Anita McGahan in conversation with Daphné Baldassari

June 28, 2024
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About the Guest


Interview Speaker

Daphné Baldassari

Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business

Daphné Baldassari is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, and holds a PhD in Strategic Management from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on understanding the mechanisms helping...

Reflections from the Interview


Daphne emphasizes the mistakes we make in understanding what works to accomplish change in social systems. Her work on the Oscars So White movement and on other interventions highlights the importance of structural impediments to change. She gives an example of an assumption that women don’t want to compete. She cites a paper showing that there are no intrinsic differences between women and men in wanting to compete! The differences are in the context in which women and men are...

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