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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni
1991 alumni will share their experiences, first as students, then employees, and now as executives, educators, and researchers. Attendees will gain an understanding of past actions and current plans to improve DEI at HBS, as well as new insights on advancing DEI beyond... View Details
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for Strategy & Competitiveness Institute for Business in Global Society Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard Leadership Managing the Future of Work Public Education Leadership Project Private Capital Project Race, View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
A Positive Approach to Studying Diversity in Organizations
Keywords: by Lakshmi Ramarajan & David Thomas
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Managing Perceptions of Distress at Work: Reframing Emotion as Passion
By: Elizabeth Baily Wolf, Jooa Julia Lee, Sunita Sah and Alison Wood Brooks
Expressing distress at work can have negative consequences for employees: observers perceive employees who express distress as less competent than employees who do not. Across five experiments, we explore how reframing a socially inappropriate emotional expression... View Details
Wolf, Elizabeth Baily, Jooa Julia Lee, Sunita Sah, and Alison Wood Brooks. "Managing Perceptions of Distress at Work: Reframing Emotion as Passion." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 137 (November 2016): 1–12.
- 11 Sep 2017
- News
Why Employers Favor Men
- 12 Oct 2016
- HBS Seminar
Michelle Duguid, Olin Business School, Washington University
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Placement - Doctoral
Essays on Precommitment Advisors: Ashley V. Whillans (Co-Chair), Julian J. Zlatev (Co-Chair), Max H. Bazerman , Iris Bohnet , and David Laibson 2021 Lumumba Seegars Organizational Behavior, 2021 Placement: Harvard Business School Dissertation: Sanctioned Radicals: A... View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Business of K-12 Education in China
By: Geoffrey Jones and Yuhai Wu
This working paper examines the evolution of K-12 education in China, especially between 1985 and the present day, drawing extensive interviews with participants in the educational sector. China has been hugely successful in reaching almost 100 percent literacy,... View Details
Keywords: K-12 Education; China; Real Estate; Early Childhood Education; Performance Evaluation; Teaching; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Nonprofit Organizations; Private Sector; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry; China
Jones, Geoffrey, and Yuhai Wu. "The Business of K-12 Education in China." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-022, October 2021.
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Professor Brooks studies the psychology of conversation and emotion—topics at the intersection of how people think, feel, and interact. From pitching ideas to seeking advice, from asking questions to giving compliments, from talking about (or hiding) our feelings and... View Details
- 2010
- Other Unpublished Work
Hunkering Down and Venturing Out: Network Activation in Response to the Uncertainty of Organizational Restructuring
Uncertain times in organizational life are often accompanied by shifts in resources and power and can trigger a desire for people to affiliate with others. Yet little is understood about which network ties people activate when they feel uncertain about their standing... View Details
- 2017
- Article
New Venture Milestones and the First Female Board Member
By: Alicia DeSantola, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Julie Battilana
We explore the antecedents of the addition of the first woman to the boards of directors of entrepreneurial ventures. Building on research on resource dependency, we propose that new ventures are most likely to add the first woman to their boards at three developmental... View Details
Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Governing and Advisory Boards; Entrepreneurship; Gender; Diversity; Technology Industry; United States
DeSantola, Alicia, Lakshmi Ramarajan, and Julie Battilana. "New Venture Milestones and the First Female Board Member." Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2017).
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Diversity Thresholds: How Social Norms, Visibility, and Scrutiny Relate to Group Composition
By: Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman, Dolly Chugh and Modupe Akinola
Across a field study and four experiments, we examine how social norms and scrutiny affect decisions about adding members of underrepresented populations (e.g., women, racial minorities) to groups. When groups are scrutinized, we theorize that decision makers strive to... View Details
Keywords: Social Norms; Impression Management; Groups and Teams; Governing and Advisory Boards; Diversity; Gender; Decision Making
Chang, Edward H., Katherine L. Milkman, Dolly Chugh, and Modupe Akinola. "Diversity Thresholds: How Social Norms, Visibility, and Scrutiny Relate to Group Composition." Academy of Management Journal 62, no. 1 (February 2019): 144–171.
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Initiatives & Projects - Faculty & Research
Private Capital Project The Private Capital Project facilitates deeper interaction between academia and practitioners in the Venture Capital and Private Equity industries, to understand the big challenges facing constituents and to work on potential solutions. Race,... View Details
- 27 Sep 2016
- HBS Seminar
Catherine Tinsley, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
- 25 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business
apply well in diverse workplaces, including elevating women and helping narrow the gender gap, Gompers says. “If I were an HR person, and two people were pretty similar, and somebody spent 20 hours a week doing women's basketball, I’d... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 2007
- Chapter
Disrupting Gender, Revising Leadership
By: D. E. Meyerson, R. Ely and Laura Wernick
In this chapter, we present a case study of men on two off-shore oil platforms—a workplace that has traditionally rewarded men for their masculine displays of bravado and their interactions centered on proving masculinity—in which such displays and interactions were... View Details
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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research
Business, Government & the International Economy Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2024 Working Paper A Gender Backlash: Does Exposure to Female Labor Market Participation Fuel View Details
- 03 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers
combination of observations, interviews, and archival data in The Task Bind: Explaining Gender Differences in Managerial Tasks and Performance, recently published in Administrative Science Quarterly, to analyze 80 retail grocery stores... View Details
- 2018
- Race & 21st century economy: Access, investments and institution-building