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- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
critical role in university admissions across the world. A key question is whether imposing penalties for wrong answers on these exams deters guessing from women more than men, disadvantaging female test takers. We consider data from a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
shared #MeToo stories of abuse after Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault in October 2017. “With the Weinstein story, a dam broke,” says Colleen Ammerman, director of Harvard Business School’s Gender Initiative, which supports research to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
example, the media also project solutions: that companies should educate employees about biases and be held legally and reputationally responsible for treating men and women equally. Likewise underrepresentation: When the issue is a lack of View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
covering world-class brands, innovative start-ups, and social enterprises, and the most popular of the more than 30 episodes produced in the past year are listed below. The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black, Female... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 27 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Guts, Gall, and Good Luck: What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur
Tips for Finding the Right Job at a Startup Finding a job at a startup is not the same process as hunting employment at an established business. The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black, Female Entrepreneurs Though not everyone... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
entrepreneurs are known to raise higher levels of funding than their female counterparts, but the underlying mechanism for this funding disparity remains contested. Drawing upon Regulatory Focus Theory, we propose that the gap originates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-081.pdf Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration Authors:Daiji Kawaguchi and Soohyung Lee Abstract Every year, a large number of women migrate as brides from developing countries to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
sufficient child care, “it's the same as having your lab shut down.” The disparity for women with young children could be because inadequate systems don’t allow female scientists to do their jobs at the same intensity as their male... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
New South Wales. Local Construction of a Global Standard: Foreign Share Ownership and Workplace Gender Diversity in Japan explains that historically, the Japanese corporate structure has made it difficult for women to enter into high-power positions. It then suggests... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
showed that older, shorter, and relatively overweight men tended to view more profiles than their younger, taller, slimmer counterparts. With the female sample, tall women were the ones who tended to view the most profiles. (In the... View Details
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
traditionally has held power. Another McKinsey study found that high levels of gender equality, measured on several societal dimensions across countries, are associated with such things as better female performance on math tests, better... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
female entrepreneur in the turbulent economy of Kenya, Eva Muraya observes, "It's really up to the leadership of the business to define the moral code." Insights, Struggles, And Achievements These insights aside, Jones is interested in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow
outcome: Female students participate more than usual. "Women are asking more questions and answering more questions online," Anand said. "That's fundamentally different than what's happening (in classrooms)." In the always-connected... View Details
- 29 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014
Quinoa-Häagen-Dazs connection? Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men Studies by Alison Wood Brooks and colleagues reveal that investors prefer pitches from male entrepreneurs over those from female entrepreneurs, even when the... View Details
- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
intellectually superior to females or whites as intellectually superior to blacks or Hispanics. Society has largely accepted such stereotypes as offensive, inappropriate, and leading to the lack of consideration of people as unique. But,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
The results were striking. Writer Julia Hanna described the experiment in a previous HBS Working Knowledge article: "Cuddy and coauthors Dana R. Carney and Andy J. Yap of Columbia University detail the results of an experiment in which forty-two male and View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
employee happened to be female rather than male. Women are more likely than men to link otherwise non-communicating groups of people. Q: Were there any unexpected findings in the research? A: We were surprised by a number of things:... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
but also that NEAD chains produced more transplants for highly sensitized and blood type O recipients. Read the paper: http://kuznets.fas.harvard.edu/~aroth/papers/Nonsimultaneous%20Chains%20AJT%202011.pdf Female Empowerment: Impact of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
research results were analyzed. The team discovered that female callers who said they were uninformed about repair costs were quoted prices about $20 higher than male callers who presented themselves the same way. But when women indicated... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
basketball career? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-019 S'well: The Mass Market Decision This case tells the story of how Sarah Kauss, a young female... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne