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- 13 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors
for Disease Control. In the emergency room as a business, the customer lives or dies. "Here we find that who you are and who is advocating for you, who is treating you, is making a difference" “This is really like a glass View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
of male HBS grads to the executive office was not easy, but for women still unwelcomed above the glass ceiling in the ’70s, getting there was especially difficult. “She was one smart, sharp cookie,” says a... View Details
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
35-cent breadpan turned upside down with holes punched in it to accommodate tubes, microphone inputs, and gain controls. With this equipment, two microphones, and soundproofing rugs and blankets hung from the ceiling of a cramped basement... View Details
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
not mean putting a positive spin on a sorry situation—an organization at which only 1 percent of executives are minorities, for example. Rather, it means looking at the exception to the rule and studying the factors that made that exception possible. "Most... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Pitching In for Female Leaders
yet I was one of the few women who made it through the glass ceiling to the top of international football. Until one day, the rug was pulled off from underneath me, and I found myself out of a job. There was... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
gender and racial barriers (“crashing through the glass ceiling and the ‘concrete wall,'” as the New York Times put it) when she was named president of Maxwell House in 1994. Three years later, she became... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
New Releases
glass ceiling that confronts most minority managers in large U.S. companies? In their new book, Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America, HBS associate professor David A.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Sep 2013
- News
More Seats at the Table
Beth Stewart Corporate America's glass ceiling doesn't stop at the C-suite. Only 16.6 percent of Fortune 500 companies have a woman on their board of directors. Beth A. Stewart (MBA 1982) is uniquely... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
confidence in the currencies is closely linked to the soundness of the financial sector." WSA: Shattering the Glass Ceiling This year's Women's Student Association (WSA) conference, "Women Who Have Shattered... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Just Breathe
in the entire company, and that comes with a lot of microaggressions. I felt like I was banging my head against the concrete ceiling. (That’s the phrase for women of color, rather than glass ceiling, because it feels like the View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
Netherlands in attendance. The name Voorlinden (literally “in front of the Linden”) has been associated with the surrounding landscape since the 16th century, but the museum’s architecture itself is decidedly modern. Walls consist of planes of stone and View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
Express; Solomon Trujillo, president and CEO of U S West Communications; and Ann Fudge, president of Maxwell House Coffee Company and Post Cereals? How did these people of color overcome the odds and break through the glass View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
answer is the political system. It is enabling, but it is also highly limiting—there is a glass ceiling beyond which talent can't rise." Competing Against The State State-owned banks exist to support... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
you either have to have money or position," she said. The glass ceiling is real, she added. "Money is what you need to change the world. We get both power and position when we get money. All of us... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
her well at Catalyst, the 75-person nonprofit global research and advisory firm she joined as president in 2003 (Lang was named CEO in 2008). Committed to breaking the proverbial glass ceiling once and for... View Details
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
spoke about how glass ceilings don't apply to black women—when they look up, they see a concrete wall. And she argued for another conference on changing academic roles, to combat what she sees as fear among... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
the corridor, which was populated with glass offices, my workmates would kind of call me in and say, it's been not so good today, Perella just kind of reamed you a new one. So that was one. I was embarrassed by that. The other is, I... View Details