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  • 06 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

focused on a single industry or country and has not accounted for possible variation across social contexts. This paper advances an institutional framework and predicts that gender diversity’s effect on performance is determined by both... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

On the Economic Origins of Concerns Over Women’s Chastity

By: Anke Becker
This paper studies the origins and function of customs and norms that intend to keep women from being promiscuous. Using large-scale survey data from more than 100 countries, I test the anthropological theory that a particular form of preindustrial... View Details
Keywords: Infibulation; Female Sexuality; Paternity Uncertainty; Concern About Women's Chastity; Pastoralism; Economic Anthropology; History; Gender; Social Issues; Culture
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  • 18 Sep 2016
  • News

Should We Encourage Work?

  • 15 Feb 2022
  • News

Women’s Gains on Bank Boards at Risk of Stalling

  • September 2022
  • Article

How HBR Has Covered Women and Business: From Articles on 'Successful Wives of Successful Executives' to 'Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers'

By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
Over the course of its century-long history, HBR has evolved significantly in its coverage of women and business. At first the magazine barely acknowledged the existence of women in the workforce, but in the 1950s it began to pay attention to the roles women were... View Details
Keywords: Women; Business; Gender; Journals and Magazines; Trends
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Managing Multiple Identities at Work

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan
Peoples’ work identities, which are often a deep source of meaning for them, may conflict with or complement cultural, familial, or personal identities they value. A central focus of Professor Ramarajan’s work is understanding, on the individual level, how these... View Details

    Julie Battilana

    Julie Battilana is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, where she is also the founder and faculty... View Details

    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration

    Every year, a large number of women migrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia. This phenomenon virtually did not exist in the early 1990s, but foreign brides currently comprise 4 to 35 percent of newlyweds in these developed Asian... View Details
    Keywords: Immigration; Gender; Developing Countries and Economies; Education; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; East Asia; Japan; South Korea; Taiwan; Singapore
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    • 27 Mar 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: March 27

    U.S., and an experimental exercise) that are consistent with the model.   Working PapersWhen Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation Authors:Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We examine... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • January 2025
    • Supplement

    Negotiating with Data: Analytics FC (B)

    By: Jillian Jordan and Livia Alfonsi
    Analytics FC was a UK-based sports consultancy that focused on international football (soccer), leveraging cutting-edge data-analytic techniques to support clubs, federations, and players. In 2022, Alex Greenwood, an elite female defender, approached the company for... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation Preparation; Gender; Analytics and Data Science; Reputation; Value Creation; Consulting Industry; Sports Industry; Europe; United Kingdom
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    • 08 Nov 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

    strong incentives to impose restrictions on women’s promiscuity. “The gender gaps in labor market participation, micro-entrepreneurship, or business ownership more generally seem to also partly reflect this social View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 16 Dec 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

    government to study gender norms around technology adoption. “I spend a lot of time in villages, talking to women, and so often their view of themselves is low,” she says. “It’s rewarding to have the... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • January 2025
    • Case

    Negotiating with Data: Analytics FC (A)

    By: Jillian Jordan and Livia Alfonsi
    Analytics FC was a UK-based sports consultancy that focused on international football (soccer), leveraging cutting-edge data-analytic techniques to support clubs, federations, and players. In 2022, Alex Greenwood, an elite female defender, approached the company for... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation Preparation; Gender; Analytics and Data Science; Reputation; Value Creation; Consulting Industry; Sports Industry; Europe; United Kingdom
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    • 01 Jun 2024
    • News

    In My Humble Opinion: Career Change

    “That’s not the norm in Japan,” she says. That cultural melting pot changed how Tanaka saw the world and her place in it. She wanted to keep learning about different cultures, religions, and politics, a desire that brought her to... View Details
    Keywords: Michelle Cassidy; recruitment; demographics; Japan
    • July 2023
    • Article

    So, Who Likes You? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

    By: Ravi Bapna, Edward McFowland III, Probal Mojumder, Jui Ramaprasad and Akhmed Umyarov
    With one-third of marriages in the United States beginning online, online dating platforms have become important curators of the modern social fabric. Prior work on online dating has elicited two critical frictions in the heterosexual dating market. Women, governed by... View Details
    Keywords: Online Dating; Internet and the Web; Analytics and Data Science; Gender; Emotions; Social and Collaborative Networks
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    • 07 Mar 2023
    • HBS Case

    ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

    ChatGPT, the remarkable AI chatbot garnering attention worldwide. The rollout comes amid mounting concerns that AI could perpetuate cultural, racial, and gender biases, sparking intense debate over the uses—and misuses—of this powerful... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology
    • 26 Aug 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: August 26

    that this deterrence effect is stronger for smaller companies and in institutional contexts featuring stronger activist pressures and stronger norms of corporate transparency. Examining the decisions of 2,043 firms headquartered in 42... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

    identities For example, using language that implicitly holds as a norm heterosexuality, Democratic Party affiliation, high socioeconomic status, or heavy drinking during social events. Suggestions: Use neutral references (e.g., “partner,”... View Details
    • 02 Jul 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

    more money in their pockets. Other factors that contribute to income disparity are more based in societal issues or on how companies go about their business. For example, large companies may pay more for a similar job than a smaller firm; lower relative salaries can... View Details
    Keywords: by Roberta Holland
    • Web

    Curriculum - Business & Environment

    on boards, and even the potential to create social good. This course will be differentiated from other excellent offerings at HBS by focusing on the intersection of investing/finance and key global challenges, guided for example by the Sustainable Development Goals,... View Details