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2013
Article

Nations' Income Inequality Predicts Ambivalence in Stereotype Content: How Societies Mind the Gap

By: Federica Durante, S. T. Fiske, Nicolas Kervyn and Amy J.C. Cuddy

Income inequality undermines societies: the more inequality, the more health problems, social tensions, and the lower social mobility, trust, and life expectancy. Given people's tendency to legitimate existing social arrangements, the Stereotype Content Model (SCM)... View Details

Keywords: Stereotypes; Cross-cultural/cross-border; Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Equality and Inequality; Income; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Power and Influence

Article

When Being a Model Minority Is Good...and Bad: Realistic Threat Explains Negativity Toward Asian Americans.

By: W.W. Maddux, A. Galinsky, A.J.C. Cuddy and M. Polifroni

The current research explores the hypothesis that realistic threat is one psychological mechanism that can explain how individuals can hold positive stereotypical beliefs toward Asian Americans yet also express negative attitudes and emotions toward them. Study 1... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Prejudice and Bias; Ethnicity; Groups and Teams; Attitudes; Emotions

June 2011
Article

Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor

By: Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer-Gee

It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable giving because they know little about the persons who receive their help. This concern is particularly acute when making contributions to organizations that serve heterogeneous populations. While we... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Policy; Information; Knowledge Acquisition; Game Theory; Prejudice and Bias; Poverty; Welfare

06 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

contributors. They are a marvelous addition to any team, but remember that they are employees and therefore have inherent bias as part of the inner workings of the organization. Internal coaches are accountable toward the overall success... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

22 Jul 2020
Blog Post

Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club

here. What on earth is going on? Brian Sykes (MBA 2020) and Paul Ampofo (MBA 2020) THE PROBLEM The combination of systematic bias and outright prejudice have played a huge role in preventing underrepresented founders and investors from... View Details

15 May 2019
Research Event

The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

correct this bias by recovering the lives of key business leaders across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. We learned of different sorts of capitalism in a session devoted to this endeavor to create a whole new archive of data. Indian... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Education

06 Aug 2020
Blog Post

WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB

here. What on earth is going on? Brian Sykes (MBA 2020) and Paul Ampofo (MBA 2020) THE PROBLEM The combination of systematic bias and outright prejudice have played a huge role in preventing underrepresented founders and investors from... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

28 Oct 2021
News

Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

Archie Jones. Jeff Bussgang, Yasmin Cruz Ferrine, Glynn Lloyd, and Karen Mills On September 30, Bussgang and Mills presented this case to more than 80 HBS alumni in a virtual panel discussion that explored what the BNVC got right, what it exposed in terms of View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Jun 2021
News

The Value of Difficult Conversations

or their parents. If 10 percent of the people they spoke to tell more people, it can become a true change factor,” she says. “Awareness is the first step.” MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: Advancing Racial Equity HBS Addresses Racial Equity Alumni Work to Reverse View Details

Keywords: April White; Tulsa Massacre

01 Feb 2000
News

Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders

candidates. With about one hundred thousand people responding, the top five votegetters were Hillary Rodham Clinton, Elizabeth Dole, Christine Todd Whitman, Dianne Feinstein, and General Claudia Kennedy [the highest ranking woman in the military]. We've also done... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

29 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites

by advertising revenue. On the other hand, he detected clear bias in the types of companies that the press targets for special scrutiny. For this reason, business people are wise not to underestimate the ability of the press—particularly... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News; Publishing

Article

Stereotype Content Model across Cultures: Universal Similarities and Some Differences

By: A.J.C. Cuddy, S.T. Fiske, V.S.Y. Kwan, P. Glick, S. Demoulin, J. Ph. Leyens and M.H. Bond

The stereotype content model (SCM; Fiske, Cuddy, Glick, & Xu, 2002) proposes potentially universal principles of societal stereotypes and their relation to social structure. Here, the SCM reveals theoretically grounded, cross-cultural, cross-groups' similarities and... View Details

Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Relationships; Groups and Teams; Prejudice and Bias; Culture; Societal Protocols; East Asia; Europe

1998
Chapter

Sticky Ties and Bad Attitudes: Relational and Individual Bases of Resistance to Changes in Organizational Structure

By: K. L. Valley and T. A. Thompson

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Attitudes; Prejudice and Bias; Motivation and Incentives; Relationships

June 2020
Supplement

Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO (B)

By: Tsedal Neeley and Briana Richardson

With the economy in a freefall, MetricStream is losing customers, hemorrhaging cash and struggling to make payroll. Several board members are threatening to quit. Others are pressing to sell the company even at dismally low valuations. It’s 2008 and lightning has... View Details

Keywords: Race; Gender; Leadership Style; Risk and Uncertainty; Change; Prejudice and Bias; Decision Making; Personal Development and Career; Technology Industry; California

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Summer 2016
Article

Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View

By: Shane Greenstein and Feng Zhu

The diffusion of the Internet and digital technologies has enabled many organizations to use the open-content production model to produce and disseminate knowledge. While several prior studies have shown that the open-content production model can lead to high-quality... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Internet and the Web; Balance and Stability; Operations; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Dissemination