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  • 01 Nov 2022
  • Cold Call Podcast

Marie Curie: A Case Study in Breaking Barriers

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
  • 14 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

Unless men embrace their role in eliminating gender bias and barriers, organizations and institutions will never leverage the value that women bring to the workplace. “Most positions of power are still held by men,” says Colleen Ammerman,... View Details
  • 05 Apr 2017
  • Research & Ideas

For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost

Women who come prepared to challenge an auto repair quote can overcome gender discrimination and negotiate a fairer price, according to recently published research. That's one conclusion from the research study Repairing the Damage: The... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Auto; Service
  • 09 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53172 Harvard Business School Case 918-006 Increasing Gender Diversity in the Boardroom: The United Kingdom in 2011 (A) No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

New research suggests that organizations wishing to avoid gender stereotyping in the hiring or promotion process-and employ the most productive person instead—should evaluate job candidates as a group, rather than one at a time. “The... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 04 Jan 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

successes, the distraction of a later effort to improve gender diversity, the disproportionate number of Black employees laid off in a major downsizing, a drop in the number of Black candidates in the pipeline, and weak retention of those... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 2010
  • Book

Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry

By: Geoffrey Jones
The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms that have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Estée Lauder, L'Oréal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us. This book... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Brands and Branding; Industry Growth; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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    Shirley Lu

    Shirley Lu is an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit. She teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum.

    Professor Lu conducts research in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) disclosure,... View Details

    • 08 Mar 2022
    • News

    Women Can’t Go Back to the Pre-Pandemic Status Quo

    • March 8, 2022
    • Article

    Women Can’t Go Back to the Pre-Pandemic Status Quo

    By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
    Survey data collected in 2018 and 2019 from Harvard Business School graduates revealed that for women—and especially women of color—well-being at work was suffering long before the pandemic. While 17% of all respondents said that they often or very often experienced... View Details
    Keywords: Women; Burnout; Gender; Race; Resignation and Termination; Well-being; Employees
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    • September 2013
    • Article

    Great Leaders Who Make the Mix Work

    By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly
    Business leaders send a powerful message when they make a commitment to diversity that goes beyond rhetoric. But what motivates them to do so, and how do they actually create inclusive cultures? To find out, the authors interviewed 24 CEOs whose firms were known for... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Development; Working Conditions; Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Diversity; Gender
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    • 30 Sep 2022
    • News

    HBS Launches Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative

    • Video

    2015 G&WS: A Conversation with Susan Sturm on Building Collaborative Inquiry Relationships

    • April 2025
    • Article

    Skill Dependencies Uncover Nested Human Capital

    By: Moh Hosseinioun, Frank Neffke, Letian Zhang and Hyejin Youn
    Modern economies require increasingly diverse and specialized skills, many of which depend on the acquisition of other skills first. Here we analyse US survey data to reveal a nested structure within skill portfolios, where the direction of dependency is inferred... View Details
    Keywords: Competency and Skills; Human Capital; Personal Development and Career; Equality and Inequality; Analytics and Data Science
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    • 06 Nov 2017
    • Blog Post

    Meet the HBS Women’s Association

    The mission of the WSA is to connect, empower, and celebrate the next generation of women leaders and we do so by engaging the HBS community in the continued pursuit of gender equality in the workplace and beyond. WSA membership is free... View Details
    • 08 Mar 2024
    • Blog Post

    History of the HBS Women's Student Association

    community of women at HBS. This initiative was born out of a necessity to support women navigating the challenges of a predominantly male-dominated business world, marking a significant step towards fostering gender inclusivity and equity... View Details
    • 08 Mar 2019
    • Blog Post

    Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day

    boardrooms and classrooms, like an insult on the proverbial playground?  We didn’t know. So, we talked to allies and advocates, skeptics and critics.  We asked of them, and ourselves: What does it mean to be a feminist? What does it mean to uphold the values of View Details

      Yuval Spiegler

      Yuval is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior and Sociology at HBS. He studies why are similar organizations dissimilarly diverse, especially focusing on extra-organizational dimensions that shape labor market racial and gender segregation. Yuval uses... View Details
      • 02 Jan 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

      Credit: iStockPhoto No surprise: Race and gender were prime topics of interest for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge readers in 2017. Also popular were articles about research that gave us greater understanding about how leaders... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 04 Apr 2016
      • HBS Seminar

      Shelley Correll, Stanford University