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  • 29 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

Pressure to increase gender diversity in C-suites is so intense that companies are trying to draw women candidates with higher salary offers, a phenomenon that is closing the gender pay gap among senior executives, research shows. Female... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • January 2022
  • Article

Determinants of Gender Differences in Change in Pay among Job-Switching Executives

By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Eric Lin
The authors investigate what determines differences in change in pay between men and women executives who move to new employers. Using proprietary data of 2,034 executive placements from a global search firm, the authors observe narrower pay differences between men and... View Details
Keywords: Executive Pay; Executive Labor Market; Gender Pay Gap; External Recruitment; Executive Compensation; Gender; Human Capital
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  • 15 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

Why are women so dramatically underrepresented in formal leadership positions, and what can be done about it? That's the basic question contemplated in a book of essays called, The Difference "Difference" Makes, edited by Debra... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • Article

Is This the Right C-Suite Role?

By: Anne Donnellon, Joshua D. Margolis and Amy Gallo
A Harvard Business School Case Study is presented which asks "Is This the Right C-Suite Role?" Experts Rakefet Russak Aminoach, managing partner at venture capital firm TeamB, and Nadia Rawlinson, chief people officer at Slack and a board director at Vail Resorts and... View Details
Keywords: Executives; Women Executives; Office Politics; Management Teams; Personal Development and Career
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  • 02 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Salary Negotiations: A Catch-22 for Women

Professor Julian Zlatev and colleagues found evidence that women who felt empowered at the negotiation table were more likely to reach worse deals or no deal at all. The results held regardless of their negotiation partners’ gender. Eight... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation

For high-powered executive women, the HBS program Women Leading Business: An Executive Forum offers a unique opportunity to discuss strategy, examine problems, and explore... View Details
Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

really leveled off, and has been stuck for at least 10 years."—Robin Ely But even with increasing representation, women still fill less than 15 percent of executive officer positions at Fortune 500... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

What do a health food manufacturer, an infectious-diseases specialist and a content-management expert have in common? Answer: All are women, all are entrepreneurs. And by virtue of being women and entrepreneurs they share one... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • February 2016 (Revised October 2016)
  • Case

Linda Rabbitt at rand* construction

By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly
Linda Rabbitt, founder and CEO of rand* construction, walked into her office at the company's headquarters in Alexandria, VA, and closed the door behind her. It was 10:00 a.m. on Monday, September 22, 2014, and she had just addressed her staff after the sudden and... View Details
Keywords: Women And Leadership; Women Executives; Succession Planning; Leadership; Entrepreneurship; Management Succession; Construction Industry; District of Columbia
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  • 23 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

predicted the same level of positive outcomes. Yet, women predicted a higher level of negative outcomes than men did. The researchers yielded similar results when they repeated the exercise with 204 mid-career students in the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading

There it is, gleaming at the top of your LinkedIn feed: your dream job, a high-level, well-paying position in your field. Are you qualified enough? Should you apply? New research shows that women might be less likely to take that chance... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

success will depend on your organization and execution as well as the basic concept. In the work that I'm doing with HBS alumni, I have found that women believe the greatest demand on their time—in terms of... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
  • 17 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

branch manager or executive roles within a firm, women and men were held to the same standards and punished in comparable ways. The researchers observed the same phenomenon with racial minorities, with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 11 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

Swan (HBS MBA '91), former executive vice president of Nickelodeon and now on the advisory board of Ascend Venture, and Donna Lopiano, executive director of the Women's Sports Foundation. HBS professor Myra... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Apr 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?

outstanding executives represent the best or worst of feminism. It is to speculate on the influence that a future populated by female leadership in a significant number of organizations will have on the way we work. A number of arguments... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • November 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

Bridgit: Persevere or Pivot?

By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
In late 2012, Mallorie Brodie and Lauren Lake, two young women in their final year of college, founded Bridgit, a technology startup that developed solutions to simplify vital but laborious processes within the construction industry. In the Fall of 2013, after months... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneur; Founder; Co-founders; Women Executives; Pivot; Startup; Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Product Launch; Research and Development; Competition; Construction Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Canada
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  • 08 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

opportunities for women to lead. At HBS, we create case studies to help teach students to become future leaders. Each case generally focuses on one organization and features a protagonist, often an executive... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
  • 11 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

“Multinationals seemed to be hiring differently in the host market than at home” But it's not a total no-brainer. Many executives at multinational corporations considered hiring Korean women into management... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

diversity, 51 percent of women answered yes, versus 25 percent of men. "Lack of women in executive ranks" topped the list of reasons that men believe the percentage of View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Too Nice to Lead? Unpacking the Gender Stereotype That Holds Women Back

gender. “Gender-specific expectations can really start to matter when we think about backlash and image concerns. If I’m a woman, I might be expected to be nicer, and then if I’m not nicer, I might face more backlash than a man would,” Exley cautions. You Might Also... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta

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