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When Seeking Help, Women and Racial/Ethnic Minorities Benefit from Explicitly Stating Their Identity

By: Erika L. Kirgios, Aneesh Rai, Edward H. Chang and Katherine L. Milkman

Receiving help can make or break a career, but women and racial/ethnic minorities do not always receive the support they seek. Across two audit experiments—one with politicians and another with students—as well as an online experiment (total n = 5,145), we test whether... View Details

Keywords: Support; Marginalized Communities; Personal Development and Career; Equality and Inequality; Identity; Race; Gender; Communication Intention and Meaning

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26 Jul 2023
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Overcoming Your Fear of Giving Tough Feedback

11 Jul 2023
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What the Best Leaders Know — and What Skills They Develop

07 Sep 2022
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The Costs of Being a Perfectionist Manager

24 May 2021
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The Role Experiments Play in Addressing Discrimination

2014
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Children Develop a Veil of Fairness

By: Alex Shaw, Natalia Montinari, Marco Piovesan, Kristina Olson, Francesca Gino and Michael I. Norton

Previous research suggests that children develop an increasing concern with fairness over the course of development. Research with adults suggests that the concern with fairness has at least two distinct components: a desire to be fair and a desire to signal to others... View Details

Keywords: Inequity Aversion; Social Signaling; Social Cognitive Development; Communication Intention and Meaning; Fairness; Age; Reputation; Growth and Development; Cognition and Thinking

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16 Aug 2022
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Strategies for Dealing with Difficult Coworkers

05 Apr 2021
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Navigating Trade-Offs

03 Jun 2020
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What to Do When Work Feels Meaningless

02 Dec 2022
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Research: Men Speak More Abstractly Than Women

19 Nov 2021
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When Your Authority Fluctuates Throughout the Day

18 Aug 2010
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How to Spot a Lie

21 Jul 2023
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Companies Need to Prove They Can Be Trusted with Technology

02 Feb 2023
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7 Small Ways to Be a More Inclusive Colleague

26 May 2022
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Bidding Up

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Bob Wilson (MBA 1961, DBA 1963) attended high school in Lincoln, Nebraska, going on to Harvard College as a scholarship student. He didn’t love his undergraduate experience, and struggled to find View Details

01 Mar 2017
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Research Brief: Lost in Translation

In an increasingly global business world, English is the lingua franca that tethers companies and their investors together. Executives without a deep fluency in English could be costing their companies more than they realize. According to a recent paper coauthored by... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

22 Aug 2013
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The Impossible Mayor of the Possible

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

September 2007
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(Noisy) Communication

By: Bharat Anand and Ron Shachar

Communication is central to many settings in marketing and economics. A focal attribute of communication is miscommunication. We model this key characteristic as a noise in the messages communicated, so that the sender of a message is uncertain about its perception by... View Details

Keywords: Communication Intention and Meaning; Interpersonal Communication; Cost vs Benefits; Marketing Communications; Performance Improvement; Mathematical Methods

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