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  • 28 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 28, 2016

Abstract—Several CEOs are receiving significant media attention for taking public positions on controversial social and environmental issues largely unrelated to their core business, ranging from LGBT rights to race relations to gender... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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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  • 31 Oct 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

about the Women’s Soccer team. The story generated national headlines and thrust gender issues, and the University, into the media spotlight. In the following months, the breadth of this type of practice was revealed; the “scouting... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

COVID-19 suggest that the gender of the leader plays a role in how these countries dealt with this particular crisis. Think of the hesitant response of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who did not take this problem very seriously... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

Today's frenzied world of dot-com mania might have been hard to predict 25 years ago, but the Class of 1975 has always had an eye for opportunity. For its time, the class had a sizable number of military officers familiar with strategic tactics and pioneering women who... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 28 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

creation of the charging infrastructure,” she said. “I’d love to see equitable gender parity in the auto space from engineers to software designers to infrastructure technicians.” Erika is particularly concerned about the safety issues... View Details
  • Web

Case Method 100 Years | Baker Library

created, each episode features a case and an interview with the faculty author. 2019 Collection of Cases Featuring Women Developed Cases with Female Protagonists collection developed in partnership with the Gender Initiative. 2020 Racial... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

How Sports Should Use Its Timeout

USA more than any other woman, I played on the national team for 16 years, I firsthand saw the impact that I had as a role model. I saw the impact that my team had, that Team USA had to be a part of the conversation, shape the conversation. Think about what's happening... View Details
  • September 2020
  • Case

The Black New Venture Competition

By: Karen Mills, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Martin Sinozich and Gabriella Elanbeck
Black entrepreneurs encounter many unique obstacles when raising capital to start and grow a business. During their second year at Harvard Business School (HBS), MBA students Kimberly Foster and Tyler Simpson decided to do something to make a difference for... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Start-up; Startup Financing; Startups; Start-ups; African-American Protagonist; African-american Entrepreneurs; African-american Investors; African-Americans; African-American Women; Black Leadership; Black Inventors; Black Entrepreneurs; Harvard Business School; Harvard; Business And Society; Early Stage Funding; Early Stage Finance; Technology Entrepreneurship; Discrimination; Technology Ventures; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurial Financing; Business Plan; Business Startups; Business Ventures; Financing and Loans; Business Growth and Maturation; Diversity; Gender; Race; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Small Business; Leadership; Information Technology; Competition; Technology Industry
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  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

supply chain auditors. We find evidence that their reporting practices are shaped by an array of social factors, including an auditor's experience, gender, and professional training; ongoing relationships between auditors and audited factories; and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

The Levitt Brand

woman. With this new information, Brandt’s sectionmates immediately changed their original analysis, based on gender assumptions. “Levitt’s summation was, ‘Boys, you’d better wake up now, because there are going to be more and more women... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 15 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 15, 2016

Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Several CEOs are receiving significant media attention for taking public positions on controversial social and environmental issues largely unrelated to their core business, ranging from gay marriage to climate change to View Details
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

responses of different national leaders to COVID-19 suggest that the gender of the leader plays a role in how these countries dealt with this particular crisis. Think of the hesitant response of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who did... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 19 Feb 2021
  • News

A Playbook for Progress

gender led to their job applications being viewed more skeptically. By contrast, only 17 percent of our white respondents felt that way. And the extra scrutiny can cause serious stress. Consider the confluence of the coronavirus pandemic,... View Details
  • 20 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

When North Carolina governor Pat McCrory recently signed into law the Public Facilities Privacy & Securities Act, in response to a Charlotte city ordinance that, among other things, would have prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation or View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing
  • 15 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

advancement. To ensure gender equity, the authors recommend that managers (1) question the stereotypes behind their practices, (2) consider other factors that might explain the achievement gap, (3) change workplace conditions accordingly,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

information and communication appears to be driven not as much by gender as by control: men whose wives control household savings are much more likely to exhibit this treatment effect, and women whose husbands control savings exhibit the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

employees in a large information technology firm. These findings have implications for research on homophily, gender relations in organizations, and formal and informal organizational structure. Exclusivity, Contingent Control Rights, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • June 2020
  • Teaching Plan

Chief

By: Katherine B. Coffman, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Kathleen L. McGinn, Julia Kelley, Amy Klopfenstein and Katherine Chen
Teaching Plan serves as a supplement to the case for “Chief: Role for Carolyn Childers” (920-019), “Chief: Role for Lindsay Kaplan” (920-020), and “Scaling at Chief” (920-021). View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Participants; Agreements and Arrangements; Business Ventures; Business Startups; Business Model; Business Growth and Maturation; Demographics; Gender; Ownership; Ownership Stake; Strategy; Business Strategy; Expansion; Competition; Finance; Capital; Venture Capital; Service Industry; Technology Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
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  • 26 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 26, 2016

candidates and choose collaborators who reframed their distress as passion compared to those who did not. Expresser gender did not moderate these effects. Results suggest that in cases when distress expressions cannot or should not be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne