Professor Robin Ely - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2003
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400 and Counting: Surge in HBS Cases with Women Protagonists

What do Joanne Hilferty of Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries, Abby Cohen of Goldman Sachs, Robin Chase of Zipcar, and Nanci Mackenzie of U.S. Gas Transportation have in common? Each is a protagonist in a recent HBS case study. These are... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women

By: Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony Mayo, Robin Ely and David Thomas

Any list of top CEOs reveals a stunning lack of diversity. Among the leaders of Fortune 500 companies, for example, just 32 are women, three are African-American, and not one is an African-American woman. What’s going on? The authors studied the careers of the roughly... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Diversity; Race; Gender; Personal Characteristics; Relationships; Success

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Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Averting Crisis

be measured in real time, it would be easier to anticipate financial vulnerability and take measures to prevent future crises.” —Robin Greenwood, George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking; Chair, BFFS Project “Most decisions in finance... View Details

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Ta-Wei "David" Huang

program. He began to look at faculty research interests at HBS and quickly realized that there was a great deal of overlap between his interests and the faculty at Harvard. He found the research of Eva Ascarza, Elie Ofek, and Shunyuan... View Details

04 Mar 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

breakthrough in alarm clock design since the snooze button until entrepreneur Gauri Nanda created Clocky. Her runaway hit has been the inspiration for several cases written by Professor Elie Ofek. Should I... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?

Now that scientists have mapped the human gene, can drug makers map a road to unlimited riches? For John Lechleiter, Executive Vice President of Eli Lilly and Company's Pharmaceutical Products and Corporate Development, there remain more... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 May 2014
News

Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma

The next time Professor Clay Christensen (MBA 1979) has a dilemma, he knows where he'll go for a solution: to HBS alumni. Christensen, Senior Lecturer Derek van Bever (MBA 1988), and alumni of the Building and Sustaining a Successful... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

08 Jul 2015
What Do You Think?

Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

while maintaining productivity? Or is this even an issue? Do Americans work too much and think about work too little? What do you think? To Read More: Robin J. Ely and Irene Padavic, Work-Family Conflict Is... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

13 Dec 2011
News

Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project

role will be. There is no more appropriate time than now for us to explore this question deeply and develop answers that will allow America to remain a competitive place to conduct business in the international economy." The Project is led by HBS View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2007
News

Letters

people could get by on the ruby and diamond-laden necklace, earrings, and ring pictured on the back cover’s advertisement. Robin Alper (MBA ’94) Los Angeles, CA HBS “Mamsy-Pansies” I much enjoyed “Inside Intel: The Art of Andy Grove”... View Details

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

unconditional bonus before a project’s start boosted productivity, while another study concluded that those benefits were short-lived. A study by Luca, former HBS doctoral student Duncan Gilchrist, and Deepak Malhotra, the Eli Goldston... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Women at Work

"Work/Life Balance: Are We Comfortable with the Choices We Make?" moderated by HBS professor Robin Ely, discussed their work/life decisions and the repercussions of those decisions at the 12th... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?

compromise." Wrapping up the session, moderator Robin Ely, a professor of organizational behavior at HBS, suggested that people focus in their lives on what it is that they want to create, and not... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Apr 2016
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What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

business executives who attended the symposium to discuss how to address inequality issues and encourage greater diversity in the workplace. Held on the Harvard Business School campus on March 31 and April 1, the symposium was co-organized by View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent

Growth or Disorder," held at the 5th Annual Africa Business Conference at Harvard Business School on March 8. Harvard Business School Professor Debora Spar, the panel moderator, noted that political borders are more permeable now... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

01 Dec 2011
News

Ticktock

planned to publicize Clocky beyond some photos on the course website, but a few gadget aficionado blogs linked to the images, and the buzz went viral. Around the same time, HBS professor Elie Ofek was... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel; viral marketing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Courses by Title - Course Catalog

Heese Fall 2025 Q1 1.5 The Arts of Communication General Management Candace Bertotti Spring 2026 Q3Q4 1.5 Authentic Leader Development Organizational Behavior Robin Ely , Monique Burns Thompson Spring 2026... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Laura Scher of Working Assets

Laura S. Scher (MBA '85) is something of a modern-day Robin Hood, an entrepreneurial activist who redistributes the wealth of the marketplace to those in need. Through her company, San Francisco based Working Assets Funding Service, this... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

12 May 2016
Research & Ideas

When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions

potential reason that voters and political parties can’t even agree on which laws they should target, and whether to loosen or tighten them,” says Malhotra, the Eli Goldston Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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