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  • 13 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas
  • Working Knowledge

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

by Lane Lambert
Mergers shake up the status quo at companies and help women and people of color move up the ladder. Research by Letian Zhang mines data from 37,000 deals.
  • 20 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas
  • Working Knowledge

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

by Sean Silverthorne
Researchers have produced murky, conflicting results about whether gender-diverse companies perform better than those managed mostly by men. Letian Zhang offers new insight that explains why.
  • 17 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas
  • Working Knowledge

Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups

by Michael Blanding
Research finds that NBA coaches give slightly more playing time to players of their own race, but the gap disappears at playoff time. Research by Letian Zhang.
  • 06 Nov 2018
  • First Look
  • Working Knowledge

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

Dina Gerdeman
...affects a firm's performance Do firms with more gender diversity perform better? In studying 1,069 leading public firms in 35 countries and 24 industries, Letian Zhang finds that gender diversity has different effects on a company’s performance depending on how accepted gender diversity is in the...
  • 13 Nov 2018
  • First Look
  • Working Knowledge

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

Dina Gerdeman
The same goes for basketball teams that win or lose in the NBA, says Letian Zhang in a forthcoming Organization Science article. Who Loses When a Team Wins? Better Performance Increases Racial Bias. Why academics seek out top-ranked journals Faculty seem to pursue research that is favored by the...
  • 30 Apr 2019
  • First Look
  • Working Knowledge

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

Dina Gerdeman
Turban, Stephen, Dan Wu, and Letian Zhang Abstract—Does diversity make a company more productive? Many say yes—some researchers argue that gender diversity leads to more innovative thinking and signals to investors that a company is competently run. Others say no—conflicting research indicates that