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  • 16 May 2017
  • News

Women May Find Management Positions Less Desirable

  • 23 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

predicted the same level of positive outcomes. Yet, women predicted a higher level of negative outcomes than men did. The researchers yielded similar results when they repeated the exercise with 204 mid-career students in the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

branch manager or executive roles within a firm, women and men were held to the same standards and punished in comparable ways. The researchers observed the same phenomenon with racial minorities, with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 13 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading

There it is, gleaming at the top of your LinkedIn feed: your dream job, a high-level, well-paying position in your field. Are you qualified enough? Should you apply? New research shows that women might be less likely to take that chance... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

success will depend on your organization and execution as well as the basic concept. In the work that I'm doing with HBS alumni, I have found that women believe the greatest demand on their time—in terms of... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

Women at the Top

world's most influential women business executives gathered at Soldiers Field for Women Leading Business: An Executive Forum, the first-ever HBS... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Supporting Women in Leadership

women and leadership. "Harvard is a global platform—HBS cases are read by so many individuals around the world. We thought, how do we help the leading business school in the world focus on this?" says Kordestani, cofounder and COO of the... View Details
Keywords: W50
  • Web

Women at HBS - Alumni

and mobilizes professionals who deliver strategic and tactical advice to a wide range of clients. Chief , cofounded by Carolyn Childers (MBA 2008) , supports New York—based women in their journey to View Details
  • 11 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

Swan (HBS MBA '91), former executive vice president of Nickelodeon and now on the advisory board of Ascend Venture, and Donna Lopiano, executive director of the Women's Sports Foundation. HBS professor Myra... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Mar 2018
  • News

These Women Could Be the Tech Industry's Next Great CEOs

  • 03 Apr 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?

outstanding executives represent the best or worst of feminism. It is to speculate on the influence that a future populated by female leadership in a significant number of organizations will have on the way we work. A number of arguments... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • November 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

Bridgit: Persevere or Pivot?

By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
In late 2012, Mallorie Brodie and Lauren Lake, two young women in their final year of college, founded Bridgit, a technology startup that developed solutions to simplify vital but laborious processes within the construction industry. In the Fall of 2013, after months... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneur; Founder; Co-founders; Women Executives; Pivot; Startup; Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Product Launch; Research and Development; Competition; Construction Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Canada
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  • 14 Feb 2013
  • News

HBS Class Explores Lack of Women on Corporate Boards

  • 08 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

opportunities for women to lead. At HBS, we create case studies to help teach students to become future leaders. Each case generally focuses on one organization and features a protagonist, often an executive... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
  • 11 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

“Multinationals seemed to be hiring differently in the host market than at home” But it's not a total no-brainer. Many executives at multinational corporations considered hiring Korean women into management... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Program

Advancing Women of Color in Leadership

Summary Advancing Women of Color in Leadership reflects our belief in inclusion—supporting efforts to increase access to equal opportunity in organizations because it is the right thing to do. Demographic diversity also helps... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Redefining Success: Women & Work.

our women graduates experience nontraditional career paths. We want to find meaningful and perhaps novel ways to better serve these alumnae, as well as women executives and... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 14 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

diversity, 51 percent of women answered yes, versus 25 percent of men. "Lack of women in executive ranks" topped the list of reasons that men believe the percentage of View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Jul 2019
  • News

A Way Forward for Women

From a course comes a movement. When the first Women on Boards (WOB) Executive Education program wrapped up in 2016, the cohort of 67 women from 17 countries, who had studied... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • Blog

The Chao Center: The Heart of HBS Executive Education

Opened in 2016, the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center serves as a vibrant hub of campus life for those attending HBS Executive Education programs, complementing our classroom buildings and residences. Here, View Details