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Mary Hunter-McDonnell/Erb Colloquium – Co-sponsored with Ross Strategy

Take a Stand or Keep Your Seat: Independent Director Turnover following Social Activist Challenges Outside directors play a major role in modern corporate governance by providing firms with valuable human and social capital as well as serving as the primary monitors of managers. Given their influence, researchers have been increasingly interested in understanding what motivates […]

Aruna Ranganathan/Erb Colloquium

Leading by Doing: How Female Supervisors Motivate Worker Productivity through Subordinate Scut Work Aruna Ranganathan is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business Abstract: Using ethnographic, personnel, and field experimental data from an Indian garment factory, this paper investigates whether manager gender affects worker productivity and if so, how. We argue that […]