Female - Publications - Faculty & Research

September–October 2024
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Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday

By: Jasmina Chauvin, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tommy Pan Fang

This paper examines the effects of temporal distance generated by time zone separation on communication in geographically distributed organizations. We build on prior research, which highlights time zone separation as a significant challenge, but argue that employees... View Details

Keywords: Communication; Employees; Behavior; Equality and Inequality

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2011
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Juner New Materials: On the Road to IPO (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donglin Xia, Ning Jia and Ziqian Zhao

Juner New Materials (Juner) is a private China-based company that develops, produces, and distributes modified plastic compounds. Founded in 1995 by female serial entrepreneur Xiaomin Chen, Juner has exhibited strong performance and growth potential in the past fifteen... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Financial Statements; IPO; Valuation; Women Executives; China; Plastics; China

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16 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

every day for work, it can be painful,” she says. “As we gradually understand that our children aren’t suffering, I hope the guilt will go away.” Working moms can also take comfort from their own kids. In a panel discussion with female... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Nov 2023
Op-Ed

The Beauty Industry: Products for a Healthy Glow or a Compact for Harm?

In my recently published book Deeply Responsible Business, I write about business leaders since the 19th century who have acted responsibly, often by putting the welfare of their communities above the idea of maximizing profits. I make a sharp distinction between... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Beauty & Cosmetics

25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

we identify a profound and consistent gender gap in entrepreneur persuasiveness. Investors prefer pitches presented by male entrepreneurs compared with pitches made by female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitch is the same.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

organizations with widespread crime are treated more leniently compared to senior female perpetrators or compared to senior perpetrators in organizations with isolated cases of crime. These results suggest that agency problems could... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

performance. Molinas and her largely female and Turkish senior leadership team grapple with the significant financial impact of massive protests in Turkey, the rise of anti-American sentiments, growing national health concerns, the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2014 (Revised February 2014)
Case

Japan: Betting on Inflation?

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

The case focuses on the challenges still confronting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the end of 2013, a year after he has been in office. It also gives an overview of Japan's earlier economic performance, focusing primarily on the period after it suffered a stock market... View Details

Keywords: Quantitative Easing; Debt Sustainability; International Relations; Borrowing and Debt

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20 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Creating a Positive Professional Image

consulting firm. Similarly, female medical students and residents are often mistaken for nurses or orderlies and challenged by patients who do not believe they are legitimate physicians. Q: What is impression management and what are its... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

August 20, 2024
Article

Sexual Assault Victims Face a Penalty for Adjacent Consent

By: Jillian J. Jordan and Roseanna Sommers

Across 11 experimental studies (n = 12,257), we show that female victims of sexual assault are blamed more and seen as less morally virtuous if their assault follows voluntary sexual intimacy, a factor we term “adjacent consent”. Moreover, we illuminate a... View Details

Keywords: Perception; Prejudice and Bias; Moral Sensibility; Crime and Corruption; Social Issues

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2022
Other Teaching and Training Material

Organizational Behavior Reading: Managing Differences

By: Robin Ely and Colleen Ammerman

This reading provides principles and practices managers can draw upon to leverage differences in social identities - such as gender and race - to create more effective work relationships, teams, and organizations. The Essential Reading's first section draws upon... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Groups and Teams; Prejudice and Bias; Identity; Management Practices and Processes

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April 2017
Case

Global Leadership in a Dynamic and Evolving Region: Molinas @ The Coca-Cola Company (A)

By: Tsedal Neeley and Esel Çekin

Galya Frayman Molinas, President of Coca-Cola's Turkish business and a 20-year company veteran, is unexpectedly asked to take the helm of a newly expanded territory with operations across eight additional countries in Central Asia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia,... View Details

Keywords: Functions; Structure; Centralization; Decentralization; Diversity; Country Of Origin Effects; Global Contextual Intelligence; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Experience and Expertise; Situation or Environment; Central Asia; Turkey

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15 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom

conducted the study with Mayra Ruiz Castro, a researcher at HBS, and Elizabeth Long Lingo, an embedded practitioner at Mt. Holyoke College. McGinn's previous research, with Katherine Milkman of Wharton Business School, found that female... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

founders versus non-founders, but also of differences and similarities among founders who start and grow different types of businesses, between male and female founders, serial founders and first-time founders and founders from different... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge

22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

noncognitive, interpersonal skills during adolescence. Long-run administrative data shows that negotiation training significantly improved educational outcomes over the next three years. The training had greater effects than two alternative treatments (offering girls a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?

After sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein ignited the #MeToo movement on social media, Hollywood producers began hiring more female film writers than they did before the scandal, new research finds. What's more, producers... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Media & Broadcasting

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Gender: Female 45% 46% 46% 44% 43% International Citizenship 39% 38% 37% 33% 35% US Race / Ethnicity 1 American Indian / Alaska Native 0% 0.2% 0% 0% 0% Asian 22% 24% 24% 19% 17% Black / African American 10% 11% 12% 11% 9% Hispanic /... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

The Imposter Among Us

others in the analyst pool. I was also one of only three females in the group, which made me feel that I was more noticeable. I survived that period by working longer hours than anyone else in the office. Pulling all-nighters and working... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

10 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Too Nice to Lead? Unpacking the Gender Stereotype That Holds Women Back

would choose equal pay compared to 52 percent of men. The researchers also asked participants whether they’d prefer to have a male or female employer. High performers chose a woman 47 percent of the time, but low performers chose a View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta

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Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations

By: Joyce He, Jon M. Jachimowicz and Celia Moore

High potential programs offer a swift path up the corporate ladder for those who secure a place on them. However, the evaluation of “potential” occurs under considerable uncertainty, creating fertile ground for gender bias. We document that men are more likely than... View Details

Keywords: Passion; Potential; Gender; Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Talent and Talent Management