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Another factor could be bias on the part of the employer. "We're learning that more and more aspects of organizational psychology are operating somewhat subconsciously," says Judge. "It may be that employers are more likely to take advantage of traditional gender-role women." We can learn a lot about someone based on a very short acquaintance; perhaps employers make judgments about a prospective employee's gender attitudes, on the basis of things like a more conservative style of dress or hairstyle and demure mannerisms, Judge says. "I wouldn't be surprised," he says, "if employers are treating these women...
...force a number of the business schools, including our own, to rethink whether we should make this part of the complete requirements," says Federgruen, referring to in-depth risk-management coursework, "rather than just counting on the students themselves to understand that this is material that they'd better learn...
...course, better models won't work unless people learn how to use them. McKinsey directors Ron Hulme and Kevin Buehler and senior risk expert Andrew Freeman argue in the Harvard Business Review this month that "a growing emphasis on mathematical modeling has rendered much of the risk-management debate and research incomprehensible to those outside the finance function and the financial services industry." The upshot, they say, is that corporate managers who aren't already experts at risk aren't prepared to factor it into their decisions...
...This year we’ve gone the speedy route because it took us awhile to get [the meat] down to small-sized pieces,” she conceded. “But still, these roasts are an opportunity to get people together and learn how to make Paleolithic stone tools, to do it how you used to do it before you got the electric knife...
...identifies the way countries like China and India have attempted to portray their growth as peaceful rather than threatening. As I finished reading “The Post-American World,” my three-semester falling-out with the Asian region, ignited by my inability to learn the Chinese language, came to an end. This fall, I set out to complete a secondary field in East Asian Studies. Learning a language is thankfully not required. —Andres Arguello