Women And Leadership - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Mar 2022
Blog Post

The Health Care Conference and the Convening Power of HBS

with one of my best friends at HBS, Rebekah Foster (MBA 2022), was in many ways the capstone of my HBS experience. I had the opportunity to use many of the concepts covered during the first-year Required Curriculum, from strategy and... View Details

29 Mar 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Do CEO Activists Make a Difference? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Keywords: by Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel

22 Feb 2023
News

The Determinants and Consequences of Appointing Activist Directors

March 2024
Article

Differences in Care Team Response to Patient Portal Messages by Patient Race and Ethnicity

By: Mitchell Tang, Rebecca Mishuris, Lily Payvandi and Ariel Dora Stern

Importance: The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with substantial growth in patient portal messaging. Higher message volumes have largely persisted, reflecting a new normal. Prior work has documented lower message use by patients who belong to minoritized racial... View Details

Keywords: Health Pandemics; Technology Adoption; Prejudice and Bias; Equality and Inequality; Communication Technology; Race; Ethnicity; Health Industry

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08 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity

In a snapshot of the PresenceLearning leadership team taken this spring, CEO Kate Eberle Walker (MBA 2005) stands, smiling, just right of center. She’s flanked by three other women View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

13 Dec 2021
News

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

November 2008 (Revised January 2017)
Case

Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of St. Luke

By: Anthony Mayo and Shandi Onise Smith

As America struggled to regain its balance in the aftermath of the American Civil War, Maggie Lena Walker did her best to actively effect change by finding solutions to the social and economic problems facing blacks and especially black women. Taking charge of the... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Ethnicity; Race; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Welfare; Business and Community Relations; Gender; Banks and Banking

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17 Apr 2020
News

COVID-19, Global Markets, and Global Macroeconomic Policy Responses: Macroeconomic Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

01 Dec 1999
News

Covering the Issues

standards and social responsibility, technology, globalization, the School's Soldiers Field campus, and the essential contributions that women are making in the business world.... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

13 Apr 2015
News

How Bill Gates' singular focus both helped and hurt Microsoft

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

Business School) The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Neeley: The EU union has barred... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

December 2017 (Revised January 2018)
Case

NatureSweet

By: Jose Alvarez, Forest Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred

This case describes the business model and workplace philosophy of NatureSweet, a privately owned, vertically integrated greenhouse grower and marketer of fresh tomatoes with sales across the United States and $329 million in 2016 revenues. CEO Bryant Ambelang treated... View Details

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July 2024 (Revised September 2024)
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Shell’s Balancing Act: Resource Allocation and the Green Transition (Abridged)

By: David Collis and Haisley Wert

In mid-2023, amid pressure from climate change activists, shareholder activists, and confronting enormous uncertainty about the future demand for and price of fossil fuels, new Shell CEO Wael Sawan (Harvard MBA 2003) announced a change in strategy for the U.K. oil... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Oil ＆ Gas; Renewables; Forecasting Demand; Activist Investing; Strategy; Energy; Climate Change; Resource Allocation; Energy Industry

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09 Jul 2024
News

How Leaders Find Happiness — And Teach It

19 Nov 2019
News

Study shows working from home can benefit employees and companies

18 Oct 2016
Op-Ed

Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

focuses on improving health care access, investing nearly 500,000 skill-based volunteer hours since 2004. It works with non-profit community health centers that provide primary care to underserved communities to build health worker skills View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko; Health

29 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age

service-marketplaces to guess where their new models fall. Faced with this uncertainty, most entrepreneurs will settle for clarity, and innovation will suffer accordingly as novel middle-ground models are abandoned. That certainly doesn’t... View Details

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Transportation; Web Services

May 2022
Teaching Note

Climate Action in Miami

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Catarina Martinez

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 322-101. The Miami metropolitan area is a global epicenter of climate risk from heat and sea level rise, but leaders have only recently mobilized for action to respond to this systemic challenge. Resilient 305 began a collaboration across... View Details