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- March 2020 (Revised May 2020)
- Case
Redefining Mogul
By: George Serafeim, Ethan Rouen and Sarah Gazzaniga
Tiffany Pham taught herself to code and created a technology platform, Mogul, with the goal of providing girls and women around the world with information and opportunities. After several years Mogul had reached more than 146 million women around the world and had...
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Women;
Inclusion;
Technology;
Branding;
Social Impact;
Entrepreneurship;
Internet and the Web;
Information;
Knowledge Dissemination;
Gender;
Diversity;
Brands and Branding;
Expansion;
Strategy;
Media;
Personal Development and Career;
Technology Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
United States
Serafeim, George, Ethan Rouen, and Sarah Gazzaniga. "Redefining Mogul." Harvard Business School Case 120-043, March 2020. (Revised May 2020.)
Francesca Gino
Francesca Gino is an award-winning researcher who focuses on why people make the decisions they do at work, and how leaders and employees have more productive, creative and fulfilling lives. She is the best-selling author, most recently, of “
- 2018
- Article
Cracking the Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing
By: Julie Battilana
While in recent decades the social and business sectors have evolved on fairly separate tracks, today companies are increasingly expected to generate social value in addition to profit. As a result, they also increasingly face the distinct challenge of pursuing social...
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Keywords:
Hybrid Organizations;
Hybrid Organizing;
Multiple Goals;
Social Enterprise;
Goals and Objectives;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Culture
Battilana, Julie. "Cracking the Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing." M@n@gement 21, no. 4 (2018): 1278–1305.
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
office interact about 1,000 times more frequently than two people at the company who are in different business units, functions, and offices, but are otherwise similar. Practically speaking, this means that there is very little interaction across these boundaries. Q:...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams
novel.” When it comes to building good rapport, the gender makeup of managers and their teams matters, Tamayo’s research shows. Overall, cisgender men manage other men well, and cisgender women manage other women well. When the View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
stability—bailouts and regulation—varies with the government's fiscal burden and characteristics of the economy. Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-Family Narrative as a Social Defense against the 24/7 Work Culture...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to...
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by Rachel Layne
- Web
Organizational Behavior - Doctoral
McFowland III Michael I. Norton Diversity Alex Chan Edward H. Chang Robin J. Ely Alexandra C. Feldberg Summer R. Jackson Shirley Lu Jeffrey T. Polzer Lakshmi Ramarajan Letian Zhang Conflict management Amit Goldenberg Kathleen L. McGinn...
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- 16 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults
Institute added a second international data set to their study. To make sure their findings could be replicated across both time and geographic distance, they compared two cross-national social surveys, the “Family and Changing Gender...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Glasses Land the Gig: Employers Still Choose Workers Who 'Look the Part'
write. You Might Also Like: Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates Too Nice to Lead? Unpacking the Gender Stereotype That Holds Women Back When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- 2017
- Article
New Venture Milestones and the First Female Board Member
By: Alicia DeSantola, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Julie Battilana
We explore the antecedents of the addition of the first woman to the boards of directors of entrepreneurial ventures. Building on research on resource dependency, we propose that new ventures are most likely to add the first woman to their boards at three developmental...
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Keywords:
Boards Of Directors;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Entrepreneurship;
Gender;
Diversity;
Technology Industry;
United States
DeSantola, Alicia, Lakshmi Ramarajan, and Julie Battilana. "New Venture Milestones and the First Female Board Member." Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2017).
- 10 May 2021
- News
Who Has Potential? For White Men, It’s Usually Other White Men
- 03 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers
combination of observations, interviews, and archival data in The Task Bind: Explaining Gender Differences in Managerial Tasks and Performance, recently published in Administrative Science Quarterly, to analyze 80 retail grocery stores...
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- 18 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Leaning In
the identity or gender of his or her partner. At the beginning and again in the middle of the experiment, the “workers” and “firms” completed a simple but annoying set of math problems—adding up a bunch of numbers horizontally, for...
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by Carmen Nobel
- Article
Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women
Any list of top CEOs reveals a stunning lack of diversity. Among the leaders of Fortune 500 companies, for example, just 32 are women, three are African-American, and not one is an African-American woman. What’s going on? The authors studied the careers of the roughly...
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Roberts, Laura Morgan, Anthony Mayo, Robin Ely, and David Thomas. "Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 2 (March–April 2018): 126–131.
- Web
Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni
McKown (MBA 1981) , Iora Health Shara Ticku (MBA 2017) , C16 Biosciences Video Recording Solutions that Work: Increasing Diversity in Startups, VCs, and Tech Moderator: Colleen Ammerman , Director, HBS Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative...
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- 25 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business
apply well in diverse workplaces, including elevating women and helping narrow the gender gap, Gompers says. “If I were an HR person, and two people were pretty similar, and somebody spent 20 hours a week...
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by Rachel Layne
- 31 Jul 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization
- 15 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom
stayed home full time, according to a new study. Men raised by working mothers are more likely to contribute to household chores and spend more time caring for family members. “There are very few things that have such a clear effect on View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
Alexandra C. Feldberg
Alexandra (Allie) Feldberg is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School.
Professor Feldberg uses qualitative and quantitative methods to examine intersections between gender,... View Details