Social Sciences

News articles classified as Social Sciences

Stanford Graduate School of Business —

Hardwired for hierarchy

If we want to change power structures, Deborah Gruenfeld says, we need to understand the animal forces that drive our behavior.

Stanford Graduate School of Business —

Public policies that reach the right people

Machine learning algorithms have proven especially good at burrowing into data collected in the field and unearthing new details on not only how interventions work, but for whom.

Hoover Institution —

Investing in excellence

Peter Blair Henry is tackling underrepresentation in economics one student at a time – and showing that a small-scale program can impact the profession’s pipeline.

Clayman Institute for Gender Research —

The pace of progress

Thirty years after her testimony brought sexual misconduct into the national spotlight, Anita Hill describes the pursuit of equality as “not a sprint or a marathon, but a relay race.”

Stanford Graduate School of Business —

Zooming out: Why face-to-face meetings matter

If we want to generate better ideas, Jonathan Levav argues, we need to get people back to the office and into face-to-face meetings.

STANFORD magazine —

Take the ‘ack’ out of feedback

Management lecturer David Dodson has a six-step framework for delivering constructive criticism that lands the way you want it to.

Stanford Graduate School of Business —

What free apps are really worth

How much would someone have to pay you to stop using Facebook? An experiment to quantify what digital goods could add to the GDP found trillions in uncounted value.

Stanford Graduate School of Business —

Using game theory to fight deforestation

Would community cooperation promote sustainable palm oil production in Indonesia? GSB researchers built a game theory model to test the premise.