Before this project, I was very unfamiliar with the process of conducting research, and didn’t have much experience with reading published research either. From the start, my research mentor/ colleague, Dean Murrell, has been a guiding light for me making my way through this project. I used to think that conducting research had to entail…
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Achieving Tangible Results in a Virtual World
This is the first time I’ve ever conducted research at such a professional level and on an independent topic, so I definitely gained a whole new perspective on interdisciplinary research and the research process in general. My biggest takeaway is that I never realized how much work is required in the early stages of the…
Building your Network to Build your Future
My experience with connecting with a research mentor was largely unplanned, although not due to luck. I am in the business honors program and in the fall semester, I took Ray Jones for the class “Organizational Behavior,” through which I completed a 1 credit annotated bibliography on a research topic of my choice (I chose…
Explaining Subconscious Gender Bias
One of the most important findings regarding the Glass Cliff is that people respond differently to its impact, causes, and very existence based on their own personal backgrounds and beliefs. For instance, studies show that women are much more likely to acknowledge pernicious causes of the phenomenon, whereas men are likely to blame benign causes…
On the Edge of the Glass Cliff
Although I have been interested in gender equality and learning about the causes of gender discrimination my entire life, I have always mainly focused on external factors that have caused such a disparity in the number of women and men in top leadership roles in this country. I have also generally focused on corporate America….
Introduction
Hello! My name is Meg Anderson and I just finished up my Freshman year at Pitt in the business school. I grew up in Murrysville, PA, which is about a half hour east of Pittsburgh. I loved going to the city and surrounding neighborhoods all throughout my childhood and fell in love with Oakland and…