Frank Dobbin

Lightning Rounds II - Ending Institutional Corruption

"Visualizing Campaign Finance Contributions"
Solomon Kahn, Director of Analytics, Paperless Post

"Institutional Discrimination in Corporate America"
Frank Dobbin, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

"Expressive Effects of Ethics Codes: An Experimental Survey of U.S. Employees' Interpretation, Understanding, and Implementation of Institutional Ethical Policies"
Yuval Feldman, Professor of Law, Bar Ilan University

"Coping with Moral Dilemmas at Work: Managers, Business School Academics, and the...

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Institutional Discrimination in Corporate America: Toward an Evidence-Based Approach to Promoting Equity

The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics had its fourth seminar of the semester on October 7th 2014. Frank Dobbin, professor of Sociology at Harvard, presented the project he is currently working on with Alexandra Kalev, which involves developing an evidence-based approach to diversity management, studying the effects of corporate-diversity programs on actual diversity, and studying the effects of workforce diversity on corporate performance. He then used social science theories as a framework for understanding the patterns revealed in his research about how different management...

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