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- 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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- 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
- 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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- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
"Why don't you let the guy do this one?" In many situations, and importantly, in the situations of leadership that Hannah and I describe in the book chapter, those are very frequently gendered situations. They are situations in which the View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
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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
- 29 Jan 2013
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
women’s career narratives and demonstrate that some women deviate significantly from gender stereotypes by narrating their success using extreme levels of agency typically associated with men. Download working paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
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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
- 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
- 10 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 10, 2009
I'm Nice, Don't Assume I'm Dumb Author:Amy Cuddy Publication:Breakthrough Ideas of 2009. Harvard Business Review 87, no. 2 (February 2009) Abstract We often judge colleagues on the basis of their perceived warmth and competence, finding clues to these qualities in...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
self-confidence. Add in a devastating pandemic that has forced many mothers to scale back professional duties to support children at home, and deeply embedded stereotypes about women as caregivers and men as breadwinners start to...
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by Kristen Senz
- 26 May 2015
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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
- 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
- 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
- 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16
nudge," in which people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. Evaluators are more likely to focus on individual performance in joint than in separate evaluation and on group stereotypes in...
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Sean Silverthorne