In this conversation, Julia chats with and Amy Wrzesniewski, the Michael H. Jordan Professor of Management, about her Wall Street Journal Oped "Promises aren't enough: Business schools need to do a better job of teaching students values" and her impressions of the role of values in leadership and work. The conversation covers the challenges that many business schools have faced in their approaches to teaching ethics along with the approach taken at our home institution at Yale.  To learn more about Professor Wrzesniewski's work go here: https://som.yale.edu/faculty/amy-wrzesniewski To hear more of the song "Cheer up Daniel" from the episode, written and performed by Hey Rogue, go here.

On this #powerpod episode we are joined by Dr. Mikey Pasek of the New School for Social Research. Dr. Pasek studies religious identity and the relationships between religious threat and belonging. Dr. Pasek's work on this topic can be found here:  The paper detailing the success of the initiative can be found here. To read about hate crimes based on religious identity go here. News coverage of Rep. Stephanie Borowicz’s (R) opening prayer at the Pennsylvania State House can be found here.  Read more about Dr. Pasek and his research here. To hear more of the song "Cheer up Daniel" from the episode written and performed by Hey Rogue go here.

On this #powerpod episode we are joined by Professor Neil Lewis Jr., Assistant Professor of Communications and Psychology at Cornell University. Professor Lewis Jr. is one of the researchers responsible for developing the Preparation Initiative, a learning community at the University of Michigan, with the broad goal of helping students whose backgrounds put them at a disadvantage relative to their peers to achieve academic success. The paper detailing the success of the initiative can be found here. The paper is part of a special issue at the journal, Perspectives on Psychological Science about "How Can Psychological Science Contribute to a Healthier, Happier, and More Sustainable World?" (see: here). Read more about Neil Lewis Jr. and his research here. To hear more of the song "Cheer up Daniel" from the episode written and performed by Hey Rogue go here.

In this episode of the power pod we discuss social identity with Christina Whatley, MBA of the class of 2019, and current President of the student government at Yale School of Management (SOM). In the episode Christina and Michael talk about the challenges of being a racial minority student at SOM and on the Yale campus, the school's relationship to the broader New Haven community, and Christina's goals to make a broader impact on the world through finance.  To read more about how identity shapes belonging on college campuses, go here. Walton, G. M., & Cohen, G. L. (2007). A question of belonging: race, social fit, and achievement. Journal of personality and social psychology, 92(1), 82. To read more about Christina and the work of Nancy Pfund and DBL partners, go here and here respectively.   To hear more of the song "Cheer up Daniel" from the episode written and performed by Hey Rogue go here.

In this conversation, MBA student Amy Zhu joins the power pod to discuss her own approach to networking, and more specifically, how helping others is an effective tool for relationship formation.  To hear more of the song "Cheer up Daniel" from the episode written and performed by Hey Rogue go here. The episode features insights summarized in this article : Casciaro, T., Gino, F., & Kouchaki, M. (2014). The contaminating effects of building instrumental ties: How networking can make us feel dirty. Administrative Science Quarterly, 59(4), 705-735.

In the fourth episode of the power pod Professor Cydney Dupree discusses the competence downshift, a well intentioned but ultimately patronizing behavioral strategy among White liberals to appear less competent around Black interaction partners. To hear more of the song "Cheer up Daniel" from the episode written and performed by Hey Rogue go here. The episode features insights summarized in this article: Dupree, C. H., & Fiske, S. T. (in press). Self-presentation in interracial settings: The competence downshift by White liberals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

In this conversation, MBA student Kelley McKee joins the power pod to discuss the pitfalls and promise of delivering feedback, a time when she received feedback that motivated her, and her view that feedback is relational.  To hear more of the song "Cheer up Daniel" from the episode written and performed by Hey Rogue go here. The episode features insights summarized in this article (and another that is forthcoming): Larson Jr, J. R. (1989). The dynamic interplay between employees' feedback-seeking strategies and supervisors' delivery of performance feedback. Academy of Management Review, 14(3), 408-422.

In this conversation, Julia and Michael discuss Julia's time examining how healthcare providers influence the decisions of Army officers despite lacking formal authority. Rather than using formal influence channels the providers rely on a set of strategies that help them create rapid and highly bonded relationships with officers, a process Julia refers to as "Rapid Relationality." To learn more about Professor Julia DiBenigno go here. To hear more of the song "Cheer up Daniel" from the episode written and performed by Hey Rogue go here. The episode features insights summarized in this article (and another that is forthcoming): DiBenigno, J. (2017). Anchored personalization in managing goal conflict between professional groups: The case of US Army mental health care. Administrative Science Quarterly, 0001839217714024.

In this conversation, Heidi and Michael discuss values in the context of management. Heidi begins with a story that describes how she came to understand her "true north" as the practice of creating courageous communities. Michael and Heidi then follow that story with a discussion of how values guide leadership and inspire people, the difference between bravery and courage, the risks that arise from not pursuing one's values, and more. Heidi mentions a brief quote from Rilke during the pod:  "I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer..." To learn more about Professor Heidi Brooks go here. To hear more of the song "Cheer up Daniel" from the episode written and performed by Hey Rogue go here. The episode features insights summarized in this article: Podolny, J. M., Khurana, R., & Hill-Popper, M. (2004). Revisiting the meaning of leadership. Research in organizational behavior, 26, 1-36.