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- 13 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading
shows that women account for about 42 percent of the workforce, yet the share of women in senior leadership positions is 32 percent—and at the C-suite level, female representation drops to 25 percent on average. Vaguer job qualifications... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 31 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change
were less likely to appoint a Black teammate to a leadership position, compared with those who weren’t exposed to this research. Those hearing the business case were also less likely to agree that racially diverse teams perform better. In... View Details
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
impairment reporting and that its effect is better understood in the context of upper echelons theory and agency theory. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-088.pdf Risky Trust: How Multi-entity Teams Develop Trust in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)
studies, the team investigated how consumers respond when companies voluntarily disclose that data, since sharing those numbers with the public is optional. Maya Balakrishnan and Jimin Nam, doctoral students at HBS, wrote the study with... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
- 10 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?
production teams hired more female writers after #MeToo than teams that included at least one female producer. This is despite the fact that before #MeToo, female producers were already twice as likely to... View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
tax policy. Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations Authors:Bruce J. Fried, Sharon Topping, and Amy C. Edmondson Publication:In Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
leadership teams. It's pathetic. There's almost no African American representation at the top. There's four of us in the Fortunate 500. I think these leaders have to take a strong stance. And what we have to be willing to do is to talk... View Details
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
"teaching parables" can be produced. In this regard, we suggest not only more action research but also the use of social science portraiture, a genre of inquiry and representation that joins science and art. Sara... View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
in business communications. "You'll burn out, your team will resent you, your reputation will suffer, and the work probably won't all get done anyway." Conversely, if you offer resistance to new duties when the company is down,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 08 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate
question of when life begins.” You Might Also Like: How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 29 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
both employers and job candidates can build on it.” You Might Also Like: Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders Lack of Female... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
performance to provide quantitative insight into the link between a firm's business model choices and its profit consequences. The method is applied to Walmart by building a qualitative representation of its business model and mapping... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
same. This is in the face of research findings that organizations with significant minority representation are stronger than their peers. A McKinsey & Company study in May of top executive teams in more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
issues of econometric and scientific uncertainty. As a result, the basis for the broader legitimacy of the WTO is shifting from questions of representation that have long drawn attention to epistemic issues, especially concerning the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
coauthored the study with Marcella Alsan, a professor at Harvard Kennedy School; Heidi Williams, a professor at Stanford University; and Harsh Gupta and Maya Durvasula, doctoral candidates at Stanford. Why might representation matter? One... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
recalls Quattrone telling an analyst who wanted to issue a less than flattering report about a client. `Do you want to work in this firm? Do you want to be a team player? When it comes time for bonus review, all this will be remembered.'... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Representations Author:Heidi K. Gardner Publication:Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (forthcoming) Abstract Why are some teams more effective than others in using their members' knowledge?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
and approved, but when minority loan officers shepherd those applications, approval rates increase significantly, says Adi Sunderam, the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance at Harvard Business School, in the working paper, “The Impact of Minority... View Details
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
Your Skills: Managing Teams The ability to lead teams is fast becoming a critical skill for all managers in the 21st century. Here are four HBS Working Knowledge stories from the archives that address... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
to increased representation of women in the top percentiles of achievement. Stereotypes and Belief Updating By: Coffman, Katherine B., Manuela Collis, and Leena Kulkarni Abstract— We explore how beliefs respond to noisy information about... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman