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Erin Shirtz

Erin Shirtz is a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. Her research broadly examines organizational culture, social identity, and inequality by exploring the sources and experiences of social inequality in the workplace.  Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Erin worked as an...

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  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

Research Brief: Cultivating Creativity through Competition

Creativity is often considered a mysterious, impossible-to-harness force. But a new working paper by Assistant Professor Daniel P. Gross suggests that it can indeed be nurtured with the right incentives. Gross studied the question in the context of winner-take-all logo... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
  • 01 Jun 2015
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Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness

When HBS launched the US Competitiveness Project in 2011, the American economy was struggling to recover from the Great Recession, Washington was in gridlock, and the nation was caught in the hype of a presidential election. Against this backdrop, Dean Nitin Nohria and... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson; Walmart; Health, Social Assistance; Retail Trade
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Research Brief: Lost in Translation

In an increasingly global business world, English is the lingua franca that tethers companies and their investors together. Executives without a deep fluency in English could be costing their companies more than they realize. According to a recent paper coauthored by... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
  • 01 Mar 2016
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Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias

Every year, specially chosen committees help the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) decide how to allocate massive—totaling more than $24 billion in 2014—competitive federal grants for medical research. But the evaluators on the various committees come from... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
  • 01 Jun 2015
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Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?

When the financial crisis hit in 2008, it became apparent that many states had played fast and loose with their pension funding. Some states slashed benefits, others contemplated bankruptcy. You might think state governments, burned badly once, would be eager to clean... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
  • 01 Jun 2016
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Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations

Researchers have long known that building high levels of voter trust and participation are essential to help fragile democracies thrive. The 2013 national elections in Kenya, which followed vast government changes after a flawed national election in 2007 and a... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
  • 01 Jun 2017
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Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management

George Serafeim (photo by Susan Young) Claudine Madras Gartenberg The idea of corporate purpose—a responsibility that goes beyond dollars and cents—can seem like little more than platitudes tucked into a mission statement. But new research shows that with the help of... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
  • 01 Dec 2015
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Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?

Ishan Sachdev (MBA 2013) Since 2009, more than 80 mobile money services have popped up in emerging markets to offer financial services to the millions of people who have a cell phone but no traditional bank account. Taking advantage of the increasing availability of... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
  • 01 Sep 2015
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Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End

Are big banks using bankruptcy as a bullying tactic? A recent report by the American Bankruptcy Institute suggested that a longtime—and increasingly popular—mechanism in the US code that allows for expedited, less-democratic asset sales (known as Section 363 sales) is... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
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