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  • 04 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

Gompers and research assistant Sophie Wang developed a novel way to determine exactly how much gender diversity influenced performance. Examining reunion books from the small number of universities accounting for the bulk of venture... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services
  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

Richard Hackman died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 8, 2013, psychology lost a giant. Six and a half feet tall, with an outsize personality to match, Richard was the leading scholar in two distinct areas: work design and team... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
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Values, Purpose, Meaning, and Expectations: Why Culture and Context Matter

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
The "rational person" standard, based on assumptions of economic self-interest, has long prevailed in legal reasoning. But understanding of decision making, behavioral choices, and possibilities for action must be enlarged to include a variety of factors that give... View Details
Keywords: Standards; Interests; Decision Making; Behavior; Value; Groups and Teams; Performance Expectations; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Business Cycles; Forecasting and Prediction; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 19 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

You,” in which Nicholas Kristof wrote, “Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don’t matter in today’s great debates.” Or the 2015 Chronicle of Higher... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

behavior of others. In his book Complicit, Professor Max Bazerman offers strategies for recognizing and avoiding the psychological and other traps that lead us to ignore, condone, or actively support wrongdoing in our businesses,... View Details
  • 29 Mar 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Story of Why Humans Are So Careless With Their Phones

          Silvia Bellezza is an assistant professor of marketing at Columbia Business School. Joshua M. Ackerman is an assistant professor of psychology at University of Michigan. Francesca Gino is the... View Details
Keywords: by Josh Neufeld; Consumer Products; Retail
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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Villanova University in the Graduate Programs in Human Resource Development, in the Psychology department. During and after her graduate work, she worked as an independent consultant and for SHL, a global... View Details
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Social Psychology) is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the social psychology of gender and power at work, specializing in the... View Details
  • 17 Nov 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?

office or leading the family are less likely to foster a culture of growth, risk taking, and wealth creation. According to Jeremy Dean, a researcher at University College London, optimists prefer to think about how they and others can... View Details
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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

of Technology, Sloan School of Management Don Tomaskovic-Devey University of Massachusetts, Amherst Shelley Correll Stanford University Susan Sturm Columbia Law School Sarah Cliffe Harvard Business Review... View Details
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Aurora Turek

As an undergraduate in psychology at the University of Michigan, Aurora Turek (she/her) became interested in the ways that psychology can be applied to the workplace. This... View Details
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

in Gender, Communication, and the Leadership Gap (2017), a Volume in the International Leadership Association Series, Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice. Diane received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Organizational Communication and Social View Details
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

the Venture Capital Inclusion Lab at Brown University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and earned her PhD in Psychology at the View Details
  • 13 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

Business scholars increasingly hinge their hypotheses on sociological and psychological studies, seeking a true handle on what motivates executives, employees, consumers, and policymakers. For instance, the following studies suggest... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

and Work Symposium. The Structured World and the Self Elizabeth Haines Elizabeth Haines, Professor of Psychology at William Paterson University, presents "Why so Sticky?" at the 2017 Gender and Work Symposium. Elizabeth Haines, Professor... View Details
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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Behaviour at the University of Sussex in England, where he was the chair of the organizational behaviour area as well as the founder and faculty director of Centre for Leadership, Ethics, and Diversity (LEAD). His research ranges from... View Details
  • 02 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Spending on Happiness

from the University of British Columbia, Elizabeth Dunn and Lara Aknin. Their article, "Spending Money on Others Promotes Happiness," appeared in the March 21, 2008 issue of Science. "Intentional activities—practices in... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Professor of Management and Organizations at New York University, Stern School of Business. Interview with Kira Hudson Banks on "Corageous Self Awareness for Social Change" Kira Hudson Banks, St. Louis University Kira Hudson Banks is an... View Details
  • 13 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Inner Life of Leaders

did you draw on your background in psychoanalysis to approach contemporary characters and issues in leadership? Abraham Zaleznik: When I wrote my first book on the job of the foreman (1950), an observation and an idea took hold: Leaders have to achieve View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

The paper, “Partisans Neither Expect Nor Receive Reputational Rewards for Sharing Falsehoods Over Truth Online,” was led by Isaias Ghezae, a doctoral student in social psychology at Harvard University, co-led by Jordan, and coauthored by... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman