Gender - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Jun 2014
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2014 G&WS: May Al-Dabbagh Presents on Social Research and Public Policy

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2019 G&WS: Clarissa Cortland (INSEAD) Presents Flash Talk: “Stereotype Threat’s Silver Lining: Speaking Out for Change”

14 Sep 2015
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2015 G&WS: Don Tomaskovic-Devey Presents "What Works: Internal and External Mechanisms for Equal Opportunity”

14 Sep 2015
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2015 G&WS: Max Bazerman Presents “Reducing Discrimination: Joint versus Separate Decision Making”

2014
Article

Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched by Attractive Men

By: Alison Wood Brooks, Laura Huang, Sarah Kearney and Fiona Murray

Entrepreneurship is a central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching of entrepreneurial ventures to investors is critically important. The entrepreneur's business proposition and... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Gender

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30 Mar 2016
News

Simple policy changes could help close pay gap

07 May 2014
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2014 G&WS: Kiran Gandhi & Becky Cooper Present "Evolving Models of Intergenerational Feminist Interaction"

09 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53685 When Gender Discrimination Is Not About Gender By: Coffman, Katherine B., Christine L. Exley, and Muriel Niederle Abstract—We use an experiment to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Sep 2017
Op-Ed

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

correctly analyzed this as the issue, noting that Damore’s document “crosses the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace.” This violated Google’s code of conduct, thereby triggering his termination. In his manifesto,... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

18 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

New research suggests that organizations wishing to avoid gender stereotyping in the hiring or promotion process-and employ the most productive person instead—should evaluate job candidates as a group, rather than one at a time. “The... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

01 Nov 2022
Cold Call Podcast

Marie Curie: A Case Study in Breaking Barriers

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

November 2014
Article

Evidence on Self-Stereotyping and the Contribution of Ideas

By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman

We use a lab experiment to explore the factors that predict an individual's decision to contribute her idea to a group. We find that contribution decisions depend upon the interaction of gender and the gender stereotype associated with the decision-making domain:... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizations; Gender

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