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Business Club Fellowship The Africa Business Club Fellowship was established through the generosity of the Africa Business Club at HBS. This fellowship will support students who are committed to making a difference in Africa through... View Details

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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

10 May 2021
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Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

the partners worried the high turnover was damaging the firm’s competitive edge, according to research by Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who studies race and gender... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

June 2023
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Artea Dashboard and Targeting Policy Evaluation

By: Ayelet Israeli and Eva Ascarza

Companies deploy A/B experiments to gain valuable insights about their customers in order to answer strategic business problems. In marketing, A/B tests are often used to evaluate marketing interventions intended to generate incremental outcomes for the firm. The Artea... View Details

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23 Sep 2015
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Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

that women and men tend to view power differently, and have different preferences about professional advancement—and to delve into why. ABILITY VS. DESIRABILITY The research began with the hypothesis that women have more life goals than... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

31 Oct 2023
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Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change

you can still profit while marginalizing groups of workers.” “It's about the fact that there are barriers to inclusion and there has been a history of exclusion and continuing race and gender hierarchies,” Williams said. “It's not a... View Details

Keywords: by Katherine Hutt Scott and Barbara DeLollis

06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2018
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Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

fired, they were 30 percent less likely to find new employment in the industry. “Those differences really jumped out in the data,” Egan says. The researchers explored a possible explanation for the discrepancy, that women on the whole are... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

12 Sep 2023
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Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?

practicing policies designed to increase inclusion and diversity, if not always equity, are more creative and productive than those that ignore such policies. Companies in the top quartile of gender and ethnic/racial diversity are 25... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Jun 2016
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Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

appeal to and require different types of entrepreneurial leaders and we are hoping that our research will help us understand those differences—if they exist,” says Applegate, the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration at HBS... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge

06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6

http://hbr.org/2011/12/the-ordinary-heroes-of-the-taj/ar/1 Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women's Leadership Development Programs Authors:Robin J. Ely, Herminia Ibarra, and Deborah Kolb Publication:Academy of Management... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2024
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In My Humble Opinion: Career Change

When Wakana Tanaka (MBA 2003) was 13 years old, her father’s new job took the family from their home in Tokyo to Jakarta. It was a big change, not just geographically but also culturally. Tanaka enrolled in an international school where she was encouraged to have her... View Details

Keywords: Michelle Cassidy; recruitment; demographics; Japan

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HBS - The year in Review

“Harvard Business School should be a place where the most talented future leaders can come to realize their potential. We want to remove the financial barriers that stand in their way and alleviate the burden of debt so they can focus on becoming leaders who make a... View Details

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Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center | About

in American history, said that her mother “was a positive, optimistic person who believed in the transformational power of education regardless of gender in developing leaders for the world. Angela Chao (Harvard AB 1995, MBA 2001), the... View Details

22 May 2019
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What is FIELD Global Immersion?

to travel based on where their home country is, and where they have extensive travel or professional experience. With these considerations in mind, country and team assignments (aka: Global Section assignments) are made via an algorithm that ensures diversity of View Details

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

with other historical examples, suggesting that the key to understanding technology diffusion lies not only in explaining the number of different users but also in explaining the number of different uses.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

research on institutional leadership, strategic contradiction, and industry evolution. Understanding Different Approaches to Benefit-Based Taxation By: Scherf, Robert, and Matthew C. Weinzierl Abstract—The normative principle of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Nov 2013
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Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

really goes away. Since the dawn of advertising, retailers have made a point of marketing separate lines of branded products for men and women in many categories, even in cases where their functions are essentially the same. It's a concept called View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

in buying and selling, why understanding the difference matters, and the implications for areas such as sales hiring, training, pricing, use of new tools, and performance management. Slides How to Make Hybrid Work Work Associate Professor... View Details

07 Feb 2017
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The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss

to do, but then suddenly you’re in a situation and you just can’t help but cry, that’s when you’re going to get the most bang for your buck from saying you’re passionate.” Different gender combinations were... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

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