

    • 28 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

    by Kristen Senz

    Poor design decisions contribute to racial discrimination on many online platforms. Michael Luca and colleagues offer tips for reducing the risk, used by Airbnb and other companies. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 21 Jul 2020
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Starbucks Commits to Raising Awareness of Racial Bias

    Re: Francesca Gino & Katherine B. Coffman

    After a highly publicized act of racial discrimination by a Starbucks employee the company revised store policies and employee training practices. Francesca Gino and Katherine Coffman discuss unconscious bias in corporate culture. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 20 Jul 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Pursuit of Passion Propagates Privilege

    by Josephine Tan and Jon M. Jachimowicz

    While graduating students are often exhorted to do work they love to do, those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are less likely to feel that they are a fit for and have the skills to thrive in a job that calls for passion.

    • 30 Jun 2020
    • What Do You Think?

    Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

    by James Heskett

    SUMMING UP:James Heskett's readers suggest that recruiting minority students to business school must be matched with programs to retain them. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 21 Apr 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Changing In-group Boundaries: The Role of New Immigrant Waves in the US

    by Vasiliki Fouka, Shom Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini

    How do new immigrants affect natives’ views of other minority groups? This work studies the evolution of group boundaries in the United States and indicates that whites living in states receiving more Mexican immigrants recategorize blacks as in-group members, because of the inflow of a new, “affectively” more distant group.

    • 27 Mar 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Novel Risks

    by Robert S. Kaplan, Dutch Leonard, and Anette Mikes

    Companies can manage known risks by reducing their likelihood and impact. But such routine risk management often prevents them from recognizing and responding rapidly to novel risks, those not envisioned or seen before. Setting up teams, processes, and capabilities in advance for dealing with unexpected circumstances can protect against their severe consequences.

    • 04 Feb 2020
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Why Backstage Capital Invests in ‘Underestimated’ Entrepreneurs

    Laura Huang discusses VC Arlan Hamilton’s strategy of backing entrepreneurs who have been ignored because of stereotypes, biases, and preconceptions. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 04 Sep 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions

    by Dina Gerdeman

    We often make knee-jerk assumptions about what motivates other people’s choices, a bad habit both in the political and business worlds. Kate Barasz explains what we can do about it. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 06 Mar 2019
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?

    by Sean Silverthorne

    Harvard Business School researchers have been at the forefront of studies on gender discrimination for several decades. As International Women's Day 2019 approaches, here is what they've discovered so far. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 04 Mar 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Revision Bias

    by Ximena Garcia-Rada, Leslie John, Ed O’Brien, and Michael I. Norton

    Companies often release revised editions of books, director’s cuts of movies, and technological updates, on the assumption that revising products and services leads to better outcomes. Nine studies, however, document the revision bias: the tendency to prefer things that were revised, regardless of whether the revised versions are objectively better than their predecessors.

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