How Zero-Sum Beliefs Get in the Way of Fairness
The more we are stuck in the fixed-pie mentality, the harder it is to spot the opportunities to expand the pie.
Siri Chilazi is a senior researcher at the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School. She specializes in identifying practical approaches to close gender gaps at work by de-biasing structures and designing fairer processes, and she collaborates with organizations to advance gender equity through evidence-based insights. She is the co-author of Make Work Fair: Data-Driven Design for Real Results (with Iris Bohnet). She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School.
The more we are stuck in the fixed-pie mentality, the harder it is to spot the opportunities to expand the pie.
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