Alexandra Marvar, As of 2013, more than 94% of senior executives in commercial real estate companies were white. Science has revealed all kinds of reasons for disproportionate white, male homogeny in corporate upper management. One reason: Leaders may be mistaking unconscious bias for an intuitive ability to evaluate people. "There’s a belief among many managers — an extraordinarily outdated belief but still a shockingly common one — 'I...

Alaxandra Marvar, According to the World Health Organization, contact tracing — along with testing — should be the “backbone of the response” in order to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agrees.  In the past two months, states have deployed thousands of human contact tracers — a role that involves “detective work, profound humility, tact” and “cold-calling people who...