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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Race, Work & Leadership: Learning about & from Black Experience Race, Work & Leadership: Learning about & from Black Experience 08–09 MAR 2018 Home Speakers Videos Agenda 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Harvard Business School’s African American... View Details

19 Apr 2017
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Can Grade-Skipping Close the STEM Gender Gap?

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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Talking the Walk: Possibilities for Change through Dialogue, Expression, and Narrative Talking the Walk: Possibilities for Change through Dialogue, Expression, and Narrative 31 MAR–01 APR 2016 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Location: Harvard Business School Organizer: The... View Details

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Business Administration and faculty chair of the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on organizational change, group... View Details

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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Discrimination: Joint versus Separate Decision Making Corinne Moss-Racusin , Skidmore College Testing Interventions to Reduce Gender Bias in STEM Fields Emilio Castilla , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management... View Details

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Headlined News”, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, as well as various other news outlets. Philomena Essed Philomena Essed is professor of Critical Race, Gender and Leadership Studies at Antioch University’s Graduate... View Details

April 2013
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Gendered Races: Implications for Interracial Marriage, Leadership Selection, and Athletic Participation

By: Adam D. Galinsky, Erika V. Hall and Amy J.C. Cuddy

Six studies explored the overlap between racial and gender stereotypes and the consequences of this overlap for interracial dating, leadership selection, and athletic participation. Two initial studies, utilizing explicit and implicit measures, captured the stereotype... View Details

Keywords: Stereotypes; Attraction; Prejudice and Bias; Leadership; Race; Attitudes; Family and Family Relationships; Sports; Gender; United States

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05 Mar 2020
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To Reduce Gender Bias, Anonymize Job Applications

27 Jan 2016
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Harvard MBA Hurdles Silicon Valley Gender Barrier

Keywords: Stitch Fix; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

21 Dec 2010
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An Effort to Close the Gender Gap

Keywords: Finance

02 Jun 2017
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Venture capital’s gender gap is costly for firms and the economy

Winter 2020
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Goodfellows: Men's Role and Reason in the Fight for Gender Equality

By: Debora L. Spar

The essay attempts to make the case for including—even embracing—men in the fight for gender equality. If men believe in equality, then expanding that belief to explicitly include women is not a leap of logic or an act of charity. It is instead a basic extension of a... View Details

Keywords: Gender; Diversity; Equality and Inequality

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21 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know

Pressure to not compete against men, rather than an innate preference for cooperation over competition, may keep women from earning what they're worth in the workplace, according to preliminary findings by three Harvard researchers. In their forthcoming paper, The... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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Pathways to Inclusive Entrepreneurship - Race, Gender & Equity

Introducing Pathways to Inclusive Entrepreneurship Episode 1: The State of Inclusive Entrepreneurship Episode 2: Pathways to Inclusive Entrepreneurship Episode 3: The Founder’s Journey Reports Diversity & Entrepreneurship: Race & Gender... View Details

2010
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From Bench to Board: Gender Differences in University Scientists' Participation in Commercial Science

This paper examines gender differences in the participation of university life science faculty in commercial science. Based on theory and field interviews, we develop hypotheses regarding how scientists' productivity, co-authorship networks, and institutional... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; For-Profit Firms; Gender Characteristics; Higher Education; Entrepreneurship; Governing and Advisory Boards; Science-Based Business; Nonprofit Organizations; Biotechnology Industry

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September 2011
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Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women's Leadership Development Programs

By: Robin J. Ely, Herminia Ibarra and Deborah Kolb

We conceptualize leadership development as identity work and show how subtle forms of gender bias in the culture and in organizations interfere with the identity work of women leaders. Based on this insight, we revisit traditional approaches to standard leadership... View Details

Keywords: Programs; Prejudice and Bias; Leadership Development; Identity; Organizational Culture; Gender

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08 May 2025
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Race, Gender & Equity at Work Symposium

30 Sep 2022
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News from the Gender Initiative: Q+A with Robin Ely and Colleen Ammerman

June 2020
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The Isolated Choice Effect and Its Implications for Gender Diversity in Organizations

By: Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios, Aneesh Rai and Katherine L. Milkman

We highlight a feature of personnel selection decisions that can influence the gender diversity of groups and teams. Specifically, we show that people are less likely to choose candidates whose gender would increase group diversity when making personnel selections in... View Details