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- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
leaders on work, "it is extremely naive to expect that stereotypical ideas about what women in general are like will have any meaning for the behavior of women in senior management positions. Women who arrive in such positions will...
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by James Heskett
- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
intellectually superior to females or whites as intellectually superior to blacks or Hispanics. Society has largely accepted such stereotypes as offensive, inappropriate, and leading to the lack of consideration of people as unique. But,...
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by Manda Salls
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
Business School Press), a new book by HBS professor Dorothy Leonard and Professor Walter Swap of Tufts University. The authors not only disprove the stereotypical perception of group creativity as an oxymoron but show how the group...
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by Laurie Joan Aron
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
trying to achieve as an organization?" Adrian Grigoriu commented that "... it shouldn't be so hard. But business leader stereotypes corrupt the selection process ...." Several others questioned the capabilities of the...
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by Jim Heskett
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
would-be partners are not convinced that women have the necessary financial skills and management savvy. These assumptions are based on several different, but closely related, stereotypes about women, money, and financial management...
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- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
need to confront a lot of complexities, he said, from negative stereotypes to the suppression of differences. Persistence And Consistency Matter Another Harvard manager described to Thomas her own dilemma. As a new manager, she was trying...
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
processes. In particular, our analysis systematically disentangles the obstacles that members of low status social groups must overcome to elicit verification of their positive self-views. People in this situation are not only working against a View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
Lynda Clarizio Every woman who works and has a life confronts unique challenges, from finding reliable and caring childcare to making time to nurture the relationship with their spouse or partner to fighting their own guilt and View Details
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by Wendy Guild
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
hair care. By 1980 there remained strong differences between consumer markets. Although American influence was strong, it was already evident that globalization had not resulted in the creation of a stereotyped American blond and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
Alfred Chandler, it became clear that Thyssen was developing many features of the "visible hand" of management that paralleled U.S. methods without aping them, including the seminal multidivisional form. Q: Many of us have a View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
detractors said was an indication of his slacking off, playing on the stereotype that blacks are lazy. The mentor directly challenged the detractors by pointing out that his protégé was the leading salesperson in the division.
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by David A. Thomas
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
16-21 Abstract The Dove campaign addressed a common concern that crossed cultural boundaries. Confronted by standard visual stereotypes of beauty in the global media, many young women develop self-image and self-esteem problems. The Dove...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
are seated behind a curtain, hidden from the artist's view. Side-by-side comparisons of the sketches inevitably reveal that the sketches based on the strangers' descriptions are more stereotypically attractive than the sketches based on...
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- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
advancement. To ensure gender equity, the authors recommend that managers (1) question the stereotypes behind their practices, (2) consider other factors that might explain the achievement gap, (3) change workplace conditions accordingly,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
Small, Devin G. Pope, and Michael I. Norton Publication:Social Psychological and Personality Science (forthcoming) Abstract We document an age penalty in racial discrimination: charitable behavior toward African American children decreases-and negative View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
actually get his point of view on solar geoengineering across, or had he just added to the stereotype that he was more of a "mad scientist" than a scholar? Science knew, beyond doubt, that volcanoes cooled the planet by forcing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
societal stereotypes of underrepresented minorities, making knowledge intensive firms a rich environment to examine diversity initiatives and explore the dynamics that hinder retention and promotion for underrepresented minorities in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
extension product. The quality and demand for a brand extension can be higher if the brand is perceived as caring only for its most quality-conscious consumers rather than for all possible buyers of the good. Not Just for Stereotyping...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
benefits from racial diversity but that diversity is a liability when society's negative stereotypes about racial minorities' competence inhibit such interactions. We analyze two years of data from 496 retail bank branches to investigate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
occupations—management, medicine, law enforcement, and addiction counseling—and noticed three surprising patterns that cut across all four occupations. First, in contrast to the stereotypical image of an emotionally numb performer...
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by Martha Lagace