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- 10 Jan 2017
- News
A Voice for Women Leaders
Laura Liswood (MBA 1976) is cofounder and secretary general of the Council of Women World Leaders, an international network of current and former female prime ministers and presidents that aims to have impact globally on issues of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
patients to identify a provider who cares for their exact condition. “You can specify that you want to see a female oncologist who specializes in breast cancer, accepts your insurance, and speaks Spanish, for example,” Gardner says. Then... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
in gender and status: Individuals with particularly high academic status—“superstar” scientists—altered their scores 24 percent less often than those of lesser status; and female reviewers changed their scores 13 percent more often than... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
competitors had recently been forced to pay a record $108 million to settle a class action suit brought by female employees who had been denied advancement opportunities. Aiyer wanted to know what Albertsons was doing to avoid this costly... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
acclaim as Harvard Female Athlete of the Year. Yet, despite all that, when the talented point guard was approached to play professionally in Europe at the end of her senior year, she recalls, “It had never occurred to me that I could play... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
and out of the tech sector. She was cofounder of MTV Europe; CEO in charge of launching AOL's Entertainment Asylum; and entrepreneur-in-residence for Softbank Technology Ventures. Being a female entrepreneur herself, she figured there... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
especially in the range of skin tones that were recognized as being beautiful, and profitable. Worldwide, though, paler skins, rounder eyes, slim figures, and white teeth remained the benchmark of female beauty, regardless of ethnicity.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
iVillage soon created sites such as About Work (www.aboutwork.com), Better Health (www.betterhealth.com), and Armchair Millionaire (www.armchairmillionaire.com), a financial planning site. Although Carpenter and her cofounders originally targeted both male and View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
zones while she was a student here. Her first book, 2012’s The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, tells the story of Kamila Sidiqi, a young female Afghan entrepreneur who built a thriving business under Taliban rule. Her 2015 book, Ashley’s War,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
case studies with female protagonists (see HBS Bulletin, February 1998). Gail Evans, executive vice president of Cable News Network, gave the afternoon keynote address. She urged attendees to "make requests to see what's possible," noting... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
youngest, the blackest, the only female in so many different environments. So, for example, when I went to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, I was a business major. And I remember being only one of less than 10 African... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
and not just with our hearts—we start investing our money wisely.” —Leslie Feinzaig (MBA 2007), founder and CEO, Female Founders Alliance Research has begun to identify the myriad ways gender changes the pitch process. In a 2014 paper,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
business, women as professionals, and women’s personal lives. Included are materials as diverse as the diaries of whaling captains’ wives, wills that show how 18th-century property laws affected women, advertisements for “female complaint” medicine manufactured by a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
were reinforced by Denise Condon Welsh (MBA '81), an HBS classmate of Hart's who wrote to Clark about the issues of women's reentry into the professional ranks. Welsh noted that each year since graduation she had joined ten female... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Addressing Gender Equity In Business And Society
findings are integrated into the MBA curriculum through an expanded pool of case studies with female protagonists—an effort led by Boris Groysberg (DBA 2002), Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration—as well as through the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
example, is one where people are pushing me to understand the reason why, when a female has a female manager, they don’t end up spending more time together the way men do with their male managers. I would... View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
to change. The discussion also featured guest panelists: Yasmin Cruz Ferrine, General Partner of Visible Hands VC, and Glynn Lloyd, Executive Director at The Foundation for Business Equity. Through their respective organizations, these entrepreneurs are redefining the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
a knack for dealing effectively with government agencies and knowing "what buttons to push" to ensure that talented women were hired, including the first female chairperson of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The overall result of... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
Rochester, on September 10, the club’s president, Jocelyn Goldberg-Schaible (MBA 1977) said feedback from the audience was full of praise for Jones and her insightful take on parenting, with one commenter calling her “a female Mr.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
married — there were 11 women and 700 men in my class, and I’m not sure what my priorities would have been otherwise,” Cohen laughs. More seriously, she recalls, “One of my male classmates invited me early on to join his study group. That outreach was important to me... View Details