Stereotyping - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact - Course Catalog

- Identify and describe stereotypes that may bias our perceptions and impede our ability to trust each other. - Evaluate and develop your personal influence style. -Analyze, evaluate, and refine your personal influence style, and identify... View Details

29 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

women’s career narratives and demonstrate that some women deviate significantly from gender stereotypes by narrating their success using extreme levels of agency typically associated with men. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

Business School Press), a new book by HBS professor Dorothy Leonard and Professor Walter Swap of Tufts University. The authors not only disprove the stereotypical perception of group creativity as an oxymoron but show how the group... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

Ventures By: Lee, Matthew, and Laura Huang Abstract—Recent studies find that female-led ventures are penalized relative to male-led ventures due to role incongruity, or a perceived “lack of fit,” between female stereotypes and expected... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

31 Oct 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers

The potential for creating an image of women as both competent and likeable takes a hit. The double bind. Some women feel that speaking out will reinforce stereotypes about women being weak. Whiners and complainers can be seen as victims.... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

10 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 10, 2009

I'm Nice, Don't Assume I'm Dumb Author:Amy Cuddy Publication:Breakthrough Ideas of 2009. Harvard Business Review 87, no. 2 (February 2009) Abstract We often judge colleagues on the basis of their perceived warmth and competence, finding clues to these qualities in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2007
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Letters

grads. The Intel/HBS relationship grew over the years, all because Andy Grove had the intuition to challenge what lay behind his own stereotyped view of HBS grads. Paul C. Vilandré (MBA ’68) Hayden Lake, ID We Lost a Legend Professor... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both

need to confront a lot of complexities, he said, from negative stereotypes to the suppression of differences. Persistence And Consistency Matter Another Harvard manager described to Thomas her own dilemma. As a new manager, she was trying... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Sep 2020
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How To Make Diversity a Reality

of people of color. And so you haven't had the benefit of being around people like that. And so you just don't have a perspective. All the stereotypes and things that just come to mind, you almost unconsciously can't help yourself. So... View Details

15 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

consistent with the goals and motivations of the social sector,” they write. “Men, on the other hand, are seen to be stereotypically competitive, risk taking, and agentic, attributes consistent with the goals and motivations of the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2024
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Ink: Framing the Full Picture

Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out

in job training programs associated with the government's 1996 welfare-to-work program and IBM's education initiative as examples of this model. "We still have work to do, but there's been some breaking down of the suspicions and negative View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

11 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 11, 2006

hair care. By 1980 there remained strong differences between consumer markets. Although American influence was strong, it was already evident that globalization had not resulted in the creation of a stereotyped American blond and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting

to make a lasting difference. What is Unconscious Bias? Unconscious or implicit bias is the term for the mental processes that cause a person to act in ways that reinforce stereotypes even when in our conscious mind we would deem that... View Details

13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007

processes. In particular, our analysis systematically disentangles the obstacles that members of low status social groups must overcome to elicit verification of their positive self-views. People in this situation are not only working against a View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Women at Work

Lynda Clarizio Every woman who works and has a life confronts unique challenges, from finding reliable and caring childcare to making time to nurture the relationship with their spouse or partner to fighting their own guilt and View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

01 Aug 1998
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Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories

stereotypical view of what it is to be gay; one of the reasons I wrote the play was to push audiences beyond that stereotype," he comments. This belief in openness as a prelude to understanding also informs Baron's involvement with the... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

and agriculture ecosystem. Through our collective efforts, we are repositioning African food globally and building more bridges between Africa and the rest of the world, breaking stereotypes and biases, and ultimately enabling a deeper... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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Teachable Moments

lessons learned at a company to the classroom. The best leaders and teachers listen deeply, communicate empathically, and motivate adroitly. Command-and-control leaders and strict, punishment-wielding teachers are stereotypes of the past.... View Details

17 Jun 2013
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Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos

are seated behind a curtain, hidden from the artist's view. Side-by-side comparisons of the sketches inevitably reveal that the sketches based on the strangers' descriptions are more stereotypically attractive than the sketches based on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

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