Publications

2022
Kalev, Alexandra, and Frank Dobbin. 2022. “The Surprising Benefits of Work/Life Support”. Harvard Business Review September-October 2022.
Kalev, Alexandra, and Frank Dobbin. 2022. “How Companies Should Set--and Report--DEI Goals”. Harvard Business Review September 29, 2022.
Knight, Carly, Frank Dobbin, and Alexandra Kalev. 2022. “Under the Radar: Visibility and the Effects of Discrimination Lawsuits in Small and Large Firms​​​​​​​”. American Sociological Review 87 (2):175-201. knight_dobbin_kalev_2022.pdf
Dobbin, Frank, and Alexandra Kalev. 2022. Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn't. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
2021
Dobbin, Frank, and Alexandra Kalev. 2021. “The Civil Rights Revolution at Work: What Went Wrong”. Annual Review of Sociology 47:281-303. dobbin_kalev_2021_annual_review_of_sociology.pdf
Kim, K., A. Kalev, F.Dobbin, and G. Deutsch. 2021. “Effects of the Great Recession on the Diversity of New Faculty”. Sociological Science 8 (15):308-324. ss_kim_kalev_dobbin_deutsch_2021.pdf
Dobbin, Frank, and Alexandra Kalev. 2021. “Why Diversity Training Does Not Work and Policies to Combat Bias in the Workplace More Effectively”. The Economist. dobbin_kalev_economist_5-21-21.pdf
2020
Kalev, Alexandra, and Frank Dobbin. 2020. “Companies Need to Think Bigger than Diversity Training”. Harvard Business Review. Publisher's Version
Dobbin, Frank, and Alexandra Kalev. 2020. “Why Sexual Harassment Programs Backfire”. Harvard Business Review 98 (3):44-52. Publisher's Version hbr_2020_dobbin_kalev.pdf
2019
Dobbin, Frank, and Alexandra Kalev. 2019. “The Promise and Peril of Sexual Harassment Programs”. PNAS 116 (25):12255-12260. Publisher's Version pnas_2019_kalev.pdf
2018
Dobbin, Frank. 2018. “Preface”. in What is Sociology in Twenty American Sociologists’ Eyes, edited by Alex Chen. Beijing: Peking University Press.
Dobbin, Frank. 2018. “Foreword”. in Finance at Work, edited by Valerie Boussard. Abingdon: Routledge.
Dobbin, Frank. 2018. “Review of Lauren B. Edelman, Working Law: Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights”. Contemporary Sociology 47 (5):541-543. dobbin_cs2018.pdf
Dobbin, Frank, and Alexandra Kalev. 2018. “Why Diversity Training Doesn’t Work: The Challenge for Industry and Academia”. Anthropology Now 10 (2):48-55. Web Version dobbin_kalev_an2018.pdf
2017
Pernell, Kim, Jiwook Jung, and Frank Dobbin. 2017. “Hiring Chief Risk Officers Led Banks To Take On More Risk”. Harvard Business Review. Publisher's Version
Dobbin, Frank, and Alexandra Kalev. 2017. “Training Programs and Reporting Systems Won’t End Sexual Harassment – Promoting More Women Will”. Harvard Business Review. Publisher's Version

Reprinted in Women and Gender: The Latest Research. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business Review Press.

Dobbin, Frank, and Alexandra Kalev. 2017. “Are Diversity Programs Merely Ceremonial? Evidence-Free Institutionalization”. Pp. 808-828 in The Sage Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism, edited by Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Thomas B. Lawrence, and Renate E. Meyer. London: Sage. pdf
Pernell, Kim, Jiwook Jung, and Frank Dobbin. 2017. “The Hazards of Expert Control: Chief Risk Officers and Risky Derivatives”. American Sociological Review 82 (3):511-541. pdf
2016
Dobbin, Frank. 2016. “Review of Heather A. Haveman, Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture 1741-1860.”. Administrative Science Quarterly 61 (4):NP40–NP43. Publisher's Version pdf
Dobbin, Frank, and Alexandra Kalev. 2016. “Why Diversity Programs Fail”. Harvard Business Review 94 (7). Publisher's Version

HBR McKinsey Award for 2017

2017 Academy of Management: Outstanding Practitioner-Oriented Publication in Organizational Behavior

Reprinted in HBR's 10 Must Reads - 2018: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review. Pp. 133-149. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business Review Press.

Reprinted in HBR’s 10 Must Reads – On Women and Leadership. (2019). Pp. 103-118. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business Review Press.

Reprinted in How to Fight Racism at Work. Harvard Business Review Special Issue. (2020). Pp. 54-61.

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