Delve podcast: Closing the Inventor Gender Gap with John-Paul Ferguson, Lucy Gilbert, and Negin Ashouri
Social inequalities are responsible for the loss of millions of ideas and inventions over hundreds of years. This loss over time is measurable today in a decline in innovation, slowing economic growth, and repercussions on all sectors, from technology to health care. The gender gap among inventors affects what gets invented鈥攁nd consequently who benefits from innovation.
Delve podcast: Navigating Digital Ecosystems & Transforming Strategy with Yolande Chan
Digital technologies today are highly generic and highly specific at the same time 鈥� even a mobile phone is also a translator, a map and an entertainment system 鈥� complicating the design of organizational strategy.
Delve - "New Normal" podcast: Working from Home, Living at Work with Lisa Cohen
In episode 2 of The 鈥楴ew Normal鈥� hosted by Dave Kaufman,聽Professor聽Lisa Cohen discusses how the shift to working from home that has been hastened by the Covid-19 pandemic, how the work from home phenomenon has been more disadvantageous to some members of society than others, and ways in which working at home has given us all more time to think about how to mak
Delve: Overcoming Bias in AI Technologies
A new study by Warut Khern-am-nuai, an assistant professor of information systems at 平特五不中, proposes a new approach to optimizing the way algorithms process data, without modifying the outcome. To eliminate discrimination in AI, algorithms should see race and gender, according to the study.
Delve: It鈥檚 Difficult to Breathe Behind a Facade, but Psychological Safety is the Antidote
According to 平特五不中鈥檚 Professor Patricia Faison Hewlin, today鈥檚 socio-political climate has placed diversity and inclusion at the forefront, revealing the depth to which psychological safety has been absent in many workplaces.
Addressing systemic racism in the police force
An exchange between a rookie officer and senior officer in the moments before George Floyd鈥檚 death is a telling interaction revealing how聽systemic racism continues to be enforced by officers in the field.
Delve: When Meritocracy Blinds us to Gender Discrimination
Meritocracies are predicated on the belief that only the best are chosen and that hard work and talent are always rewarded. If we presume that talent and hard work are not gender specific, then why is it that assumed meritocracies show extraordinary imbalances between men and women? Surprisingly, part of the answer is the assumption itself: Assuming a setting is a meritocracy can blind even those experiencing discrimination to its actual inequalities.
Delve: Romancing the User: Three Business Lessons from Digital Daters
New research from Prof Jui Ramaprasad explores how gender, comfort, and impulsivity are key for that perfect chemistry.
Delve: When a Good Boss is Bad for Workers
New research from Prof Patricia Hewlin explores how a boss鈥檚 integrity affects whether an employee is being true to her/his own identity, even when there鈥檚 a disconnect with the group鈥檚 values. If there were a boss who demonstrated integrity鈥攚ho was consistent, trustworthy, and fair鈥攚ould employees feel more comfortable being their authentic selves?
