Venture Capitalists Are Using the Wrong Tools to Improve Gender Diversity
It is time for venture capitalists to stop trying to change hearts and minds and start redesigning their firms.
March 12th, 2019
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September 04th, 2018
From Ph.D. to Policy: Facilitating Connections Between Junior Scholars and Policymakers
What can academic institutions and governments do to better support and engage junior scholars?
Nudges Alone Won’t Save Nemo: Conservation in the Great Barrier Reef
How do you apply behavioral science to a complex environmental problem?
June 26th, 2018
How Performance Evaluations Hurt Gender Equality
Performance evaluations are designed to be meritocratic. Unfortunately, they can exacerbate the very gender inequities they are striving to reduce.
May 31st, 2018
What We Learned By Failing to Make Work Better for Female Staff
Trainings to remove bias are mostly ineffective, and can even backfire. What, then, is the way forward?
May 29th, 2018
From Pink Milk to Smart Questions, How to Be a Rebel Leader
Why, really, shouldn’t milk be pink? Curiosity and insistence on questioning the status quo are among the qualities that separate the people who can’t wait to get to work from the ones who count the minutes until they can leave.
“Bursty” Communication Can Help Remote Teams Thrive
Can remote teams achieve the productivity of the office and still allow the convenience of working at home?
May 22nd, 2018
Want to Debias Hiring? Change What Hiring Managers Focus On
Research on the “decoy effect” reveals one way bias sneaks into hiring decisions. It also suggests a solution.
April 30th, 2018
Racism in Customer Service
To date, researchers have primarily focused on discrimination as a binary outcome: It happened or it did not. But customer service is complex and nuanced.
April 23rd, 2018
How to Identify Talent: Five Lessons from the NFL Draft
If there is one consistent yet underappreciated principle for making good hires, it’s that process beats technology.
