Women and Public Policy Program Research Seminar

Co-Sponsored by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School

 

Gender and Negotiation: Preferences, Stereotypes and Power 

 

Friday, October 14, 2005

 

Seminar Chair:

Iris Bohnet

                                                                       

This seminar is supported with a grant from the Harvard University Provost Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration

 

Agenda

 

Format: Presenter - 25 minutes; Discussant - 5 minutes; General Discussion - 15 minutes

Presenters are in bold.

 

8:00am                                     Breakfast and Welcome by Iris Bohnet

 

8:30 – 9:15am                          Rachel Croson and Uri Gneezy 
Gender Differences in Preferences:  A Review of Economics Experiments

Discussant: Nava Ashraf

Chair: Iris Bohnet

9:15 – 9:30am                          Break

9:30 – 10:15am                        Muriel Niederle and Lise Vesterlund
Gender Differences in Competition and Task Choice

Discussant:  Linda Babcock

Chair: Iris Bohnet
                                                                                   

10:15 – 10:30am                      Break

10:30 – 11:15am                      Robert Slonim
The Robustness of Trust and Reciprocity across a Heterogeneous Population

Discussant: Stephan Meier
Chair: Hannah Riley Bowles

 

11:15 – 11:30am                      Break

11:30am 12:15pm                 Iris Bohnet and Richard Zeckhauser
The Elasticity of Trust: Evidence from Kuwait, Oman, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States

 

                                                Discussant:  Uri Gneezy
Chair: Hannah Riley Bowles

 

12:30 – 1:30pm                        Lunch

1:30 2:30pm                          Keynote Address:  Mahzarin Banaji
Invisible Gender Bias: Powerful but Ordinary

                                                Chair: Max Bazerman

2:30 – 2:45pm                          Break

2:45 – 3:30pm                          Linda Babcock, Hannah Riley Bowles and Lei Lai
It Depends Who is Asking: Social Incentives for Sex Differences in the Propensity to Initiate Negotiation

Discussant:  Fiona Greig

                                                Chair: Rachel Croson


3:30 – 3:45pm                          Break

 

3:45 4:30pm                          Adam Galinsky
Power, Propensity to Negotiate, and Moving First in Competitive Interactions

 

Discussant: Hannah Riley Bowles
            Chair: Rachel Croson

4:30 4:45pm                          Break

4:45 5:30pm                          Final discussion

                                                Chair: Iris Bohnet

                                                Commentators: Deborah Kolb and Kathleen McGinn


7:00pm                                     Dinner for speakers and discussants