Meritocracy - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Sep 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

themselves and behave authentically. Add to that the need to judge all individuals on their merits and their performance, not making assumptions about them based on flawed stereotypes. Then companies can create true meritocracies where... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

"A small percentage of students are intrigued by and support the complete meritocracy they see at Lincoln," DeLong notes. "But the majority rejects the piecework system, although international students do seem more familiar... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2005
News

Answering the Call

on the worker-as-individual with a case about a successful teams-driven organization that he teaches the day before. “A small percentage of students are intrigued by and support the complete meritocracy they see at Lincoln,” DeLong notes.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2010
News

Lords of Strategy

result is to create many of the features that one would hope for in a twenty-first-century enterprise: organizational due process that leaves most people feeling that they have been treated fairly. Democratic meritocracy open to talent... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2003
News

These Are the Good Old Days

actually weren’t all that good for many people,” she notes. “There is a more level playing field and meritocracy today. You don’t have to wear a three-piece suit to get the job or while you’re on the job. Diversity and individuality are... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Web

2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

University of Massachusetts Boston. She studies how the ideology of meritocracy is invoked to legitimate inequality in the United States and thereby impedes efforts to address poverty. She also examines how “tempered radicals,” working... View Details

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

American Sociological Association. Warikoo’s most recently published book, The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities (University of Chicago Press, 2016), shows how undergraduates... View Details

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

emerging markets. Companies are now taking seriously the need to be truly global. How do we develop leadership able to work in diverse markets with ever more demanding stakeholders (employees, customers, communities) around the world? How do will build the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2022
News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

intellectual perspectives—political science, history, philosophy, anthropology, economics, and applied mathematics—to discuss how the two most populous societies in the world have addressed the issue of building meritocracy historically,... View Details

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