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- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
Mbanusi (MBA 2021) and Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021), who came to business school from nonprofit and chemical engineering backgrounds respectively, prove that experience outside of investing can also be highly transferable and valuable to the field. Their stories showcase... View Details
- September 1999 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
Deloitte & Touche (B): Changing the Workplace
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
Deloitte & Touche women's initiative changed the workplace culture at the firm, solved retention problems, and brought external benefits. Now a new CEO must decide how to take this a step further as competition for talent was even stronger, young people had different... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Organizational Culture; Accounting; Gender; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Loss; Change Management; Jobs and Positions; Resignation and Termination; Accounting Industry; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Jane Roessner. "Deloitte & Touche (B): Changing the Workplace." Harvard Business School Case 300-013, September 1999. (Revised May 2003.)
- March 2021
- Teaching Plan
The Black New Venture Competition
Black entrepreneurs encounter many unique obstacles when raising capital to start and grow a business, some stemming from deep systemic discrimination. During their second year at Harvard Business School (HBS), MBA students Kimberly Foster and Tyler Simpson decided to... View Details
Keywords: Analytics; Startup; Start-up; Startup Financing; Financing; Startups; Start-ups; Business And Community; Business And Society; Business Growth; Discrimination; Women; Women-owned Businesses; African Americans; African-american Entrepreneurs; African-american Investors; African-American Protagonist; African-American Women; Early Stage Funding; Early Stage; Innovation & Entrepreneurship; Innovation Competitions; Entrepreneurial Financing; Business Plan; Business Startups; Diversity; Gender; Race; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Small Business; Leadership; Information Technology; Competition
- 11 Jun 2024
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024
As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 18 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Leaning In
the identity or gender of his or her partner. At the beginning and again in the middle of the experiment, the “workers” and “firms” completed a simple but annoying set of math problems—adding up a bunch of numbers horizontally, for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Students on the Job Market - Doctoral
disclosure of repurchase intent and more detailed quantitative repurchase disclosure. While the modernized rule became effective in October 2023, it was vacated in December 2023. Due to different quarter start dates, the law was effective... View Details
- Web
Women’s health is more than female anatomy and our reproductive system—it’s about unraveling centuries of inequities due to living in a patriarchal healthcare system. - Blog: Health Supplement
“women’s health”? Is it serving health needs based on gender (one’s identity of being a woman) or sex (different biological and physiological characteristics females face)? Women’s health through the lens of “sex” and “gender” For too... View Details
- 29 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Celebrates Pride Month
closeted. We are reminded during this time of year that "being a leader who makes a difference in the world" is sometimes accomplished simply by being yourself. Sam Bokher Experiencing my first Pride month in the U.S. made me realize how... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
likely to be rewarded for their ideas in male-typed domains when gender is known. This is partly due to discrimination and partly due to differences in self-promotion. External analysis of the chat data... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness
the race and gender of a new appointment to the demographics of the departing member of a group. “People are otherwise likely to choose replacements who demographically resemble their predecessors.” This preference for maintaining the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions
recognition to evaluate millions of people, even tiny algorithmic mistakes in prediction across races or genders make a huge difference in the aggregate; any decision that is made based on the prediction of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
conduct laboratory experiments that explore how gender stereotypes shape beliefs about ability of oneself and others in different categories of knowledge. The data reveal two patterns. First, men’s and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Master the One-on-One Meeting
career. From the nerdiest, most introverted engineer to the highly extroverted sales executive. They’ve been on either side of up to 20 years senior or junior to me, varying genders and from as far away as India and China to as near as... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- Aug 2017
- Conference Presentation
To Highlight or Downplay Differences? A Threat-Matching Model for Crafting Diversity Approaches
By: J. Lees and E. Apfelbaum
We integrate organizational and psychological scholarship to devise the threat matching model, a contingency theory that illustrates when, how, and which diversity approaches—frameworks leaders provide employees to understand and respond to diversity—promote... View Details
Keywords: Race And Ethnicity; Inclusion; Diversity; Gender; Race; Ethnicity; Equality and Inequality; Leadership
- Web
Help - Alumni
Guidelines for payments differ for reunion and annual giving pledges. Reunion Pledges: For the 5th, 10th, 15th 20th, 50th, and up Pledges must be made by June 30 following the reunion and should be fulfilled by the following December 31.... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50854 Knowing When to Ask: The Cost of Leaning-in By: Exley, Christine L., Muriel Niederle, and Lise Vesterlund Abstract—Gender differences in the propensity to negotiate are often used to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- Web
Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
October 2024. On Why Women-owned Businesses Take More Time to Secure Microloans By: Goran Calic , Moren Lévesque and Anton Shevchenko October 2024 | Article | Small Business Economics Examining gender View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
result, sponsorship does not close the gender gap in competitiveness or earnings. We discuss how these insights from the laboratory could help to inform the design of sponsorship programs in the field. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne