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- 20 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance, Groysberg's current focus is on women: both how they succeed as individuals and how organizations can best leverage female talent. His work has led to a new MBA... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Female Inventors and Inventions
- 05 Mar 2019
- News
Female Faculty Leading the Conversation
- 2013
- Article
Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
By: Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr and Stephen O'Connell
We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male... View Details
Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell. "Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India." Journal of Economic Geography 13, no. 6 (November 2013): 929–964. (Winner of the FPD Academy Award for Best World Bank Research in Finance and Private Sector Development.)
- 17 Sep 2018
- News
Female Founders Index
- 07 Nov 2019
- News
Scranton Elects First Female Mayor
As an Oregon native running on the Independent ticket, Paige Cognetti (MBA 2014) was not the most likely candidate to claim victory in a special mayoral election that took place Tuesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania. But she won handily, claiming 36 percent of the vote in... View Details
- 06 Jul 2022
Industry Spotlight: Female Founders
Learn from HBS Professor Allison Mnookin why HBS is #1 in female founders and the many ways HBS supports women hoping to start their own company. Hear from HBS female founders as they reflect on their MBA... View Details
- 29 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
- August 2006 (Revised June 2015)
- Background Note
Female Entrepreneurship in Developed and Developing Countries
By: Geoffrey Jones and Alexis Lefort
Examines the extent of and challenges facing female entrepreneurs in developing countries. There are higher rates of female entrepreneurship in developing countries than developed countries, but necessity is often the main driver in lower income countries. Explores the... View Details
Jones, Geoffrey, and Alexis Lefort. "Female Entrepreneurship in Developed and Developing Countries." Harvard Business School Background Note 807-018, August 2006. (Revised June 2015.)
- August 26, 2014
- Comment
Female Hurricanes Are Not Deadlier than Male Hurricanes
By: Daniel Malter
In a highly contentious study, Jung, Shavitt, Viswanathan and Hilbe (2014) claimed that hurricanes had higher death tolls when they had female rather than male names due to implicit gender bias. Their article includes a study of the death toll of hurricanes that made... View Details
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Malter, Daniel. "Female Hurricanes Are Not Deadlier than Male Hurricanes." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, no. 34 (August 26, 2014): E3496.
- Nov 08 2018
- Testimonial
Pitching In for Female Leaders
- 26 Oct 2011
- News
IBM’s Rometty Named Company’s First Female CEO
- 20 Jun 2023
- News
First Female Harvard Business School Chair
- 28 Jun 2023
- Video
Female and Focused on STEM
- Nov 13 2018
- Testimonial
Lessons Learned on Female Leadership
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
New Funding for Female Founders
Jessica Assaf (MBA 2016), Andy Coravos (MBA 2017), and Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) There’s been a wealth of good news for alumnae entrepreneurs in recent weeks, with founders Jessica Assaf (MBA 2016), Andy Coravos (MBA 2017), and Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) among those... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
Vertex Appoints First Female CEO
Boston-based Vertex announced in July that Reshma Kewalramani (GMP 18, 2015), currently the company’s chief medical officer, would take on the role of president and CEO in April. Jeffrey Leiden, after seven years in the role, will stay on as executive chairman. The... View Details