Publications

28 May 2021
Video

Laura Morgan Roberts Delivers "Almost Free" at 2021 Gender and Work Symposium

October 2017 (Revised July 2019)
Supplement

Increasing Gender Diversity in the Boardroom: The United Kingdom in 2011 (B)

By: John Beshears, Iris Bohnet and Jenny Sanford

Article

Interactive Case Study: The Analysis: Babson College Meets the Corporate Gender Challenge

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

Presentation

Laura Morgan Roberts Delivers "Almost Free" at 2021 Gender and Work Symposium

2018
Working Paper

Butchers, Bakers, and Barcharts: How Codified Knowledge Affects Gender Differences in Performance

By: Alexandra C. Feldberg

October 2017 (Revised July 2019)
Case

Increasing Gender Diversity in the Boardroom: The United Kingdom in 2011 (A)

By: John Beshears, Iris Bohnet and Jenny Sanford

11 Jun 2020
News

3 Ways to Advance Gender Equity as We Return to the Office

2018
Working Paper

Managing from the Floor or the Office: Gender Differences in Managerial Activities

By: Alexandra C. Feldberg

May 28, 2018
Article

How Companies Can Identify Racial and Gender Bias in Their Customer Service

By: Alexandra C. Feldberg and Tami Kim

Research shows that minority customers — blacks and Asians — regularly receive worse customer service than whites in ways that are not immediately obvious to onlookers (or even managers). These results prompt a couple of questions for executives and managers. One, does... View Details

Keywords: Internal Audit; Customers; Service Delivery; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Gender; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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July 2024
Article

A (Dynamic) Investigation of Stereotypes, Belief-Updating, and Behavior

By: Katherine B. Coffman, Paola Ugalde Araya and Basit Zafar

Many decisions—such as what educational or career path to pursue—are dynamic in nature, with individuals receiving feedback at one point in time and making decisions later. Using a controlled experiment, with two sessions one week apart, we analyze the dynamic effects... View Details

Keywords: Feedback; Beliefs; Stereotypes; Self-assessment; Gender Gap; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Perception; Decision Choices and Conditions

2022
Presentation

Robin Ely and Lakshmi Ramarajan Opening Remarks at 2022 Gender and Work Symposium

April 2019
Case

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement (Abridged)

By: Julie Battilana, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Michael Norris

In 2018, New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof and his wife, former Times writer Sheryl WuDunn (HBS ’86) who worked in finance, were planning for their next book. The couple’s earlier books had given rise to social movements around gender equity and poverty issues.... View Details

Keywords: Social Movement; Gender Equality; Writing; Social Issues; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Poverty; Books; Change; Leadership

1 Aug 1997
Conference Presentation

Beyond Armchair Feminism II: The Challenges of Holding onto Gender in Organizational Intervention

By: R. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson

Keywords: Gender; Organizations; Organizational Culture

6 Jun 2002 - 9 Jun 2002
Conference Presentation

Perceived Individual Creativity in Organizational Teamwork as a Function of Personality and Gender

By: Giovanni Moneta, Teresa M. Amabile, Elizabeth Schatzel and Steven J. Kramer

Keywords: Gender; Organizations; Groups and Teams; Creativity; Identity; Perception

June 2018 (Revised November 2018)
Case

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement

By: Julie Battilana, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Michael Norris

In 2018, New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof and his wife, former Times writer Sheryl WuDunn (HBS ’86) who worked in finance, were planning for their next book. The couple’s earlier books had given rise to social movements around gender equity and poverty issues.... View Details

Keywords: Social Movement; Gender Equality; Writing; Social Issues; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Poverty; Books; Change; Leadership

2022
Book

Leadership to Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind

By: Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna

Society tends to glorify the get-rich-quick entrepreneur who builds a company, takes it public and then (maybe) contributes to charity. In Leadership to Last, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna discuss the interviews they and other Harvard faculty have undertaken... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Corruption; Gender; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Society; India; Pakistan; Bangladesh; Middle East; Africa; Latin America; Philippines