Research & Science

Bias Bingo: Blending Branding and Learning

November 4, 2009

I love it when basic business science can be applied to important causes. So, I was excited when my favorite FemaleScienceProfessor pointed me towards a clever website designed to teach about gender bias: The Gender Bias Learning Project. The Gender Bias Learning Project is a great demonstration of how basic web skills, clever marketing skills, [...]

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Evidence of a Mommy Track Bump: Returnees are seen as more motivated

October 21, 2009

This just in from the The Journal of ‘I’m Not Sure I Can Believe It’ … Well actually, from the The Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies: Research published in the August 2009 issue suggests that coming back to full-time work after a few years on the Mommy Track can make you look “unusually” motivated [...]

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Is the Mommy Track Bump Real?

October 21, 2009

Is the Mommy Track Bump real? Perhaps the biggest reservation to have about the study that (I suggest) proposes a Mommy Track Bump has to do with the research method my colleagues used. Because this research finding is from a lab experiment conducted among adult MBA students, it does not show that these differences exists [...]

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5 Reasons why Management Professors should be reading blogs

July 16, 2009

Very few management professors read blogs about management, leadership, strategy or organizations. I have no hard data, no scientific survey, to support this claim, but I know it’s true. As I’ve talked with colleagues over the last two years about this blog, about other blogs that I learn from, about blogs as a communication medium, [...]

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Black Men & the Glass Elevator: Research to Remember

May 13, 2009

Often, when managers consider how men and women fare differently in the work of paid work, they make simple distinctions between the genders: Women are like this , men are like that . Then, they extrapolate from this simple distinction how a person’s gender will shape her or his career success. Racism & Sexism don’t [...]

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Socialism, Capitalism, 5 Points of Ignorance, and Progressive Organizational Movements

April 14, 2009

I just got done commenting on the blog of my colleague and blogging buddy Michael Roberto, a strategy professor at Bryant University. Michael blogged today about his concern that Americans (and by extension, students in the Business Schools where many of us teach) have lost faith in Capitalism. Michael’s answer to this problem, in so [...]

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Raw Emotion, UnCooked Truth, and the Space Between “Fake” and “Real”

April 14, 2009

My colleagues at OrgTheory are celebrating the award of Guggenheim fellowships to some great sociologists, and they mention one of my favorites, Joshua Gamson. I was reminded of how much I enjoyed Gamson’s first book, Freaks Talk Back, because Gamson’s analysis of tabloid talk shows is laced with interesting questions and examples of strategic self-presentation [...]

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Rant: Minimally Sufficient Research Can Maximine Insights

March 15, 2009

I confess a nagging frustration with certain trends in my academic discipline, Organizational Theory. While good research on organizations and organizational behavior fascinates and delights my nerdy self, boring and poorly executed research makes me lay my head on my desk in despair. Sometimes I even consider resigning from the editorial boards I was so [...]

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$819 Billion to show us that transparency is not enough

February 12, 2009

Earlier today I was mulling over a post by Rachel Happe at The Social Organization, arguing for more transparency about organizational budgets and compensation plans. Rachel asserts that “accounting is really an exercise about setting our priorities and ensuring that we are acting on and accounting for those priorities. ” Thus, Rachel recommends that organizations [...]

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